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[Obliterator]

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Before I get into the nitty-gritty, know that a big patch with 600 changes - including improvements to graphics and graphical settings - was sent to certification today (Wednesday 20th May), and will take between five and seven days to clear.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...he-witcher-3-graphics-downgrade-issue-head-on

 

[Salsa]

wonder if i'll be able to go back to 60 rather than lock at 30

game doesnt scale too well. was impossible for me to reach a steady constant 60 no matter what I lowered


graphical options are pretty bad too. Lots of On/Off rather than quality options. Hope they add that.

 

[ekim]

In addition, CD Projekt Red will patch the game to allow editing of .ini files on PC, to push graphical settings even higher. You will be able to tweak grass and vegetation density, post-processing effects such as sharpening, and draw distances. The .ini patch will arrive soon after the other patch. "And we think about some other tricks but we need time," Adam Badowski says.

I don't know if this refers to ini patching that is already available (maybe getting a GUI for it?) or even more ini tweaks.

 

[LordAmused]

Good. Going on a roadtrip for a month starting the day after tomorrow. It should be all stable when I get back!

 

[Spring-Loaded]

wonder if i'll be able to go back to 60 rather than lock at 30

game doesnt scale too well. was impossible for me to reach a steady constant 60 no matter what I lowered


graphical options are pretty bad too. Lots of On/Off rather than quality options. Hope they add that.

Don't you have like a GTX 320.

 

[RoboPlato]

Nice that it's already in cert. Usually it's over a month before enhancements hit in a patch. Hopefully the platform holders give it some priority in cert, they've been onn to do that from time to time.

 

[Corpekata]

Certification? Like MS and Sony cert or internal QA? Because it's a little silly to not patch the PC version nowish since they wouldn't have to wait for the former.

 

[Lakerchick4life]

Are these patches available for the X1 version as well it seems to only mention PC just want to be sure, Im getting the game tomorrow will wait til everything is fixed before I play it

 

[Fried Food]

Looks like I'll be holding off on continuing with the PS4 version for now. I'm only like an hour in anyways.

 

[Salsa]

Don't you have like a GTX 320.

2 gig 680 foooool

I mean im not expecting greatness but the game should scale down to where I can get a solid framerate. I can get it to look like shit and it barely does a difference to how it runs; that's what I mean

 

[King Cobra]

Tonight is my last day playing since ill be going on vacation but I hope it'll be out by the time I get back, I love patches

 

[pelicansurf]

I clicked the link, but couldn't explicitly tell; is this for all versions of the game?

 

[AzureSkies]

Here's hoping this means I can get 60fps on my 7870 instead of 40-50 from high to low.

 

[OCD Guy]

The responses to the questions seem sincere to be fair.

I don't get the "we don't give a fuck" vibe that I get with from other devs/publishers

 

[Erakk]

I bet the PC will be patched first, because korean and japanese translations.

 

[LurkerPrime]

I bet the PC will be patched first, because korean and japanese translations.

I'm crossing my fingers right now.

Certification, bah.

 

[BigTnaples]

Sounds awesome to me.

 

[Haines]

Seems like buying a game day 1 anymore is more a beta test than a retail game.

Wait and buy it cheaper and experience a better version first run through.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

All I want is a fix for the crashes. Can't sort through my inventory without a freeze.

 

[UnrealEck]

All I want is better performance when looking at houses. Right now, houses are the bane of my GPU. As soon as I run towards a village my GPU is thinking 'oh fuck I hope he's not going to that village'.

 

[Auctopus]

Those three bolded headline questions from Eurogamer are so inflammatory and aggressive.

 

[OCD Guy]

Seems like buying a game day 1 anymore is more a beta test than a retail game.

Wait and buy it cheaper and experience a better version first run through.

Pretty much applies to most things unfortunately.

Hell I should have waited for until 2016 to buy a ps4, the console will be cheaper, and not only would the games be patched up and generally good to go but they'd cost less too.....

 

[Vibranium]

Hopefully a fix for stuttering, crashes and that annoying gamepad message (I fixed it in the game files but it would be nice to have it patched).

 

[King Cobra]

All I want is a fix for the crashes. Can't sort through my inventory without a freeze.

Actually now that you mention it if they could add an option to sort items by weight and by value that would be so awesome

 

[DR2K]

For all systems or just PC?

 

[Fried Food]

I accept their reasons behind "the game looked like x in 2013 trailers and now looks like y". I don't see how this is something that can be prevented 100% in the future, except by not showing any footage until the game is basically at beta stages. I suppose they should have realized back in 2013 that the game wasn't working as whole due to the currently used engine. They should have known that it was more than likely that large scale changes were soon coming, because the game wasn't on the whole acceptable. Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda.

 

[Mindman]

Hoping for a font size fix, but probably won't be in this patch.

 

[skelekey]

This may be one of my favorite games of all time, but the game is in dire need of patches on the PS4.

 

[Awntawn]

All I want is a fix for the crashes. Can't sort through my inventory without a freeze.

This please. The crashes are ridiculous

 

[Corpekata]

This please. The crashes are ridiculous

Yeah. If it takes them 5-7 days to patch that it'll be kind of silly.

 

[Head.spawn]

Dammit.

The billowing smoke and roaring fire from the trailer? "It's a global system and it will kill PC because transparencies - without DirectX 12 it does't work good in every game." So he killed it for the greater good, and he focused on making sure the 5000 doors in Novigrad worked instead.

DX 12 update can't come soon enough.

