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[Skyzard]

between the bugged out NPCs or fade ins I'm hearing I'm not sure if I should update or not.

NPCs were loading/fading in pretty randomly for me sometimes before anyway. Even at 60% GPU usage. Didn't notice a difference.


Only ini change I had made was hairworks aa to 2 iirc, my hairworks is off too. In case that's what messed things up.

I had tried tweaking the grass before but I was getting weird graphical issues with it (grass just popping up in patches and vanishing - different colours) but I wiped the file as it caused weird settings to show in-game too.

The controller lock was a different ini that I had changed too actually. Wasn't affecting custom hotkeys (anymore?) so I re-enabled it.

Curious as to why verifying the game with GOG would create a rendering.ini file with texture mipmap bias set to 0 if it's supposed to be -1 at 1.04 :S Might have to start totally fresh but fuck that

 

[kriskrosbbk]

Thus is a great game, but it's a game that needs probably 2 patches on ps4. Thats what it feels like anyways.

Is it still 1.01?

 

[jimmyjimmyo]

Non-Stop crashing on 1.04 for me and I had not had a single crash up to the new patch

 

[Lancelot]

What sharpness level are you guys using after this "mipmap patch"?

 

[therealminime]

Where is this mythical TextureMipBias hiding? I don't see it in my user file, but it is in rendering in the config folder.

 

[PnCIa]

Under no circumstances should 1280x720 be considered a valid resolution option.

*Insert XBone joke*.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Under no circumstances should 1280x720 be considered a valid resolution option.

Only on

Spoiler

Xbox

. /s

 

[JAYSIMPLE]

losing like 10 fps in forests is not a good look for me . Ill drop texture draw distance to high for now. dont want to mess with ini files. Do not understand how ive lost such a high amount of fps :/

 

[EatChildren]

I cant tell if I'm seeing things or if texture LOD is worse now especially in Novigrad.

 

[epmode]

between the bugged out NPCs or fade ins I'm hearing I'm not sure if I should update or not.

For what it's worth, I'm not really noticing any trouble. Still not a single crash.

 

[rashbeep]

God dammit. That looks damn awesome. VGX trailer here we go.

BTW where do I get that armor. I want it.

It's the same armor from the older VGX trailers. I think I got it in a monster nest somewhere near Hanged Man's tree. Best looking set I've found so far imo.

 

[d0t1q]

Is it still 1.01?

nah ps4 is on 1.02 now 1.03 or a mix of 3+4 should come out next week after its been approved (hopefully)

 

[Mad Season]

I cant tell if I'm seeing things or if texture LOD is worse now especially in Novigrad.

My friend said better

 

[viveks86]

Nice! Really hoping they unlock some of the distance scaling ini variables soon.

 

[Bunta]

edit: wrong thread

 

[Skyzard]

DOF is stronger now? Maybe I had it off before and it turned it on automatically.

More rain though...? I think so...unless it is a time progression thing.

 

[indigo-cyclops]

Actually kind of upset they enlarged the loot window...Oh well

 

[Lulubop]

The game doesn't want to update for me. Still on 1.03.

Nevermind

 

[KCroxtonJr]

They still haven't fixed the camera pan issue...has it even been acknowledged by devs yet? I guess I'll head over to the official forums...

 

[Itachi87]

They fixed the inventory crashing, but I'm getting more random crashes than before since updating to v1.03 and now 1.04. I'm using GTX 970 and 3570K.

 

[FLAguy954]

Game begs to be downsampled. Can't wait to replay in 2 years with new hardware.

Or in native 4K. I can't wait either with a new HBM gen 2 card a few years from now.

 

[Skyzard]

They still haven't fixed the camera pan issue...has it even been acknowledged by devs yet? I guess I'll head over to the official forums...

I'm hopeful that will be fixed, it seems to me like it's related to how they accelerate the slowing down of camera panning to come to a stop faster... it assumes when you slow down the panning that you're bringing it to a stop, but you're not so it does this slow and start when the camera panning speed is reduced even slightly.

It works really well for bringing a spinning camera to a halt. But they need to tweak it to smooth out what seems like a stutter.

 

[LowParry]

They fixed the inventory crashing, but I'm getting more random crashes than before since updating to v1.03 and now 1.04. I'm using GTX 970 and 3570K.

I have exactly what you have and did a 2 hour session today. No crashes. Game is looking really good now with this new patch.

 

[viveks86]

TextureMipBias=-1.0 in user.settings, like other tweakable options. Switch to 0 to go back to pre-patch IQ.

I'm working on a guide update now that will show the positives and negatives of the setting, and the perf cost for each level.

Does changing terrain quality do anything yet?

 

[AndyBNV]

Guide is updated: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...-tweaking-guide#mipmap-bias-config-file-tweak

Also updated performance info for Texture Quality now it has Mipmap Bias mixed in: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...guide#the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-texture-quality

Does changing terrain quality do anything yet?

