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Anyone with a GTX 7 series Nvidia card please chime in.

opethdisciple said:
I don’t think we get the complexity of modern game design.

They have clearly coded it with the Maxell cards in mind. But maybe this was done for technical reasons. I.e tessellation in game is high, and the 900 series can render it three times faster, so it’s logical it perform better on the 900 series.

In time Nvidia CDProject may work some magic and improve performance on the other cards.

But to have done this from the start would have clearly been a massive technical undertaking.
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When coders code software they go out and buy the most expensive PC money can buy and then code them using that. That's why we keep ending up with crap like this, because they don't take anything else into account. I would imagine it was the same reason GTAIV was poo too.

Witcher 2 at launch ran like dog turd on my still very current GTX 470. The only card out there that was faster at that time was the 480.

I would be happy with medium settings but why should I? I spent £3.5k on a PC to turn them all up so I'm not going to start blaming my rig for a turd game.

Tomb Raider also had hair and IMO looks every bit as good as this game. That's absolutely no reason why a game should run like crap, just because of some dumb hair that you'll tire of after about five minutes.

If anything this is an embarrassment for Nvidia, who are touting a stupid technology and it runs like poo. Hardly a glowing endorsement.

They'd have been better off getting behind GTAV, which out classes this in every department.
 
I won't point the finger or dive into the conspiracy bucket but this game does run and look considerably worse than GTA V at 1440p with a titan.

If the tessellation is really the performance killer then why can we not turn it down? And why does it not look better than far less tessellated games?
 
I don't have an Nvidia GPU at the moment (well, a GTX460 768Mb in one of the LAN PCs, but I don't think that counts!), and I also don't have any of the Witcher games. However, I did get my tin foil hat, pitchfork and flaming torch ready before coming into this thread, and now find myself having wasted my time. Altogether too many sensible comments and people willing to think and give Nvidia time to react before making their minds up.

Very disappointing reaction from OcUK members. Whatever happened to a good, old fashioned mindless knee jerk conclusion before all the facts are known?!

:D
 
Confused Stu said:
I don't have an Nvidia GPU at the moment (well, a GTX460 768Mb in one of the LAN PCs, but I don't think that counts!), and I also don't have any of the Witcher games. However, I did get my tin foil hat, pitchfork and flaming torch ready before coming into this thread, and now find myself having wasted my time. Altogether too many sensible comments and people willing to think and give Nvidia time to react before making their minds up.

Very disappointing reaction from OcUK members. Whatever happened to a good, old fashioned mindless knee jerk conclusion before all the facts are known?!

:D
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it's blatent card gimping, funny how the only card it plays decently on is the titan x,

readies pitch fork ready for the onslaught i'm about to recieve
 
does the game run solely in DX10 mode by any chance,

any way to kill the dx11 features to make some sort of comparison, i remember metro completely felled my old rig when i turned on tess and DOF
 
The thing is don't the 780/780 ti have better tessellation than the 290/290x and yet those AMD cards are performing better...

I don't think nvidia are intentionally gimping their cards, just that they aren't spending as much time and money optimising the drivers for them.
 
Just to chime in on the tessellation front my 970 is no better (in fact slightly slower) than my 780 was in Heaven benchmark using extreme tessellation. I know it's only one benchmark but surely that indicates the capabilities of the cards in that particular area can't be far removed.

I find it hard to believe a 780 is performing on par with a 280X now, surely it can't just be architectural? RAM limitation certainly isn't an issue in TW3.
 
Nasher said:
On my 780 I run W3 in mostly ultra appart from water and shadows which I put on high. I turn the hairworks off too because that is a huge FPS killer. I get about 40-50 fps in 1080, but 1440 is awful. For some reason the game does not seem to like G-Sync I found, it makes it MORE choppy. So try turning it off if you have it on.

The oddly low 780/780ti series performance is not tesselation related though, there isn't that much of it in W3. Something else is causing it. The latest drivers don't help either.
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My 7950 gets almost exactly the same with the same settings, maybe dipping to 36-38 fps when things get heavy. Crossfire not working yet. I would expect the 780 to be faster than a overclocked 7950 though so something not quite right here.
 
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