Okay nice, started my download 10 minutes ago. 20 To go
, then I can finally see how it runs.
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Witcher 3 Patch 1.04 is out on pc
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Okay nice, started my download 10 minutes ago. 20 To go
, then I can finally see how it runs.Just got home, and my PC was asleep so it hasn't updated yet. I heard a couple of people say they're getting crashes now or worse performance... how widespread is that? Should I update if the game was perfect for me before? Actually, do I have the choice of not updating? I guess in the past with some Steam games I haven't been able to play without updating.
BlackNinja
Banned
Here are a couple of 4k shots.. I disabled Hairworks to get a consistent 30fps.
Game looks amazing @ 4k.
Game looks amazing @ 4k.
Dictator93
Member
I have had 0 problems with this patch.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
You can turn off auto updating on Steam easily, game by game even. Not sure about the GOG Galaxy version because I can never even tell when it's patching, but have all the patches.
Personally, haven't had a problem with the new patch.
You can turn off auto updating, but generally (in my experience) if I try to actually play a game that hasn't been updated, it forces me to update before I can play.
RandomSeed
Member
I envy 60fps, but the game has been stable as fuck on my 7850.
Trevelyan9999
Banned
Here are a couple of 4k shots.. I disabled Hairworks to get a consistent 30fps.
Game looks amazing @ 4k.
What's your rig like? GPU/CPU? Looking awesome man.
BlackNinja
Banned
I just have an old i-7/920, 16G RAM, and Titan X with a 49" 4k TV.
Also using stock settings (all Ultra).. no mods.
CambriaRising
Member
Any word on the promised native DS4 controls and button logos? I am still a little steamed about that one.
CaptainGyro
Banned
I guess I am weird/blind because I consider those differences to be very small and hardly even noticable
RandomSeed
Member
Did you see that checking the "scan code" box when selecting what key you want to bind makes the touchpad useable now? No button icons, but everything works now.
I use swipes for signs, multitouch for quick save, and left/right for inventory and map.
And native support was not promised. Check the tweet again...PR guy said they hoped to add it.
Lots of people reporting it. Doesn't seem isolated. Could well mean something.
Trevelyan9999
Banned
Oh is that all? lol, nice and the CPU should be just fine for years to come.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Here are a couple of 4k shots.. I disabled Hairworks to get a consistent 30fps.
Game looks amazing @ 4k.
nice. should have left it on for the screenies though.
Mineshaft_Gap
4077th
Does the game still run like shit on GTX780?
Something could be wrong with your monitor I suppose. The difference is MASSIVE in those two shots.
CambriaRising
Member
Maybe you should check this one. But whatever. I just wanted to know if they talked any more about adding proper support for the thing.
uniform
Member
The unlockable menu key bindings are all wonky for me. I can bind map to anything yet the default M is still the only key that opens the map. Other menu key bindings seem to work, opening up the correct menu, yet when clicked a second time open up the default menu bind. It's like there's two separate bindings, and the game is reading both. I have not messed with any ini files, modded, or anything of that nature.
BlackNinja
Banned
nice. should have left it on for the screenies though.
Hairworks is on in the screens actually.
CaptainGyro
Banned
No there is nothing wrong with my monitor. People just have really weird definitions of MASSIVE and shitload etc
-bakalhau-
Member
Aight, found an old save and old screenshot and lined them up.
1.03 mipmap on left. 1.04 mipmap on right.
This was actually the biggest thing that was bothering me in the game. Something very low poly/last-gen/very low textured in the foliage struck me off since I started playing. I never thought it would be fixed and attributed it to the developers having to scale down the graphics. Boy, thank you for that tweak there in latest patch. Kudos.
RandomSeed
Member
The game does support the controller. Native support is not the same thing.
Hopefully they fixed the issue where people's hair would not fully load before switching camera angles in cutscenes. Soooo distracting.
Funny guy.
Funny guy.
captainnapalm
Member
I don't like the TextureMipBias change they introduced. Some of the foliage was sticking out like a sore thumb. I've changed it back to a more blended, well-rounded look that 1.03 had.
I feel like they're second-guessing themselves because of all this downgrade talk and making silly changes. The sharpening setting from the last patch was totally unnecessary as well. Now this new setting can only be changed back manually. Which means if I ever install and play the game again I'm going to have to remember about this.
I feel like they're second-guessing themselves because of all this downgrade talk and making silly changes. The sharpening setting from the last patch was totally unnecessary as well. Now this new setting can only be changed back manually. Which means if I ever install and play the game again I'm going to have to remember about this.
