Hi, just got the witcher 2 game, but the gameplay's sluggish as snail for me. Turned on fraps, 150 at menu, 5 fps on actual gameplay. Tried all kinds of advice, Updated my graphic card, Dl the latest 1.2 patch, uninstalled the 3D vision driver, turned off everything(!) and running at low spec but to no vail. My laptop specs are

i5-460M, 2.53Ghz
4Gb ram
nVidia geforce GT 425M 1GB

i'm pretty sure its well above the mini and recommended spec, so what's wrong? It is that the i have to further wait for a game or graphic driver patch? Or it is my laptop's too old for it? (its 6months old!)

Please reply, any advice appreciated. (At least let me know if my graphic card is old-dated or whatdoever)

Thanks very much in advance,

Desperate Gamer

Sorry to say, but the video is well below spec.

It's not the greatest system but I think you would run it better than 5fps. Drop every setting to low and downscale the textures. Drop your resolution.

I've seen benchmarks of almost that exact same laptop running Metro 2033 (a system crushing game like TW2) and it can get up to 40 FPS if you drop the settings enough. TW2 looks great on low still.

If low settings are not working for you then you may have some sort of problem. Check your notebooks memory sharing settings, disable all powersaving features, disable unnecessary programs.

Not very surprising : Labtops GPU are NOT skilled in demanding 3D games...

Reason is pretty simple : while not geting the space to cool the chips with effective fan system, clocks and delivered power are much lower than a desktop equivalent name GPU.

Nonetheless i think it's pretty odd to only get 5 fps with low settings. Be sure you graphic driver manager didn't overcome some settings, like anti-aliasing.

Thanks guys for the very quick response

@Danceofmasks how so? Geforce GT 425M's in the pretty new 400series? Shouldn't it be enough? Just wondering how does the ranking run. Series 200<300<400<500? or 210<310<410<...250<350?

@SniperHf ah, checked le, yet running sluggishly. Tried running at 800x600 windowed. ran at a playable 15fps, but not satisfying. I have ran games of crysis 2, COD 6, GTA IV at medium settings very comfortably, yet unable to do so with witcher. Had an issue with assassin's creed brotherhood being totally playable after a graphic driver update, so hopefully i'll get 1 soon for witcher 2 too?

@Fenris78 tried low settings, didn't work. didn't bother to play anything on 3D. tried, and it was just impossible.

Yeah, pretty much it's the second number that determines how powerful the card is.

For example, an 8800 (which is minimum spec) is a high end video card, whilst a 520 is a low end video card.

Of course, each series gets progressively more powerful, but then the "M" stamp is in itself some 20% gimping of the non "M" version.