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The Witcher 2: Performance Thread [Enhanced Edition Patch - New content & 100+ fixes]
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I haven't used RadeonPro before, how do I get double vsync to work? Somebody was saying it locks it at 30. I have a feeling the game would be much more smooth when its not constantly going from 30-60.
I went to global and checked triple-buffering and selected always on (double vsync) but its not working for me.
edit* derp finally got it to work. Turns out I don't like it lol
I went to global and checked triple-buffering and selected always on (double vsync) but its not working for me.
edit* derp finally got it to work. Turns out I don't like it lol
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
I can't bother testing enough to confirm this but pressing start to enter the menu and then inventory etc (with gamepad) took aaaaaaaaaages to load. Now, after deleting most saves it's gotten pretty damn quick, so, maybe it (stupidly) tries to load all those BMPs even before you click "load game" in that menu which is why it takes so long to bring up the main screen? If you get such a delay try deleting all the old saves or something, you could back them up first as well. This change in behaviour could also be due to changing my settings but I don't think that's it, I was playing arond with them a little but I've been tweaking since I got it and never saw such a substantial difference before.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Tried OCing my processor to 3.5 ghz... still runs the same. I dunno... is the game just poorly optimized in parts, or does ATI just need to fix its shitty drivers?
Honestly, I'll probably just shelve the game until I build a new computer at the end of the year. And take a hammer to this shitty video card.
Honestly, I'll probably just shelve the game until I build a new computer at the end of the year. And take a hammer to this shitty video card.
AgentOtaku
Member
xXJonoXx said:
Here you go:
www.telefonica.net/web2/dgu/FPS_Limiter_0.2.rar
Maybe Minsc may want to throw it up in the OP. You need Java installed btw...
toastyToast
Member
I agree, with 2GB of VRAM it's practically free.Pimpbaa said:
Runs and looks great, even before an AMD hotfix. Using Radeon Pro with the Dirt2 profile alternate frames with a 6950 CF + i7 2600. Disabled uber sampling though, that kills the fps.
Only odd thing is that it takes 15-20 seconds to launch the game with SSD. My read performance is above 300 MB/s.
I doubt the CPU has much to do with performance, at least to the point in which OCing would do anything.
Only odd thing is that it takes 15-20 seconds to launch the game with SSD. My read performance is above 300 MB/s.
Chacranajxy said:
I doubt the CPU has much to do with performance, at least to the point in which OCing would do anything.
Minsc
Gold Member
Alextended said:
Could be, I only have 5 or 6 saves and it's all instantaneous for me. My saves all reside on a SSD, so I'm sure it'd be fine even with hundreds of them
teh_pwn said:
What version? Steam and GOG launch go from launching to logos in ~ 5 seconds for me. Someone else complained they thought the SecureROM check might be slowing down retail's loading, but I'm not sure if there's any truth to that or not.
So I've got:
i7-870 (not overclocked - anyone got a link to a good i7 overclocking guide for the 870?)
2xgtx460 1GB SLI
8GB RAM
Using the Force AR2 method instead of the bleeding lights profile
During gameplay I see maybe a 5fps increase, on average, with SLI over my original single-card configuration, but during in-game cutscenes I'm pretty much pegged at 60fps or just below. Really weird. Gameplay (admittedly just running around outside the tent in the very beginning) fluctuates between 35-60fps.
SLI utilization is weird too. If I sit and stare at a bush or a fence (a low complexity scene) the utilization goes to like 98% on both cards, but the minute I move and give it a more complex scene to render the utilization fluctuates between 50%-80%.
Of course, during Portal 2 GPU utilization on each GPU is only like 15% at any given time, pegged at 60fps, so who knows how much to make of GPU utilization as a metric (though Portal 2 is hardly the most demanding game in the world).
I hope Nvidia releases an "official" SLI profile soon.
i7-870 (not overclocked - anyone got a link to a good i7 overclocking guide for the 870?)
