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[PnCIa]

Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset. That helps doesn't it? Be gentle if I'm wrong.

Nope unfortunately not, you could force 16x AF in the control panel before...AF is for texture clarity at higher distances.

 

[| Praxis |]

Find your minimum using Fraps. Put it in benchmark mode and play for a while (especially in villages and cities) and cap it near or at your minimum.

Thought so, thanks. 40 it is.

 

[ShaD321]

Some shots look really great with it on, others, not so much. Still, I might give it a shot tonight. Is it pretty involving to get it working?

This guys made a statement that with this it looks almost like E3 2013 video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2WoRfULG1Y

UPDATE: New preset is available that looks like E3 2013 Witcher 3. You can download it here: http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/3...
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Even though this video is rendered in a 4K resolution, it is compressed and still does not do justice to how the game actually looks when you're playing it in motion.

The RAW video file was 64gb, the compressed video ended up being 789mb.

I will attempt to make another video and take my time rendering it in better quality than this in order to show the graphics in different time cycles.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

No crashes so far after 3-4 hours of playing, and thats with reverting back to vysnc on, fullscreen with 60 fps limiter.

So, good show cdpr.

 

[Godan]

So everything up full now with hairworks on and i get almost a solid 60fps before when i put it on would drop to about 45fps. Will put shadows down to high and think i should keep a solid 60fps now.

 

[Enduin]

How do you import a Witcher 2 save before starting? Also is there a good resource for Witcher 2 saves with the choices they made? I'm looking for a Iorveth save with everyone kept alive and all 'good path' choices made.

http://forums.cdprojektred.com/archive/index.php/t-30709.html

It's down right now but has like a dozen plus end saves plus saves for all major events in the game.

I stupidly deleted all 3 of my W2 end saves a while ago so this was a godsend.

 

[wanderjahr]

Nope unfortunately not, you could force 16x AF in the control panel before...AF is for texture clarity at higher distances.

Ahhh, ok. Thanks.

 

[Mad Season]

many of you that are having performance issues etc should run malwarebytes. I am not kidding, I did this in the past when I played BF4 where it would run sluggish and it was due to malware that I had no idea was running in the background.

It's a free download and doesnt hurt to try:

https://www.malwarebytes.org/products/

bottom left "free"

 

[Deleted member 325805]

Right after more testing I'd say hairworks still isn't viable for me on my 970, neither Geralt nor all. When it rains and his hair gets wet I lose 5fps, when I run into a pack of wolves I lose 15fps. It's much better than yesterday that's for sure, but 60fps without dips is way more important to me. I'm sure a lot of you who are less sensitive to frame drops will possibly be able to use it after the patch though.

 

[Evo X]

Played for 13 hours on version 1.02 without a single issue.

Crashed within 10 minutes of playing 1.03. Strange...

 

[KCroxtonJr]

Am i blind, or is the gamma setting option gone now?

 

[Static Jak]

Played for a while, got a crash just now. With 1.03 installed.

 

[kencey]

If your average fps is over 40fps, would it be better to limit the fps to 40 instead of 30?

May be a dumb question, but I don't normally limit and only ever see 30/60 spoken about.

This is with everything set to ultra, including hairworks on a 970.

Definitely 40 in my opinion.
I'm limiting mine to 41 and playing @1440p

 

[ScepticMatt]

Hey Guys

Do you really need to spam this across multiple threads? :/

 

[Blitzhex]

Am i blind, or is the gamma setting option gone now?

There's no gamma setting if you're in borderless windowed, maybe it went back to that.

 

[| Praxis |]

Right after more testing I'd say hairworks still isn't viable for me on my 970, neither Geralt nor all. When it rains and his hair gets wet I lose 5fps, when I run into a pack of wolves I lose 15fps. It's much better than yesterday that's for sure, but 60fps without dips is way more important to me. I'm sure a lot of you who are less sensitive to frame drops will possibly be able to use it after the patch though.

I'm usually all for 60, but with this game I have resorted to capping it at 40 so I can have hairworks turned on. Runs great, and to be honest it's not a big deal for me in a single player game.