Not that I can see.

 

[JoduanER2]

nah ps4 is on 1.02 now 1.03 or a mix of 3+4 should come out next week after its been approved (hopefully)

?? Is on 1.01

 

[dampflokfreund]

Does changing terrain quality do anything yet?

It's possible that they will add tessellation to the game. Remember the realistic cracks and geometry on the Novigrad buildings in the 2014 footage? I guess the slider would control that.

 

[viveks86]

Guide is updated: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...-tweaking-guide#mipmap-bias-config-file-tweak

Also updated performance info for Texture Quality now it has Mipmap Bias mixed in: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...guide#the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-texture-quality

Thanks for this. I'm resetting it to 0 as I get the same effect from sweetfx sharpening, which also avoids the performance hit.

It's possible that they will add tessellation to the game. Remember the realistic cracks and geometry on the Novigrad buildings in the 2014 footage? I guess the slider would control that.

I doubt terrain quality will affect buildings. It's really meant for tessellation of the map (as shown in the old leaked effects trailer). The slider seems to be broken.

 

[Druz]

Getting weird NPC pop in.

 

[hoserx]

Still can't change what Map is bound to... changing to anything doesnt matter......M still opens the map and that's it.

 

[Vashetti]

?? Is on 1.01

Jesus christ.

 

[JoduanER2]

Jesus christ.

????

 

[Skyzard]

1.02 is for EU (PS4).



Thanks for updating the guide andy. Weird thing for me, no changes when changing the mipmap setting. It doesn't reset itself either. Meh, looks pretty good anyway - feels like it looks better too, the vegetation.

 

[Vashetti]

????

I'm fed up of explaining.

1.02 on PS4 is an EU specific patch that literally only fixes some DLC compatibility. If you don't have 1.02 downloaded/installed, then you don't need it.

 

[JudgmentJay]

Getting weird NPC pop in.

I was getting that prior to the patch if you're referring to NPCs appearing when you're right next to them.

 

[curiouscharles]

Guide is updated: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...-tweaking-guide#mipmap-bias-config-file-tweak

Also updated performance info for Texture Quality now it has Mipmap Bias mixed in: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...guide#the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-texture-quality



Not that I can see.

hrmm, when i try this fix Andy, and load up the game, texture quality is set to low, and shimmering persists.

i set the user.settings to read only, and confirmed afterwards that the mipbias was set to 0 still - anything i could be missing?

 

[Mad Season]

Any word from cdr about npc pop in?

 

[jett]

I have to be honest, did not notice a single difference with this patch, performance, graphical or otherwise.

But at least the randomly combusting fogs are gone.

 

[CyberPunked]

Nice! Really hoping they unlock some of the distance scaling ini variables soon.

Yeah, at the moment building LOD is awful.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Read that as Mother 3, and wondering why Starmen.net was releasing a patch for their fan translation over 6 years later.

 

[JudgmentJay]

I'm having problems too, my horse materialized into a house, an enemy felt into the ground while fighting him, never had a problem before today's patch.

I've had both those things happen on previous patches. Seems like there's alot of 1.04 fearmongering going on...

 

[Easy_D]

How does GoG galaxy handle patches? Does it just download the latest version like Steam or do I apply the patches separately?

 

[Rodin]

What sharpness level are you guys using after this "mipmap patch"?

Still low. Looks better than off to me, adds sharpness to the image without adding artifacts. On high looks ugly to me, didn't like the effect in TW2 as well.

I cant tell if I'm seeing things or if texture LOD is worse now especially in Novigrad.

Looks the same to me.

 

[Seanspeed]

I was getting that prior to the patch if you're referring to NPCs appearing when you're right next to them.

I was too occasionally, but it's definitely happening a lot more after the patch.

 

[epmode]

How does GoG galaxy handle patches? Does it just download the latest version like Steam or do I apply the patches separately?

It automatically applies the latest patch. It's also possible to downgrade to previous versions but just remember that games saved with a particular version cannot be loaded if you roll back to an earlier version.

 

[tycoonheart]

I cant tell if I'm seeing things or if texture LOD is worse now especially in Novigrad.

Looks about the same to me.

 

[scitek]

How does GoG galaxy handle patches? Does it just download the latest version like Steam or do I apply the patches separately?

It's like Steam.

 

[JudgmentJay]

I was too occasionally, but it's definitely happening a lot more after the patch.

I played for 4 hours so far today and haven't experienced a bug of any kind. Not saying they didn't mess something up, but a few isolated experiences doesn't mean anything.

 

[Slair]

I see the NPC pop in isn't just me, it's awful.

 

[Durante]

I played for 4 hours so far today and haven't experienced a bug of any kind. Not saying they didn't mess something up, but a few isolated experiences doesn't mean anything.

Yeah, I've played continuously since the patch was released and up to now, and I had nothing negative happen. (Well, except for my GPU crashing once, but all that means is that even just a power target of 105% isn't completely stable)