The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

texxx74 · 19 May 2015 at 09:57

FinglisHobbit said:
How much did you pay for it?

I ask because I only paid £14 and I feel that kinda removes my right to complain lol

Well I got it for free with the card, so no complaining as well. IMHO, with HBAO+, HairWorks, everything on ultra and proper sweetfx profile, the game looks almost the same as they showed couple of years ago.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 19 May 2015 at 09:58

Witcher1979 said:
You are on a higher res them me, 1920x1080. But I am getting between 55-70 fps in the first village atm with these settings. Single 980 SC version, not done much fast horse riding so might drop lower, not sure yet.

Good enough for me. If I set Foliage range to ultra instead of high I lose 10fps right away so keeping it on High.

My 35/40 FPS is benched in FRAPs with a horse sprinting through the forest so mostly the slowest I shall see in game. Will give Foliage a go see if I get a little boost, also reading the Nvidia guide Shadows on Ultra are quite a hit as well and not a lot of difference from medium setting. I hate turning settings down though.

I take it from your screen shot your not using AA either?

Amatsubu · 19 May 2015 at 10:01

Witcher1979 said:
You are on a higher res them me, 1920x1080. But I am getting between 55-70 fps in the first village atm with these settings. Single 980 SC version, not done much fast horse riding so might drop lower, not sure yet.

Good enough for me. If I set Foliage range to ultra instead of high I lose 10fps right away so keeping it on High.

Do you think it'll run decently on a 4790k/970 at 1512mhz using your settings? I don't know how much slower my GPU is than a 980 and I'll only have time to test it later but I don't want to tinker with the settings for too long

I've read some settings are pretty worthess on ultra and bring nothing new to the game except an obvious performance hit (just like in most games, lol).

texxx74 · 19 May 2015 at 10:06

Witcher1979 said:
If I set Foliage range to ultra instead of high I lose 10fps right away so keeping it on High.

This^.
For me HBAO+ and HairWorks is a game changer. Foliage range on ultra is not necessary as the difference is very small to high.

Herojuana · 19 May 2015 at 10:06

Anyone know how I can start the game from the desktop shortcut without GoG Galaxy starting up?

Thanks

gronbek · 19 May 2015 at 10:07

Going to pick up 2 MSI GTX 970 today to replace my 780's.

Hopefully they will manage 60 fps with ULTRA and hairworks.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 19 May 2015 at 10:07

texxx74 said:
This^.
For me HBAO+ and HairWorks is a game changer. Foliage range on ultra is not necessary as the difference is very small to high.

Not so sure, the Nvidia guide shows Ultra Foliage having quite a nice impact of distant trees and grass the world looks emptier without it.

SS-89 · 19 May 2015 at 10:08

Herojuana said:
Anyone know how I can start the game from the desktop shortcut without GoG Galaxy starting up?

Thanks

On windows 8.1 I just dragged the exe from the x64 folder on to my quick launch bar. You can launch directly from the exe without GOG.

Witcher1979 · 19 May 2015 at 10:08

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
My 35/40 FPS is benched in FRAPs with a horse sprinting through the forest so mostly the slowest I shall see in game. Will give Foliage a go see if I get a little boost, also reading the Nvidia guide Shadows on Ultra are quite a hit as well and not a lot of difference from medium setting. I hate turning settings down though.

I take it from your screen shot your not using AA either?

AA is on with in game settings, you should get a FPS boost with foliage on high its a 10fps hit for me. Correct about shadows as well it seem's, I can't tell the difference at all for the FPS hit you get lol. I have noticed with MSi afterburner the screenshots it produces for this game are not as good as the game is on screen. Fraps will give you a FPS hit as well won't it? I always find that knocks a few FPS off compared to afterburner, normally.

Amatsubu said:
Do you think it'll run decently on a 4790k/970 at 1512mhz using your settings? I don't know how much slower my GPU is than a 980 and I'll only have time to test it later but I don't want to tinker with the settings for too long I've read some settings are pretty worthess on ultra and bring nothing new to the game except an obvious performance hit (just like in most games, lol).

No idea about your CPU m8, mine is a [email protected], GPU wise this will give you a very rough idea:

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-980-vs-GeForce-GTX-970

In other words not much in it at all, probs about 5fps difference.

EDIT: So many typos.....

james.miller · 19 May 2015 at 10:08

gronbek said:
Going to pick up 2 MSI GTX 970 today to replace my 780's.

Hopefully they will manage 60 fps with ULTRA and hairworks.

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Not so sure, the Nvidia guide shows Ultra Foliage having quite a nice impact of distant trees and grass the world looks emptier without it.

probably need 3x 970's for that.

VincentHanna · 19 May 2015 at 10:09

Edit - Apparently not

Ignore.

Frenzy · 19 May 2015 at 10:11

SS-89 said:
Ok since enough people are having trouble with installing my profile here's a mini installation guide.

1. Go to www.reshade.me and download the Reshade + Sweetfx 2.0 pack
2. Unzip and copy the sweetfx folder, reshade64.dll, reshade.fx and sweetfx.fx files to the witcher exe directory in The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\bin\x64
3. Rename reshade64.dll to dxgi.dll
4. Delete SweetFX_Settings file in the sweetfx folder.
5. Download my settings here http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/3696/
6. Rename the settings file to SweetFX_Settings and copy it into the sweetfx folder in the game directory.

Currently the toggle function isn't working but should be fixed in the next reshade update.

Thanks mate, can this kind of stuff get added to the OP or should we create a separate thread?

SS-89 · 19 May 2015 at 10:12

texxx74 said:
One more time, top post mate. Thanks for the guide and fantastic settings. After all this whining for dozens of pages about the graphic downgrade, finally we have someone who can contribute something

No problem

Frenzy said:
Thanks mate, can this kind of stuff get added to the OP or should we create a separate thread?

I updated my original post with these instructions too. Don't think it's worth a separate thread but if OP wants to add, the post link is below.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28056884&postcount=2236

gronbek · 19 May 2015 at 10:15

james.miller said:
probably need 3x 970's for that.

They only had two at the local store

Witcher1979 · 19 May 2015 at 10:15

SS-89 said:
No problem

I updated my original post with these instructions too. Don't think it's worth a separate thread but if OP wants to add, the post link is below.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28056884&postcount=2236

Yeah pretty wow actually, not really a fan of using sweetfx but this has made a nice improvement. I normally find sweetfx makes things a bit dark but not so with this preset.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 19 May 2015 at 10:19

Witcher1979 said:
Fraps will give you a FPS hit as well won't it? I always find that knocks a few FPS off compared to afterburner, normally.

Never thought of checking, does it?

Undesirable · 19 May 2015 at 10:22

They're posting screenshots from the 2013 version on their official facebook page along with the announcement that it has been released...

Witcher1979 · 19 May 2015 at 10:22

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Never thought of checking, does it?

It defo used to yeah, maybe newer versions have fixed it.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 19 May 2015 at 10:23

Undesirable said:
They're posting screenshots from the 2013 version on their official facebook page along with the announcement that it has been released...

Maybe their screenshots with SweetFX installed

djxput · 19 May 2015 at 10:30

Been curious about this - whats better
1. 1440p or
2. 1080p and anti ali ...

as far as better quality vs frame rate hit?