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[viveks86]

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-is-your-system-ready

Intel i7-5960X, 16GB DDR4 RAM, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Game Ready GeForce GTX Driver

For the complete lowdown on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt you’ll have to stay tuned to GeForce.com for our Graphics, Performance & Tweaking Guide. In the meantime, let us know in the comments which NVIDIA technologies you’ll be utilizing to enhance your The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt PC experience.

Official Nvidia responses so far:

What is GameWorks?

A collection of technologies we offer to developers to make their games look better with minimal work. https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworks-visualfx-overview

Expected FPS?

The idea is 40+ in demanding moments. It isn't the final build, so I don't want to get into specifics.

Other stuff:

Click to read

Click to read

Game Ready drivers always launch before their associated games

Yes, chart is everything on, no 'max settings without aa' benchmarking silliness here

SLI looks perfect to me and scales at 95-99% at 4K, and only slightly lower at 1080p. AA is also working just fine with SLI.

 

[Corpekata]

More importantly this confirms at the bottom that Nvidia will have a game ready driver.

 

[cheezcake]

As a note these are settings at which the card stays 40fps+ even in the most demanding scenes. And this wasn't the final build of the game.

 

[TheSaddestSort]

I don't want to buy new GPU right now Nvidia.

 

[YianGaruga]

Should I even try to play this on a 670?

 

[Thoraxes]

I guess it's about time I buy another stick of DDR4.

Looks like i'll be able to play it on uber.

 

[Trace]

Where that 980ti at Nvidia. I want to run this at 1080p with Gameworks but don't feel like forking out for year+ old cards.

 

[solokazama]

I just hope R9 290 / R9 290X is fine for 1080p@uber (~gtx 970)

please dont be unoptimized for AMD, im too lazy to recofigure and reinstall to GTX 970.. (especially with 2 screens and TV)

 

[cripterion]

I don't want to buy new GPU right now Nvidia.

Oh but you will!

Performance is looking good, looking forward to the full guide.

The experience will be enhanced with higher-resolution textures, higher-quality effects, higher levels of detail, uncapped framerates, and many other enhancements

This is in direct contradiction of what CDPR said in the past but I welcome these news.

 

[solokazama]

Should I even try to play this on a 670?

yeah with no problem - your card is faster than gtx 750Ti, so medium/high @ 1080p should be ok.

 

[Ark]

Looks like I better overclock my CPU this weekend.

 

[RyudBoy]

Why is it necessary to show 3 different settings for the GTX 960? Why not just say high settings?

 

[Card Boy]

Should I even try to play this on a 670?

Wondering the same.

 

[Derp]

So where does my 780 Ti fit? Under the 970 right? So high-uber 1080p?

Edit: Why is there 3 different settings for the 960? What does that even mean? Which one is it?

 

[Jindrax]

EDIT: my bad, can't read

 

[YianGaruga]

yeah with no problem - your card is faster than gtx 750Ti, so medium/high @ 1080p should be ok.

Alright, the minimum 660 kind of made me worry. I don't need all bells and whistles, just a steady framerate at 1080p is fine.

 

[FunkyMunkey]

guess i should overclock my 970 for 1080p

 

[Nibel]

Pretty sure my GTX 570 will run this

 

[Fahrenheit]

AMD will have a driver by release

Spoiler

right?

 

[texhnolyze]

So where does my 780 Ti fit? Under the 970 right? So high-uber 1080p?

Yeah, somewhere between 960 & 970.

I guess people with mid-end 2gb cards would be fine on medium-high settings if not aiming at 60 fps. I think the 960 can even reach uber settings at 30 fps.

 

[Dr Dogg]

I'll pop this in here not to get buried in the other thread.

Scientifically-generated information about the game's performance is now available: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-is-your-system-ready

You started using webm's in your articles? Awesome! I take it the Performance Guide noted at the bottom is a WIP for around release day? Great work as per usual.

 

[FLD]

Nice, looks like I'll be able to run it on High at 1080p. Was kind of expecting Medium or even Low.

I'll probably turn things down a bit if that chart isn't for 60FPS, though.

