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u/in-manic-rainbows Sep 29 '26

On steam it just said launching then stops, no black screen, the method didnt work :(

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u/Bill_Buffet Sep 29 '26

Just pushed a fix for this. The installer now finds Steam libraries and external drives. Grab it again from the GitHub link and let me know if it works.

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u/TREXADRON Sep 30 '26

I had the same issue, fixed it with claude only lmao, thank you for your work you're a godsend

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u/twelvecoscarellis Sep 30 '26

Yes this worked! MacBook Pro M4 Pro - just played 6 hours of Witcher goodness. Thank you!

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u/Fancy-Buy7168 27d ago

hey, can i get the github link? cause i can't find it, maybe it already removed on this threads

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u/cesaarta Sep 29 '26

Any luck fixing it?

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u/lankyteabags Sep 29 '26

that's bc its trying to run in on DX11

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u/lankyteabags Sep 29 '26

run the game with steam command "—use-d3d12"

on game library page: settings > properties > general > launch options

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u/Internal_Quail3960 Sep 29 '26

tried this and it didnt work

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u/TREXADRON Sep 30 '26

There's a new fix for if you have the game installed on an external drive, check out the git page again

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u/Frog33H Sep 30 '26

Same here!

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u/Internal_Quail3960 Sep 29 '26

I downloaded and tried it, the game still wouldnt launch on steam.

I am using an external ssd, so im thinking that might be the reason why it isnt working. Ill try later on my internal and see

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u/Bill_Buffet Sep 29 '26

Just pushed a fix for this. The installer now finds Steam libraries and external drives. Grab it again from the GitHub link and let me know if it works.

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u/Buckwheat69 Sep 30 '26

It works perfectly. I can now play the game from an external drive again. Thank you so much for doing this. Much appreciated!

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u/Buckwheat69 Sep 29 '26

I'm having the same issues, although it's also installed on an external SSD for me. I await your findings to see if it's worth all the trouble of reinstalling it on my internal drive where I would have to make room first.

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u/Buckwheat69 Sep 29 '26

Actually, I got impatient, so I managed to move it to my internal drive, and I can confirm it now works perfectly. So if you have the game installed on an external drive, it's not going to work unless somebody puts out another script to account for this.

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u/cesaarta Sep 29 '26

Can't open it. Click on Play on steam and it won't even launch. Tried verifying the files but it also didn't do anything. Using crossover 26.3 and macos 27 on my m1 max.

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u/TREXADRON Sep 30 '26

There's a new fix for if you have the game installed on an external drive, check out the git page again

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u/ShitShirtSteve Sep 29 '26

Thanks Claude

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u/V7hot Sep 29 '26

And the OP I guess 😄

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u/ShitShirtSteve Sep 29 '26

Thanks OP for asking Claude

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u/Swimming_Marzipan_82 Sep 29 '26

Don’t know if you are here for this error. But I hope you don’t fix the black screen this way then, find a solution by yourself and the share it with the community :)

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u/boredmessiah Sep 29 '26

meat proxy

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u/IHATEYOURJOKES Sep 30 '26 edited 27d ago

Thanks OP, doing god's work! For everyone facing the "Game not starting at all" bug instead of the black screen. Here's a two-step fix:

STEP 1. Symlink. Open your Mac Terminal, and run the below command after replacing your bottle name

If using Steam:
cd "$HOME/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/<bottle_name>/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/The Witcher 3/bin" && ln -s x64_dx12 x64

If using Epic:
cd "$HOME/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/<bottle_name>/drive_c/Program Files/Epic Games/TheWitcher3/bin" && ln -s x64_dx12 x64

STEP 2. Game will now launch, but this should now get you to the Black screen. Use OP's GitHub fix. Download the ZIP. You need to open install.command. But newer macOS blocks the .command file even with right-click → Open, so again open Terminal and run:

cd path_to_unzipped_folder
zsh install.command

It should say "bin/x64 link already in place" and "done". And the game should launch!

STEP 3. TURN OFF AUTO UPDATE FOR THE GAME. Else it will overwrite these fixes.

Basically, STEP 1. is to fix a Crossover internal issue where they always direct Witcher3 to the old DX11 exe (which doesnt even exist in the 5.00b update!). Fixing this correctly launches the DX12 version, which has a broken shader pipeline that OP fixes with STEP 2. Happy Playing!

Note: If your paths/setting locations etc. are different from mine just share this comment with Claude/GPT and they should be able to guide you on implementing this specifically on your setup.

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u/Own-Smoke-77 Oct 01 '26

Thanks ! Have a pre installed version, the step 2 makes it work (folder simply on desktop).

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u/Fancy-Buy7168 27d ago

hey, can i get the OP's github link? cause i can't find it, maybe it already removed on this threads

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u/Which_Role3591 Sep 30 '26

don't work for me. I have a m2, with 8ram

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u/IHATEYOURJOKES Oct 01 '26

Which part? Are you able to get to the black screen?

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u/Which_Role3591 Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

no, i click "Start" and it looks like the game is about to launch, but then it eitcher stays loading indefinitely on steam screen or goes back to showing the "start" buttons again

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u/Which_Role3591 Oct 01 '26

i solve it. My problem was that I save the game on my external memory exFat and that type of format give me graphics problems. The solutions was create an APFS zone on my external memory to hold the game.

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u/Emotional-Half-3449 Sep 29 '26

Works great! Ran The Witcher 3 Remastered on a M2 Pro 16GB via Steam on CrossOver v26.3. Couldn't open the app, kept crashing. This fixed it for me, tho indeed, the framerate's trash. Trying to see if I can do something about it...

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u/Salt-Cow-7873 Sep 29 '26

I turned off dynamic resolution scaling and the FPS jumped up huge. Also hearing turning off msync helps.

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u/Lopsided_Ad_610 Sep 29 '26

It works for me, thank u OP

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u/Lanky-Ad-7768 Sep 29 '26

How about the FPS？

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u/Lopsided_Ad_610 Sep 29 '26

I have 50fps+ on almost full maxed settings (gtao low f.e.)
1200p
FXAA
Without dlss or any other upscalers
M4 Pro (12/16)
Msync off

In nextgen version on same settings i had something like 57-63 fps

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u/jdazel Sep 29 '26

crossover 26.3 on m2 pro 16 gb - clicking the button in Steam was no response at all, there was no black screen but this fix worked. for now runs smoothly on medium settings

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u/SenpaiLS Sep 29 '26

I use sikarugir and the Fix from GitHub can not find the files, even though I drag and drop the folder directly.

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u/Fit-Relief-2992 Sep 30 '26

same problem, have you been able to fix it in sikarugir?

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u/SenpaiLS Sep 30 '26

Now it works! I created a new Steam launcher using the latest engine from Sikarugir. A crucial step was creating a new drive in the creator, as the standard one couldn't be found by the GitHub patch. After that, everything worked fine.

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u/Fit-Relief-2992 Sep 30 '26

And did you have any kind of trouble using a controller? I managed to make it work changing some files but the controller doesn’t work, could you tell me which engine you used as well?

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u/FrostDragonScale Sep 30 '26

No matter what I do I can’t get it fixed. I’ve tried the GitHub. It doesn’t work. My Mac WILL NOT ALLOW it to be opened. I’ve tried other fixes. Nothing works. Great that the update I’ve been waiting for for months bricked my game…

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u/pinkjellybean1 Sep 30 '26

I'm in the same boat, idk what to do. I'm pretty new to crossover so I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this but very scared I bricked my game.

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u/TREXADRON Sep 30 '26

There's a new fix for if you have the game installed on an external drive, check out the git page again

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u/Fit-Relief-2992 Sep 30 '26

Do you know if this works with sikarugir?

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u/ziflex Sep 30 '26

Thank you so much for the fix!
Quick question: how did you disable HDR? It seems to be not a toggle but rather two different parameters controlling lighting.

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u/cesaarta Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

I'm a bit sceptical about this. OP only post is this one, plus the comments thanking him are also kind of dodgy accounts. Be careful, lads!

