Witcher 1 mods: The best mods for surviving the first Witcher
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The Witcher was a bit of a rickety game when it came out in 2007. It’s rougher around the edges than its sequels in some ways that are charming, and in some that were frustrating then and are only more frustrating now. Like many older games, there are some essential mods that make the experience more bearable for the new decade. The Witcher’s selection of mods is relatively small, as most fans moved on to working on The Witcher 3 mods. But there are some vital ones. You can still play and enjoy The Witcher today, though be warned that getting the Enhanced Edition to play nicely with Windows 10 can be a chore. Personally, I’ve had better luck using GOG over Steam.
Mods for The Witcher come in a few categories: visual updates, gameplay mods that either add features or fix old bugs, and new adventures created with the D’jinni adventure editor that comes packed-in with the game. We’ve collected the best Witcher mods for you below.
How to install The Witcher mods
Using mods for The Witcher is still mostly a manual process. You’ll need to find the install directory for The Witcher and open up its «Data» folder. There you’ll make a new folder and call it «Override.»
Most mods will have you throw files in the Override folder totally loose rather than in subfolders. A select few will go in Data. Several mods on this list all replace the same files, so you may have to closely manage which you save to the directory first and which you allow to overwrite one another. Some recommend brewing your Override folder on your desktop before actually putting it back in the install directory.
Because there’s so much manual work to do and loose files flying about, you’ll probably want to treat modding The Witcher as a «set it and forget it» affair where you get a combo of mods you like and don’t change them. Concocting a new mix of mods will probably involve starting from scratch or unravelling a mess of files like a tangled necklace.
Visual Mods
Visual mods for The Witcher range from small fixes, like adding catlike eyes for every witcher in the game, to giant overhauls for every character and interface. There’s only so much lipstick that can be put on an old game like The Witcher so you won’t find anything here that brings it up to par with The Witcher 3, of course.
The Witcher Overhaul Project
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According to its creator, this overhaul mod updates about 80 percent of The Witcher’s textures at double their original resolutions. It also adds some new audio files, though you may find the Skyrim sounds used for quest sound effects jarring when you’re exploring Temeria instead of Tamriel. You’ll want to manually get rid of the .wav files that begin with «quest» in the downloaded folders to axe them.
The Witcher Texturen Mod
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Unlike the Overhaul Project, the Texturen mod is a bit older and doesn’t actually increase the resolution of The Witcher’s textures. Instead they’ve been sharpened. The creator released a new installer (in English finally!) in 2019 so you’ll find it a bit easier to get running. The installer has a painfully bright pink background that will hurt your eyes. You’ve been warned. The Texturen mod covers The Witcher’s environments but none of the characters. To upgrade all the NPCs, grab the Hi-Res Character Models below.
The Witcher: Hi-Res Character Models
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The Hi-Res Character Models mod pairs well with Texturen. Neither actually increase the resolution of the game’s files but have a sharper look that feels higher resolution. To a sharp eye, it may accentuate imperfections in the original textures. For most folks though, this is an easy way to give an updated look to an old game. Nothing can fix Zoltan’s face, unfortunately. Even sharper textures can’t help that mug.
The Witcher: Black Edition
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The Black Edition mod won’t fit everyone’s taste but it’s a large overhaul that recolors The Witcher’s interface, a few characters, and Geralt’s armor. Almost everything is reimagined in black and red. Except the women of The Witcher who are distinctly less red. The mod author felt that the original Witcher game had too great a fixation on redheads and changed both Shani and Triss into brunettes. Oddly, they’ve also swapped out Geralt’s face scar with a «wolverine style» one which is certainly a choice.
The Rise of the White Wolf
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Rise of the White Wolf is another big overhaul that redesigns The Witcher’s UI and all of its characters. While the new UI isn’t particularly in keeping with the spirit of the original the way Black Edition does, RotWW does actually redesign all of the Witcher’s characters instead of just marginally improving their textures. Triss gets a new outfit based on her Wild Hunt appearance. Morenn the dryad gets a lot less green. Zoltan is… no, Zoltan is still horrifically bug-eyed.
Natural Shani
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As an alternative to the big character overhauls above, Natural Shani just redesigns our favorite young medic. It’s derivative of the work of a few other modders who also redesigned Shani whose mods are no longer available. As the creator says, it’s a bit odd that a working woman like Shani would be running around in a minidress every day. This mod gives Shani some sleeves and leggings beneath her dress that look like she might actually be able to see patients in.
Text size increase for high resolutions
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This mod is for the 4k gamers of the world struggling to read all of The Witcher’s tiny text at a resolution it wasn’t designed for. Now the letters are bigger. Hurray!
Scabbard Mod
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If you ever found it odd that Geralt just carries both his swords open on his back, the Scabbard Mod fixes that problem for you. All of Geralt’s possible weapons have their own properly-shaped sheath now. The creator mentions that The Witcher was originally meant to have sword scabbards but they were removed because Geralt’s animations would create clipping issues between swords and their sheaths. It’s a minor inconvenience for a neat addition.
