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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread

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Heigic

Member
How does a 4ghz i5 2500k compare to newer Intel CPUs? I really upgrade, but it seems pointless for a couple of games.
 
batman2million

batman2million

Member
Nvidia Drivers are up, guys.


Version: 352.86 WHQL
Release Date: 2015.5.18
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit
Language: English (US)
File Size: 290.00 MB


Just in time for the highly anticipated title The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience. With support for GeForce SLI technology and one-click game setting optimizations within GeForce Experience, you’ll have the best possible performance and image quality during gameplay.

Game Ready
Best gaming experience for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, including support for SLI Technology and GeForce Experience 1-click optimizations
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Zakalwe

Banned
Heigic said:
How does a 4ghz i5 2500k compare to newer Intel CPUs? I really upgrade, but it seems pointless for a couple of games.
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The i5 2500k is still a beast when it comes to gaming. There's very little point upgrading it right now if gaming is the only thing you're concerned about, especially as you can overclock the thing to between 4.5-5ghz on air cooling.

WarpathDC said:
So I wonder what the performance difference will be on a gtx 970 with and without gameworks
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We'll find out soon enough, but I'd imagine it will be a decent enough hit.
 
Akhe

Akhe

Member
Naedtrax said:
8 and a half hours to go. Please don't let us down :(
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badb0y

Member
As expected Kepler support dropped real quick after Maxwell launched.

Compage the PCGH charts with this chart when GTX 970 launched:
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The gap was not that big between a GTX 970 and GTX 780. I am disappoint nVidia.
 
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Kezen

Banned
badb0y said:
As expected Kepler support dropped real quick after Maxwell launched.

Compage the PCGH charts with this chart when GTX 970 launched:
perfrel_1920.gif


The gap was not that big between a GTX 970 and GTX 780. I am disappoint nVidia.
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It's clear indeed that Maxwell has taken center-stage when it comes to driver optimization. Kepler performance in newest games is suspicious.
 
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tuxfool

Banned
erawsd said:
I thought they said they were using some in house TXAA they developed?
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Well in the early ini file, I think the only AA toggle that wasn't MSAA (which is borked) was a setting called Temporal AA.

Yesterday, I tried to determine if it was blurring the texture from one of the comparison videos floating about, couldn't come up with a convincing conclusion on account of the example was of a swaying tree.

This is not to say that post process AA is garbage. Just look at the magic provided by UE4 or Cryengine.
 
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MisterM

Member
I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm seriously considering selling my PS4 and buying a GTX 970. I know I should wait for newer, shinier GPUs.

I hardly ever use the PS4. Hmm...What to do?
 
LordAmused

LordAmused

Member
PC Gamer performance so far.

http://www.pcgamer.com/witcher-3-graphics-options-performance-and-settings/

Low, Medium and Ultra settings
I've put together a quick gallery at the top of the page highlighting differences between the low, medium and ultra presets built into the graphics options. You'll need to view them full-size to see the difference, especially if you're looking for the gap between medium and ultra settings.

The Witcher 3 looks surprisingly good on medium settings, which is good news if you don't have a mega-rig. The low setting preset looks okay in these still shots, but there's a lot of foliage and character pop-in that's very distracting when the game's in motion. Textures on NPCs, particularly clothing, suffer on low settings, and you'll notice some blurriness at medium. At ultra the foliage is plumper and there's a lot more of it. A lot of the high-end effects, like HBAO+ postprocessing and ultra shadows, are very subtle improvements for a noticeable framerate hit. The game still looks great even if you can't put everything up to ultra
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We'll get into some more detailed framerate tests as our review progresses, but here's how it performs up on my office machine—GTX 970 GPU, i5-2500K CPU (4x3.3GHz), 16GB RAM.

Ultra: 40 - 50 FPS, dropping to near 30 in some conversations. Disabling HairWorks immediately adds 5-10 FPS, dropping shadows down to from ultra to high in addition gives smooth close-to-60 performance.
Medium: 70-100 FPS
Low: 100-120 FPS
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Derp

Member
MisterM said:
I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm seriously considering selling my PS4 and buying a GTX 970. I know I should wait for newer, shinier GPUs.

I hardly ever use the PS4. Hmm...What to do?
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Wait for newer, shinier GPUs! Wait for Pascal!
 
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AndyBNV

Nvidia
The GeForce.com Graphics, Performance & Tweaking Guide is live!



I've got about a month to recover until Batman, right?
 
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kuoniradha

Neo Member
Preloading on GOG Galaxy.

Will play @1080p on i5-3570k and Gigabyte G1 Gaming 970, 8GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance.

Everything at stock frequencies, will see if overclock will be needed.
 
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MisterM

Member
Derp said:
Wait for newer, shinier GPUs! Wait for Pascal!
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You're right. Common sense should prevail.

I can always lock it to 30fps, high settings at 1080p on my 7870XT. I'm pretty confident I'll reach that and can push settings up until in happy.
 
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Kezen

Banned
AndyBNV said:
The GeForce.com Graphics, Performance & Tweaking Guide is live!



I've got about a month to recover until Batman, right?
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Tell me you are not alone working on this, such an amount of work for one human is not conceivable.

Batman AK has more Gameworks features than The Witcher 3, even more work for you.

EDIT : nice to see 16xAF is working on some surfaces at least.
 
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AndyBNV

Nvidia
Kezen said:
Tell me you are not alone working on this, such an amount of work for one human is not conceivable.

Batman AK has more Gameworks features than The Witcher 3, even more work for you.

EDIT : nice to see 16xAF is working on some surfaces at least.
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I do the writing, the screenshots, the benchmarking, the HTML'ing, the editing, the formatting, and the deployment. In other words, it is just me. And I re-did 90% of the work over the weekend and today when CDP dropped off that new build that changed a whole load of settings.

MrRoflWaffles said:
Breaking news: Arkham Knight release brought forward to May 20th

Get back to it Andy >:D
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*dead*

GoncaloCCastro said:
Jeez....that is comprehensive. Amazing work man.
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Thanks!
 
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Daverid

Member
HBAO+ definitely seemed bugged as fuck.

Every screenshot comparison between SSAO & HBAO+, certain elements look vastly superior with SSAO, whilst other parts of the scene looks vastly better with HBAO+. I don't know what the hell is going on there...
 
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matmanx1

Member
I'm pre-loaded and ready to go but I am most likely going to need some upgrading to really play this game like I want to play it.

i52500k -> this part is fine, no need to change this
4GB memory --> minimum is 6GB?? I need more RAM, evidently.
Radeon 6970 --> I really want a new video card but with the rumored release of the 390X series in about a month it doesn't really make sense to buy a new card yet. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that I can get by for a month or so and see how the new cards are and if they will effect current card prices when they launch.

At least I have a fast SSD that the game is loaded on so no problems there!
 
The Cowboy

The Cowboy

Member
Despite being on AMD, i recon I'll be dropping the draw distance/foliage range in an aim to get the hairworks running decently at 30fps. Consiering for the most part the draw distance won't be noticed, i prefer the glorious looking hair (gutted no TressFX was used for us poor AMD people :().
 
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