 

[Horse Armour]

If I'm limiting to 30FPS with RTSS, what should I set the ingame max frames to: 30, 60 or unlimited?

 

[| Praxis |]

If I'm limiting to 30FPS with RTSS, what should I set the ingame max frames too: 30, 60 or unlimited?

Unlimited.

 

[aravuus]

Played for 13 hours on version 1.02 without a single issue.

Crashed within 10 minutes of playing 1.03. Strange...

Played for a while, got a crash just now. With 1.03 installed.

Ah well, so it'll probably keep crashing for me too. If the consoles won't be getting the new patch for another 5 to 7 days, I wonder how long we're gonna have to wait for the next PC patch...

 

[HeWhoWalks]

The patch GREATLY improved framerates in-game for me, but cutscenes still hitch from time-to-time. Grass has seen some improvements as well, in addition to a good deal of other things the update promises to correct.

Hairworks even looks better on Geralt now.

 

[KCroxtonJr]

There's no gamma setting if you're in borderless windowed, maybe it went back to that.

Ah, forgot i switched over to that to avoid crashes lol. Thanks

 

[owasog]

Is it my imagination or has CPU usage gone down considerably? All my four cores (3570K) are sub-50% now. I could swear they were at 70% or more.

I take it back. The patch reset some of the graphics options to Low, and when I put the sliders back to where they were CPU usage is 70% again. Too bad.

 

[| Praxis |]

The hairworks aa tweak was reset after installing the 1.03 patch, those of you that changed it may want to check.

 

[OmegaTreeFish]

If your average fps is over 40fps, would it be better to limit the fps to 40 instead of 30?

May be a dumb question, but I don't normally limit and only ever see 30/60 spoken about.

This is with everything set to ultra, including hairworks on a 970.

Depends on Monitor refresh rate.

Is it 60hertz. The set it to 30. Then every other frame will be new.

If it refreshes at a multiple of 40 then set it to 40.

If you have gsync then it doesn't matter.

Setting it to 40 on a 60hertz screen will give bad frame pacing. Will look like stutter.

 

[| Praxis |]

Depends on Monitor refresh rate.

Is it 60hertz. The set it to 30. Then every other frame will be new.

If it refreshes at a multiple of 40 then set it to 40.

If you have gsync then it doesn't matter.

Setting it to 40 on a 60hertz screen will give bad frame pacing. Will look like stutter.

Interesting, thanks. I haven't noticed any stuttering, well no more than the usual camera pan stutter that I put down to the controller input problem others are experiencing. I will knock it back down to 30 and see if I notice a difference.

 

[belmonkey]

Is a single (probably OC'd) 970 capable of managing a ~30 FPS lock at 4k high settings?

 

[CHC]

Running a GTX 780, no notable impovements after the patch.

Menus with gamepad, however, feel a bit better. I think they reduced the giant deadzone for flicking between options.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Well, so far so good on 1.0.3. I turned on full hairworks and I'm still getting 60fps. However I have turned my AA off since then as I simply don't notice the difference on my TV. I'll keep testing as I haven't seen any cutscenes yet with hairworks on with the patch.

I5 4690k and 970 with heavy over clocking. Gonna see if the OC is stable now too.

Edit: game froze on over clock. Could still hear the game running. Game then crashed. Hairworks still tanks to 45fps. Update did nothing on my end

 

[UnrealEck]

Setting it to 40 on a 60hertz screen will give bad frame pacing. Will look like stutter.

Seems exactly the same at 30 FPS 60Hz and 40 FPS 60Hz to me in relation to stutter.

 

[OmegaTreeFish]

Interesting, thanks. I haven't noticed any stuttering, well no more than the usual camera pan stutter that I put down to the controller input problem others are experiencing. I will knock it back down to 30 and see if I notice a difference.

Some people notice it more than others. Its strange but I don't notice the stutter caused by it much until you hit frame rates in the sub 30's. I can still see a big difference between 30-60 fps but having a game run at variable between 40-60 looks pretty good to me for the most part. Others find it very distracting.

