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Posted November 30, 2011
Hi all, long time listener, first time caller.

I am upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7, I believe it should be straight forward as I have the GOG.com version and won't have to do all the backing up and restoring I need to do with my Steam games.

Have you guys got any tips? I am more worried my Witcher 2 files will be broke after the upgrade but I played and finished that one first.

Thanks in advance.
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Posted December 01, 2011
I can't think of anything offhand. The only thing I can think of to worry about would be TAGES copy protection, but the GOG version of Witcher 1 doesn't have that, so you should be good to go. I've played through Witcher 2 on my Win7 64 bit rig with no issues. Haven't tried Witcher 1 on it yet though.
Posted December 01, 2011
Only three things to watch out for:

1. You have legacy 16-bit applications. Windows 7 won't run them natively. If you get Windows 7 Pro, you can run them in VirtualPC; if you don't, you can run them in DOSBox, VirtualBox, or something like that.

2. You have legacy hardware that has limited driver support. Windows Vista and 7 drivers are usually different from Windows XP drivers. And Windows 7 64-bit requires signed drivers; if the driver author didn't sign them, you have to jump through hoops to get them to install.

3. When you have a game that is suitable for modding (such as The Witcher 1), don't install it in its default location under Program Files or Program Files (x86). If you do, UAC and File Virtualization make it somewhere between a cluster headache and impossible to install mods. When possible, install games under C:\Games or something like that.
Posted December 01, 2011
Definitely heed cjrgreen's advice about changing the install location. Using C:\Games or similar will avoid 99% of problems you might have with Windows 7.

I can confirm that both The Witcher and The Witcher 2 work great on Windows 7. Be sure that you back up the savegames, and you should be fine.

I've been very satisfired with Windows 7. I actually have another partition with XP on it which I was keeping in case I had trouble running older games, but I've never needed it. So far everything has run great on Windows 7. I'm still hanging on to the XP partition just in case, as there are several more GOG games I'm meaning to get to, but so far old stuff seems to run even better in Windows 7 than in XP.
Posted December 02, 2011
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cjrgreen: Only three things to watch out for:

1. You have legacy 16-bit applications. Windows 7 won't run them natively. If you get Windows 7 Pro, you can run them in VirtualPC; if you don't, you can run them in DOSBox, VirtualBox, or something like that.

2. You have legacy hardware that has limited driver support. Windows Vista and 7 drivers are usually different from Windows XP drivers. And Windows 7 64-bit requires signed drivers; if the driver author didn't sign them, you have to jump through hoops to get them to install.

3. When you have a game that is suitable for modding (such as The Witcher 1), don't install it in its default location under Program Files or Program Files (x86). If you do, UAC and File Virtualization make it somewhere between a cluster headache and impossible to install mods. When possible, install games under C:\Games or something like that.
thanks for telling me this
Posted January 25, 2012
Thank you to all, I have not been able to use the internet much this year but having Witcher 1 playable offline because of you guys helping me kept me sane.

Thanks again!!!!
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