I just bought this today, and I can't get through the opening cinematic, the framerate is so god-awful. Right now I have the game set at the lowest settings, so I don't know why it is acting this way. Here are my specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz
6.0 GB of RAM
GeForce GTX260M - 1GB
OS is Windows 7 64-bit
Resolution is 1600x900

update driver

or try playing with a lower resolution

I feel stupid, I just recently had my hard drive replaced because my old one crashed, and I haven't updated the driver for the graphics card.

a dur i told you

driver that shit

Is it necessary to uninstall the 3D vision driver?

Updated driver, knocked resolution down to 1280x720. It's a little better, but still unplayable. My specs meet the recommended settings for the game, so at the lowest graphics setting, I don't see why I'm unable to play the game.

Do NOT install the 3D shit from nVidia. Delete it, then Witcher 2 will run smooth as silk. I had the same problem with my Gtx 480, intel i7 and 6gb ram, and it lagged on medium. But after i uninstalled the 3D drivers i could run it at high setting.

Could be your graphics card. Try downloading drivers from nvidia guru. Witcher 2 really isnt optimized at all. It looks and plays similar to Dragon Age 2 (though with detail looks a lot better), and ya it will ruin your computer. 

@awe_stuck said:

Could be your graphics card. Try downloading drivers from nvidia guru. Witcher 2 really isnt optimized at all. It looks and plays similar to Dragon Age 2 (though with detail looks a lot better), and ya it will ruin your computer.

From what I've experienced/heard, beyond actual compatibility issues, the game runs fine at anything but max settings. There are just some things the game does that are crazy expensive at the highest settings. And even below max settings, the game mostly looks the same. This is clearly not optimization, but conflict with drivers or something to that effect.

@awe_stuck said:

Could be your graphics card. Try downloading drivers from nvidia guru. Witcher 2 really isnt optimized at all. It looks and plays similar to Dragon Age 2 (though with detail looks a lot better), and ya it will ruin your computer.

From what I've experienced/heard, beyond actual compatibility issues, the game runs fine at anything but max settings. There are just some things the game does that are crazy expensive at the highest settings. And even below max settings, the game mostly looks the same. This is clearly not optimization, but conflict with drivers or something to that effect.

260M =/= GTX260, mobile chips never match the performance of their desktop counter parts. That GPU is essentially a re-badged 9800GT (which in turn is a die shrunk 8800GTS), as such you barely scrape in at the minimum system requirements on the GPU front. Additionally your CPU is only marginally quicker than the minimum requirements as well (recommended being a quad core).

@MordeaniisChaos said:

@awe_stuck said:

Could be your graphics card. Try downloading drivers from nvidia guru. Witcher 2 really isnt optimized at all. It looks and plays similar to Dragon Age 2 (though with detail looks a lot better), and ya it will ruin your computer.

From what I've experienced/heard, beyond actual compatibility issues, the game runs fine at anything but max settings. There are just some things the game does that are crazy expensive at the highest settings. And even below max settings, the game mostly looks the same. This is clearly not optimization, but conflict with drivers or something to that effect.

I'm just saying the game as a whole wasnt made to run on lower computers. Some games when you turn off detail and lower the resolution a little run completely fine. I'm wondering how they are going to port this game to be honest.

After uninstalling the 3D vision drivers, it runs perfectly fine on medium settings.

After uninstalling the 3D vision drivers, it runs perfectly fine on medium settings.