 

[CyanideFuse]

I take it back. The patch reset some of the graphics options to Low, and when I put the sliders back to where they were CPU usage is 70% again. Too bad.

Did you manually edit your settings in the ini file? If you have manually edited the ini file then the game will state low for that setting. I have altered grass density to 3200 but the game states grass density is low; the same for shadows as I have changed CascadeShadowDistanceScale2.

 

[Drama Zed Nod]

Right after more testing I'd say hairworks still isn't viable for me on my 970, neither Geralt nor all. When it rains and his hair gets wet I lose 5fps, when I run into a pack of wolves I lose 15fps. It's much better than yesterday that's for sure, but 60fps without dips is way more important to me. I'm sure a lot of you who are less sensitive to frame drops will possibly be able to use it after the patch though.

Have you tried G-Sync before?

 

[StarEye]

Depends on Monitor refresh rate.

Is it 60hertz. The set it to 30. Then every other frame will be new.

If it refreshes at a multiple of 40 then set it to 40.

If you have gsync then it doesn't matter.

Setting it to 40 on a 60hertz screen will give bad frame pacing. Will look like stutter.

What about when I clone the output to a 50Hz 1080p tv?

 

[MaddenNFL64]

NOPE NVM. after about 4.5 hours, game stalled out in the damn inventory screen again. WHOO!

sigh....

 

[Easy_D]

Depends on Monitor refresh rate.

Is it 60hertz. The set it to 30. Then every other frame will be new.

If it refreshes at a multiple of 40 then set it to 40.

If you have gsync then it doesn't matter.

Setting it to 40 on a 60hertz screen will give bad frame pacing. Will look like stutter.

What about 45? That's a multiple of 60. 60*0.75

What about when I clone the output to a 50Hz 1080p tv?

If your TV is 1080p it already has a 60hz mode so just see about how to force that.

Edit: 45 FPS question already answered 2 posts down

 

[Inkvoterad]

Is a single (probably OC'd) 970 capable of managing a ~30 FPS lock at 4k high settings?

I don't even think SLI 980's can do that properly.

 

[OmegaTreeFish]

Seems exactly the same at 30 FPS 60Hz and 40 FPS 60Hz to me in relation to stutter.

Well put it this way.

At 30fps on a 60hertz screen you get a new frame every 2 frames. Each frame is duplicated twice.

1-1-2-2-3-3-4-4 and so on

Its a smooth transition.

At 45 fps it becomes uneven

1-1-2-3-3-4-5-5

This causes a jump every few frames. Some people notice it more than others. Personally I'm normally fine with it and won't really see the difference unless something switches it from variable to locked 60 (detective mode in a batman game for example). The locked 60 suddenly feels crazy smooth by comparison.

If it looks fine to you then thats fine but in theory locked 30 is smoother than locked 40 because it creates a jump every 4 or so frames. As you get closer to 60 it becomes less jarring but until you hit 60 after leaving 30 it won't be a smooth transition between frames.

 

[buffelo]

NOPE NVM. after about 4.5 hours, game stalled out in the damn inventory screen again. WHOO!

sigh....

This is a long shot, but do you have Samsung Magician running in the background? It's a program that comes bundled with Samsung SSDs. In the past, it caused me a lot of crashes on other games so i disabled it.

 

[Xyber]

I think I have found my sweet spot now. With my current settings I'm getting 75-80FPS most of the time, 60-70 in Novigrad when it's very crowded.

This is at 1080p with a 970@1455MHz and i7 4770K@4.3GHz

Hairworks off.
Medium shadows (the difference between medium and ultra is really not noticeable in gameplay at all, so I'd rather take the frames)
Grass density on high
Foliage visibility on high
Texture budget bumped up to 1600, can probably go higher.
Bloom, motion blur and blur is off.
HBAO

Everything else is at ultra.

 

[dEvAnGeL]

Any 980 users here? Hairworks performance improvements with the patch? Is 60 stable possible now?