Complete Sword Overhaul
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Another for the sword lovers is the Complete Sword Overhaul which adds new models to differentiate many of Geralt’s swords. You can use this mod with both the Scabbard Mod and the Full Combat Rebalance but you’ll need to pay close attention to the instructions and patches on the Sword Overhaul page to make sure they all play together nicely.
Geralt face retexture
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This retexture, among other things, makes Geralt look less perpetually perplexed than he does in the vanilla version of The Witcher. Eyebrows make all the difference.
Perfect Blood
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The Perfect Blood mod looks to add some additional realism to The Witcher’s combat. It adds wounds to enemies as you strike them relative to how much damage you’ve done. It also makes all the gory blood splatter look just a bit fresher than in vanilla Witcher. You’ll also need the fix created by another modder below.
Fix for Perfect Blood
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Perfect Blood hasn’t been updated in some time and—though it apparently has some file issues—still remains a favorite. Another creator has uploaded a fix for Perfect Blood to make sure you can keep using it.
Catlike Eyes For All Witchers
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It is a bit odd that Geralt is the only witcher with cat-like eyes, right? Shouldn’t Vesemir, Lambert, and the others have witcher eyes as well? This mod replaces all the other witchers’ round pupils with vertical ones.
Gameplay Mods and Fixes
Gameplay mods and fixes for The Witcher help to fix some notorious old bugs, overhaul combat, and make a few more lighthearted changes as well.
Full Combat Rebalance
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Full Combat Rebalance adds some extra difficulty to The Witcher’s swordplay. It overhauls the skill tree and how damage is calculated between swords and armor sets. It can also make enemies scarcer but scarier if you want more tense combat. Its installer also lumps in a few other mods for convenience: cat pupils for all witchers, stacking inventory items up to 999, and the visible wounds mod that’s also included with Perfect Blood.
Sex Takes Time Mod
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This may not be the most glaring inaccuracy in The Witcher, but one mod author took issue with the fact that Geralt and the ladies he sleeps with never seemed to go anywhere or take any time to do the deed. Now after each encounter Geralt and his lover are moved to a more appropriate «after» location, have a line or so of dialogue to acknowledge their time together, and the game’s time actually moves forward a bit. Oh, and Geralt’s potion toxicity goes down after too.
Missing Kalkstein and Leuvaarden Clues Fix
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This mod is a quick fix to a quest in Act II of The Witcher that often causes problems. With this, you’ll be able to get all the clues you need to progress.
Han Gives Han NOT Berbercane
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The Han plant in The Witcher is notorious for giving the wrong ingredient when picked. If you want Han Fibers from your wild Han because they’re vital to your potion strategy, make sure to install this fix.
Talar will always Survive
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Does it bug you that Talar can die in The Witcher 1 and then, as if nothing happened, come back in both sequels? Talar is now a survivor.
New Adventures
New adventures for The Witcher are made with the D’jinni Adventure Editor that comes with the game. Modders have created lengthy additional quests for the game that add new NPCs, stories, quests, and locations. Below are a few interesting choices for expanded questing. You can find more over on ModDB, where they’re relatively easy to pick out of the small selection of 30 or so The Witcher mods listed.
Merry Witchmas
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Merry Witchmas is a fan-made adventure that was eventually folded into The Witcher itself. The mod authors say they’ve made additional changes, though, and downloading the most recent mod build is still preferable.
And a Curse, and Love, and Betrayal
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Curse, Love, and Betrayal sends the witcher looking for his lover Yennefer. Along the way he takes two contracts in a small town to remove a curse from a woman’s lover and to clean up the local mine. Curse, Love, and Betrayal says that it includes 10-12 hours of new questing leading to multiple different endings with a couple new music tracks to boot. Substantial!
The Crossroads
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The Crossroads is a mod that redecorates the village of Murky Waters into the setting of a grim conflict between two bandit factions. Despite being stranded by Roach’s death, Geralt gets in the middle of the town-wide conflict.
Deception
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As usual, Dandelion is in trouble and Geralt is the one to get him out again. He’ll need to save the wayward bard from a hanging and also defend the town of Carreas from invading fleders.
Lauren started writing for PC Gamer as a freelancer in 2017 while chasing the Dark Souls fashion police and accepted her role as Associate Editor and Chief Minecraft Liker in 2021. She originally started her career in game development and is still fascinated by how games tick in the modding and speedrunning scenes. She likes long books, longer RPGs, multiplayer cryptids, and can’t stop playing co-op crafting games.
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The texture modifications to «The Witcher» celebrate their 10th anniversary!
Exactly ten years ago, on 02/22/2009, meditate Staff
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«The Racing Reporter from WOP.»
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The original version of the first part of The Witcher looks very outdated by today’s standards, but thanks to various custom mods, the visual component can be significantly improved.
In this enthusiast hub997 , a new graphics mod for the first The Witcher has been introduced, offering AI updated textures. It is reported that the characters, monsters, animals, the sky, the sun, the stars and the moon have become prettier.
As a basis for improvements, the user took the models and textures available in the mod Rise of the White Wolf Enhanced Edition , one of the most popular for the original game.
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Another enthusiast, Halk Hogan PL , introduced this week a new version of the HD Reworked Project mod for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It offers improved textures for environment elements (over 1000 in total) and characters (over 250 models have been upgraded).
