The Witness — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Braid Anniversary + Witness Bundle | 2024-07-06 | Earlier this year we released Braid, Anniversary Edition, a remastered version of Braid with a bunch of new levels and tons of developer commentary. Now Braid Anniversary is on sale and The Witness is in a bundle with it. Both games have a base discount of 75%, but if you already own The Witness, Braid Anniversary will be cheaper, and vice versa, and of course you get the extra discount if you get both. Braid, Anniversary Edition The Witness Thanks for reading this! As we finally enter the downhill slope of design on the (not yet named) giant new puzzle game, it's nice to be able to go back to games like The Witness and make them a bit cheape |
| Another Update for the macOS version | 2023-06-01 | Fixed a crash on some modern macOS systems that was was caused by an outdated Steam SDK. |
| Hotfix for macOS 10.13-10.14 | 2023-05-19 | Fixed crash on macOS versions before 10.15 that got introduced in the recent update. |
| Hotfix for the macOS version | 2023-05-18 | Fixed crash on macOS versions before 11.0 that got introduced in yesterday’s update. |
| Update for the macOS version | 2023-05-17 | Updated the macOS version to run on macOS 13+ Added the required signatures to prevent Gatekeeper pop-ups on macOS 10.14+ Improved trackpad detection code on macOS. Fixed that left-clicks on trackpads were sometimes incorrectly interpreted as right-clicks on macOS. Fixed that launching The Witness on newer macOS versions showed a popup about monitoring input from other applications. |
| The update has been published as the default version for all users. | 2017-12-21 | This is the version that has been on 'future' for a while, with a few changes. 'default' and 'future' are now the same build of the game. Full list of changes versus the current public version: Added alternative "Click-to-Move" control scheme: Pause Menu -> Controls -> Mouse Control Mimics the touch controls from the iOS version with the mouse Left click to walk Left double-click to run Left click and drag to look around Right click to toggle in/out of focus mode Hold middle mouse or alt to strafe Remappable keys: Pause Menu -> Controls -> Customize Keys Remappable gamepad: Pause Menu -> Controls -> Customize Pad Ability to swap gamepad analo |
| The update has been published as the default version for all users. | 2017-12-21 | This is the version that has been on 'future' for a while, with a few changes. 'default' and 'future' are now the same build of the game. Full list of changes versus the current public version: Added alternative "Click-to-Move" control scheme: Pause Menu -> Controls -> Mouse Control Mimics the touch controls from the iOS version with the mouse Left click to walk Left double-click to run Left click and drag to look around Right click to toggle in/out of focus mode Hold middle mouse or alt to strafe Remappable keys: Pause Menu -> Controls -> Customize Keys Remappable gamepad: Pause Menu -> Controls -> Customize Pad Ability to swap gamepad analo |
| Mac Version is out, plus Sale This Week | 2017-04-03 | The Witness is now available on Steam for the Mac. We sneakily put it up a week ago, but here's the official announcement. To celebrate the Mac release, the game is on sale for 50% off this week (for both Windows and Mac)! |
| Mac Version is out, plus Sale This Week | 2017-04-03 | The Witness is now available on Steam for the Mac. We sneakily put it up a week ago, but here's the official announcement. To celebrate the Mac release, the game is on sale for 50% off this week (for both Windows and Mac)! |
| NVIDIA Ansel Update | 2016-08-22 | We have now updated The Witness with support for NVIDIA's Ansel imaging tool. We did this because Ansel adds a lot of interesting ways to take images from the game; because The Witness is highly visual, this should be some good fun. Capabilities include: * Super-resolution screenshots (waaaay higher than your monitor resolution) * 360-degree panoramic screenshots * Image tweaks for brightness, contrast, color control * Postprocessing filters To use this stuff, make sure The Witness is updated, that you are running a supported NVIDIA GPU (GeForce GTX 600-series or later; for a list of compatible GPUs, see http://www.geforce.com/hardware/techno |
| NVIDIA Ansel Update | 2016-08-22 | We have now updated The Witness with support for NVIDIA's Ansel imaging tool. We did this because Ansel adds a lot of interesting ways to take images from the game; because The Witness is highly visual, this should be some good fun. Capabilities include: * Super-resolution screenshots (waaaay higher than your monitor resolution) * 360-degree panoramic screenshots * Image tweaks for brightness, contrast, color control * Postprocessing filters To use this stuff, make sure The Witness is updated, that you are running a supported NVIDIA GPU (GeForce GTX 600-series or later; for a list of compatible GPUs, see http://www.geforce.com/hardware/techno |
