The Witcher technical information

The Witcher is a relatively demanding game, so it is only natural that users try to optimize their experience as much as possible. In addition, the game is built on Bioware's Aurora Engine, so it is inherently moddable. This article will contain information on these two technical aspects of the game.

General performance tweaking

 * The developers of the game recommend the following settings for given graphics cards (provided you have a balanced system, with a CPU and memory that roughly match your video card) :
 * Low detail settings at 800x600:
 * ATI RADEON 9800 Series
 * ATI RADEON X700 Series
 * ATI RADEON X1300/X1550 Series
 * NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
 * NVIDIA GeForce 6600
 * Medium detail settings at 1024x768:
 * ATI RADEON X800 PRO
 * ATI RADEON X850 XT
 * ATI RADEON X1600 Series
 * ATI RADEON X1800 series
 * ATI RADEON X1950 Pro
 * ATI RADEON HD 2600 XT
 * NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS
 * NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Series GPU
 * NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
 * NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
 * NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS
 * NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
 * High detail settings at 1024x768:
 * ATI RADEON X1950 XTX
 * ATI RADEON HD 2900 XT
 * NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
 * NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2
 * NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
 * NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
 * As with any recent game, anti-aliasing and shadow quality will be major factors in overall framerate. Try lowering those two settings before anything else.

Load Times
The most frequent criticism about the game's performance is about the load times. Try these tips to help lower them.


 * Defragment your hard drive(s), preferably using a third-party tool instead of the Defrag utility that ships with Windows (Diskeeper is one that is often recommended).
 * Putting the Windows page file (swap file) on a different physical drive than Windows or the game itself may help.

Modding

 * File formats