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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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finalflame
Member
Crashes are definitely real. Happened 3 times in 2 hours last night.
Has anyone found a way to use custom resolutions? I need to use a slightly gimped 1080p due to overscan on my TV, and can't seem to get it to stick via the user.settings file.
Has anyone found a way to use custom resolutions? I need to use a slightly gimped 1080p due to overscan on my TV, and can't seem to get it to stick via the user.settings file.
Thabass
Member
Not sure if this was posted here yet, but has anyone dealt with having the game go black and then your computer seemed to restart? But, not really restart?
After a few minutes of playing the game on Ultra (with Ambient Occlusion on), the game would this after a minute or two of playing.
I lowered the settings and the seemed to work, but I want to know if anyone else had this issue.
After a few minutes of playing the game on Ultra (with Ambient Occlusion on), the game would this after a minute or two of playing.
I lowered the settings and the seemed to work, but I want to know if anyone else had this issue.
Static Jak
Member
It's becoming more than a little frustrating. If it's an Nvidia issue, then I'm worried we'll be waiting a while.
This is getting reported by a lot of users on the official Witcher 3 tech forums. So looks like a legit issue that will need to be patched.
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/36724-Game-Freezing-when-browsing-through-inventory
Graphics driver crash. Probably your GPU isn't stable.
Shai-Tan
Banned
it might be dropping below 30 for him. i like to use DSR in a lot of games and with everything turned up there are dips below 30 sometimes even though it feels smooth in most scenes. usually I just eat it but I will turn down some stuff that doesn't effect the visuals too much.
Fraps, MSI Afterburner overlay, Dxtory, even Steam has a FPS counter you can activate in the settings.
Thanks. Will check those out.
Very strange: has anyone noticed the water splash in the intro bathtub scene on PS4 (9:23) when he picks up that crab thing? That water effect is missing on PC!
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Deleted member 325805
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Better than crashing though? My settings: Ultra preset, shadows high, foliage high, hairworks off, SSAO. 60fps rock solid, I found an area that dropped me to 54fps which is why I turned shadows to high, frame rate hasn't budged since and I don't even notice the graphical difference.
Never got any crashes at all after about 4 hours of playing last night. I did notice something weird though. Seems the game doesn't need steam to be able to run. I pinned the witcher3.exe to my taskbar and it ran fine. But opening steam shows me at the exact time played as I was before.
On topic, my 970 is doing pretty well in the game at high settings. I'm gonna try to lock the fps to 30 and see how it handles ultra settings.
On topic, my 970 is doing pretty well in the game at high settings. I'm gonna try to lock the fps to 30 and see how it handles ultra settings.
Only performance hickup I had with my 5-6 hours playing last night was a random infinite loading screen after finding the Griffin's nest and just getting the Place of Power right nearby. I just was running through the field and a fuzzy overlay popped up on the screen with the loading animation in the bottom right corner and just stayed like that rotating for a good 5+ minutes with no response to alt-f4 or any other input. So alt-tabbed out opened up the task manager and force quit the game rebooted and had a save barely a minute past and never had an issue again for another 3+ hours.
Darkstorne
Member
A lot of us are playing without any overclocking. i7 2600 and a GTX 970, still freezing up every hour or two. It's not frequent enough to become overly frustrating to me, and I'm sure patches and drivers over the next few weeks will iron out all the issues. Honestly, I expect open world games to launch worse than this, so I'm not bothered =P
I'm also INSANELY happy to see so many ways to boost visuals beyond Ultra settings! I can already tell this is a game I'll be returning to frequently over the years, just like I do with Skyrim, and knowing that a new GPU in three years time will be able to render distant shadows, dense grass, insane foliage draw distances, at 4k resolutions... That's exactly what I was hoping for =D Not quite Crysis levels of future visual eye-candy, but still damn impressive.
Thabass
Member
You mean physically stable?
Edit: It's true that I don't have the latest driver (for Witcher 3) that NVIDIA pushed, mainly because I can't seem to get it pushed my NVIDIA experience app.
How much VRAM in your 980m?
I just want to make sure. There's only been one patch so far on PC and that's the Day One patch correct?
I watched the scene more closely and it turns out ALL water effects and droplets are MISSING in this scene on PC! Did I forget to turn on some setting or what?
The GeForce.com Graphics, Performance & Tweaking Guide is live!
I've got about a month to recover until Batman, right?
No mention of 3D Vision. RIP
My version is 1.02.
GOG Galaxy downloaded a 350mb patch upon installation, that's all.
Pleased with the performance and the visuals, anisotropic filtering seems to be working everywhere which is more than I can say for the Witcher 2.
It looks a bit blurry but nothing off-putting, the art is stellar.
Too early to say anything about the game itself.
I5 2500k@4.3ghz
MSI 970
8gb Corsair Vengeance
Using the exact settings as above and I'm sitting on a perfect 60fps so far.
Really happy with the performance. Will report again when I've tested it more.
The bathtub scene had a couple of issues pre-release and it seems like they were never fixed. Geralt's hair is not shaded at all if you use Hairworks and looks really goofy. Thankfully, the issue is limited to that scene.
Static Jak
Member
Lots of people reporting driver issues. I've looked on reddit, here, CDPR Forums and Nvidia forums and the a lot of people reporting random crashes in game and driver crashes. I doubt it's solely driver related but the new driver does seem to have issues.
Strange.
I literally booted up the game last night turned stuff up and down to the settings I posted before. If it drops it drops to 59fps which you don't even notice.
Never seen a considerable drop, it's 60fps constantly for me.
Good to hear man! I got work now for 6 hours
Gonna be painful.ScepticMatt
Member
1024x768. Shame that there aren't any lower 16:9 or 16:10 resolutions available, chaning the settings.ini doesn't work either.
Seems like there a hard-coded 768 pixel vertical minimum somehow. I'd love to be wrong
After a little tweaking the game is running fantastic for me. And my goodness does it look incredible!
i7-4770K
GTX 980
16GB RAM
Running from an SSD.
1080p very solid 60fps. I get a few dips in demanding scenes but nothing too distracting.
Everything MAX except...
Shadows = High - Because the difference is imperceptible without side by side screens.
Foliage visibility range = Medium - Because other than looking at screenshots of vista's, the difference is barely noticeable but the difference in performance is massive! Only time it's really noticeable is when running the horse at full speed, and the way The Witcher 3 handles the detail pop in is SO much better than most games (especially The Witcher 2) that it is still not an issue at all.
And I make those 2 sacrifices because I want to run...
HairWorks = FULL - Because it looks amazing! Most next gen aspect of the games graphics. And costs LESS than pushing the foliage distance to Ultra with a far more noticeable improvement to visual quality in gameplay.
http://gfycat.com/DigitalGloomyFrenchbulldog#
You want better screenshots, go Ultra foliage distance. You want it to be FAR more stunning in motion. Go for the HairWorks first!
i7-4770K
GTX 980
16GB RAM
Running from an SSD.
1080p very solid 60fps. I get a few dips in demanding scenes but nothing too distracting.
Everything MAX except...
Shadows = High - Because the difference is imperceptible without side by side screens.
Foliage visibility range = Medium - Because other than looking at screenshots of vista's, the difference is barely noticeable but the difference in performance is massive! Only time it's really noticeable is when running the horse at full speed, and the way The Witcher 3 handles the detail pop in is SO much better than most games (especially The Witcher 2) that it is still not an issue at all.
And I make those 2 sacrifices because I want to run...
HairWorks = FULL - Because it looks amazing! Most next gen aspect of the games graphics. And costs LESS than pushing the foliage distance to Ultra with a far more noticeable improvement to visual quality in gameplay.
http://gfycat.com/DigitalGloomyFrenchbulldog#
You want better screenshots, go Ultra foliage distance. You want it to be FAR more stunning in motion. Go for the HairWorks first!
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
Banned
I suspect as much, but it just looks so good.
But yeah, I'd rather have performance than fluid hair.
If it's anything like Far Cry 4 it should not tax AMD cards more than Nvidia ones.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/01/12/far_cry_4_graphics_features_performance_review/5#.VVtG7vk82Uk
However, in my experience Hairworks has an extremely significant performance hit, much more than the 7% shown here. The Witcher 3's Hairworks halves my framerate, it's "playable" but when you are used to 60fps it's very, very hard to go back.
I'll see in two years.
Kazdane
Member
In my case, with Win10 and a r9 290 @ 1080p, using the latest win10 beta driver (which was released last week) it was pretty much cutting fps in half (from 60 to 29-35).
A bit "angular" to me (look at Yennefer's shoulders), but great attention to detail nonetheless.
There is room for nitpicking, just like every other games though.
SinSilla
Member
Game looks awesome and runs mighty fine on my machine. Hairworks looks so good on monsters that i chose a locked 30fps (ingame) everything else ultra.
System:
2500k@4,2GHz
Gigabyte G1 GTX 970 (factory oc)
8 GB Ram
Win 10
352.84 WHQL
I'm not sure if im being overly optimistic since i had not much time fiddling with the settings, but i was hoping that i could downscale from 1440p and add the CascadeShadowDistance Tweaks on top when going down to high with foliage visibility.
Will try that when i'm back from work.
System:
2500k@4,2GHz
Gigabyte G1 GTX 970 (factory oc)
8 GB Ram
Win 10
352.84 WHQL
I'm not sure if im being overly optimistic since i had not much time fiddling with the settings, but i was hoping that i could downscale from 1440p and add the CascadeShadowDistance Tweaks on top when going down to high with foliage visibility.
Will try that when i'm back from work.
STILLethal
Member
Motionblur = on or off when capping it at 30fps?
Want to try doing the Lightboost trick for my Adus VGQE but not sure
Want to try doing the Lightboost trick for my Adus VGQE but not sure
That site has the most incredibly stupid ad setup I have ever seen.
There's a video ad at the top of the page, and the damn thing SCROLLS YOU BACK UP TO THE VIDEO every other second. You can't scroll down to read the article!
Leatherface
Member
God I want hair works but the hit is too brutal to maintain my 60FPS dream. After coming off of Dragon Age: Inquisition, which ran at a locked 60FPS for me, 30FPS in this game feels like a stuttery annoying mess!
Allnamestakenlol
Member
It is pretty crazy. I don't think I've played a game that got me so quickly into the game after double clicking the desktop shortcut.
Leatherface
Member
that gif a few posts back. damn. Have you seen the hairworks off version of that beast? That's what ruined me. Now I need hairworks. :'(