If you’re an avid RPG fan from any corner of the globe, this is the day you’ve no doubt been waiting for. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the concluding chapter in Geralt’s story, is finally out for mass consumption – and so far I’ve been having an absolute blast with its incredible storytelling. It adapts beautifully well to your Witcher 2 import, as long as you can get it to work.
As soon as you start a new game in The Witcher 3, you’re presented with the option to either import a previous save, or simulate it in-game (which is done rather excellently, by the way). If you only see the simulation option, the game is not locating your old save correctly – which makes all those previous hours you spent in the Northern Realms a little moot.
Thankfully, there’s a quick, painless fix. The Witcher 3 looks for save files in a specific location – and one which Steam in particular doesn’t save to. If you’ve been using Steam Cloud Saves, you’ll probably find your save files in “:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\userdata\[userid]\20920\remote.”. The Witcher 3 only picks up files located in “:\Users\[username]\My Documents\Witcher 2\gamesaves”, so you’ll have to move it there if you want the option to pop up at all.
See, quick and easy. Also don’t forget to download the day-one Game Ready Drivers if you’re playing to explore Novigrad using a green graphics cards – and right now just hope for the best on anything AMD.
Last Updated: May 19, 2015
Kensei Seraph
May 19, 2015 at 08:35
By the time I finish The Witcher 1 and 2 this will likely not be a problem.
I just need to remember to back up my saves properly this time.
Kensei Seraph
May 19, 2015 at 08:36
Also here’s an interesting article about spiders:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballooning_%28spider%29
http://zippy.gfycat.com/VibrantInfamousJuliabutterfly.webm
Captain JJ Browman
May 19, 2015 at 08:39
I’m so glad I played the previous Witchers and got around to reading the comics and a few of the books.
Spaffy
May 19, 2015 at 08:51
So a 960 outperforms a 780 and a Titan only gets 30fps.
http://wccftech.com/witcher-3-initial-benchmarks/
Same story with Project Cars.
Nvidia is not updating Keplar cards. So much for my GTX780 🙁
HairyEwok
May 19, 2015 at 09:16
I dono ey…. My GTX780 is holding up just fine. Your GTX might be sick.
ElimiNathan
May 19, 2015 at 09:25
Look at the bench results, it clearly shows his card isn’t “sick”. Its OK to admit your card is struggling dude, admitting there’s a problem is the first step to recovery
HairyEwok
May 19, 2015 at 09:26
Like i said my card is running just fine……
SEGA Neptune
May 19, 2015 at 09:01
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TW3! 🙂
May you be just as enjoyable 4 years later as Skyrim is today.
HairyEwok
May 19, 2015 at 09:02
You forgot to nep nep 😛
SEGA Neptune
May 19, 2015 at 09:04
Nep nep nep nep to you,
nep nep nep nep to you,
nep nep nep nep dear Geralt,
nep nep nep nep to you.
NEP NEP
HairyEwok
May 19, 2015 at 09:05
HOORAY!
SEGA Neptune
May 19, 2015 at 09:09
Fus Ro Aard
HairyEwok
May 19, 2015 at 09:08
I’m actually curious how AMD is holding up with the game….. As usual Nvidia went and updated their drivers for the game a day before release.
Admiral Chief
May 19, 2015 at 09:09
I see that the latest driver for my card was done on the 9th of December :/
Krabby Paddy
May 19, 2015 at 09:13
Red does mean stop and Green means go.
Admiral Chief
May 19, 2015 at 09:14
Either that or it already runs well, so no silly fix needed
HairyEwok
May 19, 2015 at 09:17
Benchmarks and Tests or it didn’t run.
SEGA Neptune
May 19, 2015 at 09:16
Nep Nep loves you too 🙂
RinceTriss
May 19, 2015 at 09:34
lol
FDKLTD
May 31, 2015 at 22:59
Hello, I lost my witcher 3 game save when i updated to 1.04, can i get it back???