It will overwrite the default camera behaviour, so if that is where the bug lurked around, it ought to be dead now. To answer one of your other questions in the process - which might have been rhetorical - the game does have mods, and this one, called ' Enhanced Camera', changes the in-game camera, so I'd suggest installing that, and see if it changes anything. So, we have to look into possible indirect fixes. It indeed seems to be a rare problem, and whenever a solution is given, its fix, like you say, is to reload an old saved game. I have no mods (does this game even have mods?) and this is my first play through. I really don't want to lose my progress - is there any solution to this other than finding a previous save that isn't bugged out? There a really old thread on GoG that suggests reloading an old save, though the 'stuck camera' described there doesn't quite match what I'm experiencing (they can't move at all I can technically move I just can't see what I'm doing). I can't quick save (F5 causes a message that says that I can't save here). Turns out the red glowy thing was some sort of weird fish person - I can't interact with them at all other than bump into them, and whacking them with a sword does nothing. The monochrome display effect disappeared, but my camera is still stuck. Thinking it might be a problem with the potion itself, I let the timer run out. Basically any command that would pop up a dialog or overlay isn't working - inventory, character gen, journal, tutorial (tab), etc. According to the tutorial prompt, I can exit out of the potion's effect by meditating, but the ctrl hotkey that would allow me to access meditation appears to have no effect. He can draw his sword and attack things (well, the air anyhow.) Attacking the red glowy person doesn't seem to help.

I can still move Geralt around, but it's a little hard when the camera isn't following him.

I can see a dead body on the floor, and the red glowing outline is standing above it not moving. I know the game itself isn't stuck because the potion countdown timer is still ticking.

So I'm walking around in the dungeon, and I drop down a hole in the floor to a lower level. I've descended into the well, and drank the cat potion as the tutorial prompt suggested.Įverything went greyscale, I hear a heartbeat, and I see the red glowing outline of a human's skeleton/blood vessels in the distance, which I assume are the effects of this potion. I'm playing the Prologue quest in Witcher 2 (via Steam).

The witcher 2 tutorial