 

[cripterion]

Working hand-in-hand with developer CD Projekt RED, we’ve transformed the protagonist’s hair and beard, the mane of his trusty steed (and the manes of other horses), and the fur of over three dozen monsters into dynamic, highly detailed, fully formed hair and fur

The wording makes it seem like the game doesn't have Hairworks on for ennemies with coats made of fur. So maybe Eatchildren was right.

 

[brobban]

At what framerates?

 

[OminoMichelin]

Hope my rig can keep up lol, or else it's going to be 30fps city for me >< (i5 4440+ 270x)

 

[Derp]

At what framerates?

My guess is 60. We heard before that a 980 was required to max everything out at 1080p 60fps, and this chart supports that.

 

[Corpekata]

At what framerates?

As a note these are settings at which the card stays 40fps+ even in the most demanding scenes. And this wasn't the final build of the game.

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[roytheone]

My gtx 970 seems good to go for uber, now I just hope my i7 870 doesn't explode when entering Novigrad.

 

[Jin]

As a note these are settings at which the card stays 40fps+ even in the most demanding scenes. And this wasn't the final build of the game.

I'm reading the article but I don't see what fps those setting can produce. I assume (hope) the chart means 60fps.

 

[texhnolyze]

At what framerates?

My guess is 60. We heard before that a 980 was required to max everything out at 1080p 60fps, and this chart supports that.

 

[Evo X]

Oh yeah, 1440P Uber + Hairworks for me!

I'm glad to see it is actually implemented well and doesn't destroy framerates.

 

[Teeth]

Just looked up the price of 16GB of DDR4 RAM....yikes.

 

[Rymuth]

Pretty sure my GTX 570 will run this

GTX 580 here - am I gonna be all right?

 

[Buburibon]

I can't wait for Monday to find out what exact combination of settings will afford me an unflinching 60fps with my 5820K/Titan X system. I bet 1440p + Uber + GameWorks will dip well below 60fps during more demanding scenes. We'll see!

 

[Corpekata]

I'm reading the article but I don't see what fps those setting can produce. I assume (hope) the chart means 60fps.

It's their GEFORCE Experience settings. These can run at 60 FPS but they aim for "playable" and they've said playable is in the 40-45 range.

It might run better, but you should expect those settings to not be locked 60.

 

[Dark Stalkers]

What does Gameworks do?

 

[CecilRousso]

Right now I have an i5 2500k CPU and a GTX570 GPU. Thinking of buying a GTX970 and hope that it will be enough for the game, while keeping the CPU.

 

[RiccochetJ]

Ready to tweak for that sweet constant 60 fps!

 

[Corpekata]

What does Gameworks do?

Read the article. It's the variety of Nvidia exclusive tech and it varies by game.

 

[Nikokuno]

i5-4460 x 8gb DDR3 x GTX760 i'm crying. Can't wait July to upgrade my GPU... Until then what can I expect with my configuration dudes?

 

[Jin]

What does Gameworks do?

Hairworks, HBAO+ and PhysX from the comment section in that article.

 

[Foxix Von]

i5 @ 4.3 with 2x 290x

Curious to see how much my CPU will hold me back/how fucked the support for AMD cards will be.

 

[Chesskid1]

do you guys keep geforce experience installed?? i don't and was wondering if i should

 

[Thoraxes]

Just looked up the price of 16GB of DDR4 RAM....yikes.

The tech has barely been out a little over half a year!

I also just bought myself a second 8GB stick! Thank goodness for Amazon Sunday delivery too!

 

[Derp]

do you guys keep geforce experience installed?? i just removed it

I use it for Shadowplay.

 

[The_Poet]

What is gameworks?

 

[cheezcake]

I'm reading the article but I don't see what fps those setting can produce. I assume (hope) the chart means 60fps.

I'm not sure. Andy from NVIDIA mentioned that it was just a minimum 40fps in the other thread, I assume it'll be an average of 60fps but he can probably answer you better

 

[cripterion]

do you guys keep geforce experience installed?? i just removed it

Yes? It's not intrusive or anything, I don't use it but it doesn't bother me and I like to check the little vignettes to see the explanation of all the settings.

 

[Kintaro]

My 2x 970 @ 1440p is ready!

 

[Sijil]

Rolling with a 770 4GB with an i7 4790 an 16GB DDR3, guees I should expect a mix of high/uber, I don't mind the framerate going to 40 if it means better visuals.