[Rhykker]

Hey folks, I recently purchased TW2:EE and cannot get it to run.

One of two things happens. Either:

1. I get kicked back to the Launcher
or
2. The wolf head logo disappears and nothing happens

I've tried:

Installing through Steam
Installing through GOG
Installing as Admin
Running as Admin
Running on lowest graphics settings
Running on windowed/full screen
Running the Registry patch
Manually installing .NET 4 Framework
Updating RADEON drivers

Antivirus is NOD32, which shouldn't cause conflict

How do I get this game to run? I currently have the GOG version installed (as admin), in case it was Steam that was causing the problem.

Thanks.

[Corylea]

The launcher is sometimes a problem. The first thing to try is starting directly from witcher2.exe. This should be in your GOG.com\The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition\bin folder.

If that works, then you can re-do your desktop shortcut to the game so that it points to witcher2.exe and not Launcher.exe.

[Rhykker]

Corylea said:

The launcher is sometimes a problem. The first thing to try is starting directly from witcher2.exe. This should be in your GOG.com\The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition\bin folder.

If that works, then you can re-do your desktop shortcut to the game so that it points to witcher2.exe and not Launcher.exe. ›››

Hi Corylea, thanks for the reply. I tried launching through the witcher2.exe, but had no better luck. A window appears for a brief moment, as though the game is about to launch, but then vanishes.

[*Tommy*]

It`s possible there are some conflicting software on your computer . Try this link for some of the known software issues and witcher 2 .
http://en.thewitcher...-update-121112/

[Rhykker]

Thanks Tommy, but I don't have any of those things installed on my computer.

[*Tommy*]

ok . Make sure that your firewall isn`t blocking the game from starting . Another would be to add an exception for Witcher 2 in Nod32 .
Additionally you can take some screenshots of all your installed programs and email them to me .

[Rhykker]

*Tommy* said:

ok . Make sure that your firewall isn`t blocking the game from starting . Another would be to add an exception for Witcher 2 in Nod32 .
Additionally you can take some screenshots of all your installed programs and email them to me . ›››

Thanks for the reply. I disabled Nod32 and Windows Firewall entirely and try to load the game; same problem. I'll email you a list of installed programs.

[*Tommy*]

Have you tried a clean boot to see if the starts in that manner . Sent an email . Link is in it .

[Rhykker]

Thanks Tommy. I tried the clean boot, but it still doesn't load.

[*Tommy*]

Have you tried the hotfix patch . http://en.thewitcher.com/dotnet/

[Rhykker]

Just tried it; no success.

[*Tommy*]

What are you system specs ?

[*Tommy*]

Sent you an email with some things to try .

[Rhykker]

Win7 Pro 64bit
Intel Core i5 750 2.67GHz
8GB RAM
ATI Radeon 5750

[Rhykker]

I've tried to delete the programs you listed, but the game still won't launch.

[*Tommy*]

OK let`s try some MD5 numbers just to be sure that you have a full and working GOG version . How to run and check can be found in the first part of this link .
http://en.thewitcher...-md5-checksums/ .
If you go to where you downloaded the GOG version if you hover your mouse over any of the files there should be a popup dialog box and in it there will be a version number . The latest version is 3.0.1.17 and here are the MD5 numbers for each of the files
b8c84b47644b53c5d3c9e1a2c9bb3a2e-----setup_the_witcher_2_ee_3.0.1.17.exe
740dc01dfa936ea4755049d0fd8a3fe4-----setup_the_witcher_2_ee_3.0.1.17-1.bin
b96ba44d1f33f4e73941f490f2828982-----setup_the_witcher_2_ee_3.0.1.17-2.bin
b56b54012f218d887863ce778ef77e5a-----setup_the_witcher_2_ee_3.0.1.17-3.bin
5d06e0b2bd1aa47697578cacbc8c1ed4-----setup_the_witcher_2_ee_3.0.1.17-4.bin
8698adebaafab3ff9aa0303934bac1e3-----setup_the_witcher_2_ee_3.0.1.17-5.bin
7efb39400446f2609ad11eeb7a7e2a14-----setup_the_witcher_2_ee_3.0.1.17-6.bin
01a8b34c6a115cc16da61a8510072351-----setup_the_witcher_2_ee_3.0.1.17-7.bin
ce4a8cb2360a358c35dc72d959652725-----setup_the_witcher_2_ee_3.0.1.17-8.bin