The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

TonyTurbo78 · 19 May 2015 at 16:38

adbee said:
I don't know how anyone can say a game runs lovely at 30 fps.

with dips into the 20fps region when there's loads going on....Moogleys is the biggest console fanboy on here lol..take him with a pinch of salt

Andr3w · 19 May 2015 at 16:40

Has the game lived up to the hype?

I've never played a Witcher game but in my head I imagine it is very similar to Skyrim, less dragons more witches?

Witcher1979 · 19 May 2015 at 16:40

Looking at the nvidia guide for this I can see 0 difference between textures going from ultra to high. My eye spots no difference with the picture with the slider.

iv-tecman said:
Back in the day when I had a weak system , played witcher 2 at low medium and locked it down to 30 fps. Did fine. Replayed it once I got a decent ish GPU and didn't notice the frame rate increases as much as I did the eye candy at the time..

What feels ok to one, maybe not ok for another its all subjective..

Ah that makes sense I guess

Andr3w said:
Has the game lived up to the hype?

So far very much so.

MOOGLEYS · 19 May 2015 at 16:40

TonyTurbo78 said:
with dips into the 20fps when there loads going on....Moogleys is the biggest console fanboy on here lol..take him with a pinch of salt

Really ? I just say things how I see them. I have no preference to gaming platform.

MOOGLEYS · 19 May 2015 at 16:41

Andr3w said:
Has the game lived up to the hype?

It's fantastic...

I have just grabbed a PC version so I can go a different approach and also play when the Wife is watching hours of cooking shows.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 19 May 2015 at 16:43

iv-tecman said:
Its fine provided no frame pacing. X1 is a mess with this title. Frame rate is over 30 but it stutters and looks very uneven.

I locked my PC version to 30 fps and it was fine. Due to no v sync , bordedless mode which no tearing triple buffering. Looked and played superb.

GTA V however I dialled the settings back to enable solid 60 fps and driving around the city certainly best the ps4 30 fps as it felt sluggish on ps4

Some games 30 fps is just fine...

Agree'd some games only need 30FPS+, some need 60+, this isn't one of them though, its more about the minimum fps and dips that makes a game feel choppy.
Ultra inc AA with hairworks off I average 38FPS and not seen it below 32 and it runs like butter on a TX @ 4K.

Thesnipergecko · 19 May 2015 at 16:45

extrememachine said:
Reinstalled drivers and reselected sli on and am getting better frames but avg 31 frames only on max settings at 3840 x2160 res with a 5960x and 3 titan b.
Is this normal???

I get that with my 980 SLI mate. 5960x too. Everything turned on.

Turning AA and Sharpening off makes absolutely no difference. 3840x2400

Witcher1979 · 19 May 2015 at 16:46

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Agree'd some games only need 30FPS+, some need 60+, this isn't one of them though, its more about the minimum fps and dips that makes a game feel choppy.
Ultra inc AA with hairworks off I average 38FPS and not seen it below 32 and it runs like butter on a TX @ 4K.

Have you tried at 1920x1080 all maxed out just to see what you get FPS wise? I am thinking you would hit maybe 100fps?

Surfer · 19 May 2015 at 16:46

What about the 2d grass is it noticeable? Or does the rest of the awesomeness drown it out totally?

Born_2_Kill_83 · 19 May 2015 at 16:46

Correct see the guide game by Nvidia the biggest hits a Foliage distance and Shadows, the rest you might as well keep up top. Excluding Hairworks.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 19 May 2015 at 16:47

Witcher1979 said:
Have you tried at 1920x1080 all maxed out just to see what you get FPS wise? I am thinking you would hit maybe 100fps?

Will give it a go later, it is the 4K that's making the GPU work though, I hit everything down to medium and still only got around 45FPS average, hardly a massive increase.

Will report back.

Witcher1979 · 19 May 2015 at 16:52

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Will give it a go later, it is the 4K that's making the GPU work though, I hit everything down to medium and still only got around 45FPS average, hardly a massive increase.

Will report back.

Nice ta, interested to see what power that card bangs out at the lower res.

Tephnos · 19 May 2015 at 16:56

Probably a bad time to mention it, but I'm presuming the graphics downgrade rumors were true?

Just wondering since a dev on CDPRs forums said a couple of days before release that PC users would get the december trailer graphics, so if he lied...

Witcher1979 · 19 May 2015 at 16:57

Tephnos said:
Probably a bad time to mention it, but I'm presuming the graphics downgrade rumors were true?

Just wondering since a dev on CDPRs forums said a couple of days before release that PC users would get the december trailer graphics, so if he lied...

Look at the screenshots posted over the past few pages since release and see for yourself.

Tephnos · 19 May 2015 at 17:04

Witcher1979 said:
Look at the screenshots posted over the past few pages since release and see for yourself.

Looks pretty bad in comparison from the trailer, to be honest, then. It sucks when a company has to blatantly lie to keep preorders.

Witcher1979 · 19 May 2015 at 17:09

Doesn't look like it did in those old trailers but god damnnnnn it looks nice in motion. Gameplay/Story is top notch as well so far. Loving it big time.

Matson · 19 May 2015 at 17:10

This game looks much better in motion than it does in screenshots but im pleasantly surprised how good it actually looks. People posting awful compressed youtube screenshots and things and going on about a downgrade. Yeah theres clearly a downgrade but it still looks beautiful and imagine how bad it would run before lol.

Tephnos · 19 May 2015 at 17:13

Oh don't get me wrong, It is pretty, that's for sure. They just touted it as the best looking game ever to come out when they did the trailers - you can barely tell a difference between the console/PC textures on ultra from what I've seen. (Motion would obviously be much better on PC though)

Matson: What 21:9 monitor is that?

TonyTurbo78 · 19 May 2015 at 17:15

I'm pleasantly surprised. With ss89 sweetfx config, game looks very very nice at 1440p. God I wish AMD would get their ass in gear and get a damn driver going, I need my 60fps lol. 40 fps I'm not liking at all with 1 card.

Dirk Diggler · 19 May 2015 at 17:17

Is anyone using a controller for this and finding the look sensitivity to be far too fast? I'm finding the game mechanics to be quite clunky. :confused: