Maiden Voyage
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Yes.
Has anyone had any luck with that fov 'fix' and the motion sickness? I want to get back to playing the game but I need to let my head/stomach calm down.
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The Witness PC performance thread
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Yes.
Has anyone had any luck with that fov 'fix' and the motion sickness? I want to get back to playing the game but I need to let my head/stomach calm down.
It does change the fov.
But I won't be playing any more until the shadows get fixed.
Wok
Member
Yup, shadows are working for me as well
The game looks totally different! Wow!
Dictator93
Member
Very interesting. I would love to know what that was about. Using some sort of NV only extension under DX11.1 or 2?
Man, the default controller sensitivity is waaayyy too slow. Is there any way to change it?
edit: Holy shit, my framerate dropped to the teens as soon as I got by the first multipuzzle tutorial gate. It's bad enough to stop playing and it only happens when I look in certain directions. Feels like a bug. My system should be able to handle this without a problem.
edit edit: Dropping my refresh rate to 60 (from 144) fixed it. Vsync is enabled in-game.
edit: Holy shit, my framerate dropped to the teens as soon as I got by the first multipuzzle tutorial gate. It's bad enough to stop playing and it only happens when I look in certain directions. Feels like a bug. My system should be able to handle this without a problem.
edit edit: Dropping my refresh rate to 60 (from 144) fixed it. Vsync is enabled in-game.
Wok
Member
Nah. The game only uses 11.0 features, but the log files were reporting 11.1 on AMD cards.
Dictator93
Member
weird. I wonder what it was about then.
Maybe Nvidia drivers need to specifically activate higher feature levels but AMD drivers default to the highest.
plagiarize
Banned
I am wondering this too. Is the VR support already in there?
Edit: Reddit says no. Just FYI.
Yep. Seems like shadows are already maxed out. Kinda bummed. Everything looks stunning in this game, except the shadows.
EDIT:
One can hope...
Yes. Constantly, and it makes me ill every time I play for more than 10 minutes. FRAPS reports 120fps, but I get regular hitches 3-4 times a second, seemingly in a constant rhythm.
It's awful.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Did anyone who bought from the Humble store and is running Windows 10 have any issues running the game? I can't even get it to open, I get literally a spinning wheel for one second and then nothing. I've tried running both executables from the Program folder as well
Ive had that issue with some steam games on Windows 10. Mostly with Orcs Must Die.
I believe I narrowed it down to a Directx issue, but I was never able to confirm that.
I went back to Win 7 after I hit game number 3 giving me that issue, and all 3 worked perfectly on 7.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
1440p -> 1080p DSR is a night-and-day difference from native 1080p, at least on my displays from my viewing distances.
There were some PS4 Lego games that only rendered an extra 200 vertical pixels and no extra horizontal resolution and even those saw a surprisingly large IQ boost over the first Lego game on the platform that was native 1080p.
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I'm wondering what this game would run like on a Macbook Pro (650m 16gb ram)?Just for when I'm away from my main gaming pc.
I can confirm that running the game at 60hz definitely fixed the stuttering I was having in-game. Damn this game looks good at 3440x1440!
EDIT: Playing around with settings, I think v-sync is the real enemy here. Turned that off and put my refresh rate back up to 100hz and I'm getting the same, if not better, performance.
EDIT: Playing around with settings, I think v-sync is the real enemy here. Turned that off and put my refresh rate back up to 100hz and I'm getting the same, if not better, performance.
Remembrance
Member
There's a new note from the developers in the Steam forums saying not to edit shadow quality.
And here I am in one of the most shadow-intensive areas in the game...
And here I am in one of the most shadow-intensive areas in the game...
Which v-sync, in-game or via Nvidia Control?
In game, sorry I didn't specify.
Yeah there is nothing beyond 2. And going above 1024 for the resolution breaks it.
Yeah, I was about to say: Make sure in-game vsync is off if you're using G-Sync. I read someone recommending the opposite either in this thread or the OT which goes against common G-Sync procedures but I tried it out anyway.
I can confirm that enabling vsync with G-Sync is a bad idea in The Witness. I was seeing my FPS drop to ~15 when I turned towards certain areas of the island. With in-game vsync disabled, no problems at all.
I can confirm that enabling vsync with G-Sync is a bad idea in The Witness. I was seeing my FPS drop to ~15 when I turned towards certain areas of the island. With in-game vsync disabled, no problems at all.
Remembrance
Member
No, they took shadow_quality entirely out of the information they provided. They don't want you to set it manually at all now.