 

[MaddenNFL64]

This is a long shot, but do you have Samsung Magician running in the background? It's a program that comes bundled with Samsung SSDs. In the past, it caused me a lot of crashes on other games so i disabled it.

Nah, I havent stalled out or crashed in a game in a long time until The Witcher 3.

Its not a CTD btw, the game just decides randomly to stall out either in or after exiting the inventory or upgrade screen. The music keeps playing, and you have to kill the TW3 process to close it.

I'll put the game settings back to unlimited framerate, mess with borderless windowed etc. see if something fixes it.

 

[BashNasty]

If it looks fine to you then thats fine but in theory locked 30 is smoother than locked 40 because it creates a jump every 4 or so frames. As you get closer to 60 it becomes less jarring but until you hit 60 after leaving 30 it won't be a smooth transition between frames.

This is why G-sync is amazing. It suddenly becomes viable to play games between 30 and 60 fps. I just got a G-sync monitor yesterday and the improvements in image smoothness are astounding.

 

[buffelo]

Nah, I havent stalled out or crashed in a game in a long time until The Witcher 3.

Its not a CTD btw, the game just decides randomly to stall out either in or after exiting the inventory or upgrade screen. The music keeps playing, and you have to kill the TW3 process to close it.

Weird. Sounds like a graphics driver crash. Those usually happen when things get intense though, not at inventory screens. I hope someone irons that out soon, I really want this game to be well-received by people.

 

[bbd23]

did the update make the game dark as fuck?

gamma settings were weirdddd

 

[OmegaTreeFish]

This is why G-sync is amazing. It suddenly becomes viable to play games between 30 and 60 fps. I just got a G-sync monitor yesterday and the improvements in image smoothness are astounding.

Pretty much. Be a while before they are the norm though. Still very expensive.

My laptop can run at 40 or 60 hertz so locking at 40 is a nice option to have at times. Be nice if that by the time I get a new one, gsync will be an option.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

Weird. Sounds like a graphics driver crash. Those usually happen when things get intense though, not at inventory screens. I hope someone irons that out soon, I really want this game to be well-received by people.

The game is boss, just wish it wouldn't do this lol.

I have a r9 290, so ya I dunno. Ive been playing Shadow of Morder, and Dragon Age Inquisition (I use Mantle instead of DX11 rendering), put in tons of hours into both, play both on near ultra without a hiccup, so this is just mind boggling to me.

Here's hoping I get a long ass gaming session going one of these days heh.

 

[owasog]

Weird. Sounds like a graphics driver crash. Those usually happen when things get intense though, not at inventory screens. I hope someone irons that out soon, I really want this game to be well-received by people.

I had two of those freezes on 1.02 as well and I checked the Windows Event Log. They are listed as Application Hangs (EventID 1002, task 101) for witcher3.exe. There are no driver events at all before or after those two events.

 

[wanderjahr]

If your average fps is over 40fps, would it be better to limit the fps to 40 instead of 30?

May be a dumb question, but I don't normally limit and only ever see 30/60 spoken about.

This is with everything set to ultra, including hairworks on a 970.

I'm assuming your display is 60Hz. I would suggest 30fps cap. Why? You won't have any judder as each frame will be repeated twice. If you use 40fps, you'll have a 2:1 ratio of frames getting repeated at different intervals resulting in slight judder. If the judder is something you don't notice, well good on ya. If your display is 120Hz, then yes, definitely 40Hz.

 

[ACE 1991]

The game is boss, just wish it wouldn't do this lol.

I have a r9 290, so ya I dunno. Ive been playing Shadow of Morder, and Dragon Age Inquisition (I use Mantle instead of DX11 rendering), put in tons of hours into both, play both on near ultra without a hiccup, so this is just mind boggling to me.

Here's hoping I get a long ass gaming session going one of these days heh.

I have a 290 as well and haven't experience any crashing at all, huh. Have only put about 2.5 hours into the game so far though.

 

[StarEye]

If your TV is 1080p it already has a 60hz mode so just see about how to force that.

Well, guess I should've known that already. Thanks for the heads up .