2xgtx460 1GB SLI
8GB RAM
Using the Force AR2 method instead of the bleeding lights profile
During gameplay I see maybe a 5fps increase, on average, with SLI over my original single-card configuration, but during in-game cutscenes I'm pretty much pegged at 60fps or just below. Really weird. Gameplay (admittedly just running around outside the tent in the very beginning) fluctuates between 35-60fps.
SLI utilization is weird too. If I sit and stare at a bush or a fence (a low complexity scene) the utilization goes to like 98% on both cards, but the minute I move and give it a more complex scene to render the utilization fluctuates between 50%-80%.
Of course, during Portal 2 GPU utilization on each GPU is only like 15% at any given time, pegged at 60fps, so who knows how much to make of GPU utilization as a metric (though Portal 2 is hardly the most demanding game in the world).
I hope Nvidia releases an "official" SLI profile soon.
I promised myself not to fiddle with the settings anymore and just finish the game but no I had to mess with it more. I turned DoF gameplay back on and I'm glad I did. I usually turn this off in other games but damn, it really adds to the look in this game. I'm keeping it on because I don't notice any difference performance wise in the forests outside of flotsam or in town.
Hmmm, I turned on Ubersampling and it looked worse (muddier textures) then it did without it turned on.
Also, for some reason when I turn on AA in CCC it causing rendering problems (all you see is the background sky and bottom half if completely yellow. Oh, I see this was addressed in the OP. Thanks, I will be sure to keep AA off in the driver
Other than that the game looks fantastic and seems to stay around 25-35 FPS on Ultra.
Also, for some reason when I turn on AA in CCC it causing rendering problems (all you see is the background sky and bottom half if completely yellow. Oh, I see this was addressed in the OP. Thanks, I will be sure to keep AA off in the driver
Other than that the game looks fantastic and seems to stay around 25-35 FPS on Ultra.
EternalGamer
Banned
Yurt said:
I'd say you are pretty safe. I have been getting the same framerates throughout.
So i bought a GFX 560 Ti 1gb to eventually try it on Witcher 2 and took a look at Witcher... and for some reason i still don't see any improvement compared to my 9800gt. The Trade quarter for example is still sometimes getting below 30 FPS. Same shit when flying around Stormwind in WoW..
What gives?? This video card is much more powerful, why do i not see any improvement? And yes, i took the latest nvidia drivers and took care of deleting the old one from my 9800gt before installing the GTX 560...
What gives?? This video card is much more powerful, why do i not see any improvement? And yes, i took the latest nvidia drivers and took care of deleting the old one from my 9800gt before installing the GTX 560...
I don't really want to get into my own tech details yet but has anyone noticed severe performance issues in cutscenes and conversations only? I get that. From an average of 30 FPS during normal gameplay to single digits in all cutscenes and conversations.
The thing that drives me nuts about it is that the issue only appears after I've been playing for 30 minutes or so. The instant the cutscene stops, the framerate is fine. Shutting down the game and instantly restarting it fixes the problem for another 20-30 minutes.
I don't have similar performance issues in other graphic intensive games so I'm not sure what's going on.
The thing that drives me nuts about it is that the issue only appears after I've been playing for 30 minutes or so. The instant the cutscene stops, the framerate is fine. Shutting down the game and instantly restarting it fixes the problem for another 20-30 minutes.
I don't have similar performance issues in other graphic intensive games so I'm not sure what's going on.
Bisnic said:
Hm dunno. As far as The Witcher maybe you're getting that 3D driver bug with the new card/driver install. Try reinstalling the newest Nvidia beta drivers and uncheck the 3D Vision driver stuff before the install, if you haven't already done that. I'm also assuming you don't have ubersampling on, and if you have v-sync on get that triple buffering going if you haven't.
Also, upgrade to Windows 7 man
Zeliard said:Hm dunno. As far as The Witcher maybe you're getting that 3D driver bug with the new card/driver install. Try reinstalling the newest Nvidia beta drivers and uncheck the 3D Vision driver stuff before the install, if you haven't already done that. I'm also assuming you don't have ubersampling on, and if you have v-sync on get that triple buffering going if you haven't.
