The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - Medallion Bug... Possible to solve?

[Piftuka]

Hello Everyone,

Unfortunately I'm constantly facing a quite serious bug in Witcher. This started somehow and somewhere at the beginning of Chapter II (I cannot remember if and which Quest or happening triggered this), but since then my Witcher medallion is always switches to "Monster search" mode automatically.

And not only this happens... in 90% of the time, I cannot find a "Place of Power". Which is a huge disadvantage, cause I'm playing the game in the "hardest" mode, and my character is a "magician"... I spent the most points on the usage of Signs (and related attributes).

Seems this is in connection with the above bug itself.

Unfortunately regardless I set to "Magic search" during meditation, usually in 9 of 10 cases, after the meditation is finished, my Medallion is set to "Monster search" again.

And strange thing, that in most of the cases in such times I start to meditate again, and open the Inventory, I can see the "green light circle" around both "search" icons in the windows... as it seems, the program is not able to decide which to chose. But okay... I switch it to "Magic search" (hence the green circle around "Monste search" disappears), after the meditation is over, the Medallion is set to "Monster search" again.

In the rare cases when the Medallion setting seems to work fine, it last only until some "re-load" of a last saved game, or simply an autosave/automatic place loading while entering a house, or leaving such place....

Searching throughout the internet, I found out this is a known bug for some of the users (both on WinXP and Win7, and all versions of Witcher game), but hopefully here someone can help me with a permanent solution to avoid this annoying bug.

As most part of the game still awaits me to complete (I'm only at the end of Chapter II)... I do not want to play almost the whole game without having the opportunity of using the "Circles of Power".


Any help from your side is appreciated!

Thank you!

Regards,
Piftuka

[veiledstar]

Did you use any of the places of power in the swamp to teleport? I'm wondering if this could be the cause of the bug if you used them this way.

[Piftuka]

Originally posted by veiledstar:

Did you use any of the places of power in the swamp to teleport? I'm wondering if this could be the cause of the bug if you used them this way.

No, I haven't used them for that purpose. (I guess you mean the teleport to Kalkstein laboratory..)

As I mentioned, this whole bug started to appear somewhere at the beginning of Episode II.

[Piftuka]

Update:

Yes, above I described clearly a found bug of the game. As an update I can tell, that for the Chapter III and IV (I'm at the end of it atm) at least I'm able to use the "Places of Power", as they appear as intended.

But the medallion is still bugged; it won't ever switch to "Magic Search" mode... In this case I find the existence of Medallion totally useless.

Shame for such annoying bugs, as this is definitely one of the best RPG games ever been created for PC.

[Vashra]

Mine would randomly pop back to monsters starting in chapter III. Meditating again used to fix it.

Now in chapter IV, I have tried multiple hours to meditate my medallion over to magic, and it does not do so. It remains set to monsters. Period.

HOWEVER

It's *vibrating* now whether I come up on monsters OR come up on places of power. In short, it's doing BOTH.

The only thing it will not do is vibrate at a location of a depleted place of power (yes, you *can* use them enough that they disappear and you must wait for them to respawn). By then though, I have the blue dot on my map, so whatever.

[Piftuka]

Thank you for your comments, mate! That is interesting indeed.

But anyway... I haven't played the game since then. I'm focusing on the 2nd part of the series.

(Just first I need to upgrade my PC. )

[Vashra]

Lol sorry...I didn't see this was a thread from 2016!

[Piftuka]

Reall no problem. :) I'm glad that you commented your thoughts and experience here.

(Shame though... that even since then, none of the Devs responded. Moreover shame if the bug is still didn't fixed.... )

[m]

How do you even switch the medallion to detect magic in meditation? I've been clicking all around the medallion but it doesn't react in any way. Is there some button I have to press?

[Piftuka]

During meditation you should click on the Inventory icon, and the related, particular screen would appear.

That shows your medallion, and at the bottom of it, there are the two smaller symbols available, as options to select. So there you can switch between "Magic" and "Monsters".

[m]

thanks i found it by accident. i didn't know i had to also go in the inventory

[max.strauss]

Originally posted by diogenes:

i didn't know i had to also go in the inventory

https://youtu.be/9d8yLArDdpY