 

[RowdyReverb]

For all systems or just PC?

Do PC patches normally have a 5-7 day certification process?

 

[Squishy3]

wonder if i'll be able to go back to 60 rather than lock at 30

game doesnt scale too well. was impossible for me to reach a steady constant 60 no matter what I lowered


graphical options are pretty bad too. Lots of On/Off rather than quality options. Hope they add that.

on/off only settings:

motion blur, blur, AA, bloom, sharpening, depth of field, chromatic aberration, vignetting, light shafts, hairworks (this has options tho, Geralt only or every character) and hardware cursor.



Outside of maybe light shafts and AA I see no reason as to why the others shouldn't only be on/off. All the options that are huge performance hogs have quality options.

 

[Obliterator]

Dammit.

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DX 12 update can't come soon enough.

I noticed that as well. Interesting he's kind of hinting DX12 would have made it possible on PC. It can't come soon enough

 

[Salsa]

on/off only settings:

motion blur, blur, AA, bloom, sharpening, depth of field, chromatic aberration, vignetting, light shafts, hairworks (this has options tho, Geralt only or every character) and hardware cursor.



Outside of maybe light shafts and AA I see no reason as to why the others shouldn't only be on/off. All the options that are huge performance hogs have quality options.

I could argue many games that still give those options with sliders or quality options tho. just saying it'd be nice.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

Do PC patches normally have a 5-7 day certification process?

There isn't a cert process on PC. However, they could be using the extra time they have before the console patches hit to iron out more issues given that theres a lot more that can and apparently has gone wrong with their PC version.

I'll gladly take a hairworks option solely for creatures. Geralt's hair is fine on normal but the beast stuff looks gud.

 

[exmachina64]

Seems like buying a game day 1 anymore is more a beta test than a retail game.

Wait and buy it cheaper and experience a better version first run through.

On PC, that's when it will be exposed to numerous combinations of hardware set-ups, graphical configurations and usage scenarios for which the developers can't plan?

"What happens when I try to go over this terrain in this one area with a slightly higher than minimum spec graphics card at a non-native resolution?"

 

[Syrus]

This is PC only?

 

[Nzyme32]

In addition, CD Projekt Red will patch the game to allow editing of .ini files on PC, to push graphical settings even higher. You will be able to tweak grass and vegetation density, post-processing effects such as sharpening, and draw distances. The .ini patch will arrive soon after the other patch. "And we think about some other tricks but we need time," Adam Badowski says.

Nice. Shame they want to wait for the consoles to get certified before providing patches on PC.

The billowing smoke and roaring fire from the trailer? "It's a global system and it will kill PC because transparencies - without DirectX 12 it does't work good in every game." So he killed it for the greater good, and he focused on making sure the 5000 doors in Novigrad worked instead.

I've been calling this one before but I'll do it again now - the PC version is going to get Vulkan and DX12 renderers eventually, and those cut graphical features are going to come back

This is PC only?

Console as well, but I'd take a guess they will not be the same per platform

 

[EmptySpace]

why would they even entertain all the whining and crying about downgrade. "oh console held pc back...oh chimney has smoke..." come on. yes, we are at this level of whining it's pathetic.

 

[KnockOneOff]

Argh whatever Internet, the game is amazing, full of detail, strong story and huge open world!!

Don't appolgise, those tweets should be thanking you for making an amazing game!!!

And let's be honest here even if the graphics were ramped up only a handful of people could actually run that, the others would be looking at 5 minute YouTube videos

 

[LurkerPrime]

PSA: A certification process means the patch is for all platforms.

There isn't a cert process on PC. However, they could be using the extra time they have before the console patches hit to iron out more issues given that theres a lot more that can and apparently has gone wrong with their PC version.

I'll gladly take a hairworks option solely for creatures. Geralt's hair is fine on normal but the beast stuff looks gud.

Yeah, agreed. The high-quality Geralt hairworks kills my framerate, but outdoors fighting against things like wolves it's just fine. I'd love more options for it.

 

[misho8723]

And no one is going to discuss about their statements in that interview? .. I'm personally ok what they have said to the downgrade discussion.. and more patches, updates, etc. hell yeah

 

[Felix Lighter]

If there is a game that I could see the developer going back to to add a DX12 rendererer it would be this one.

 

[Syrus]

PSA: A certification process means the patch is for all platforms.


Yeah, agreed. The high-quality Geralt hairworks kills my framerate, but outdoors fighting against things like wolves it's just fine.

Hmmm, temptee to wait til patch

 

[DirgeExtinction]

Very good interview.

I've been calling this one before but I'll do it again now - the PC version is going to get Vulkan and DX12 renderers eventually, and those cut graphical features are going to come back.

I assumed that was part of the renderer they scrapped.

 

[Kurdel]

It's great to see them open up the .ini files for modders to do their magic.

The entire article has so much PR spin it could be used as a prime example in marketing classes.

 

[Shin-Ra]

You will be able to tweak grass and vegetation density, post-processing effects such as sharpening, and draw distances.

There's one good setting: OFF

 

[ShamePain]

I still don't understand how you can develop a game for 3 years and then still have it broken on release day. The reliance on Day 1 patches/unlimited patch sizes this gen has become ridiculous, MS should start charging devs for patches again and limit them to couple megabytes like it was on 360. This is just BS.

 

[GodlyTwins]

Awesome!! Hopefully it will be out by the time I finish my Witcher 2 playthrough and I can start W3 with a smoother experience. I haven't even opened my PS4 copy yet and it's killing me D: