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CDPR Confirms Witcher 3 Update for XBX and PS4 Pro
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Technosteve
Banned
so will this make my modest PC run game at 4k now? 1080P 60 is current sweet spot
The Hamburglar
Banned
Meh. I played the PS4 version and it did look good.
I've recently played it again on pc at 1440p 60fps with the stim mod and it looks amazing. The 60fps adds so much more than the resolution though.
At skeliage and burnt out for now cba playing it.
SolarMystic
Member
Nice, kinda glad I waited now. Just gotta decide if I'm gonna play it on Ps4 Pro or X.
Smutpeddler
Member
Now I gotta force myself to play games until the X1X comes out. I am halfway thru the Witc her 3 and knowing this is coming makes me wanna wait....
thelastword
Banned
CertifiedFP
Member
FX6300 at 3.5GHz, though with a custom cooler because the stock one makes it run too hot.
*Looks at PS4 and Xbone clock speeds, and Pro/X1X speeds*
Oh. Ooooooooh.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
Good Guy CDPR.
thelastword
Banned
It depends on the settings.....People keep bringing the CPU up, but the Witcher 3 is more GPU bound than CPU bound..At this point, these consoles can run this at 1080p unlocked 60fps..It will run at a more consistent 60fps with a few settings toned down obviously So yes, I can see a 1080p 60fps mode and a 2160CB/1800p 30fps mode on PRO.
At 30fps the PRO can do 2160CB....I don't think the disparity between the consoles is large enough that you will have checkerboarded on PRO and native 4k on XB1X...At least not CB below 2160CB,,,,,, I can see 1800p non-cb on pro vs 2160p on XB1X...Come to think of it, I can even see 2160CB on PRO vs Native 4k on XB1X, but in that scenario, the pro will have the performance advantage and IQ will be pretty indistinguishable.
tiebreaker
Member
I thought they are all hands on deck on Cyberpunk.... lol
Thank you MS.
Thank you MS.
MetalGearZed
Member
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yall the reel mvp MS
Hawk269
Member
Can you imagine the rage and crying that would happen if that is the case. I mean look at the other thread when people thought it was just a Xbox One X patch.
I think the other meltdown will be what differences will happen between the Pro and X version and then people complaining that MS paid off CDPR to make the Pro patch inferior to the Xbox One X patch.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
You do have a point there. I don't think it will happen but will people cry if X happens to have not only a 4K resolution but also 4K assets?
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
MosquitoSmasher
Member
I Wonder if next to native 4K they can even bring some other visual improvements in addition to it and maybe keep that framerate stable all the time as well? Or is that asking too much?
Or maybe the engine is just shit, or they didnt put in enough to make it 60, or they want parity because its a multiplayer game. They should be able to push destiny at 60fps 1080p
edit: Also Framerate is not CPU bound, the GPU is the main component behind Resolution and Frame rate.
endlessflood
Member
Best announcement of E3. Given the PS4 already has next to no drops from 30fps, I'm assuming this will mean just a res bump on the Pro, but some enhanced graphical effects would be nice. Is the PC version doing cool stuff that the PS4 isn't, apart from frame rate?
Blue Ninja
Member
Damn, I'm mid into a new playthrough. Won't shelve it until november...
Might just put it down for another replay later.
Might just put it down for another replay later.
NullPointer
Member
Pro too?
Awesome. Will wait for that before playing the DLC I havent gotten around to.
Awesome. Will wait for that before playing the DLC I havent gotten around to.
To someone who has played all three games: how much is carried over from W1/W2 saves on PC?
I played the first two and have just started the third on the same save. Now, though, I'm tempted to wait for that 4k goodness on X1X or Pro.
I have to stream the game via Steam, so there's no PC 4k for me.
I played the first two and have just started the third on the same save. Now, though, I'm tempted to wait for that 4k goodness on X1X or Pro.
I have to stream the game via Steam, so there's no PC 4k for me.
PSlayer
Member
That depends! For each frame, you have to make calculations like AI and physics(and other things that are traditionally made by CPU.) If you double the framerate,now the CPU has to do ~2X as much calculations in the same timeframe...which is ok if your CPU has power to spare but when your CPU is weak and is probably already struggling to do those calculations 30 times per second,it will become a bottleneck.
In those cases, it doesn't matter how powerfull the GPU is or what resolution you're rendering,the CPU is holding the framerate back.
And the evidence is pretty clear,most games that run at 30fps on OG PS4 are not running at 60fps on pro.
Dictator93
Member
Yeah. No.
Xb1 and PS4 already had heavily culled NPC densities, shadow render distance, and render distances on console to maintain a 30 fps budget. I seriously doubt they culled those heavy settings from PC for GPU reasons (settings that we know affect CPU performance in the PC version).
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Provide an unlocked fps option like some games do on Pro. That's better than nothing.
That usually results in an uneven or tearing mess. Nah.
I've been wondering about new game plus. Has anyone e finished this mode, how well balanced would it be for full (plus DLC) playthrough on the highest difficulty?
I would argue that Witcher 3 is more complex; bigger and a bit more varied scenery; more items/objects to track, etc. Do have to say that it runs a solid 30fps on PS4 Pro (with boost mode), so I'm sure that there is some overhead to play with.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
I was hoping there would be some news on this. I don't want to have to wait for Xbox One X before the Pro patch comes out.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
But it may very well be the case and you're just gonna have to accept it my friend, if that's the case of course. Let's be happy a patch is coming to the systems at all. It sure seemed like it wasn't going to happen anymore since the good folks at CDPR are hard at work on Cyberpunk but man, if one game deserves such a patch it's W3.
I'm just gonna expect a resolution bump and that's great, anything extra would be sweetness.
Frostman
Member
You should expect the patch day and date with the X. Anything sooner is a bonus. I just can't see them pushing the patches out at different dates.
Shin
Banned
It's stupid that this is happening, yet community isn't outspoken about it, instead CDPR is getting praised.
They are delaying PS4 Pro's patch to be fair to Xbox community or something, that's just plain silly.
Alpha Phoenix
Member
Unfortunately, it was never likely that they were going to talk or release the patch before the X comes along. So we will probably have to wait until closer to November for updates. For all we know this is more than just a resolution bump and could be a full-blown Enhanced Edition.
Hopefully they can adjust some other sliders as well such as LOD, draw distance, anisotropic filtering, etc.
Who cares? PS4 Pro users are getting the patch. If anyone is still interested they can go back and play W3.
Of course they're being praised. They announced a year ago that they weren't supporting Pro at all, and they're literally going above and beyond to deliver this to us.