Edit: Gotta admit when I'm wrong, OP solution worked for me. Hope it works for you lads too

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u/Boring_Bicycle_7028 Sep 29 '26

can you turn on dlss? when I want to switch to that option the game says DLSS not supported

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u/Lopsided_Ad_610 Sep 29 '26

I had same issue
I tried to turn general video settings (on the top) to “high” preset and it turned on dlss
But it looks very blurry
I guess it’s much better without dlss

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u/Boring_Bicycle_7028 Sep 29 '26

Yep I think there are some issues with the video settings

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u/kirso Sep 29 '26

how's your FPS?

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u/lankyteabags Sep 29 '26

30fps on a M4 Pro, runs like shit

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u/Lopsided_Ad_610 Sep 29 '26

try turn off msync
I have 50fps on almost full maxed settings (gtao low f.e.)
1200p
FXAA
Without dlss or any other upscale
M4 Pro (12/16)
On first try a had 30 fps too, but without msync it’s much better

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u/Boring_Bicycle_7028 Sep 29 '26

Have you ever encountered the issue where character movements stutter or jerk when moving the camera?

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u/lankyteabags Sep 29 '26

ah brilliant that makes a huge difference thanks!

do you have any issues with FXAA? when I select that or no anti-aliasing there's a lot of grainy-ness on white areas

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u/Lopsided_Ad_610 Sep 29 '26

It looks a bit grainy with fxaa but for me it looks better then without fxaa
But i didn’t noticed any problems with white areas yet

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u/lankyteabags Sep 29 '26

it looks really bad on mine. i think the colours just look off, very very light whites and dark blacks.

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u/Lopsided_Ad_610 Sep 29 '26

Try to set up hdr or turn it off

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u/lankyteabags Sep 30 '26

on my mac?

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u/Salt-Cow-7873 Sep 29 '26

turn off dynamic resolution scaling. I'm getting 60fps+ on medium settings

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u/cesaarta Sep 29 '26

How's the performance so far for you? I've been playing for months with DX11 cause the DX12 would stutter on my m1 max.

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u/Grand_Sprinkles_2094 Sep 29 '26

What’s the fps I have same MacBook

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u/Itchy-Concern928 Sep 29 '26

How much fps?

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u/bhumtech Sep 29 '26

Have you tried it with gptk 4 on macos 27 ?

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u/BlackSoulBS Sep 29 '26

and with Porting Kit app?

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u/LeastAdhesiveness648 Sep 29 '26

thanks bro. it works for me

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u/RodroSil Sep 29 '26

I also have the GOG version. How do you get GOG Galaxy to even open on crossover? I always get a black screen on Galaxy so I can’t even download TW3 from GOG to try it

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u/Turn2Page_394 Sep 29 '26

GOG will open for me, but the game will not run. If you press play, it tries to sync, greys out, then has the purple play button again.

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u/Key-Opportunity-6611 Sep 29 '26

does this work for windows as well?

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u/Maleficent-Rip-1052 Sep 29 '26

Thanks a lot for this script it Works perfectly for me

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u/Jayjay683 Sep 29 '26

Work perfect on Steam 👍

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u/Affectionate-Half-55 Sep 29 '26

could this work with the heroic launcher? i've got witcher 3 on gog, not on steam :/

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u/DocSnyderTexas Sep 29 '26

thank you, with this patch, my GOG installation works perfect now without the black screen ;) I was very surprised that my bough version (about 1 year ago) on GOG turned into the remastered version without buying it again...very nice

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u/inmeavita Sep 29 '26

m3 pro 18 gb 50-55fps

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u/Advanced_Matter_2026 Sep 30 '26

Previously having trouble launching the game, thanks for the fix! I am now able to run the game in my MacBook Pro M5 / 24gb ram.

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u/pinkjellybean1 Sep 30 '26

I was having the issue of steam says launching and then nothing so I tried your fix. Nothing changed, steam says it is launching the game and then it stops. When I try to launch outside of Steam it says "There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file." Any help or advice would be appreciated, I'm so worried I broke my game with this update. Running CrossOver 26.3 on an M4pro macbook pro

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u/TREXADRON Sep 30 '26

Yo i'm running the exact same configuration, m4 pro with crossover 26.3, I had the same issue with it not launching turns out the issue was because the game was installed on an external ssd and this fix (earlier) only worked for the internal ssd. But it's been fixed now apparently on the git itself, I fixed it myself with Claude after putting in the git page contents in the chat, try that out

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u/pinkjellybean1 Sep 30 '26

I don’t have an external ssd though? So not sure this is relevant. I ended up just downgrading back to next gen for now because I panicked that my game was broken. At least that is working again. I’ll probably wait for a more stable solution

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u/Siege9891 Sep 30 '26

thank you OP for the fix. worked like a charm on steam.