I know. Because changing it above 2 will crash the game. So there is no real point in changing it, since the other values are already part of the presets (0,1,2). Might as well not expose it.
Might want to provide more info, since it works for others. What resolution are you trying to set and what does your monitor support? Are you trying to downsample? Etc..
Seven years in development.
Didn't fucking think of implementing triple buffering. Nope, just hard vsync, where a single framedrop makes you tumble down all the way to 30fps, and if you disable in-game vsync, you get horrific frame pacing issues. Good job there.
Anyway, it mostly runs at 60fps on my 280X at 1080p, framerate drops when looking at a huge vista.
Didn't fucking think of implementing triple buffering. Nope, just hard vsync, where a single framedrop makes you tumble down all the way to 30fps, and if you disable in-game vsync, you get horrific frame pacing issues. Good job there.
Anyway, it mostly runs at 60fps on my 280X at 1080p, framerate drops when looking at a huge vista.
GavinUK86
Member
Trying to downsample from 4K, or from anything for that matter, on a 1080p screen that usually supports it.
Lots of games ignore triple buffering, unfortunately. You can often get around it by forcing a game into borderless windowed mode since Windows itself will force triple buffering.
Run the game in windowed mode and use this: https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases
Just a note, Windows will only do this if Aero is enabled. If you have disabled Aero (for lower virtual reality latency in Windows 7, for example), Windows will not do triple buffering, and you will get tearing in non-true-exclusive fullscreen applications.
An annoying example is Firefox -- I get tearing even playing YouTube fullscreen.
Have you tried changing your desktop resolution to 4K and then playing the game? What happens then?
Are you sure it's not working? It's the internal rendering resolution mind you, so Steam overlay will still be native.
Hatty
Member
I have a 1440p 60hz monitor and I haven't gone below 60fps
GavinUK86
Member
I'll try.
Oh is it? I was judging via Fraps with the size of the FPS counter and taking screenshots that were still coming out in 1080p. Maybe it is working after all then. I'll have to compare 2 shots at different resolutions. Thanks.
update: yeah, the resolution changes were working, I just didn't know it was an internal change.
therealminime
Member
I was uncapped at 3440x1440p so a bit more than standard 1440p and I don't recall it going any lower than 140's. It was well above 300 a lot of the time too.
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
maybe I need to ask this in this thread and not the other
gtx 660 1 gig
i5 2500k
more than enough ram...
pc or ps4?
or rather, will i be able to get the same or a better exp on my pc than if i were to get it on ps4?
if so i will prob go the humble bundle route
gtx 660 1 gig
i5 2500k
more than enough ram...
pc or ps4?
or rather, will i be able to get the same or a better exp on my pc than if i were to get it on ps4?
if so i will prob go the humble bundle route
I walked all over a large portion of the island, including a high up area with a good view. Other than small loading blips, only one area caused a noticeable framerate drop into the low 50's (V-sync on). It was near a tree looking towards the first set of multiple puzzle tutorials (see image, below). I looked into my hardware monitor and noticed that SLI was not working properly, using upwards of 98% of my one card and maximum of 28% of my other. I set the SLI method to alternate frame rendering 2 and my framerate literally doubled (check it with V-sync off, both scnarios). I was able to use almost all of my GPU (nVidia 690) and get framerates in the hundreds. The catch; continuous flickering; quite bad. Buttery smooth, though.
Does anyone know a solution to this (without turning off SLI)? It would be nice to utilize my full 690 GTX and avoid any slowdown.
Here is a picture of the area where the initial framerate drop occurs (continuously) before SLI AFR2. I believe it may be a glitch of some sort. The slowdown only occurs when looking in that direction and goes away when next to the tree. Looking up and down also seems to reduce the issue. There doesn't seem to be anything special about the tree, so I do not understand why the continuous large drop in frames. Image (spoiler? early game)
Does anyone know a solution to this (without turning off SLI)? It would be nice to utilize my full 690 GTX and avoid any slowdown.
Here is a picture of the area where the initial framerate drop occurs (continuously) before SLI AFR2. I believe it may be a glitch of some sort. The slowdown only occurs when looking in that direction and goes away when next to the tree. Looking up and down also seems to reduce the issue. There doesn't seem to be anything special about the tree, so I do not understand why the continuous large drop in frames. Image (spoiler? early game)
Someone on the steam forums said they were getting 60 fps at high settings with a 660 with the caveat that they experienced drops here and there.
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
but it runs at 60 fps on ps4 with no drops right?
I'm not sure. Keep in mind the guy is using a FX-4100 so his CPU might be bottlenecking him. He also said the drops were rare.