The Witcher 3: Is your system ready - Nvidia official system requirements
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Dries
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I'm curious to see if Skylake will finally persuade me to upgrade.
Looking forward to hear your thoughts on performance! I do feel slightly creepy though, now that I added your profile to my favorites bar. It will be kinda amazing if my 2009 rig still got some fight in it for a graphical powerhouse 6 years later.
daninthemix
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Off-topic slightly, but GOG currently offers me a download split into 7 parts for this game. Is there some easier way of downloading it?
daninthemix
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Ah okay. Thanks
The official recommended is a 770. If you're fine with lowering some settings you could probably pull off 60 FPS somehow.
And hey, a locked solid 30 would probably be better than what we've seen of the other two version, day one patch aside.
I currently have a GTX 680 but I'm so tempted to order a GTX 970 now. I get a bonus in a month's time and there's talk of price cuts around then too so it would make sense to wait ... but I could put it on my credit card now and be playing The Witcher 3 "properly" if I bought the 970 now ....
Also I want Arkham Knight too, so even with a price cut, I'd still have bought TW3 and AK anyway so not sure how much a price cut would affect me.
Also I want Arkham Knight too, so even with a price cut, I'd still have bought TW3 and AK anyway so not sure how much a price cut would affect me.
NoMoreTrolls
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Think of it as a $100 price cut already.
So... I'll probably play this on ultra with no Hair works. Hoping for near 60fps at 1080p, but I'll likely have to turn some settings down. I'll keep an eye on this thread to see what fellow 970ers are doing, as I'm new to this kind of fiddling.
HarryHengst
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That german site showed that the game isnt as demanding as the recommended specs make it out to be, and that was without additional optimisations coming with the day 1 patch.
InfYn
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If you have MSI Afterburner you could limit the framerate with RivaTuner. alternatively a half refresh rate lock would also suffice which is done with VSYNC.
ChiefofCitadelSecurity
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If the GTX 960 can handle this then I know the 7870XT can.
Give me high or ultra at 30 and I'm good.
Give me high or ultra at 30 and I'm good.
Krappadizzle
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Hold strong! New and exciting things should be announced early next month. Or if you can't hold strong buy an EVGA card so you could take advantage of the step-up program from them when the new cards come out.
If I remember I will be posting about initial performance experiences. Going in with i5 750 @ 3,8GHz and 760 2GB, will be interesting.
Thanks, I will look it up.
Mad Season
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Still no word on new nvidia driver?
viveks86
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Releasing before game launch. It's in the OP. Or are you asking for more info?
I'll be using a gtx 660 as well. except I'm only hoping for low-medium settings, considering the 660 was their 'minimum requirement'. I just want to play the damn game. If it could hit high then hell that's a bonus, no reason to upgrade my video card for another year.
Dictator93
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which saves problem in tw2? THe crashing or something else?
The fact that by the end of the game, you had approximately 2^16 saves in your save folder.
Dictator93
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Krappadizzle
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Haha, I remember this. I loved that fact about it but thought it was weird that it was in there. But after beating W2 and then playing W1 I discovered they did that before too so it's what they like. I rarely if ever will need to go back to a save that took place 10+hours before. But I looked at it more as a scrapbook and it actually helped me enjoy the game a bit more. Plus you could always go and delete them from the folder pretty quickly.
when i had more than 14 saves, there was : intro video than main screen and load, the list of saves and than click ------> CRASH ahahahaha but no problem i solved the problem using another folder for most of saves and i disabled the AUTOSAVE
i don't know if someone remember but the witcher 2 made a saves folder of 500 MB in 7 hours of game......
i don't know if someone remember but the witcher 2 made a saves folder of 500 MB in 7 hours of game......
Dictator93
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my GF is replaying the game right now, an dif she tries to go to the menu to load a save whilst playing the game crashes every single time no matter what. Also, the game freezes for about 10 seconds on loading the "load" menu for some reason (even though it is on an SSD).
The save system was just... not very good in TW2.
BlackNinja
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I'm going to shoot for 4k with custom settings for my 980. I only need 30fps or more.
dreamstation
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A 960 is very similar to a 680 correct?
So I should be able to play it at 1920x1080 on High settings? If so, great.
So I should be able to play it at 1920x1080 on High settings? If so, great.
hermeslyre
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Definitely a problem with W2. I had to go in there several times my last playthrough to clear out the old saves, because it takes longer and longer to loadup the save/load menu the more saves you have.
It was quick to manually save, I'll give them that. Start menu > hit Save game > done. I still prefer an actual save menu like most games have. In pillars of eternity when you hit save game if you scroll to the bottom of your saves, to the oldest ones, each time you load the save menu it remembers where you were at, which allows you to very quickly save over the old saves at the bottom. Like a FIFO system, first in/first out. Much better.
Dragon age: inquisition on the other hand started your selection on the save menu at the very top, your newest saves. They also made the scroll speed to get to the bottom of the saves too slow, so I just ended up clicking save on new slot each time, which given the large amount I save the game, just bloated my save folder and slowed the menu down. Stupid save menu design is stupid.
Windom Earle
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Any recommendations on where to get this game at a good price?
is amazing how , we gamers, are always watching for 5 $ less price on a game, but we do not care to spend nearly 900 for two GPU for the same game.
i really think there is something wrong in this.
As for TW2 i think i'll give a speed run tonight just to refresh few things, and yes saves were not so good
i really think there is something wrong in this.
As for TW2 i think i'll give a speed run tonight just to refresh few things, and yes saves were not so good
They're pretty much identical in performance.
It was bundled with Nvidia cards so a lot of trading sites have it for cheap. Might even be some in the BST thread.
Mango Positive
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It's an upgrade, but it's a minor one. I recommend waiting for the next generation of cards, or at least the rumored 980ti. I mean, I love my 980, but I upgraded from a 680. I'd probably wait if I had a 770.
PHOENIXZERO
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I've never been attached to AA or high quality shadows for that matter.
That's what I'm doing. As much as I want to jump to a 970 or 980 I see no benefit with the new cards from Nvidia and AMD right around the corner. I'll get by with probably medium to high settings with shadows turned off which is fine for me.
I'm having a hard time deciding whether I should purchase a GTX 970 G1 or wait and play this and upcoming games with my broken 7970 (broken PCI lanes cause it to work at 4x speeds instead of 16x causing around 20FPS loss).
The deal of the 970 G1 with Witcher and Batman codes is insanely good, since I intend to buy these two games but something in the back of my head tells me I should rather wait for newer cards, announcements, etc. Also the fact that I'd be buying a card that's around 8 months old, granted it is a beast of a card and for the money it's the best you can get but still I'm concerned about upcoming games like Battlefront, I'm not sure I'll it will be able to pull 60 FPS on 1080p maxed out.
I'm really on the fence here and I don't know what to do, what do you guys think?
The deal of the 970 G1 with Witcher and Batman codes is insanely good, since I intend to buy these two games but something in the back of my head tells me I should rather wait for newer cards, announcements, etc. Also the fact that I'd be buying a card that's around 8 months old, granted it is a beast of a card and for the money it's the best you can get but still I'm concerned about upcoming games like Battlefront, I'm not sure I'll it will be able to pull 60 FPS on 1080p maxed out.
I'm really on the fence here and I don't know what to do, what do you guys think?
hermeslyre
Neo Member
Well we have some early reports that the game is not CPU heavy, and that it scales well with the extra cores. From the Nvidia dude himself.
Overclock that thing and don't look back, I'm sure you'll do fine.