Also, upgrade to Windows 7 man
I already wasted 350 $ in that video card and a new case(last one was too small for that huge video card lol), i really dont want to spend another hundred of dollars for a new OS that i dont really need.
I don't think there is ubersampling with Witcher 1 am i right?
The good thing is my new video card is much much cooler than my old 9800gt. My old GPU could hit 180 fahrenheit while a game was running, my GTX 560 Ti is only at 95! I guess it probably helps that my new case is much bigger(more space for air to circulate) and have 3 big case fans instead of 1 with a regular size.
Ultra (Uber off) (+A few tweaked settings)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 970
GPU: 460 GTX 1GB (Gigabyte)
Resolution: 1920x1080
Location (of test): The Kayran.
Framerate: 30-40FPS.
On 275.27 drivers with 3D vision uninstalled.
Forced in NVIDIA Control Panel 16x CSAA, 16x AF, threaded optimization, and triple buffering.
(Looks super cool on my 40" 1080p TV)
My game config:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 970
GPU: 460 GTX 1GB (Gigabyte)
Resolution: 1920x1080
Location (of test): The Kayran.
Framerate: 30-40FPS.
On 275.27 drivers with 3D vision uninstalled.
Forced in NVIDIA Control Panel 16x CSAA, 16x AF, threaded optimization, and triple buffering.
(Looks super cool on my 40" 1080p TV)
My game config:
For those of you who, like myself, want to experience 7.1 sound with a G35 headset, here is an alternative fix rather than downgrading your drivers entirely.
To explain:
We use a program that creates a 'virtual audio cable' to set as your default playback device.
We then use an audio repeater to relay the audio information to your G35 headset (in full 7.1 effect)
The program can be found at:
software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm
BE WARNED:
The trial version of this software overdubs a female voice saying "trial" every few minutes. You can choose to ignore her, or buy the software ...
I myself already had this software installed as I use it for streaming with adobe fmle, it's very handy.
Once installed, follow these steps to get everything working properly.
Set Line 1 (Virtual Audio Cable) as your default playback device within the Windows interface.
Run the Audio Repeater (MME) from the Virtual Audio Cable folder in the start menu.
Set Wave In as Line 1.
Set Wave Out as Speaker (Logitech G35 Headset)
Set Total buffer to 45 (This reduces the sound latency, default is 500, if you go too low you will get distortion)
Set Buffers between 15 - 20. I use 20.
Set Channel config to 7.1 home theater.
Set Priority to High.
When all is said and done your audio shouldn't be any different. You can experiment with the buffers if you experience any distortion or unwanted latency, and hopefully, you'll be able to actually enjoy The Witcher 2 with your expensive headset.
This isn't an ideal situation to be in, we really shouldn't have to resort to these sorts of solutions to LISTEN to the game. Please keep on both Logitech and CD Project to release a fix.
Also I should give credit to DK1 of the codemasters forum who suggested this as a solution for a similar issue with the G35 and a different game.
To explain:
We use a program that creates a 'virtual audio cable' to set as your default playback device.
We then use an audio repeater to relay the audio information to your G35 headset (in full 7.1 effect)
The program can be found at:
software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm
BE WARNED:
The trial version of this software overdubs a female voice saying "trial" every few minutes. You can choose to ignore her, or buy the software ...
I myself already had this software installed as I use it for streaming with adobe fmle, it's very handy.
Once installed, follow these steps to get everything working properly.
Set Line 1 (Virtual Audio Cable) as your default playback device within the Windows interface.
Run the Audio Repeater (MME) from the Virtual Audio Cable folder in the start menu.
Set Wave In as Line 1.
Set Wave Out as Speaker (Logitech G35 Headset)
Set Total buffer to 45 (This reduces the sound latency, default is 500, if you go too low you will get distortion)
Set Buffers between 15 - 20. I use 20.
