The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

SquirrelMadness · 19 May 2015 at 23:37

agnes said:
Wow... That's, disappointment! Unless you cranked AA right up?

From what I can remember there is only on/off for AA, and disabling it doesn't make much difference to frames. I overclocked and boosted the FPS by 5, but then installed SweetFX which lowered it by 5

funky_llama1 · 19 May 2015 at 23:40

All settings on Ultra except for Foliage Range and Grass Density on High and Hairworks off, 2560x1440. Forced 16x Aniso through NVCP and using the CascadeShadowDistanceScale0=2 tweak. Much better with SS's Reshade profile which gives the colours a much more realistic feel in my opinion.

GTX 970 overclocked by 125Mhz. Had to reduce my overclock a bit as sitting on 99% GPU most of the time and was getting a few artifacts which I dont normally get in other titles. Am getting 40-60 fps dropping to the high 30s in cut scenes.

G-Sync really helps here and I feel I would probably drop my settings had I not invested in a Acer Predator XB270HU last week in preparation for this

The experience is silky smooth with little or no stutter. The screen shots dont really do it justice but I cant help myself being trigger happy on the print screen key amongst all this beauty.

Played about 10 hours today (had the day off) and just getting started on the second area. Really enjoying the experience though still getting used to the combat again after finishing Witcher 2 a year or so ago. Still feels like its just getting started and looking forward to seeing what else the game has to give.

Obligatory screenies below:

VincentHanna · 19 May 2015 at 23:46

robmol said:
If you have nvidia card, do what someone posted here a page or 2 back and disable the shadowplay service or whatever it was. I had strange juddering (but constant FPS) then I followed those instructions and it's nice and smooth.

I did notice it was perfectly smooth once I had done that actually. Thanks

VincentHanna · 19 May 2015 at 23:47

extrememachine said:
Ok so what about stuttering??

Disable the Nvidia steamer service.

Matson · 19 May 2015 at 23:56

Just installed this sweet FX preset.

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

Had to turn off sharpening in the game though as it was overkill with that preset but the colours look much better.

Heres a few screenshots of it.

Neil79 · 20 May 2015 at 00:33

Useful Tip!

Hairworks has MSAA x8 by default. I switched HairWorksAALevel to 2 in rendering.ini file located in:"\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\bin\config\base\" Now i have a lot lower fps impact than before.

Digital X · 20 May 2015 at 00:54

Regarding the reshade, do you copy the files and folder into /bin/64, or copy the contents of the folder into individual files, into the /bin/64 ?

Munimentum · 20 May 2015 at 01:00

Jesus, I just got to the second area and it's HUGE. It actually looks like the second area is as big as Skyrim just on it's own. So intimidated when I saw that.

nlyh · 20 May 2015 at 01:26

TonyTurbo78 said:
anyone else attempting to run this with crossfire and getting flickering textures on the mountains and distant details? I'm guessing just a crossfire issue as AMD can't be arsed to do much for it's users at the moment.

Yeah, I've got this problem too. Using 2x R9 290.

Without crossfire enabled, the flickering disappears completely. Turning off crossfire actually results in me getting better FPS too.

I'll hold off playing the game until a new stable driver comes out.

Matson · 20 May 2015 at 01:33

For anyone wanting to get the colours in this game looking much better and more like the 2013 version instead of the overly cartoony version now do this.

download the sweet FX from here:

http://cl.ly/1b1i2E3R3F2c

Follow the readme file for the instructions. Its pretty easy.

Go into the SweetFX_settings file and change the Lumasharpen to 0 instead of 1.
Turn off the sharpening feature in the game too as this just adds false sharpening and makes it look awful.

Turn off Chromatic Abberation in the options menu too in game.

MrMD · 20 May 2015 at 01:47

Matson said:
For anyone wanting to get the colours in this game looking much better and more like the 2013 version instead of the overly cartoony version now do this.

download the sweet FX from here:

http://cl.ly/1b1i2E3R3F2c

Follow the readme file for the instructions. Its pretty easy.

Go into the SweetFX_settings file and change the Lumasharpen to 0 instead of 1.
Turn off the sharpening feature in the game too as this just adds false sharpening and makes it look awful.

Turn off Chromatic Abberation in the options menu too in game.

Gonna try this now,the colour palette in game is little OTT,just an ocean of red and orange,especially at dusk

Matson · 20 May 2015 at 01:56

The pictures I posted above are from that sweet fx profile. Although I had sharpening on in this pictures but have since turned them off in both the sweetfx settings and in game.

MatTheCat · 20 May 2015 at 02:48

thefish said:
Game unlocked my wee lad is playing it and I want to play it but can I have multipe save points for my sons and mibe save points,don't want to overwrite my sons game

You guys can either:

be very careful with your save games in the game.
manually move each of your save games in and out of the games save game folder in windows before and after you play
log in with different Windows accounts

texxx74 · 20 May 2015 at 03:19

Neil79 said:
Useful Tip!

Thank you, very useful in my case as I really like the feature.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 20 May 2015 at 06:14

SS-89 said:
Yh the game looks pretty fantastic tbh, everything maxed 1440p. These screenies are using my sweetfx profile which can be found here (including interactive comparison shots):

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.

Does anyone know if this Sweetfx file alters any in game graphical settings such as more or less grass etc....
I want a file that just alters the way the game looks, nothing more.

elmarko · 20 May 2015 at 06:38

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Does anyone know if this Sweetfx file alters any in game graphical settings such as more or less grass etc....
I want a file that just alters the way the game looks, nothing more.

Think of sweetfx as post processing/filters like you can do in photoshop to improve pictures.

It doesn't change the actual textures or the density.

YB2ndBEST · 20 May 2015 at 06:49

Been using the Kputt sweetfx settings tonight... loving it. The sharpen is perfect! (disable in game sharpen and AA). Much closer to 2013 with the details now.

YB2ndBEST · 20 May 2015 at 06:54

Matson said:
Just installed this sweet FX preset.

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

Had to turn off sharpening in the game though as it was overkill with that preset but the colours look much better.

Heres a few screenshots of it.

Yep, using this as well. LOVE IT! Game looks 10x better now.

Cryfreeman · 20 May 2015 at 07:32

Meh, put it on the TV and was going to sit back and chill using my pad but the game ain't picking up the Wii U pro Pad

dreigns · 20 May 2015 at 07:49

Munimentum said:
Jesus, I just got to the second area and it's HUGE. It actually looks like the second area is as big as Skyrim just on it's own. So intimidated when I saw that.

now go on to the world map and press on kaer morhen or Skellige and weep with joy its going to take time to get this all done ehehehe

careful thou I managed to find a cave in the first area as I explored I found a quest and looked at it and it said recommended level 33

PP I turned and ran I was only level 3 lol