The Witcher – Uncut English Dialogs Unlocked

It was only a matter of time until someone figured out how to unlock the original and uncut English dialogs for the Witcher. Atari’s editing of the English dialog for the U.S. left passages seeming trite as well as jarring when one of the new lines was pasted in with a different sound quality altogether. 1eyedking from the forums has left instructions on how to do it.

Here’s a step-by-step instruction how to do it:

1. Open Windows’s Registry Editor (Start->Run->type “regedit”). Navigate towards ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARECD Projekt RedThe Witcher’ . Double-click the ‘Language’ tab. Enter ’1′ in ‘Value Data’ without the commas. Close the Editor (it saves the changes automatically).
2. Go to your Witcher’s Data folder inside the directory where you installed the game.
3. Rename ‘lang_3.key’ to ‘lang_1.key’.
4. Rename ‘dialog_3.tlk’ to ‘dialog_1.tlk’.
5. DO NOT rename anything else. The game will still look inside voices_3_00.bif to get the dialogue wave files, for example. 

Unfortunately, although this method will restore the dialogs, some of the journal will now appear in Polish instead of English. One of the founders and joint CEO of CD Projekt, Michal Kicinski has released an official response, on restoring the cut dialogs:

We know, we know. We noted it when first comments appeared. Yet, it is huge task and in comparison to other stuff, priority is not that high. But, we WON’T forget about it. Some day you’ll see (surprised;)

via RPG Codex