The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Arclite · 29 May 2015 at 12:10

Hey guys,

Have not yet installed the drivers. Reading a mix bag of reviews by people about amd 15.5 drivers. Anybody using a single gpu tested them out yet?

CaptainRAVE · 29 May 2015 at 12:11

CHokKA said:
Yep. I'll link the article. I know it's been mentioned before but some people might have missed it:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Optimizing-The-Witcher-3.aspx

I guess it is finally time to jump into this game and see how well it runs and whether it is in an acceptable state to play

Craig R · 29 May 2015 at 12:12

Chances of liking this if you thought The Witcher 2 and Skyrim were kinda boring?

chroniclard · 29 May 2015 at 12:13

Arclite said:
Hey guys,

Have not yet installed the drivers. Reading a mix bag of reviews by people about amd 15.5 drivers. Anybody using a single gpu tested them out yet?

Yes, working fine on my 280x. 45-55fps, high settings, hairworks off, tessellation set to X16 in catalyst control panel.

Kainz · 29 May 2015 at 12:17

Got to say this. Witcher 3 has some of the best quests I've ever experienced in an RPG and I'm only Lv10. The Bloody Baron questline is huge and so far quite engaging and the Towerful of Mice quest before that was incredible. The facial expressions of all these key characters just draws you in, makes LA Noire look positively tame.

kevy1986 · 29 May 2015 at 12:35

So anyone tried out the new amd xfire drivers ? Been playing 4k on the tv @30fps but dipping below in some places as only 1 card right now. Hoping I can use a sweetFx profile and try and beast up the graphics and keep a constant 30fps now. I heard there is still flickering is AA is enabled can anyone report on how bad this is ?

BaDBoY_uK · 29 May 2015 at 12:41

Witcher1979 said:
Found it in some random chest at one of the ? points in Velen.

If you guys have not gone south to the ?'s west of milfguard camp I suggest you do, pretty decent baddy in that area.

What lvl is allowed to wear it?

I think I've rushed ahead

I am trying to defeat the Woodland Spirit thingy at lvl 14

And thanks for the hint

Witcher1979 · 29 May 2015 at 12:51

BaDBoY_uK said:
What lvl is allowed to wear it?

LvL 10

I also think the milfguard Armour is sweet looking at lvl 12:

What I like about the game is you can wear whatever you like, your combat skills are what really matters, don't get hit

Omaeka · 29 May 2015 at 12:56

Don't think there's any real point to wearing medium or heavy armor on the higher difficulties tbh, one hit from any of the big monsters and you're dead anyway, might as well have the damage bonus you get from the light armor skill, plus cat armor has 20% increased damage as well.

My light attacks crit for quite abit over 1k, now if you'd specced into heavy attacks (I'm specced into light), you could probably be critting 1.5k+ easily.

Witcher1979 · 29 May 2015 at 13:01

Omaeka said:
Don't think there's any real point to wearing medium or heavy armor on the higher difficulties tbh, one hit from any of the big monsters and you're dead anyway, might as well have the damage bonus you get from the light armor skill, plus cat armor has 20% increased damage as well.

My light attacks crit for quite abit over 1k, now if you'd specced into heavy attacks (I'm specced into light), you could probably be critting 1.5k+ easily.

As I said, don't get hit. Wear what you like

Omaeka · 29 May 2015 at 13:05

Witcher1979 said:
As I said, don't get hit. Wear what you like

Aye

but medium armor gives you a tiny boost to sign intensity and heavy armor gives you extra health, neither help too much in the grand scheme of things, game is quite melee dominant..

Found out last night you can't fight monsters/armed humans with your fists

really wanted to do a monk playthrough or something down the line.

You can fight wolves/wild dogs with your fists though, was hitting 300+, might try and contact them to add an optional DLC that has an unarmed difficulty and why not a permadeath mode too. :cool:

JJimmyJ · 29 May 2015 at 13:06

benjii said:
I'm reluctant to play until the XP bug gets fixed. A bug was introduced with 1.04 where you may not receive XP for quests. They are aware of the problem though and are fixing it.

Anyone got an update on this? Does it only affect the xp you get from the main quest?

Witcher1979 · 29 May 2015 at 13:12

Omaeka said:
Aye but medium armor gives you a tiny boost to sign intensity and heavy armor gives you extra health, neither help too much in the grand scheme of things, game is quite melee dominant..

Found out last night you can't fight monsters/armed humans with your fists really wanted to do a monk playthrough or something down the line.

You can fight wolves/wild dogs with your fists though, was hitting 300+, might try and contact them to add an optional DLC that has an unarmed difficulty and why not a permadeath mode too.

It kind of does, not the same as Witcher 2 which is real permadeath, but I think in W3 dark mode if you die 5 times you are dead for good. Unless they removed it.

Witcher1979 · 29 May 2015 at 14:14

Poor cows

CaptainRAVE · 29 May 2015 at 14:33

Brilliant intro with the sound turned up, wow

Visually stunning game. Crossfire seems to be holding up well now, everything maxed out at 1440p on a 295x2 and holding a good 50-60fps so far. Could use a little AA, but at least it is feeling very smooth.

I can certainly see what all the fuss is about

VincentHanna · 29 May 2015 at 14:37

Omaeka said:
Found out last night you can't fight monsters/armed humans with your fists really wanted to do a monk playthrough or something down the line.

Wouldn't make sense though. You're playing a Witcher not a monk.

Witchers have steel and Silver swords.

Omaeka · 29 May 2015 at 14:39

Witcher1979 said:
Poor cows

You do that? :eek:

PS Sell honeycomb and water, buy goats milk and baked apples from brothels, combined they are like 2x swallow and the milk lasts 30 seconds, the apple 8. Apples are like 5g each and the milks like 7, crazy op, wonder why different food heals for different amounts, the expensive stuff is usually naff.

CaptainRAVE · 29 May 2015 at 15:06

Too much flickering with crossfire, but at least it was smooth. Will wait until the flickering is sorted. Game looks great though.

Kainz · 29 May 2015 at 15:23

CaptainRAVE said:
Too much flickering with crossfire, but at least it was smooth. Will wait until the flickering is sorted. Game looks great though.

Did you disable AA?

CHokKA · 29 May 2015 at 15:25

CaptainRAVE said:
Too much flickering with crossfire, but at least it was smooth. Will wait until the flickering is sorted. Game looks great though.

What mode are you running CrossFire in? I'm gonna try Default when I get home but I found that 1 x 1 Optimisation reduced the flickering by a lot.