I had hoped they were going to include the two expansion packs as a part of this patch but no such luck it seems, and Gog are charging more for the two than they are for the entire game atm !
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That does mean you have to start the game again from the begining !GoTY was £6.99 yesterday
Guys, I think the developers might have made a massive error that absolutely tanks performance, but I have a fix. Go to the game folder, bin, x64_dx12 and rename the file d3d11on12.dll to d3d11on12.dll.bak
This massively improved my performance from 30FPS looking at a pool of water to 65FPS and almost full GPU usage (raytracing was still working). I would speculate that the game seems to have been using this compatibility layer by mistake.
Credit to Bang4BuckPC Gamer on YouTube as he found you needed to do this to make the MSI Afterburner overlay work, but I was shocked that doing so more than doubled my performance too. Please try and report back.
Edit: on further testing it only seems to help in certain locations and when looking at bodies of water. Also, the performance increase sometimes doesn't happen so something strange is going on.
My display driver crashed when changing settings once so perhaps that's why they were using the compatibility layer, there could some instability if it's not used. Maybe they couldn't fix these problems and bodged it by using the compatibility layer, but that's speculation on my part.
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It does look lovely with RT. The lighting looks much better. However, I was wrong: renaming that dll did nothing, performance will just vary that much from run to run when looking at water. The game is obviously bugged.Didn't do a before or after but my performance is looking better than what I saw for others with similar setups. RT is just lovely in this game Need to figure out best settings to use, that and might even turn sharpness up a bit as dlss is a bit soft here:
DLSS balanced or maybe even performance for this game.
Given developers have stated patch is coming, will hold of a bit longer though.
From my testing I was wrong about this, performance just varies wildly in certain areas each time you start the game. It's totally bugged.Renaming the dll file does work - fixed the gpu usage being low and now performance is a lot better.
/edit bear in mind there is a cpu issue in Novigrad, shouldn't be bottlnecking with modern cpu's.
I've done 12 hours so far, no significant issues at all yet. Mind you, as I say, I dont have RT turned on so that might well be it.I need to vent a little bit here like an entitled nerd....
What a hot ******* mess of an update. Just got around to trying it and there are numerous issues immediately. Can't even be bothered going into it. What the holy **** has happened to game development? Serious question.
You could always play it in DX11 mode, that would be pretty much the same as playing the original version , as there would be no RT, but still benefit from the non-RT changesSo if we install this update, how do we play the original version if we want to ? thx
You can easily test it by starting new game - blood and wine only. Lets you fast travel anywhere in the world except Toussaint.Haven't been to a city yet (restarted)