1620p DLSS quality downsampled to 1080p, everything maxed except hairworks. Runs around 45fps so I lock it to 30 and enable motion blur. Still sucks compared to 60, but for enjoying the graphics it is ok
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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You can easily test it by starting new game - blood and wine only. Lets you fast travel anywhere in the world except Toussaint.
And yes, in Novigrad you will drop to 40s, possibly 30s.
Lemme guess, you played without RT and then enabled it while ingame
Both of you, if in the menu you completely disable RT, the game should stop crashing.
Or, if you select the "Ultra RT" preset which enables all RT, game should also stop crashing.
Once I understood the conditions under which the game crashes, I stopped getting crashes.
Basically,you should never modify RT from ingame, and you should never enable only some parts of RT - it always has to go through RT Ultra preset. Once you select it, load into the game, then you can disable parts of it.
I just played and recorded my gameplay for some 20 minutes, just walking around, with locked 30fps via NVCP (it actually provides good framepacing), with all maxed except RT shadows (because they are borked, lot of pop-in and artifacting).
Gotta say, it is just insane how nice it looks thanks to RTGI. I will never want to play it without it!
Which means my playthrough is going to be postponed until CDP either magically optimize it (unlikely) or I get one of those fancy 40 series GPU that allow frame generation.
Gotta say, it is just insane how nice it looks thanks to RTGI. I will never want to play it without it!
Which means my playthrough is going to be postponed until CDP either magically optimize it (unlikely) or I get one of those fancy 40 series GPU that allow frame generation.
That happens due to mod collision. Updating modded game and expecting it to work is uniquely boneheaded.
What I did, just before the update came out?
Uninstalled the game, deleted the game folder, deleted the appdata and documents folders.
Then downloaded fresh installation with the update already included once it was out.
And I have had zero issues, apart from the well documented crash caused by changing RT on the fly, which as far as I know happens to everyone.
Found a setting that gives me 60fps everywhere except Novigrad (that still drops to 45 on average due to CPU hammering) while keeping RT enabled and with perfect framepacing to boot, yay. And it looks great on my 1080p plasma.
Spec: 5800X3D, RTX 3080Ti both default
First, disable vsync ingame and enable it in nvidia control panel, also enable 60fps limit there.
Then, start game, in the menu disable hairworks and RT shadows (they flicker and pop-in), leave RTGI, RTAO and RT Reflections enabled. Resolution 1440p, DLSS performance.
Detail settings:
With this setting, the game is 100% smooth and well frame paced everywhere except Novigrad, at least from what I tested.
And I love how it looks.
Spec: 5800X3D, RTX 3080Ti both default
First, disable vsync ingame and enable it in nvidia control panel, also enable 60fps limit there.
Then, start game, in the menu disable hairworks and RT shadows (they flicker and pop-in), leave RTGI, RTAO and RT Reflections enabled. Resolution 1440p, DLSS performance.
Detail settings:
With this setting, the game is 100% smooth and well frame paced everywhere except Novigrad, at least from what I tested.
And I love how it looks.
In that case, update drivers, delete your config files and verify your game files/reinstall, bonehead
I saw that exact error on an install that already had HD reworked mod and then was updated.
If you are like me and want to do every mission/contract you find, it will take you probably around 150 and that's just the base game.
My second playthrough when I did everything incl. expansions took me 250 hours.
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This is completely incorrect.
I have played about 10 games already where RT provides substantial benefits to graphics and they still ran at smooth 60fps without issues.
Even in Witcher 3 with RT, it is possible to find settings that gives 60fps everywhere with the exception of Novigrad and Beauclair. Which is not ideal, but it is far from pointless.
RT is demanding. So what? That doesn't make it pointless.
Sorry but that is a stupidly zero sum argument.
You can have great quests, writing and characters (like e.g. Witcher 3 or Cyberpunk 2077 totally have) AND have awesome, more realistic graphics thanks to RTGI.
Raster can only compete with raytracing in static games that do not have changing time of day. So game like Spiderman or AC Unity or Uncharted 4 can look amazing, as good as RT games, but only because they are static.
But if you want that level of quality AND dynamic world where time flows, RT is needed.
It was not meant as an insult at all. I was criticizing your post, not insulting you personally.
I wrote a little guide to get stable 60 everywhere except Novigrad for my PC here
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
I have seen people with 4090s etc saying they have issues, some screenshots showing 39fps but no idea on the rest of their systems or state of OS/drives etc so it could be a mixed bag. It is clear that some people are having issues though, but it isn't as widespread as it is being made out it...
forums.overclockers.co.uk
You could use it as a starting point and tweak further from there if needed.
RT absolutely makes lighting and materials look more realistic. That doesn't mean the game as a whole looks photorealistic, but it gets much closer than rasterized lighting does:
The lighting on all materials and on the people is so much less gamey!
That was indeed an extreme example
I mean, Witcher 3, while to a certain degree stylized, still in large part aims at portraying realistic world.
Plus...realistic lighting can vastly enhanced even super stylized art styles, like the Unreal 5 update of Fortnite shows.
CDPR has nothing to do with reddit. They have their own forums that they moderate (and I have seen plenty of criticism there, posted some myself).