I've had problems getting witcher 1 working on windows 10 as well, it installs but then gives me a "had to close" error at start up.

Got the game working now, works great under Linux, but still won't install/load under windows LOL

The giveaway is over according to the link

i didn't receive a code :disappointed:

Added heat for those that can get the game to work, but it refuses to run on any of the five systems I have access to here for various different claimed reasons (all of which are nonsense). So glad I didn't actually pay for this failure.

I requested a key again today with same email, the new key worked.

Yes, same happened to me just now. Worked fine with a different email address.

WORKING AGAIN!

many thanks for this!

Worked fine thanks!

Hot, added to my GOG collection thanks!

Many thanks. All worked immediately.

Worked fine for me, great find!

Worked first time, cheers

Great, thanks for posting. Original link and registration working fine.

Superb game, has aged well IMO. Spent many hours on it!

Thanks! Email came straight away :-)

How long does it take for the email to come through?

Finally working now. Code works fine. Cheers for the post.

They've restored free keys. Now only email is needed.
HOWEVER, the key is dud - not redeemable at GOG with message "code already redeemed"

Anyone else seeing this?

Still broken............I wonder if they realised this would happen, how could they not have expected a huge hit on their servers?!?

Ars Technica has teamed up with GOG.com to give away free copies of The Witcher Enhanced Edition. These codes are only available for a limited time so grab yours today! (You'll need a free Ars account in order to claim a code.)

Our apologies, but Ars registration is temporarily close for required maintenance.

just checked the site and the current message is:

"All righty, the code giveaway is back on. Right now we're having to limit it to existing Ars accounts only, since many thousands of bots trying to simultaneously register for Ars accounts was killing the site pretty hard. We've got registration temporarily disabled for now, but we'll re-enable it shortly once we have another workaround in place. Who knew that the word "free" could cause so much chaos?"

Better than the Kartrashian's massive fake a r s e "breaking the internet".

Cold... for breaking the Internet :sunglasses:

Rather helpfully, I had registered a while back with Ars Technica so managed to grab this freebie - thanks OP

Haha, love it when HUKD brings a website to a stand still, especially for a freebie :grin:

accidental DDoS

SADLY , it said...... Our apologies, but Ars registration is temporarily close for required maintenance... but im willing to wait patiently, then I strike for this Freebies. :smile:

Can't register... Website playing up

Got a code, Thanks OP.. :smile:

Has taken 30 mins, just to register. Now i can't log in .!! oO

Ars's server seems to be struggling with the sudden deluge!

Heated!

Thank you, mate

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