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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Lovely Salsa
Banned
yay bought the game and I can't even play it for 5 min before the screen freezes and crashes
the hell do I do now?
the hell do I do now?
Try switching to old drivers especially the pre GTA5-ready ones, that's how I got it to work for my GTX 970. The newest driver causes my PC to crash despite the graphic card barely reaching 70 Celsius.
Kepler performance has certainly taken a hit. I have no idea how an R9 290 beats a 780 Ti in some of those benchmarks. Hell, a 780 Ti should exceed the 970 based purely on power without hairworks on and if not, at least equal it.
Kepler has definitely taken a back seat and it's disappointing as heck.
I've got 60fps at 1080p with a single 970.
HBAO+ on
Hairworks off
All other PP on
Mix of high/ultra with shadows at medium.
Enosh
Member
i5 4460
gtx 960
8GB of ram
1680x1050
put everything on high, turned stuff on except for hairworks and AA getting high 40s to 60 fps
think I'll just lock it to 30 since it never dropped below that so far but as it is I'm not really noticing any stuttering so meh, ge force expirinace is suggesting I'd put some stuff up to ultra, but nah, will probably hewer around 30 then with occasional dips bellow that
so overall stuff looks good and runs smooth, I'm happy ^^
that's just in white orchid so no idea if getting to the big zone will have any effect
gtx 960
8GB of ram
1680x1050
put everything on high, turned stuff on except for hairworks and AA getting high 40s to 60 fps
think I'll just lock it to 30 since it never dropped below that so far but as it is I'm not really noticing any stuttering so meh, ge force expirinace is suggesting I'd put some stuff up to ultra, but nah, will probably hewer around 30 then with occasional dips bellow that
so overall stuff looks good and runs smooth, I'm happy ^^
that's just in white orchid so no idea if getting to the big zone will have any effect
UnrealEck
Member
No, but I'm curious to find out too. But even if I do, it might not necessarily be an honest answer.
So far, I've heard the game's tesselation-heavy and that Kepler isn't as good at tesselation.
I don't believe it though. I don't think the game even uses tesselation much at all. I don't believe Maxwell is necessarily better at tesselation than Kepler either.
Yeah that sounds about right. My response was for Ultra only
Hairworks IS NOT worth the performance hit. I turned it off. Got another 20fps at 1440p
New shot of the same scene with some edited settings. The only thing off that I personally don't find worth it is hairworks.
Current ini now
I'm only going to post the pertinent settings and not the stuff in the upper part of the ini
Code:[LevelOfDetail] SwarmHideDistance=200 DecalsHideDistance=80 DimmerHideDistance=60 DynamicDecalsHideDistance=20 StripeHideDistance=60 [General] ConfigVersion=1 [LoadingScreen/Editor] Disabled=false [LoadingOverlay/TCR] FadeOutCooldownExtraTime=1 FadeInSpinnerTime=1 NoninteractiveSpinnerTime=3 FadeOutSpinnerTime=1 NoninteractiveEndCooldown=1 [Visuals] InventoryBgColorScaleB=0.036 InventoryFixedLuminance=0.25 InventoryBgColorScaleG=0.034 MovieFramerate=30 GammaValue=1 InventoryBgColorScaleR=0.02 [Rendering] GrassDensity=3800 DecalsSpawnDistanceCutoff=10 TextureStreamingHeadsDistanceLimit=10 GlobalOceanTesselationFactor=96 TextureStreamingCharacterDistanceLimit=50 CascadeShadowFadeTreshold=1 CascadeShadowDistanceScale2=1.5 TextureStreamingDistanceLimit=50000 TextureMemoryBudget=1200 CascadeShadowDistanceScale3=1.5 MeshLODDistanceScale=4 ScaleformTextureUnstreamDelay=2.5 DecalsChance=1 TerrainReadAheadDistance=200 HairWorksLevel=0 TerrainScreenSpaceErrorThreshold=1.6 MaxTerrainShadowAtlasCount=4 TextureInFlightCountBudget=12 TerrainErrorMetricMultiplier=6 CascadeShadowmapSize=3072 CascadeShadowDistanceScale0=1 MeshRenderingDistanceScale=3 CascadeShadowQuality=1 CascadeShadowDistanceScale1=1 [Input/Gestures] EnableSwipe=true EnablePan=true EnableGestures=true EnablePinch=true [LoadingScreen] FadeInTime=3 SkipShowWithAnyKey=true GameRevealTime=3 SkipHideDelay=3 SkipInputDelay=0.25 FadeOutTime=1.5 SkipAutoshow=false [Engine] LimitFPS=30 [Rendering/SpeedTree] GrassGenerationEfficiency=0.075 GrassDistanceScale=4 FoliageDistanceScale=5 FoliageShadowDistanceScale=54 GrassRingSize=16777216 [Save] ShowCompatWarning=true [Kinect] Kinect=true [Foliage] MaxVisibilityDepth=24
No problem.
