Its been reported that you can import Witcher 2 saves to your [easyazon_link identifier=”B00KSN7NKE” locale=”US” tag=”back2gaming-20″]shiny new copy of Witcher 3 game[/easyazon_link] only to find out that when you start the game you only see the option to “Simulate Witcher 2 Save.” This is quite upsetting for someone who has probably invested a lot of time pre-launch to get Geralt ready for monster-slaying. So here’s a quick guide to show you how to import Witcher 2 saves to Witcher 3.
You’d be glad to know its just the game not looking at your save directories the right way especially if you’ve played Witcher 2 on Steam. The Witcher 3 will look for save files in the “[drive]:\USERS\[username]\My Documents\Witcher 2\gamesaves” but Steam Cloud saving when enabled will place your files in a different directory.
If you want your Witcher 2 save on Steam imported to Witcher 3, just copy the content of this folder and create the expected directory in your My Documents folder. Just copy your Witcher 2 save directory from the Steam directory “[drive]:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\userdata\[user_id]\20920\remote” and place that in the Witcher 2 directory “[drive]:\USERS\[username]\My Documents\Witcher 2\gamesaves.”
Once your files are in there, start Witcher 3 and verify that the game can see your files as seen below:
Importing your old save game will influence the current state of your Witcher 3 world. We won’t spoil it for you but for those on PC who want a more expansive experience, you can play Witcher 3 without playing Witcher 2 or even the first game and you’ll still have the whole experience available as the game’s save simulation will allow you to sculpt the world state if you don’t have a save file. This is exactly how it will go for console players of the Witcher 3.
The Witcher 3 is out right now and we’re currently burning through the opening chapter of the game. The Witcher 3 is available for PC and consoles is out now today, May 19th.
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currently too busy cant play it yet. is there somekind of a day1 patch for the pc version?
If you pre-loaded the game, its already prepatched, same if you’re just downloading now. The current version is 1.02. Patch 1.01 was buggy and required the 1.02 patch immediately.
ok. how about the multi gpu scaling performance? nvidia managed to release a driver i think today. amd will release theirs next week.
Havent tried because SLI is screwed up on my main rig but yes the Game Ready drivers from NVIDIA launched just a few hours before Witcher 3 came out.
lol mine was running absolutely fine last night at launch.. Now? Just crashes randomly.
Version 1.02?
something like that
ok so finally im able to start playing. patched the game to 1.03. still using the drivers before the 14.12 omega catalyst. crossfire was working. it gets so hot i thought i was running furmark. got as high as 85c on 1st card. and around 81 on 2nd card. once i reached the combat tutorial shadows started to flicker. did a little googling and turned out all i need to do was to disable crossfire to stop the flickering.. which i did.
turned off the nvidia hair thingy
framerates start to dip below 40 in ultra so i just set everything to high. i’ll stop playing for a while until the proper catalyst drivers arrive.
Thanks!!! This helped a lot!