Set Channel config to 7.1 home theater.
Set Priority to High.
When all is said and done your audio shouldn't be any different. You can experiment with the buffers if you experience any distortion or unwanted latency, and hopefully, you'll be able to actually enjoy The Witcher 2 with your expensive headset.
This isn't an ideal situation to be in, we really shouldn't have to resort to these sorts of solutions to LISTEN to the game. Please keep on both Logitech and CD Project to release a fix.
Also I should give credit to DK1 of the codemasters forum who suggested this as a solution for a similar issue with the G35 and a different game.
Inferno313
Banned
So, I know I'm kind of just at min specs. But I was wondering if you guys could help me get this running at 30fpsish in 720p.
Right now I only get between 15-25 FPS even on low in
720p.
These are my specs:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
512 GDDR3
4 GB RAM
2.66GHz Intel Core i7-620m
Right now I only get between 15-25 FPS even on low in
720p.
These are my specs:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
512 GDDR3
4 GB RAM
2.66GHz Intel Core i7-620m
fatigues_gasolini
Member
Inferno313 said:
Did you look at the gaming laptop performance info in the OP? Thats what helped me out alot.
Turning off vsync for now. When I had it on with either in game or forced with D3DOverrider it worked fine most of the time but running around in the forests outside floatsam it gets kind of jumpy. You can really notice it with the run animations. Hopefully the AMD fix or patch will get rid of this.
Inferno313
Banned
gamerecks said:
Yeah I did everything except overclocking. It didn't seem to help much at all.
Rahxephon91
Banned
Ok I seem to have a problem with the install of the game. I installed the game and everything work fine until the patch part. There seems to be two patches the patcher downloads. After the 1st one it downloads a patch that is 286892 kbs. It then becomes hung up on the verifying _ATARI.eke and either says retrying connection or just starts over again.
I already tried to regedit solution or so I think. I only got the "Error Writing File" message ounce ,but I'm not exactly sure where you delete the values except 19 as I don't see any numbers.
Any help would be appreciated.
I already tried to regedit solution or so I think. I only got the "Error Writing File" message ounce ,but I'm not exactly sure where you delete the values except 19 as I don't see any numbers.
Any help would be appreciated.
In case anyone face the same problem as me.
System specs: 460GTX, 4GB ram, 4x 2.8ghz CPU, SSD, Win7 64bit.
Game ran absolutely horribly from 0.2 fps at Ultra to 5-10fps on Low settings.
I tried disabling everything (started with Ubersampling, AA, DOF, MB etc until I ended up with everything turned off) but it didn't help.
I then deleted my 3D Vision driver and controller but no performance gain from that either (Nvidia drivers were 270.61).
I then installed Nvidia's 275.2X Beta drivers with (3D vision options checked off) and now I have 30-60fps on Ultra settings (Ubersampling turned off).
System specs: 460GTX, 4GB ram, 4x 2.8ghz CPU, SSD, Win7 64bit.
Game ran absolutely horribly from 0.2 fps at Ultra to 5-10fps on Low settings.
I tried disabling everything (started with Ubersampling, AA, DOF, MB etc until I ended up with everything turned off) but it didn't help.
I then deleted my 3D Vision driver and controller but no performance gain from that either (Nvidia drivers were 270.61).
I then installed Nvidia's 275.2X Beta drivers with (3D vision options checked off) and now I have 30-60fps on Ultra settings (Ubersampling turned off).
Oh wow. By overclocking my E8500 to 3.8ghz (Surprisingly enough, it's stable) and lowering to the absolute lowest resolution and graphics, I was able to muster a grand 24 FPS in larger fights as opposed to the usual 19!.
Increasing to 1280x720 with High textures and no compression yielded the same results!
I also like how the game runs better when you use RadeonPro to make the game believe your AMD GPU is an Nvidia one.
Increasing to 1280x720 with High textures and no compression yielded the same results!
I also like how the game runs better when you use RadeonPro to make the game believe your AMD GPU is an Nvidia one.