Should have believed Obi Wan... only a Sith deals in absolutes....
Obi Wan was a Sith confirmed.
Should have believed Obi Wan... only a Sith deals in absolutes....
Should have believed Obi Wan... only a Sith deals in absolutes....
Who knows. Patch still isn't up for PC.
They enabled double buffering vsync on X1. It now locks to 20fps in the swamps. Parity with PS4!
You really get screwed when you buy games at day one before all bugs are ironed out. (Assuming that they fix this in 1.08. Otherwise, lol...)
There have been multiple updates since I last played, even if this latest one isn't out yet. I remember seeing Steam update it at least twice. Was just hoping for vague impressions like "it's pretty stable / things have improved since launch".
The patching for this game has to be some of the most schizophrenic I have ever seen for performance.
To be honest, games that have more than minor performance problems on release *rarely* ever get 'fixed'. At the most, you get some minor improvements, perhaps enough to squash some of the complaining, but there is usually a reason beyond 'lack of optimization' that these games release with performance problems in the first place.You really get screwed when you buy games at day one before all bugs are ironed out. (Assuming that they fix this in 1.08. Otherwise, lol...)
That's right, motherfuckers! Devs can now transform your game in a product that's performing worse than when you bought it! Embrace the all-digital always-online future! EMBRACE IT!!
The praise comes from it easily being the best RPG in years. The praise for the studio come from it looking fantastic and running well most of the time.I've held off on playing this game because everyone from CDPR had constantly reiterated that 1.07 was a huge patch that would fix mostly all of the remaining problems with the game, including performance.
So, I now I load up GAF to read this. This is just flat out unacceptable... I'm really starting to not understand the praise for this game or studio.
PC version doesn't have these performance issues in the first place(at least not nearly to the same extent). I'm not terribly worried.Definitely not updating my PC version to 1.7. Things are fine right now on 1.6 so I'll stick with that.
There have been multiple updates since I last played, even if this latest one isn't out yet. I remember seeing Steam update it at least twice. Was just hoping for vague impressions like "it's pretty stable / things have improved since launch".
Definitely not updating my PC version to 1.07 just incase that has issues too. Things are fine right now on 1.06 so I'll stick with that.
The praise comes from it easily being the best RPG in years. The praise for the studio come from it looking fantastic and running well most of the time.
Until you play the game it's hard to explain how little time you spend in the swamp, Novigrad is longer but it's not that big a percentage of the game and it is mostly used as a hub for story quests which take you outside of the city.
Except my problems go beyond the performance of this game.
Last night:
I'm off on a quest to go findFine, no problem - even if this does seem like a reoccurring plot device for this game. So I'm off doing this quest, gathering clues which leads me towards a Pellars Hut. The Pellar now tells me that he needs a favor before he he can help methe Red Baron's wife because he won't tell me Ciri's location until I do this for him.find the location of the wife.
What does the Pellar want me to do? Oh.. find his goat.
For fucks sake game, it's like one fetch quest after another. I don't have time for this shit and I really wish it would respect my time more.
I've held off on playing this game because everyone from CDPR had constantly reiterated that 1.07 was a huge patch that would fix mostly all of the remaining problems with the game, including performance.
So, I now I load up GAF to read this. This is just flat out unacceptable... I'm really starting to not understand the praise for this game or studio.
Except my problems go beyond the performance of this game.
Last night:
I'm off on a quest to go findFine, no problem - even if this does seem like a reoccurring plot device for this game. So I'm off doing this quest, gathering clues which leads me towards a Pellars Hut. The Pellar now tells me that he needs a favor before he he can help methe Red Baron's wife because he won't tell me Ciri's location until I do this for him.find the location of the wife.
What does the Pellar want me to do? Oh.. find his goat.
For fucks sake game, it's like one fetch quest after another. I don't have time for this shit and I really wish it would respect my time more.
For fucks sake game, it's like one fetch quest after another. I don't have time for this shit and I really wish it would respect my time more.
The goat quest is funny.
Virtually every RPG quest in existence is a fetch quest if you're being reductionist. TW3's quests tend to have interesting twists or great dialogue that elevates them above this.
Just lower down some graphics options, for chrisakes!
it that blighttown level of awfulness on the xbo? Planning to get it this month. Guess Ill wait some more.
We don't even know if the PC Version will actually perform worse with patch 1.07 and you're already planning on skipping an update that adds dozens of other improvements and bug fixes....
Just lower down some graphics options, for chrisakes!
I saw videos of PS4 version, and it looks too dense and pretty for her poor APU.
Except my problems go beyond the performance of this game.
Last night:
I'm off on a quest to go findFine, no problem - even if this does seem like a reoccurring plot device for this game. So I'm off doing this quest, gathering clues which leads me towards a Pellars Hut. The Pellar now tells me that he needs a favor before he he can help methe Red Baron's wife because he won't tell me Ciri's location until I do this for him.find the location of the wife.
What does the Pellar want me to do? Oh.. find his goat.
For fucks sake game, it's like one fetch quest after another. I don't have time for this shit and I really wish it would respect my time more.
To be honest, games that have more than minor performance problems on release *rarely* ever get 'fixed'. At the most, you get some minor improvements, perhaps enough to squash some of the complaining, but there is usually a reason beyond 'lack of optimization' that these games release with performance problems in the first place.
This specific situation is quite bizarre, though. CDPR are better than this.
I haven't played for weeks on PC, I decided to clear other things first. Is the performance / bug situation fairly good there at least?
It's all about the presentation. And I can't think of many games that do it better than The Witcher 3. The writing and voice acting elevate even the most obvious fetch quest to something special. The goat quest was especially funny and is in no means comparable to the mind-numbing stuff you do in games like DA: I or FFXIV. In the same Baron questline there is also an 'escort quest'. But to classify it as such would not do justice to the quality of it.
Except my problems go beyond the performance of this game.
Last night:
I'm off on a quest to go findFine, no problem - even if this does seem like a reoccurring plot device for this game. So I'm off doing this quest, gathering clues which leads me towards a Pellars Hut. The Pellar now tells me that he needs a favor before he he can help methe Red Baron's wife because he won't tell me Ciri's location until I do this for him.find the location of the wife.
What does the Pellar want me to do? Oh.. find his goat.
For fucks sake game, it's like one fetch quest after another. I don't have time for this shit and I really wish it would respect my time more.
The Xbox One was running fine at 900p, why drop it to 720p?They can fix the performance issues by lowering the some of the graphics setting. Drop to 900p on the ps4, and drop 720p on the xo. This is really bad. I have not seen a developer make a game worse by a patch.
They can fix the performance issues by lowering the some of the graphics setting. Drop to 900p on the ps4, and drop 720p on the xo. This is really bad. I have not seen a developer make a game worse by a patch.
Good pointWorth mentioning that Crookbag Bog, where performance is at its worst, is a location you visit for only a fraction of the game with no reason to return after you're done with it.
It's bad but - like Blighttown - you shouldn't skip the entire game if you're worried about it. The vast majority of the time the performance is fine if you're used to open world console games.
I'm not sure how well that would go over.