Forest at night:


Looks like you've been having some fun now that it works almost perfectly :-)

Have you been playing it regularly and if so, how well does it work? (performance aside). I've just installed a fresh copy of Debian 9 on my laptop and I must say it's quite smooth so far, might start dipping my feet in custom Wine compiling soon.

Looks like you've been having some fun now that it works almost perfectly :-)

Have you been playing it regularly and if so, how well does it work? (performance aside). I've just installed a fresh copy of Debian 9 on my laptop and I must say it's quite smooth so far, might start dipping my feet in custom Wine compiling soon.

I'm gradually playing it (still around White Orchard). It plays really well, and besides a few missing surfaces in some places, that opaque surface bug and puppeteer lines on a few NPCs, I didn't encounter any issues. And it's especially cool that it works with Mesa.

Not sure about what you'll get with laptop performance though. It's quite CPU / GPU intensive as was pointed out before.

Looks like you've been having some fun now that it works almost perfectly :-)

I must say I'm not surprised that Shmerl is having great time - Witcher 3 is great game.
Having in mind that Witcher 3 is playable on Wine it would be great to somehow track people who buy this game for Linux - maybe a forum post on GOG? What I want to achieve here is a message:
Hey CDPR, you did nothing to us, we buy your game on sale, we play it on Wine. The day you port your library to Linux we start to pay full price for your games once again. Linux user.
After the message every buyer leaves +1.
When Witcher 3 starts to be golden, let's support Wine team to make GTA V golden.

P.S. Don't forget to support Wine team from time to time.

I must say I'm not surprised that Shmerl is having great time - Witcher 3 is great game.

So far I like it, but it's not without issues (from game design perspective). For instance they messed up alchemy, I suspect for the sake of simplification and mass market appeal of console gamers. TW1 probably had the best alchemy of all three games, TW2 was OK, but TW3 really made it weird.

What I want to achieve here is a message:
Hey CDPR, you did nothing to us, we buy your game on sale, we play it on Wine. The day you port your library to Linux we start to pay full price for your games once again. Linux user.
After the message every buyer leaves +1.

I don't think they care much, but a better indicator of demand is the existing Linux wishlist for TW3. It's already 10,377 votes. If you want to show that for their future games, use one for Cyberpunk 2077.

So far I like it, but it's not without issues (from game design perspective). For instance they messed up alchemy, I suspect for the sake of simplification and mass market appeal of console gamers. TW1 probably had the best alchemy of all three games, TW2 was OK, but TW3 really made it weird.

Of course it's not without issues. And I couldn't agree more regarding alchemy. In general I consider first Witcher to be the best from RPG point of view from the whole series if we take a look at the time 1/2/3 were released. However it aged not so well, while Witcher 3 offers you so much fun. And you're right - a lot of the game mechanics is simplified in order to easily ship the game for consoles with the same UI. But honestly I like it - for few years I'm already a casual, couch gamer with gamepad in my hands. Right now I play Pillars of Eternity with Steam Controller in my hand :)

I don't think they care much, but a better indicator of demand is the existing Linux wishlist for TW3. It's already 10,377 votes. If you want to show that for their future games, use one for Cyberpunk 2077.

True, they stopped to care about Linux user at all some time ago, GOG promised GOG Galaxy long time ago and where is it?
Anyway thanks for the link, I will add my +1 there.

I just got to Velen area in TW3, and the ground there looks like this:


Is it supposed to be so dark, or it's a bug? It sometimes looks almost black.

Is it supposed to be so dark, or it's a bug? It sometimes looks almost black.

I've never seen anything like it in screenshots or videos, so I highly doubt it. It looks the same as earlier shots in this thread. So the question is, is the texture black or is there simply no light?

Is it supposed to be so dark, or it's a bug? It sometimes looks almost black.

I've never seen anything like it in screenshots or videos, so I highly doubt it. It looks the same as earlier shots in this thread. So the question is, is the texture black or is there simply no light?

It just looks very dark, and I assume it's a lighting issue. May be @wojtek88 can confirm if it also happens with Nvidia blob.

Opened this bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43239

Is it supposed to be so dark, or it's a bug? It sometimes looks almost black.

I've never seen anything like it in screenshots or videos, so I highly doubt it. It looks the same as earlier shots in this thread. So the question is, is the texture black or is there simply no light?

It just looks very dark, and I assume it's a lighting issue. May be @wojtek88 can confirm if it also happens with Nvidia blob.

Can't test it, but it does look like a lighting issue to me as well and I'm wild guessing it's the same issue as the others.

By the way, I just experimented with Mesa threaded dispatch, and it produced 60 fps on max settings with RX 480. On the other hand, it seems to cause occasional stuttering in some places. So I'm not completely sure if it's actually better or not.


I just got to Velen area in TW3, and the ground there looks like this:


Is it supposed to be so dark, or it's a bug? It sometimes looks almost black.

I just saw this message. In the evening or tomorrow I will run Witcher on my PS4 and will get back to you with the screen. If you could mark on map where exactly you've seen this issue, I may try to reproduce your screenshot to be as similar as possible.

Windows + texture mod 
I do not have vanilla version.
@wojtek88 "drzewo wisielców" velen-ziemia niczyja

Yes, I expect that on Window and PS4 it would look better. Can you please check it in Wine with Nvidia blob? It's that same area in Velen, near the hangman tree. Actually it seems a lot of areas in Velen are affected by this.

80 fps with threaded dispatch:


But it's not that high usually. It's somewhat above 60 when the cap is disabled. I also noticed period stuttering in some places, but it also occurs without threaded dispatch. I think it appeared once I updated the kernel, so it can be amdgpu related.

Seeing as GL Threaded Dispatch improves performance substantially, how can I enable it? From what I read in the recent article I'll need Mesa-git, right? But it said there's a whitelist, so how do I turn it on for the Witcher 3? ^-^'

Seeing as GL Threaded Dispatch improves performance substantially, how can I enable it? From what I read in the recent article I'll need Mesa-git, right? But it said there's a whitelist, so how do I turn it on for the Witcher 3? ^-^'

See Performance Hints section here.

Wine staging 2.11 should be able to run The Witcher 3 better now, since sample_c_lz patch was just included in it.

https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/commit/8f35a7629bf269f71a28693ba17de4d35061ee32

The patch there is also reworked from the previous variant, so it can fix more issues.

Excuse my dumb question, how do you install the game? I haven't had luck running Gog Galaxy (it doesn't download files), should I use the DRM-free install files downloaded one by one using the web browser?

Excuse my dumb question, how do you install the game? I haven't had luck running Gog Galaxy (it doesn't download files), should I use the DRM-free install files downloaded one by one using the web browser?

Use lgogdownloader to get the files, and then install them in Wine.