Ok I decided to open this thread because the game, while it is amazing and such, it really performs pretty bad on PS4.
Apart from the well established stuttering issue that plagues the entirety of the game, the framerate once you leave White Orchard and start exploring the world can become a complete mess.
Bog areas with fog are affected greatly, a big chunk of performance goes down the drain, and if rain comes into play, then thats when things get reeally bad...
During the night in cities, or in places with torches and lots of lights, framerate goes south as well.
During fighting, using igni , fighting wraiths, fog type monsters etc the game simply becomes laggy/unresponsive and performance is a mess.
The more you play the game and explore its vast world the more you realize how the optimization is lacking and how frequent serious framerate issues appear. Today I took the -hard- decision to put the game on hold until something gets done. Doing some quests in the bog really was the last straw for me. This wasnt fun/immersive or anything. I just wanted it to end so I could turn off my PS4.
Point of this thread is not to start endless moaning and dev cursing, but to urge CDP to acknowledge and to try to address the problem ASAP. In the past we have been reassured that the console versions will run great and framerate wont be an issue. In PS4's case that is definetely not true at the moment and I could say it is leaps and bounds away from that promise.
No moaning, no cursing, just well behaved and constructive criticism please. We absolutely love the game and we want to be fully immersed in it without such poor performance. We have examples of games that had fps problems and got perfectly fixed via patch, like GTAV and Borderlands 2 (recent ones as well).
Also another important note, if you are the kind of guy who doesnt notice any framerate problems, has no issues even if he notices framerate problems etc, please, with all due respect, do us all the favor and dont contribute on this thread. You have no problem, fine, you are the lucky ones and we are jealous of your immunity to framerate issues spoiling all the fun (no sarcasm here). But for us poor lads, framerate does spoil the fun and we would like to get some attention on this matter and make sure it gets fixed. We are not trying to downgrade your gfx, we are trying to upgrade our framerate.
Thanks for your understanding.
UPDATE 30/05: Gamersyde was kind enough to make a performance/comparison test in one of the aforementioned areas (bogs) were the framerate in PS4 falls apart. Mind you this isnt the only scenario were w3 on PS4 performs poorly.
http://www.gamersyde.com/hqstream_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_swamps_1_03-34759_en.html
Apart from the well established stuttering issue that plagues the entirety of the game, the framerate once you leave White Orchard and start exploring the world can become a complete mess.
Bog areas with fog are affected greatly, a big chunk of performance goes down the drain, and if rain comes into play, then thats when things get reeally bad...
During the night in cities, or in places with torches and lots of lights, framerate goes south as well.
During fighting, using igni , fighting wraiths, fog type monsters etc the game simply becomes laggy/unresponsive and performance is a mess.
The more you play the game and explore its vast world the more you realize how the optimization is lacking and how frequent serious framerate issues appear. Today I took the -hard- decision to put the game on hold until something gets done. Doing some quests in the bog really was the last straw for me. This wasnt fun/immersive or anything. I just wanted it to end so I could turn off my PS4.
Point of this thread is not to start endless moaning and dev cursing, but to urge CDP to acknowledge and to try to address the problem ASAP. In the past we have been reassured that the console versions will run great and framerate wont be an issue. In PS4's case that is definetely not true at the moment and I could say it is leaps and bounds away from that promise.
No moaning, no cursing, just well behaved and constructive criticism please. We absolutely love the game and we want to be fully immersed in it without such poor performance. We have examples of games that had fps problems and got perfectly fixed via patch, like GTAV and Borderlands 2 (recent ones as well).
Also another important note, if you are the kind of guy who doesnt notice any framerate problems, has no issues even if he notices framerate problems etc, please, with all due respect, do us all the favor and dont contribute on this thread. You have no problem, fine, you are the lucky ones and we are jealous of your immunity to framerate issues spoiling all the fun (no sarcasm here). But for us poor lads, framerate does spoil the fun and we would like to get some attention on this matter and make sure it gets fixed. We are not trying to downgrade your gfx, we are trying to upgrade our framerate.
Thanks for your understanding.
UPDATE 30/05: Gamersyde was kind enough to make a performance/comparison test in one of the aforementioned areas (bogs) were the framerate in PS4 falls apart. Mind you this isnt the only scenario were w3 on PS4 performs poorly.
http://www.gamersyde.com/hqstream_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_swamps_1_03-34759_en.html
