STILLethal
Member
Good to know, have the same specs.
What're you using to cap it at 30fps? nvidia inspector?
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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What're you using to cap it at 30fps? nvidia inspector?
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Game has an option for it.
It is a factory overclock. So, yes, it is. Try running it at the stock speed for 970.
You're on a mobile GPU which is not the same as a normal 970. It's rather on the level of a 960 iirc.
Well, GTX970 seems to be getting a kick out of this, never heard its fans be so loud. Thank god for headphones, and it's staying at exactly 60 degrees celsius, so whatever.
And like it has been with others, it's holding a steady 60fps with hairworks off, foliage visibility on high rather than ultra and everything else on ultra. The game is just beautiful.
And like it has been with others, it's holding a steady 60fps with hairworks off, foliage visibility on high rather than ultra and everything else on ultra. The game is just beautiful.
I just meant I personally haven't done anything. I guess I would need to install that EVGA precision software for that, eh? Bummer, I don't like messing with this sort of thing.
Spiritreaver
Member
You're correct. CF is borked. I get the same results with the same setup. Create a profile for this game in AMD settings and disable Crossfire until drivers hit. It runs much better on a single card right now.
Hopefully, if this is the problem, it's a quick patch fix in the near future.
You're better off returning that laptop and putting that money towards a proper gaming desktop PC.
Laptop GPU will have difficulties in matching desktop GPU performance.
Yes. Install the EVGA precision or MSI afterburner. Then, downclock the card. You might have the case where the factory is not 100% stable, and this game, crashing due to it. Unfortunately, this isn't uncommon.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
Argh the camera stutter is irritating.
The game runs well aside from that and it looks incredible. I really don't want to wait for AMD/CDPR to get their shit in order, but this is pretty much unplayable.
The game runs well aside from that and it looks incredible. I really don't want to wait for AMD/CDPR to get their shit in order, but this is pretty much unplayable.
matrixman92
Member
3rd crash upon progressing a contract in the beginning of the game. Not fun. Not overclocked or anything. I5-3350p, 970, 8gb ram
ColonialRaptor
Member
Gad dammit... so I'm running everything on ultra and I can get it locked to 30, the only thing I'm not getting is hairworks so with a proper profile it might actually work. Lets hope AMD release a driver ASAP.
Did you try forcing another profile with ATiTool?
HotHamWater
Member
Does the HUD rescale option not like 16:10? I can't force hud elements to the actual edges of my screen. CD Projekt pls.
Felix Lighter
Member
CPU or GPU overclock?
Slackbladder
Member
Yet to try myself (at work) but it looks like for 60fps it's no hairworks and High foilage. Hmm. Wonder if I can play@1440p and still get 60fps? Probably will need to lessen a few things. (980, 3770k@4.5ghz, 8GBRAM@2400mhz.
Than again a part of me wants the best visuals. Frame rate or eye-candy, always the way.
The crashes and CTD's are worrying though. I'll find out in a few hours.
Than again a part of me wants the best visuals. Frame rate or eye-candy, always the way.
The crashes and CTD's are worrying though. I'll find out in a few hours.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Well looks like a particular streamer is going to try your config with a triple-SLI Titan X rig.
GPU
It might be a new driver hotfix rather than Witcher 3 patch. I got similar crashes just browsing the web (if you go back to the pages here before the game released, you'll see like 5 people talking about this, which is way too many to be a coincidence).
Jin
Member
You can edit the ini file but it reverts it back when you launch the game. Someone on steam suggested this if you are a EDSF guy like me:
Download and install the program. Right click on desktop - >New -> Auto HotKey Script. Then copy and paste the above command. Double click the script and run the game.
Been testing it for 30 mins and so far so good. To turn off the script right click on the green H in the system tray and exit.
texhnolyze
Banned
Don't play games on laptop, get a proper PC gaming desktop.
It just feels weird that my 6-year-old PC is running the game on ultra at 1080p 35fps compared to your new laptop.
ColonialRaptor
Member
CPU usage is sitting right on 20% without changing... so that's 1 of my cores... I thought it was supposed to scale all cores?
TheSpoiler
Member
FX4300
R9 290x
8GB
Handles this at 60FPS on the second lowest resolution with a few dips here and there. Everything expect for foliage and terrain set on high. Only issue is the degrees - it goes up to 74 degrees.
R9 290x
8GB
Handles this at 60FPS on the second lowest resolution with a few dips here and there. Everything expect for foliage and terrain set on high. Only issue is the degrees - it goes up to 74 degrees.
MyNameIsRye
Member
Thanks, but I wanted/needed a laptop. Guess my expectations were a bit too high.
Well... Better to wait for that AMD Beta driver then.
Only next week according to this twitter conversation: https://twitter.com/amd_roy/status/598607823979687936
Also, sorry if there's a way to link twitter chat or something, I don't use twitter and have no idea how it works lol.
Felix Lighter
Member
Are you just looking at overall CPU usage and assuming it's using a single core or are you actually monitoring the each cores utilization?
ussjtrunks
Member
with my GTX 970 and my i7 3770 3.4 I played with everything on ultra but hairworks was dropping fps into the low 20s in cutscenes, disabling it and putting foliage draw distance to high gives me almost perfect 60 fps 
at 1200p
at 1200pFelix Lighter
Member
You have a decent laptop, you'll just need to do some tweaking. There are some knowledgable laptop users that maybe able to give you some tips and better set your expectations.
matrixman92
Member
Yeah, I'm getting that and I've seen a couple people before mention it
MyNameIsRye
Member
Thanks. I'll ask around and hopefully something comes up. I didn't really buy this laptop to play games like Witcher anyways. Only playing it cause it came free with the gpu.
