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Witcher 3 1440p 980 ti Performance

supra21

supra21

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I recently got my 980ti (refrence card) and it is great (coming from a 780ti). Now playing Witcher 3 at 1440p with all the settings set to ultra, minus hairworks and I cannot get a stable 60fps. Most areas I get 60fps but when its raining or wind is blowing through the forest frame rate fluctuates between 60 - 45fps, which is extremely annoying.

Using nvidia inspector I have:
forced vsync on (disabled in-game vsync)
enabled triple buffering
set max pre-rendered frames to 1
enabled FXAA (disabled in-game AA)
set power to "prefer maximum performance"
set Threaded optimisation to "on"

Using the setting above has smoothed things out a bit but i'm not satisfied. I know fps can be gained by lowering settings but if possible would like to avoid doing this, as this game was one of the reasons for the pricey upgrade.

Also as its a reference card i thought the heat was reducing the boost clocks so i have set custom fan profile which allows maximum boost clocks with good temps (77 degrees max). I have not overclocked the card.

I was under the assumption that this game ran smoothly at 1440p - Ultra settings with a 980ti based of various benchmarks and reviews, so if Anyone has any tips, tweaks, settings or suggestions would be much appreciated.
 
PC Specs:

MOBO: Asus PBZ77-V-Deluxe
CPU: 3770K @ 4.3Ghz
RAM: 8GB @ 2200Mhz
HDD: x2 Crucial M4 60Gb SSD's in RAID0 + 3TB HDD
PSU: Corsair HX750w

-The game is installed on the SSD's.
 
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Everything Ultra with Hairworks off should maintain 60fps at 1440p, surely?

I've only had a quick look as I just installed my 980Ti but it was 70fps or thereabouts.
 
supra21 said:
PC Specs:

MOBO: Asus PBZ77-V-Deluxe
CPU: 3770K @ 4.3Ghz
RAM: 8GB @ 2200Mhz
HDD: x2 Crucial M4 60Gb SSD's in RAID0 + 3TB HDD
PSU: Corsair HX750w

-The game is installed on the SSD's.
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Reduce foliage to high, reduce shadow to high and turn off Ambient Occlussion and of course hairworks completely off. You should be able now to maintain a steady 60 with vsync. I use these settings for 3440x1440 and i only have a few drops to around 55-56 with 1400mhz on the core. The game wont look that different compared to everything ultra.
 
Phixsator said:
Reduce foliage to high, reduce shadow to high and turn off Ambient Occlussion and of course hairworks completely off. You should be able now to maintain a steady 60 with vsync. I use these settings for 3440x1440 and i only have a few drops to around 55-56 with 1400mhz on the core. The game wont look that different compared to everything ultra.
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I'm sure with those settings it would be 60fps+ @ 1440p. However I find the foliage visibility range to be quite noticeable, I can see textures pop-in just walking through open areas when set to high.

Still maybe 1440p is putting more strain on the gpu than i expected. I did get the game to run at a solid 60fps @ 1080p with my old 780ti with everything set to ultra except for foliage and no. of background characters set to high and hairworks disabled.
 
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String said:
Everything Ultra with Hairworks off should maintain 60fps at 1440p, surely?

I've only had a quick look as I just installed my 980Ti but it was 70fps or thereabouts.
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What 980ti do you have?, if its not reference then maybe I need to overclock it. I am going to be getting the EVGA AIO water cooler for it next month so going to wait until then so I can really push the OC.
 
supra21 said:
What 980ti do you have?, if its not reference then maybe I need to overclock it. I am going to be getting the EVGA AIO water cooler for it next month so going to wait until then so I can really push the OC.
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G1 Gaming, running at 1350 on core. I'll be having a decent session tonight, so I'll post back with details.
 
String said:
G1 Gaming, running at 1350 on core. I'll be having a decent session tonight, so I'll post back with details.
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Look forward to hearing the details.

So I have a EVGA 980 ti Ref. and I just ran gpu-z with haven benchmark running at 1440p ultra settings and my max recorded core clock speed was 1316Mhz, that's higher than what it should be for a stock reference 980 ti right?
 
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supra21 said:
Look forward to hearing the details.

So I have a EVGA 980 ti Ref. and I just ran gpu-z with haven benchmark running at 1440p ultra settings and my max recorded core clock speed was 1316Mhz, that's higher than what it should be for a stock reference 980 ti right?
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I think that's good for a reference.

Just had a little play around, mostly 70fps with dips to low 60s. 1350 on the core. I didn't encounter any rain.

HTH
 
String said:
I think that's good for a reference.

Just had a little play around, mostly 70fps with dips to low 60s. 1350 on the core. I didn't encounter any rain.

HTH
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Great even happier with my purchase now. However can't believe there is such a gap in performance between ref. and G1.

I've looked through the suggestions currently in thread, tried adaptive v-sync and it made things worse, actually caused screen tearing which is strange. Maybe its conflicting with triple buffering or pre-rendered frames?

Currently going to settle for leaving my inspector settings as they are and only changing the shadow quality to High and SSAO instead of HBAO+. With these settings I get between 55 - 60fps and is overall much smoother without much impact on image quality.
 
supra21 said:
Great even happier with my purchase now. However can't believe there is such a gap in performance between ref. and G1.

I've looked through the suggestions currently in thread, tried adaptive v-sync and it made things worse, actually caused screen tearing which is strange. Maybe its conflicting with triple buffering or pre-rendered frames?

Currently going to settle for leaving my inspector settings as they are and only changing the shadow quality to High and SSAO instead of HBAO+. With these settings I get between 55 - 60fps and is overall much smoother without much impact on image quality.
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I'm not sure why we're so different as core clock is similar. Maybe I'll hit lower frames in bad weather etc?

Why not fast travel somewhere and look at the fps as soon as it loads, then compare with other people with 980Ti on the same settings. That would be a relatively accurate comparison?
 
I am on 980 ti and at 1080p i cant run at 60fps + hairworks.
When there is rain on screen + forest+ and storm i get dips to 40 fps. Is this normal?

Yes there is demanding places in game that even 980 ti or Titan x drops to 40 fps ,especially on different cycle of day. For example if you standing in forest and you change time day to 9:00 pm it drops fps.


Just look: Titan x drops to 44 fps in forests: this is 1080 + hairworks...from 2:00 minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c6NjD8PEU4
 
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