| New version is now live. | 2016-04-02 | Changes: * Switched default vsync mode to 0 on Nvidia and AMD now that their drivers seem to be fixed; this should eliminate microstutter for many people who had it. * Fixed crackling audio that happened on some AMD processors. * Added translations into many languages for the menu options added in the previous update. * Increased frequency of automatic backup save games. * Minor gameplay tweaks to several puzzles. * Bugfix: Prevent the player from being able to fall off the boat in a particular location. * Bugfix: Fix bug where boat path could become corrupt in save games. * Bugfix: Prevent the player from outrunning the streaming. * Bugfix: |
| New version is now live. | 2016-04-02 | Changes: * Switched default vsync mode to 0 on Nvidia and AMD now that their drivers seem to be fixed; this should eliminate microstutter for many people who had it. * Fixed crackling audio that happened on some AMD processors. * Added translations into many languages for the menu options added in the previous update. * Increased frequency of automatic backup save games. * Minor gameplay tweaks to several puzzles. * Bugfix: Prevent the player from being able to fall off the boat in a particular location. * Bugfix: Fix bug where boat path could become corrupt in save games. * Bugfix: Prevent the player from outrunning the streaming. * Bugfix: |
| New executable-only patch (small!) | 2016-02-19 | Fixes some small weirdnesses in the launcher, and makes sure the game launches with consistent graphical options. |
| New executable-only patch (small!) | 2016-02-19 | Fixes some small weirdnesses in the launcher, and makes sure the game launches with consistent graphical options. |
| The 'future' beta from a few days ago has now been pushed to everyone. | 2016-02-17 | This includes some new launcher options (more control over graphics settings, for example) and tweaks for various GPUs, in addition to a fix for the savegame-deletion problem. The patch is 1GB, as are any patches that change the state of objects in the world; sorry about the size! |
| The 'future' beta from a few days ago has now been pushed to everyone. | 2016-02-17 | This includes some new launcher options (more control over graphics settings, for example) and tweaks for various GPUs, in addition to a fix for the savegame-deletion problem. The patch is 1GB, as are any patches that change the state of objects in the world; sorry about the size! |
| Reverted the game to the February 4th build. | 2016-02-15 | This will result in another 1GB patch for those who downloaded the upgrade already yesterday. (For people who didn't download that, there should be no change at all). This patch isn't anything new, it is just undoing the difference between the Feb 11th version and the Feb 4th version. We apologize for putting yet another big patch up, but a number of people are reporting problems with savegames disappearing, and until we work this out we don't want to keep making problems. So, please be sure your copy of the game is updated before running. If you have a problem with your savegame not loading, pop into the tech support forum and we will see wh |
| Reverted the game to the February 4th build. | 2016-02-15 | This will result in another 1GB patch for those who downloaded the upgrade already yesterday. (For people who didn't download that, there should be no change at all). This patch isn't anything new, it is just undoing the difference between the Feb 11th version and the Feb 4th version. We apologize for putting yet another big patch up, but a number of people are reporting problems with savegames disappearing, and until we work this out we don't want to keep making problems. So, please be sure your copy of the game is updated before running. If you have a problem with your savegame not loading, pop into the tech support forum and we will see wh |
| Fixes for HD Graphics 3000 and 4000 now on 'future' beta. | 2016-02-10 | We have found workarounds for the driver crashes that were happening with certain Intel HD Graphics chips. HD Graphics 3000 probably still crashes a little but, but it is much more rare and should enable people to play the game pretty reasonably (say, typically a crash after 60-90 minutes of play). We have instituted a number of other good changes in this build as well -- content tweaks/fixes around the island, as well as a safeguard to savegames that should prevent them from being corrupted if the game crashes while saving, or power to the computer gets killed, or whatever. If this goes well for everyone then in a couple of days we will prom |