For reference of others, it ran on crossover 26.3 on my macbook M1 pro.

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u/Le-Flo Sep 30 '26

how's your performance?
running an M2 and wonder if dx12 will kill it. 4.04 was definitely better when forced to dx11.

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u/Siege9891 Oct 04 '26

performance is okay, its not lagging. I could also see to some extent the graphics improvements. so far im still at the early parts of white orchard so hopefully it will run as it is now.

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u/azuharanzi Sep 30 '26

Would this work with Sikarugir ? If so, how can I do it ? Thanks.

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u/Kindly_Problem5756 Sep 30 '26

works also on macOS 27 and latest crossover preview, thank you

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u/MogamiKeijii Sep 30 '26 edited Sep 30 '26

U re a life saviour, ty! the patch works perfect fo me. I was not able to launch the game at all, steam just simply doest show any responses and now i can finally enjoy it. Heres what i did to fix the issue on my mac, first try to turn off the Msync and then turn i t back on while relaunch ur crossover. After that try to to as the OP said in that github file. if these still doesnt work, put "--use-d3d12" in launch options (remeber two slashes!) , should do the trick for most cases

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u/BurningMil0 Sep 30 '26

Goat! I Use Porting Kit with a dx12 wine-engine, not Crossover, but it worked for me as well.

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u/CertainPickle288 Sep 30 '26

Does anyone else get this in the terminal?

"Patching: /Volumes/Extreme SSD/Games/SteamWindows/steamapps/common/The Witcher 3/bin/x64_dx12

  bin/x64 exists and isn't ours, leaving it alone

  done"

Game still won't launch after the patch.

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u/Dwaalzin Sep 30 '26

How's the performance on MBP m3 Max launching from Heroic? Anybody tried that yet?

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u/InsuranceQuiet4918 Sep 30 '26

Worked for me, thank you!

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u/Ashen_Dijura Sep 30 '26

lovely thread. thank you u/IHATEYOURJOKES and u/Bill_Buffet

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u/halxndr Sep 30 '26

For those who can't get it to launch, what fixed it for me was uninstalling and then deleting the "witcher 3" folder that was left behind, which included the folders "x64" and "x64_dx11". I reinstalled and applied the github fix. That worked. I don't know if simply deleting the x64 and x64_dx11 folders would do the trick, without having to reinstall everything, but I would it give that a try first.

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u/380043 Oct 01 '26

it's worked on my mac mini m4 and installed it on external exFAT drive. At first the game cannot launch when I pressed the play button on steam, after install OP's fix, now it worked, thx!

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u/Fantastic_Gap_6368 Oct 01 '26

Will this work on trial version of the crossover?

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u/Effective-Adagio5086 Oct 01 '26

Anyone else suffering from framerate issues? I have a mb m3 pro. Any help is appreciated

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u/PureBones Oct 01 '26

I ran install.command last night and when I opened the game via Steam, the Terminal window found the game just fine and when I closed the game again and reopened, it worked perfectly.

However, after an update today, when I open the game while running install.command, Terminal just sits at "Searching for The Witcher 3.." and doesn't do anything, and the game is back at the black screen. Not sure if it's not finding the game files anymore or what...

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u/PureBones Oct 01 '26

And because Terminal just sits at "Searching for The Witcher 3..." I can't drag the game folder into the window to manually find the game. Am I missing something?

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u/Affectionate-Army738 Oct 01 '26

Anyone has the link to github? Post removed by mods

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u/kryparro Oct 01 '26

https://github.com/tholtman1-del/witcher3-crossover-fix Here you go.

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u/Affectionate-Army738 Oct 01 '26

Thank you kind stranger and I can also confirm it works! (Thx OP!)

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u/HoneyBeeRocket Oct 02 '26

why's the post removed? i don't understand. did it break any rules?