I'm going to mess with shadow distance and probably settle on this ini.
What hardware are you running?
KINGofCRA5H
Member
these crashes are destroying me 
fullscreen seemed to help the most. going to try the GTA V drivers and see if that helps
fullscreen seemed to help the most. going to try the GTA V drivers and see if that helpsR9 285 is no slouch. It's AMD's most advanced card on the market.
GCN continues to age gracefully.
Cannon Goose
Member
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I hope the message that pops up when your input method changes can be turned off in the future. The screenshots can sometimes capture before it shows up but usually not in my experience.
I hope the message that pops up when your input method changes can be turned off in the future. The screenshots can sometimes capture before it shows up but usually not in my experience.
styl3s
Member
I can't play more then 30-40 minutes without the game just straight up locking up.
I know it's like a broken record in here with all the freezes but it's frustrating and i kind of want to just go buy the console version and play it and then play it on PC when it's fixed.
RealityCheque
Banned
Agreed on the hairworks thing. Was getting a choppy 50-60fps with it turned on (GTX970, i5 4690k, 16GB ram), turned off its a rock solid 60fps with settings on high. I'll see what ultra does later on.
Stupid job, going to work making a living, wasting my time when I could be riding my digital horse.
Edit: does anyone know if it has settings for Dualshock 4 button prompts?
Stupid job, going to work making a living, wasting my time when I could be riding my digital horse.
Edit: does anyone know if it has settings for Dualshock 4 button prompts?
Ah of course, not sure why I misread your post it's perfectly clear. The chart is max @ 40fps.
My bad. :3
Fraps will work.
I personally prefer msi afterburner though add you can display more than just fps
I have a very similar rig and have similar FPS woes :/
I also kinda wish I'd just gone for the PS4 version for the convenience.
345triangle
Member
i'm not a hardcore performance freak but just coming in here to say so far all runs smooth enough on high/1920 x 1200/hairworks off with my R9 270/16GB RAM/i5 4460 X51.
glad i went PC over PS4 for this.
glad i went PC over PS4 for this.
Well...why wouldn't an older card under perform compared to the 900 series which is a different design,has enhanced features, and is faster etc?
Isn't that how things work when newer, improved technology is released ?
Not trying to be a jerk I'm just trying to understand the expectations with a previous gen card. Certain technologies are improved in the Maxwell cards vs Kepler iirc and that may be the difference you're seeing ?
Thanks think I have that too as my card is a MSI. Do I have it open at the same time as the game?
Static Jak
Member
Really puts you off playing for a while doesn't it?
Lovely Salsa
Banned
will go out tomorrow and buy the ps4 version of the game, as I really want to play it. PC version doesn't work and god knows when it will get fixed
GroinShooter
Member
Anyone know if the game is possible to be installed on two computers at the same time using the same GOG code simultaneosly on different PCs. My bro just bought the game and we know it's possible to install and play the game without the GOG code but were wondering if it's possible to get all the DLCs and patches also on a second PC using the same code.
billmcdougal
Member
If I run locked at 30fps, is there a fix for choppy frame drops that seem to only happen in cutscenes?
