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This is a really annoying bug because it puts an end to the poker quest. I've had a few of these crashes to the desktop on occasions but they've up till now been random and usually a replay gets me through.

On this one though it's 100% certain that when I play Einar Gausel AND win at poker it crashes every single time right after the dialogue that comes after. Einsar: " Sendler's the best", Witcher: "We'll see ..". CRASH!!

I've tried a number of things including reducing the graphics to bare minimum.

Anyone else have this problem and any workarounds for this - I can't save during this period so basically the quest is dead in the water if I can't get through this one.
You can upload your save and someone will get through that part and save for you. No idea how to fix the crash, though, have you contacted CDPR about it? Posting your system rig may help as well.
No, I'm just trying things at the moment so I've not got to contacting anyone. Just searching to see if others have this problem.

I was next going to see if there was a way of setting the quest flag in some way but your solution of a saved game is a grand idea!

The problem is not in the save file as far as I can see since I've tried other saves previous to this and it still happens.
For what it's worth I just see the cutscen end and the normal screen appear for a fraction of a second. Maybe it's trying to do an auto save at this point.

Rig: Asus p6t, i7 920, asus ati 4850 graphic card 4gb mem.

Anyway I'am attaching my save file, if someone can play this and just make a save after winning against Einar I'd really appreciate that as a soltuion for now.

Edit: the save file is too big to upload here so you can download it here:

https://rapidshare.com/files/2252554036/Einar_poker_crash_0152.zip
There you go: http://filesmelt.com/dl/poker.zip.

I don't know if the difficulty carries over from the saves, just check it and correct if it's the wrong one.
And you were right: the game makes an autosave at your crash point, so it's likely that there's a bug. Hopefully it won't come back at the next autosave point.

Funny: I won on first try with five Ones. :))
Post edited June 25, 2011 by AudreyWinter
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AudreyWinter: There you go: http://filesmelt.com/dl/poker.zip.

Funny: I won on first try with five Ones. :))
Audrey - you are a star!!
Thanks so much for this, I'd love to find the problem but more importantly I can get one with this quest for now.

Five ones eh? good one. :-)

regards

Louis
ARRRGH!!

This is now driving me up the wall. After Audrey's save, I go to Sendler - the whole object of my quest to get the Troll's head. Same thing happens here.

There's some issue with the quest part of a dice game and the dialog that happens after since this doesn't happen on any other dice game. To test this I tried playing Einar from Audrey's save and everything is just fine because the quest dialogue doesn't happen.

If Audrey or someone could do advance this past Sendler's quest and get the Troll's head from him I'd be grateful.

In the meantime I'm not quite sure how to track this problem down. CDPR don't seem to have anywhere to log the problems, any ideas?
Please load up the savegame before the dice game in question. Would be nice if you used http://filesmelt.com/simple, because you don't have to wait five minutes there (Rapidshare has gotten crazy lately).

Here is a contact button at the bottom of the page: http://www.en.thewitcher.com/support/
Hey, I saw your PM just now, sorry about that :( E-mail notifications are slooow.

Looks like your Troll DLC is bugged. Wouldn't be the first time it happened.

Anyway, I beat Sendler for you and got the head. I hope you don't experience any more problems with this quest!

http://www.mediafire.com/?wpt04fgammoewvv
Post edited June 25, 2011 by dnna
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AudreyWinter: Please load up the savegame before the dice game in question. Would be nice if you used http://filesmelt.com/simple, because you don't have to wait five minutes there (Rapidshare has gotten crazy lately).

Here is a contact button at the bottom of the page: http://www.en.thewitcher.com/support/
Ok am doing it now - give me a few moments .....
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dnna: Hey, I saw your PM just now, sorry about that :( E-mail notifications are slooow.

Looks like your Troll DLC is bugged. Wouldn't be the first time it happened.

Anyway, I beat Sendler for you and got the head. I hope you don't experience any more problems with this quest!

http://www.mediafire.com/?wpt04fgammoewvv
Ah!!! didn't see this before replying to Aurdrey.

If this is a bug with the Troll quest it might make some sense although it doesn't quite explain why this happened with Einar since he isn't really connected with the Troll quest or .. is he? I guess he is but if I didn't have the Troll DLC he'd still be part of the quest to advance in the poker stakes..

I'd feel better if it were as you suggest since I'd be less likely to have this problem later on. This is the fist time it happened other than that sometimes it has crashed but as I said in the first post a reload and replay usually does the trick.

... just going to test your file. Thanks to both of you for being so helpful.
Post edited June 25, 2011 by louiscar
It's done it again!!
Well I guess this is an ongoing problem that I'm going to have to track down. I finished the Nekker contract and on going to get the reward from Louis Mercier the same thing happens after his dialogue.

Not good, I can see this is just going to happen more and more. <sigh>
I would keep my save at those CTDs, and try to contact CDPJ. If you really have that 100% CTD, you do them more than a service to get them aware of the bug
Yes I've alerted them to it and they've asked to see some dxidag infe and the saved files.

Howevver, I have a temporary solution which is quite baffling. Whilst trying lower settings, all kind of settings actually, for the hell of it I set it to ultra spec and it worked!! Once working I also realised that the crash happens on an autosave as that's just what it's trying to do at that point.

Testing this enough times to make sure it's reliable, all other settings would fail. I started changing one setting at a time. Finally it comes down to 'Ubersampling'. being enabled.

This is curious as it doesn't seem to relate to an I/O failure. Most odd but at least I can get past those sticky points in future. I tested it on all the 3 failed quests and they all pass ok.

Let's see what CDPR they make of it, in the meantime I'm wondering if I should find a generic bug thread to report this, just in case others stumble up on it.
... Spoke too soon.

Now on the quest Claws of Madness and it crashes after the spector's dialogue regardless. This has become pretty tiresome. I guess I'm just going to have to stop playing till I find a solution.
If it's crashing while trying to save, it could be hard drive errors.

Go to my computer, right-click on the drive (your saves are located on), go to tools, do a check for errors (making sure to check on automatically fix errors).
You may need to reboot.
no it's not that. HDD is fine, no problems saving manually or other autosaves, it's just at certain quest points. If there was a random hdd problem this wouldn't happen 100% on the same situation and I'd expect to see it happen on any save. Additionally any hdd problem would throw up an error (usually).