Crash Fix for German Enhanced Edition (NEW)

This mod will fix the CTD (Crashes to desktop) in the german version of Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition. It's most noticeable in the first chapter of the game (Flotsam) where the game becomes almost unplayable.

You may know that there is already a mod for that issue that can be downloaded here:

The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition German Crash Fix by DarkInside89

Thanks to him we know that the issue is caused by certain characters of the german alphabet. His mod changes all Umlaut characters in the game (ä->ae, ü->ue, etc), which unfortunatly makes all of the text hard to read.

This new Mod will fix the crashes without removing any Umlaut-Characters from the game.

Deutsche Anleitung / German Installation Instructions

Deutsches Forum / German discussion

Installation

Create Backup:

CookedPC\de0.w2strings

Copy files to:

CookedPC\de0.w2strings

CookedPC\globals\gui\fonts.swf

CookedPC\globals\gui\fonts\fonts.csv

Uninstallation

Restore Backup:

CookedPC\de0.w2strings

Delete:

CookedPC\globals\gui\fonts.swf

CookedPC\globals\gui\fonts\fonts.csv

Compatibility

This Mod is not compatible with mods that modifies the font (exceptions below).

Compatible with The Witcher 3 UI Font (mods must be merged by using de0.w2strings from this mod and fonts from the other mod)

The mod has been tested with german Steam-Version of "Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition"

How it works

After some testing I could narrow down the issue to one character: "ß"

Whenever the game wants to display the character "ß", it's converted to a "two character string" and shows "ss" instead.

My Assumption:

That causes a Memory Leak or Buffer Overflow because one character is expected but two characters are transfered.