I re-installed TW2 from scratch from the original GOG release, applied the 1.0 to 1.3 update, and it detected there was a patch_EE and downloaded it. It took almost all night long, but I finally ran it today. Very quickly it got a "pack0.dzip is corrupted" error and wouldn't continue. I retried several times, but had to abort.

Although it said it was "rolling back the changes", my TW2 game is now corrupted... it won't launch at all. Has anyone else gotten around this somehow? Can I download just pack0.dzip? I can't afford another massively massive download.

error report contains this...

AppName: launcher.exe AppVer: 0.9.0.958 ModName: kernel32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.5781 Offset: 00012afb

Wait you do not need the 2.0 patch before you update to EE?

download the exe and pack0 from the witcher2 website seems to be a bug with that file and downloaders.

Have you sent a support ticket?

No need for a ticket (although, this belongs in the TW2 forums. Either here or the official site).

http://thewitcher.com/support/#q36

Thanks all. Shortly after I posted I found the support site on witcher.com and read that FAQ entry. The suggestion was to redownload a "bunch" of files, but I just downloaded the first 3 entries... the .exe and parts 1 and 2, and that fixed my problem.

Even though my TW2 was "corrupt" after the initial botched EE patch upgrade, it looks like the successful application of the EE patch fixed everything... at least I hope. Now that my EE patch is downloaded safely, I could reinstall TW2 from scratch... again if I have to... and then apply EE on top of that. Paranoid that I am, that's probably what I will do anyway. Hopefully I can apply EE right on top of a fresh TW2 1.0...

from Pulzarokkit... "Wait you do not need the 2.0 patch before you update to EE? "

Apparently not. In my case, I freshly installed the "old" TW2 from GOG, applied the 1.03 upgrade, and before it even finished it recognized there was a EE patch and basically the download of EE was "automatic"... I didn't get a chance to apply 2.0. I assume EE contains 2.0, at least I don't intend to go back and try to patch 2.0 on top of EE.

Guys, here's a question... I went back and re-installed TW2 (the original 1.0 GOG download) again, and applied the EE patch on top of that. I had to manually dbl-click the TW2EE_patch.exe to restart the patch process. I also notice there are 3 other executables in the same folder.

TW2EE_DE_Voiceover.exe
TW2EE_EN_Voiceover.exe
TW2EE_FR_Voiceover.exe

I assume these are german, english, and french voice files... do I need to launch them manually? Or did the first patch file already do that?

UPDATE: I think I just answered my own question. I wrote this post while I was applying the EE patch, and just now noticed that a 2nd window popped up saying it was installing the English Language Pack. So I assume that's the _EN_ file above, assuming I won't need to launch it separately. Ah, just noticed the French and German packs were auto-installed as well!

UPDATE #2: well, something is wrong. I started the game and chose to import my TW1 save, and then started the tutorials. There is something wrong with all the tutorial panels. The screen is littered with "placeholder text" such as..

[[GI_Tutorial]]
[[GI_Tutorial, Hint1]]

Which can't be good. Did anyone else get this during the tutorial?

I also thought the colors during the night looked horrible, very green-ish and almost neon. However, I kinda skipped the rest of the tutorial and started a new game, skipped all the cutscenes until I could get out into the open and walk around, and then the graphics looked pretty good.

Perhaps I should have installed the 1.3 patch, and then the 2.0 patch, and then the EE patch? Anyone?

I played through the tutorial and it was perfect for me. I always found patching the Witcher 2 to be an annoying shitshow even before the Enhanced Edition. When the Enhanced Edition came out I just re-downloaded the entire game, uninstalled my original version and then installed the Enhanced Edition with the new installer, no more messing with the patches ever again. Unless you have some kind of huge bandwidth restriction i'd just uninstall what you got, download the full EE installer and go from there.

When you download TW2 from GOG today, is it the new EE version? Or do I have to go to witcher.com to get the full EE installer? When I go to my download page on GOG, I get no "warm fuzzy" that what I'm downloading is EE. My account page just says "Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings" and doesn't say EE, so I have no way of knowing... and there is just too much data to download it without knowing.

Turn off the downloader option, and try to download the first part of the setup, the 2MB one. If the filename is setup_the_witcher_2_ee_3.0.1.17.exe then it is the EE edition.

I can confirm that, as of about 1730 Eastern time on the day the EE version launched, the GoG downloader grabbed the latest version.

I also had the pak0 problem. I just queued up the entire download anyway (I forgot what version of TW2 I had installed). Works perfectly, and replaying with Dark Mode is awesome.

Well, this isn't getting any better. Can someone start a new game and run the Tutorial, and tell me whether you see strange text (like "[GI_Tutorial,Hint1]") on the help panels when they popup? For example, every panel that pops up (with directions for how to play the game) has a "hint" in the lower-left corner that looks like this for me...

[[GI_T
Press to restore the tutorial panel
utorial

And in other places I see text like this...

[[GI_Tutoria
lHint,1]]

It looks like this text is "word-wrapping" and probably reads "[[GI_TutorialHint,1]] all in one word. I'm afraid the game is not finding a resource that it needs, or something. I don't want to get halfway into the game and find out it's correupted again.

I took the advice to totally download the game (all 16GB) over again, and installed it from scratch. No matter how I install the game, the tutorial panels are corrupted like this... all of them... every one that pops up.

The game passes the Integrity Check, so I'm not concerned that the download was corrupt... but obviously something is not right. I'm hoping someone has had this happen to them before and maybe can help me getting it resolved?

Thanks!

UPDATE: I think I figured out what these strange tokens are... I believe they're supposed to be replaced by graphics of keyboard keys, but for some reason it's not working for all the keys. For example, there is a panel that opens when you are standing over the dead body in the tutorial. The panel shows a bunch of the keys you can use for stuff. The first description is for the Up and Down arrow keys, and there is a nice bright orange graphic of those two keyboard keys.

But the NEXT description is for the Enter key, but instead of showing a graphic of the keyboard it has a token-string that looks like [[GI_Enter]] instead. Searching around in the TW2 folders I found a file called Input_QWERTY.ini that seems to have entries for all these strange tokens I'm seeing. For example, scattered throughout the file there are entries that looks like these...

IK_Enter=(Gamekey=GI_Enter,Value=1.000000)
IK_Tab=(Gamekey=GI_TutorialHint,Value=1.000000)

where I can clearly see the "GI_Enter" and "GI_TutorialHint" strings. I'm guessing that the Tutorial is unable to find some of the picture-graphic icons for some of the keyboard keys.

There is a "tutorial.dzip" file in the /CookedPC folder, that might have some of these graphics and/or panel text. But I don't know how to unzip a ".dzip" file. Renaming to ".zip" didn't work. I wonder if this file is missing some graphics? Or maybe it is corrupt after all?

I just took the night to redownload the 3.4 installer from gog because I had this problem in a manually patched (all the way from 1.0 to 3.4.1) version I had since day 1. Both that version and this one show those development strings - GI_Enter, GI_TutorialHint, etc. Annoying.

The problem with [[GI_Tutorial, Hint1]] still exists. Does anyone have a solution?

Does it also happen if you set the game to English? May not be a valid solution for you but it may provide hints where the problem lies.