I purchased The Witcher on steam around a year ago, and just got to playing it to get ready for the second game. That didn't work, so I picked it off gog when it was 5 just in case the version was different enough to work. Sadly it isn't, and I really want to play 1 (and 2) but I'ma stickler for playing through the entirety of things and just starting with the sequel is a no go.

I've tried all the obvious stuff, running as admin, compatibility mode, all that.It just runs, then blinks the screen once, then shuts down. I'm running vista 32b and have fully updated drivers and all that.

Any help you be great, thanks!

Copied from my question on general, since someone suggested I put it in this forum.

You should list system specs.

Do you have DirectX 9 installed? I know the version 10-11 are not BC.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/the_witcher/d3dx9_35_dll_is_missing

Try installing somewhere besides program files, not sure it will help on vista, supposedly helps on win 7.

I'm having the same issue. I also tried running it with the -dontForceMinReqs option and no luck. Anyone have any other ideas? I checked the .ini file and it has a debug setting set to 1. Has anyone mucked with that?

Alright so I've got a kinda shaky solution

Go into the The Witcher Enhanced Edition blah blah and go to the system folder. Set witcher.exe to run in 640 x 480, should pop up fine (even in your normal resolution) problem is alt tabbing freezes the screen, so don't do that! anyone have a better solution I'd love to know.

Try windowed mode. Apparently some people were getting a lot of crashes with fullscreen but windowed mode would work fine. If windowed mode works, there is a program you can get that will eliminate the program bar at the top, so it will look identical to fullscreen but will actually be windowed.

The link to that program has been posted elsewhere in this forum, I forget the name of it at the moment.

Dango, how did you change the res? Did you edit an ini file?

If you're installing the game, or any game for that matter, to Program Files, then don't.

Use another folder, like C:\Games.