The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

opethdisciple · 21 May 2015 at 18:01

Yes its a very strange game performance wise. Low vram usage but very demanding in the processing (GPU) side.

trickycurve · 21 May 2015 at 18:06

Witcher1979 said:
Looks like new Nvidia drivers are out as well: 352.86

Ayahuasca said:
Been out a few days.

Speaking of which, there's an entire thread on the Nvidia forums and numerous other reports suggesting that their 'Game Ready' drivers nerfed Kepler-based GPUs.

I personally felt my 680 was performing quite well at 30fps with everything on Ultra (except HairWorks Off and foliage distance High) with some headroom in GPU usage, so I'm a little weary about rolling back in case it isn't affecting everyone.

VincentHanna · 21 May 2015 at 18:13

Craterloads said:
Consoles are using upto 6GB ram at poorer settings, so must be using more than its showing. Do PC games also use normal ram for game stuff?

Vram and System Ram are different in PC's.

Consoles use unified memory so they share it between both.

I've seen Witcher use about 5GB system ram so far.

Gregster · 21 May 2015 at 18:21

HairWorks looks fantastic and even better since the latest patch

Vinno · 21 May 2015 at 18:32

It does look pretty great. Just a shame that it comes with such a performance hit.

Chisharpe · 21 May 2015 at 18:36

Craterloads said:
Going full screen has 100% helped, staying at a rock solid 60fps now instead of fluctuating between 50-60 indoors. At that herbalists women's hut and was was about 50 inside now a full 60.

Next gonna try the patch and see if rolling back drivers helps on 780. Only two settings down to high, foliage distance and shadows, want to see if I can eek out some extra performance to turn foliage distance back to ultra.

Let me know how you get on as I'm on a 780

grant666uk · 21 May 2015 at 18:39

One thing I have noticed since the update is that as you race through town etc on the horse or even running, people seem to pop in out of thin air. Sure that's new.

Gerard · 21 May 2015 at 18:42

Gregster said:
HairWorks looks fantastic and even better since the latest patch

Looks daft imo, its like the slightest movement causes mad hair rippling like he has a fan blowing at him off screen. And before anyone asks yes that goes for tress fx as well, the movement just seems over the top.

Matson · 21 May 2015 at 18:42

The hairworks looks great. Kind of makes Geralt look like he has doll hair though lol.
I didn't notice any performance change with the new patch on my 290. Same fps as I had last night. It did reset my ini files though so I had to alter them again.
One thing im confused about is that in game I have Chromatic Abberation turned off but in the rendering.ini file it says True next to it....Surely if iv turned it off in game it should say false for that?

Pighardia · 21 May 2015 at 18:43

grant666uk said:
One thing I have noticed since the update is that as you race through town etc on the horse or even running, people seem to pop in out of thin air. Sure that's new.

It's been happening for me since the start. Not all of the time, just occasionally.

One setting that seems pretty useless is the background characters one. It changes the amount of NPCs that can be rendered at the same time, wirh the lowest being 75 apparently.... But you will never have more than that on screen surely?

Nexus18 · 21 May 2015 at 18:46

Personally much prefer tressfx although that might be more down to Lara Croft

Matson, can you link your sweetfx please.

Absorbentsolid · 21 May 2015 at 18:47

over 20 hours in and i'm loving it, Great game only gripe i have with it is i can't run it on Ultra with my card at 1440P.

Here's hoping the 980ti comes asap so i can push the visuals.

Matson · 21 May 2015 at 18:48

Since the link for the sweet fx Im using died Here is a new link for it I found.

https://mega.co.nz/#!kJ0llLCK!yyw3ueOU0zt4U0Wfwce1V7NrUaflEBGk8ahKNR71CqM

drunkenmaster · 21 May 2015 at 18:52

Pighardia said:
It's been happening for me since the start. Not all of the time, just occasionally.

One setting that seems pretty useless is the background characters one. It changes the amount of NPCs that can be rendered at the same time, wirh the lowest being 75 apparently.... But you will never have more than that on screen surely?

Really? pointless setting then, even more so as I have it at the highest setting and frequently get pop in. Particularly things like a merchant or a quest npc I'll ride up, no one there but the bag symbol on minimap, feel confused for a second then when I get there and stop as if by magic the NPC appears out of thin air. Not the only texture pop in though probably the most noticeable and irritating.

Omaeka · 21 May 2015 at 18:54

The hair and fiber technology in Bloodborne is far better than the Nvidia hairworks in this and that's on a PS4, I also really don't know why AMD and Nvidia implemented effects always tax hardware so much on PC, they must be terribly coded. PhysX, TressFX, Nvidia Hairworks etc, all awful soggy tech that usually takes more to run than every other standard graphical setting combined. Ew.

ValiantUK91 · 21 May 2015 at 19:03

These are my settings, getting around 70-80fps on a single 970 and i5 4970k both at stock.

Couple of screen shots, looks a lot better ingame

Also i dont know if any people have noticed this but if you find these logs in the wood make sure you loot them. ive got quite a few coins out of them.

Minstadave · 21 May 2015 at 19:44

I can't imagine a scenario where I'd ever sacrifice performance for prettier hair, rather up AA or details everytime, unless I guess I had maxed everything else possible I suppose.

Thesnipergecko · 21 May 2015 at 19:49

Getting tired of nvidia drivers crashing now.

BobbiesHelmet · 21 May 2015 at 19:51

GOG doesn't seem to be updating my game, the 1.03 changelog is there but it's not updating? Any ideas? Game still says v1.02

andicole0 · 21 May 2015 at 19:54

Thesnipergecko said:
Getting tired of nvidia drivers crashing now.

Might be worth doing a Windows update and other driver check, my setup has been ultra stable. Windows 10 and 352.84.

Andi.