Pitfalls of having a patch cert process managed by Sony.
Wag
Member
Heh, I have a 3770k @ 4.4GHz, 16G Ram and 3 6GB SLI Titans in 4k/60 and I just barely get 30FPS with hairworks (and some of the other settings turned down). Probably because it runs like shit on Kepler boards.
master0fdeception
Banned
can someone who knows a lot about tinkering with the graphics here tell me how I can get rid of the shimmering effect that I see on some of the characters. For instance on the Witcher necklace that geralt wears sometimes the corners shimmer in the light as does his armor it's really kind of distracting how do I get rid of that??
jim2point0
Banned
If anyone was having the inventory crash in the last patch...
Did this fix it for you? That shit is still plaguing me after trying EVERY fix suggestion on the internet.
Did this fix it for you? That shit is still plaguing me after trying EVERY fix suggestion on the internet.
BlackNinja
Banned
I believe what you are seeing is the metal material that uses high intensity light reflectance. I don't think you can get rid of that.
LurkerPrime
Member
I'm pretty bummed out right now.
Derp, apparently Geralt wasn't in combat when I tried to test it. Everything's actually working fine - my keybinds were reset by the patch, but work just fine either way.
Wild Hunt still defaults to Borderless Windowed instead of Fullscreen every launch, though. Hopefully they'll fix that next patch.
jim2point0
Banned
I honestly have no idea if it's working or not...
Before:
After:
I didn't get it lined up exactly, but I tried to take a comparison shot after the 1.04 patch. As far as I'm aware, this is ultra texture setting versus the new ultra texture setting. I had other settings customized to try to get about 60 fps on a i3570k 4.2 GHz + 2GB 770.
The foliage DOES look nicer, but sadly I seem to get around 53 fps at that location now. I'm not 100% sure I had 60 fps there before, but I'm still considering turning something else down to see if I can get 60 fps.
After:
I didn't get it lined up exactly, but I tried to take a comparison shot after the 1.04 patch. As far as I'm aware, this is ultra texture setting versus the new ultra texture setting. I had other settings customized to try to get about 60 fps on a i3570k 4.2 GHz + 2GB 770.
The foliage DOES look nicer, but sadly I seem to get around 53 fps at that location now. I'm not 100% sure I had 60 fps there before, but I'm still considering turning something else down to see if I can get 60 fps.
The shimmering on the armour was obvious and very messy at ultra textures at 1440p.
For some reason I went into nvidia control panel to the witcher 3 profile and just changed settings that were at the same value as default anyway to global, including allowing a negative lod bias and since then it wasn't working and I was posting saying I couldn't see a difference between -5 and -1.
I was changing the rendering file number, some people mentioned it was -1 for them but it was reading as 0 for me.
Should have ignored that and looked at the user file (although for some reason it wasn't showing there for me, but did after I deleted it and the backup iirc - I also deleted all the config files in the "base" folder a few times lol).
Anyway that's the file to tweak as per Andy's nvidia guide as well.
You can change the number in the user.settings file in my documents/the witcher 3 under [rendering]. I'm using TextureMipBias=-0.9 with the sharpening off at 1440p.
It might say your textures are at low quality but they aren't afaik, at low textures the abdomen armour is pretty shit and flat, not the chainlinks, you can just leave that as it is.
For me, on a 780ti and winx64 latest drivers and everything, I had to set it to allow for the witcher 3 profile and it instantly showed up.
Also hammer down on the x button when you think your ssd ought to be done loading by
matrixman92
Member
I know there is a mod thread, but it seems to be pretty dead. Did this patch make mods not work anymore or something? I had a 9,999 weight mod on, but it doesnt work anymore. Tried to apply it again and it still doesnt work.
All my settings keep getting reset to low as well
All my settings keep getting reset to low as well
jim2point0
Banned
Hmmmm. The patch definitely did not add TextureMipBias to my user.settings file. I guess I need to add it manually?
Not under [Rendering/SpeedTree] which is further below
Or maybe deleting the file and the backup and launching it if that doesn't work.
hermeslyre
Neo Member
You can add it manually, or you can delete the file and the Backup user.setting.bak file to generate a new file. You'll have to redo any tweaks you made though.
It wasn't in mine to start with either but after starting the game it appeared. I changed it to 0 to get some screenshots and it disappeared again.
shadowstar
Member
Played for about 6 hours just now after the patch. Froze up quite a few times during cutscenes, a couple of times going to menu, and have gotten stuck on terrain geometry. This is on a great PC with a fresh windows install.