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The Witcher 3 Complete Edition Performance Thread
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Shadowstar39
Member
Did this release for consoles yet?
What should I play this on? Have it on ps5, pc (and switch before I had a steam deck).
Pc is 3060ti rtx, ryzen 3600, 16gb ddr4.
I am only running at 1080p, so I am hoping I can run ray tracing like I do with cyberpunk. Both pc and ps5 are at 1080p as I still don't have a 4k display(hard to justify the cost when my TV is fine).
As long as I get 45+ fps I'm fine. Guess I'll try both if it's out.
What should I play this on? Have it on ps5, pc (and switch before I had a steam deck).
Pc is 3060ti rtx, ryzen 3600, 16gb ddr4.
I am only running at 1080p, so I am hoping I can run ray tracing like I do with cyberpunk. Both pc and ps5 are at 1080p as I still don't have a 4k display(hard to justify the cost when my TV is fine).
As long as I get 45+ fps I'm fine. Guess I'll try both if it's out.
Captain Toad
Banned
Yes.
Zathalus
Member
Went there, seems to be as taxing as Novigrad for me. Both drop me to the mid 30s.
Zathalus
Member
3060ti and 1080p? PC for sure, you won't get any resolution advantages if playing the PS5 version and at 1080p with DLSS quality you should be able to have RTGI and RTAO and near 60FPS with some dips in the most stressful areas.
GHG
Member
Disable any overlays, and that includes the steam overlay.
Also try this if you're using frame gen:
Deerock71
Member
I think it looks great on the Series S. You're not alone.
sertopico
Member
It's gonna grab it from Window's system files. There's no reason whatsoever they put that file in the game folders.
They outsourced this update and the team wasn't clearly capable of doing it properly, or they just didn't have enough time to make it right, prioritizing the console versions, basically the opposite of what happened to CP2077, but here we're talking about a free update at least.
Just remember what happened to the GTA Remasters as well...
PS: one of the dxvk-proton developers wrote that the game isn't actually using a wrapper, rather that the team derped the whole DX12 code on one SINGLE core. This means we might get better performances with a fix.
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Denton
Member
GymWolf
Member
I think that our cpu (i have the same) is too old for any heavy rtx my dude.
yamaci17
Member
locked 30 or 35 fps should be possible (if you are okay with that, like me). game only uses like 4 cores even with ray tracing lol. 8600k has better IPC / single core than my aging zen cpu so if i can get locked 40 in most locations (except novigrad), im sure 8600k would too
sertopico
Member
It's a second hand info I got from a CDP forum user, so take it with a grain of salt. I was looking for the source with no luck. Maybe the ProtonDB Forums? Common opinion is they used a translation layer to port the dx11 game into dx12, which is not recommended even from MS itself. This causes lots of CPU overhead.
GymWolf
Member
Oh, i don't give a fuck about rtx so i'm probably gonna run the whole thing at 4k60 even with my current system.
yamaci17
Member
yes of course i wish dlss was available on dx11 though. 4k dlss quality on dx12 gives 100+ frames or so with 3070 but i would like the cpu bound performance and stability of d11...
sertopico
Member
Running out of memory maybe?
DanEON
Member
No. I have 32gb. The max it has used so far is 13gb.
GHG
Member
Sounds like a memory leak of some sort.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
Same here. If I fast travel back and forth to few cities, the game goes to amazing 8fps for good few minutes.
I can alt tab to maaaybe help. Similar like in Resident evil 2 with RT update. Probably memory leak
Don't bother. Let me save you time by saying I already tried that, even rolling back to earlier drivers.
Wait for the devs doing their job and fix it, and don't spend your time on something that isn't wrong on your end.
DanEON
Member
That's what I will do too.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
PC on DX11. Don't bother with RT. It's broken on PC and on consoles, you end up with a significantly lower resolution image and a 30fps cap that's not even steady.
I would honestly say; don't play it at all until it's fixed. It's not very good on any system.
RNG
Member
PC
Also Geralt’s hair turned half blond inside a building at one point, it was very weird.
yamaci17
Member
yeah but it is only 1 bounce. that floor should've been lighter. clearly that location gets a lot of light. it being that dark makes no sense, a clear limitation of single bounce RT GI.
here's an example
portal rtx only 1 bounce
2 bounce...
metro exodus 1 bounce rtgi vs multi bounce rtgi (enhanced edition)
here's an example
portal rtx only 1 bounce
2 bounce...
metro exodus 1 bounce rtgi vs multi bounce rtgi (enhanced edition)
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
Let me guess, the one too dark is rtgiI like how RTGI changes how textures look to something much more realistic.
For example the stone floor here, looks like some flat grey tile in rasterized:
Meanwhile with RT, the whole scene is lit properly and floor actually looks like it is supposed to:
U n i o n 0015
Member
I reverted back to 1.32 to compare performance and wow, the frame time graph says it all. It is dead flat in 1.32. All the microstutter is why 4.0 feels like hot trash.
According to technical support staff member Karolina ‘Vinthir’ Niewęgłowska from CDPR forums, modders were reimbursed and added to game credits. Here is post mentioning it, second to last paragraph.
DanEON
Member
Pagusas
Elden Member
So I have a 4090/7950 and was seeing sub 60 stutters in towns and cities with RT Ultra+. There is a post on Reddit showing where to get a new dx12 file for the game. I did it, replaced it, and now the game performs like a champ, no more sub 60 drops, turning vsync off I can tell I went from 54fps at worst In cities to 67.
GymWolf
Member
He remember the framerate tanking, so it can't be that.
yamaci17
Member
hmm what file are u referencing=?
22:22:22
NO PAIN TRANCE CONTINUE
Anybody?
Mozzarella
Member
I would say looting everything in your way is a good strat.
But if you have a lot of money you can go to any alchemist shop and you can buy a lot of ingredients there.
Is there any specific items you are struggling to get?
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Zathalus
Member
Link?
lukilladog
Member
I hope there is no many people surprised by this, CDPR has been such an Nvidia shill since Witcher 2, by giving direct code access to their engineers, whose ultimate directive is to push sales of their latest and greatest cards... no matter the cost and no matter how silly their "feature" implementations are.
Ps.- And I'm not even speculating ok, we have seen the official nvidia communicates on why they send their engineers to studios (to ultimately "push hardware sales"), and we have seen pictures of CDPR developers posing at their office, along with nvidia engineers.
Ps.- And I'm not even speculating ok, we have seen the official nvidia communicates on why they send their engineers to studios (to ultimately "push hardware sales"), and we have seen pictures of CDPR developers posing at their office, along with nvidia engineers.
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22:22:22
NO PAIN TRANCE CONTINUE
Yeah for that moon wraith at the well.
Kenpachii
Member
Don't worry every single CPU is to "old" for this next gen witcher, the only way to get 60 is to frame generate lol.
GHG
Member
Go back to the house where you met the guy with the details for the quest. All the materials you need are outside his house. Loot all the plants there with the quest active and then it will progress it.