I don't know how good the integrated Intel GPUs are but are you sure you started the game with the nvidia GPU? (There should be an item in the context menu when you right click the shortcut)
But I guess an HD Graphics GPU can't push 30 fps on medium so you probably run it on the Nvidia gpu.
SaiyanRaoh
Member
i5 2500k @ 4.4GHz (Seriously, this processor won't die!!)
960GTX
8GB memory
I have everything under post processing enabled except for motion blur.
Graphic settings are:
Hair: off
Background Characters: High
Shadows: Med
Terrain and Water Quality: Ultra
Grass: High
Textures: High
Foliage Range:High
Detail Level: Ultra
I get 50-60 FPS and I'm totally happy with that. After hearing all the doom and gloom about performance early on in the thread I was expecting the worst.
I'm sure if I cap the frame rate at 30, put everything on Ultra and keep hair off, I can maintain it. I may try that at some point.
I also don't have any of the crashing going on. I'm using the new drivers after completely uninstalling the old ones.
960GTX
8GB memory
I have everything under post processing enabled except for motion blur.
Graphic settings are:
Hair: off
Background Characters: High
Shadows: Med
Terrain and Water Quality: Ultra
Grass: High
Textures: High
Foliage Range:High
Detail Level: Ultra
I get 50-60 FPS and I'm totally happy with that. After hearing all the doom and gloom about performance early on in the thread I was expecting the worst.
I'm sure if I cap the frame rate at 30, put everything on Ultra and keep hair off, I can maintain it. I may try that at some point.
I also don't have any of the crashing going on. I'm using the new drivers after completely uninstalling the old ones.
m_shortpants
Member
i5-4690k stock
Gigabyte GTX 970
1080p, everything on ultra except for shadow and foliage distance which are on high.
HBAO+
no hairworks, bloom, vignette, chromatic abberation.
I'm getting 60FPS locked more or less, a few dips to 58.
Fuck yeah. If I locked to 30 or 45 I could max this easily. Might actually try running at 1440p/30 later on.
Gigabyte GTX 970
1080p, everything on ultra except for shadow and foliage distance which are on high.
HBAO+
no hairworks, bloom, vignette, chromatic abberation.
I'm getting 60FPS locked more or less, a few dips to 58.
Fuck yeah. If I locked to 30 or 45 I could max this easily. Might actually try running at 1440p/30 later on.
ColonialRaptor
Member
You're right. I just checked it more thoroughly with performance monitor and it is using more than one core, just not all of all cores... but that's still good. It's not my CPU that's the bottleneck it's the lack of a Crossfire profile.
Well, EADF, but anyways, I've been digging around a bit on the GOG forums, and users are reporting that you can manually edit the Input.settings file in your Witcher 3 folder (itself in your docs folder). I won't be able to try this myself for a bit, but it looks promising... if somewhat embarrassing coming from a company like CDPR.
Felix Lighter
Member
Just to be sure, you are plugged in right?
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Good news! Game is totally playable on my laptop lmfao
All settings on low, vsync on, fps capped at 30, hardware cursor on. Running it at native for me which is 1366x768
In NPC heavy areas I drop to about 17 fps, but out in the field when I'm just riding around or fighting monsters and stuff, the game runs at a very stable 28-30.
If I could figure out how to disable shadows completely in the .ini settings I could push 30 the whole game but it appears that it isn't allowed at all.
My specs are:
GTX755m 2gigs vram
8gigs of ram
mobile i7 2.6ghz
Looks like I'll definitely be enjoying the witcher 3...somewhat at least. Played it for 2 hours flawlessly, load times are a breeze.
Though as I closed my game I got a windows error saying I was running out of ram and then me windows explorer crashed. lol...
All settings on low, vsync on, fps capped at 30, hardware cursor on. Running it at native for me which is 1366x768
In NPC heavy areas I drop to about 17 fps, but out in the field when I'm just riding around or fighting monsters and stuff, the game runs at a very stable 28-30.
If I could figure out how to disable shadows completely in the .ini settings I could push 30 the whole game but it appears that it isn't allowed at all.
My specs are:
GTX755m 2gigs vram
8gigs of ram
mobile i7 2.6ghz
Looks like I'll definitely be enjoying the witcher 3...somewhat at least. Played it for 2 hours flawlessly, load times are a breeze.
Though as I closed my game I got a windows error saying I was running out of ram and then me windows explorer crashed. lol...
MyNameIsRye
Member
Yes, and I have the power plan set to "high performance".
pixel monkey
Banned
i7 920 (OC to 3 GHZ) and a GTX 970 getting a locked 60 running everything on Ultra except for Hairworks turned off (I didn't like it on TR or here anyway) and foliage view distance on High.
The game is not only beautiful, it's quite well optimized.
The game is not only beautiful, it's quite well optimized.
ChawlieTheFair
pip pip cheerio you slags!
i5 3570k @ 4.4
8Gb RAM
Win 8.1 64 bit
GTX 780
Got solid 60, some drop to 55 in npc heavy areas. Every on high except grass volume which is medium, and shadows on medium as well. No AA or CA. Pretty good looking.
8Gb RAM
Win 8.1 64 bit
GTX 780
Got solid 60, some drop to 55 in npc heavy areas. Every on high except grass volume which is medium, and shadows on medium as well. No AA or CA. Pretty good looking.