Rise of the White Wolf is another major overhaul of the interface and all characters in the game. And while the new interface doesn’t fit as well with the spirit of the original as it did in the Black Edition, RotWW does redesign all of The Witcher’s characters, rather than just improving their textures. Triss got new clothes in the style of her species in Wild Hunt. Dryad Morenn has become much less green. Zoltan… no, Zoltan is still terribly bug-eyed.
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Natural Shani
In contrast to the above-mentioned massive character reworks, Natural Shani remakes only our beloved young doctor. It is based on the work of other modders who have also modified Shani, but their modifications are no longer available. As the author says, it is rather strange that such a busy woman as Shani runs every day in a short dress. With this mod, Shani gets sleeves and long pants under her dress, and in this form she can really see patients.
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Text Upscaling
This mod is for 4K fans who find it hard to read all the fine print in The Witcher at a resolution it wasn’t designed for. The letters are now larger. Hooray!
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Scabbard Mod
If you ever thought it strange that Geralt is wearing naked swords on his back, this problem can be fixed with the Scabbard Mod. Now all possible weapons of Geralt got the perfect sheath. The author mentions that sheaths for swords were originally planned in The Witcher, but then they were abandoned, since during the animation of Geralt there were occasional problems with the distortion of swords and scabbards. A completely insignificant drawback for such a nice addition.
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Complete Sword Overhaul
Another mod for sword lovers is Complete Sword Overhaul, which adds new models to make Geralt’s various swords stand out from each other. It can be used in conjunction with the Scabbard Mod and Full Combat Rebalance mods, but you will need to pay considerable attention to the instructions and patches on the Sword Overhaul page to ensure they work together properly.
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Geralt 9 face texture update0097
Among other things, thanks to this texture update, Geralt no longer looks perpetually perplexed, as in the base game. It’s all about the brows!
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Perfect Blood
The Perfect Blood mod aims to bring a little more realism to the battles of The Witcher. It causes wounds to enemies based on the damage you dealt. In addition, the brutal blood splatter now looks a little fresher than in the base game.
Unfortunately, Perfect Blood hasn’t been updated in a while, but it still remains a fan favorite despite a number of issues. Therefore, another modder made a fix for Perfect Blood so that you can continue to use it without any problems.
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Catlike Eyes For All Witchers
It is rather strange that Geralt is the only witcher with cat eyes, right? Shouldn’t Vesemir, Lambert, and everyone else have eyes like that? This mod replaces the round pupils of other witchers with vertical ones.
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Gameplay mods and fixes
Gameplay mods and fixes for The Witcher help fix a number of known old bugs, overhaul the combat system and make a few more subtle changes.
Full Combat Rebalance
Full Combat Rebalance slightly complicates the combat system of the game. The mod changes the skill tree and the damage calculation system, taking into account the parameters of swords and armor. In addition, it reduces the number of enemies, increasing their quality, if you need a more intense fight. Also, the installer of this mod puts a number of other modifications for convenience: cat pupils for all witchers, a grouping of all items in the inventory up to 999 pieces and a mod for visible wounds, which is also part of Perfect Blood.
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Sex Takes Time Mod
This may not be the biggest inaccuracy of The Witcher, but the author of one mod felt that Geralt and the ladies with whom he sleeps never go anywhere and do not waste time on to do your thing. Now, after each sex scene, Geralt and his mistress are moved to a more acceptable place to stay after the process, they get a few lines of dialogue to talk about the time spent, and the game time is moved forward a bit. Yes, and the toxicity of Geralt’s potions also drops a bit.
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Kalkstein and Leuvaarden missing evidence fix
This mod fixes a quest in the second act of The Witcher that often causes problems. With it, you can get all the evidence you need to further advance.
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Khan gives Khan fiber, not Berberka
Fixed a known bug where you get the wrong ingredient when harvesting Khan. If your potion brewing strategy requires Khan fibers, be sure to install this fix.
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Thaler always survives
Doesn’t it surprise you that in The Witcher 1 Thaler can die and then reappear in both sequels as if nothing happened? Now he always survives.
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New adventures
New adventures for The Witcher can be made in the D’jinni Adventure Editor, which is included in the game package. Modders have created long additional storylines adding new NPCs, quests and locations. Below we have selected a number of interesting options for continuing the adventure. You can find more on ModDB, and there they are relatively easy to choose from a fairly small (about 30) number of modifications for the first Witcher.
Merry Witchmas
Merry Witchmas is a fan-made adventure that eventually made its way into the game itself. Although the authors of the mod say that they have made a number of additional changes, it is still preferable to download the latest version of the mod.
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And a Curse, and Love, and Betrayal
In Curse, Love, and Betrayal, the witcher goes in search of his beloved Yennefer. Along the way, he receives two contracts in a small town, one to rid a loved one of a woman from a curse, and the second to clean up a local mine. It is stated that 10-12 hours of new quests with several different endings and a couple of new music tracks are in fashion. Seriously!
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The Crossroads
The Crossroads is a modification that turns Darkwater into a scene of a dark conflict between two gangs of bandits.