Gumbie
Member
That seems to be happening to matter what your fps is. I suspect a patch will address the cutscene choppiness.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
4.4ghz 5930k
16gb 3000mhz DDR4
2xG1 970's@1454mhz core/3845mhz mem
One more pic with shadows and other stuff tweaked
Code:
[Rendering]
GrassDensity=3800
DecalsSpawnDistanceCutoff=15
TextureStreamingHeadsDistanceLimit=10
GlobalOceanTesselationFactor=96
TextureStreamingCharacterDistanceLimit=50
CascadeShadowFadeTreshold=2
CascadeShadowDistanceScale2=4
TextureStreamingDistanceLimit=60000
TextureMemoryBudget=1200
CascadeShadowDistanceScale3=3
MeshLODDistanceScale=4
ScaleformTextureUnstreamDelay=2.5
DecalsChance=1
TerrainReadAheadDistance=400
HairWorksLevel=0
TerrainScreenSpaceErrorThreshold=1.6
MaxTerrainShadowAtlasCount=5
TextureInFlightCountBudget=12
TerrainErrorMetricMultiplier=6
CascadeShadowmapSize=3072
CascadeShadowDistanceScale0=2
MeshRenderingDistanceScale=4
CascadeShadowQuality=1
CascadeShadowDistanceScale1=3
[Input/Gestures]
EnableSwipe=true
EnablePan=true
EnableGestures=true
EnablePinch=true
[LoadingScreen]
FadeInTime=3
SkipShowWithAnyKey=true
GameRevealTime=3
SkipHideDelay=3
SkipInputDelay=0.25
FadeOutTime=1.5
SkipAutoshow=false
[Engine]
LimitFPS=30
[Rendering/SpeedTree]
GrassGenerationEfficiency=0.075
GrassDistanceScale=4
FoliageDistanceScale=5
FoliageShadowDistanceScale=64
GrassRingSize=16777216
[Save]
ShowCompatWarning=true
[Kinect]
Kinect=true
[Foliage]
MaxVisibilityDepth=32I'm running at a locked 30 with these settings. Make sure you change the ini file to READ ONLY or settings like MaxVisibilityDepth will go back to 24.
There is no way i guess that we are playing 4k at 30 fps with some hairwork. Hairworks just drops the ball on the these cards. even at 1080p it is not stable enough
Dead_Pixel
Banned
Thanks for your impressions. I'm about to order a GTX 960, so it's nice to hear it'll run well. Were you getting those frame rates with HBAO+ enabled or disabled?
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
I have exactly this, but my shadows are on high or ultra I think. I also have CA, Vignetting, and sharpening off. It's completely locked at 60fps. I'm going to try turning settings up to ultra one by one and seeing where I start to see FPS dips.
Frankfurter
Member
Sorry if this has been posted already but anyone care to explain why a £160 R9 285 is getting better framerates than a £400 GTX780 / all of the 7xx series?
We honestly don't know, yet. R9 285 performs better than expected (it's ~on par with the original Titan lol), Nvidia 7xx series performs terrible, while the rest (both AMD and Nvidia) performs pretty much like expected. Might be bad optimization for the 7xx series on either Nvidia's or CDR's part. Or Kepler is just shitty for this game (tesselation performance has been brought up before).
Fenris95
Neo Member
They usually last a little longer than this series. I had my 1GB 8800GT for like five years, only had my two 760s for a year and a half (still run BF4 at 144hz). It used to be that you could skip a generation with GPUs but I guess Nvidia is trying to clamp down on that.
Sorry to do this for you guys going for the performance hit without hairworks (which I slid into doing a few times too)... but damn it looks good:
http://a.pomf.se/kybpfg.webm
Even on Geralt imo, especially compared to without hairworks.
I may have to drop from 1440p to 1080p (already locked to 42 fps on a 780ti sc 4770K@4.4 - shadows and foliage distance to high.
But it would add so much aliasing and also make the vegetation basically unbearable.
Hmm what to do.
Maybe next gen or something, thanks nvidia.
http://a.pomf.se/kybpfg.webm
Even on Geralt imo, especially compared to without hairworks.
I may have to drop from 1440p to 1080p (already locked to 42 fps on a 780ti sc 4770K@4.4 - shadows and foliage distance to high.
But it would add so much aliasing and also make the vegetation basically unbearable.
Hmm what to do.
Maybe next gen or something, thanks nvidia.
Aaaand I've just got my second freeze. Again in a (in-engine) cutscene. There was nothing special happening. It just froze mid-scene. No stutters before, GPU/CPU temps were ok, and BAM! The game is not as stable as I first thought. Might want to wait for a few patches before playing this.
Enosh
Member
have hbao+ enabled
Uhm, a 670 is only a bit betetr than what's inside a PS4... not sure what you were expecting.
You're still probably getting better graphics settings (HBAO+, Better physics effects, better IQ) than a PS4, and although people are having crashing issueson PC, the PS4 is ALSO suffering from crashing issues.
So you decided wisely. Not sure why you think you should be able to max this game at 60 FPS, nor why you think going PS4 would have somehow, magically, meant the better option for you.
Or tech just changed. Rapid obsolescence is a well known risk in PC gaming and we can't blame companies every time they make a leap forward. Tessellation performance is a major step forward
bigwinnerx
Member
I have a 4760k, 770 2gb, 8gb RAM.
Locked 30 on ultra with hair off and a couple things down (foliage, shadows) looks nice.
I haven't played many action third person PC games lately but seems like I play it better at locked 30 than turning things down to get to 60. Maybe I'm just slow in my old age.
Locked 30 on ultra with hair off and a couple things down (foliage, shadows) looks nice.
I haven't played many action third person PC games lately but seems like I play it better at locked 30 than turning things down to get to 60. Maybe I'm just slow in my old age.
It's disappointing, but what can you do. I was hoping my 780 Ti would last me a bit longer till Pascal hits.
I'm planning on doing another PC build with top-end SLI Pascal cards to get ready for VR next year.
I had this exact same problem 3 times in a row!
Tried the newest drivers, the drivers that came just before these new ones and both had the problem.
i7 4770k
980gtx
Also, it is just me or do the controls using a 360 game pad feel absolutely atrocious? Like... when you're standing still and start moving, it's sluggish but then all of a sudden it goes into this SUPER twitchy sprint that is really difficult to control. I kept falling off ledges during the opening tutorial on moving and climbing down ladders... just fell off the ledges an it wasn't on purpose.
Never experienced anything like it. W2 wasn't like that. Easily the worst feeling 3rd person controls I've ever seen.
Fenris95
Neo Member
That's a fair point. I just hope they release the Pascal soon so I can justify the upgrade, it's too late in this release cycle to bother doing it now. Seeing how my last cards have now turned out, there doesn't seem much point if new games will only work well with HBM, I wouldn't put it past them.
UnrealEck
Member
I'd like to know.
I don't have the knowledge to understand the workings of different architectures and even if I did, that doesn't mean I would have the information as to why the 960 is now outperforming the 780 despite the 780 having superior technical specs.
The only things I can think of is that Maxwell is better at doing something than Kepler (kinda what you're saying I guess) which is especially useful in Witcher 3 (this is what I'd like to know if it's the case) or the new drivers are simply just being updated with Maxwell in mind. I get the exact same performance from previous drivers in W3 as the new ones. Almost like it's the same driver for the Kepler GPU.
I've asked nVidia, hopefully they'll have an answer.
I see Techspot have an article on this same issue too so I'll check it out.
edit: now I'm seeing more benchmarks where Kepler seems to be more on-par with Maxwell with the 770 close to the 960 and the 780 Ti close to the 970.
I don't know what to think.
Actually, like I mentioned before, with a 2GB GTX 770, with hairworks off, Grass Density and Foliage Distance at High, and everything else on and at max, I get 30 to 60fps. I personally play it locked at 30 with v-sync. So I think the 700 series performs just fine.
Dead_Pixel
Banned
I see. Do you think disabling it would bring you closer to a locked 60?
Yeah I'm going to go through this cycle of frustration once Pascal is out. It happens to all of us at some point.
