The Bookerman
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scorpscarx said:
I'm all for advancing technology, problem i had was that the first post led me to believe that my rig I purchased was ... insufficient. Which it isn't.
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The Witcher 2: Performance Thread [Enhanced Edition Patch - New content & 100+ fixes]
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I'm all for advancing technology, problem i had was that the first post led me to believe that my rig I purchased was ... insufficient. Which it isn't.
scorpscarx
Member
Hah yea, your rig is great. Load up the game turn off ubersampling like the rest of us, and bask in its glory.
BoobPhysics101
Banned
ColonelColon said:damn. when I read that right after a post full of config settings, I thought for sure that I would find BoobPhysics=1 as one of the config settings.
I lol'd. Just write CDProjekt Red a message and maybe they'll patch in tesselated boob physics when they release DX11 for the game.
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Deleted member 81567
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Who can help me how to play the game with a 360 controller? I'm pressing Insert in-game and I still can't control Geralt. I can control the menus fine though. What am I doing wrong?
FormallyFamicom
Member
Dr Eggman said:
Did you set the controls to Gamepad in the options?
BoobPhysics101 said:
Apparently not
Odd, though. The only difference between what I was doing last night (50-60 FPS on average, some dips to high 40s) and today (57-60 on average, never saw it dip below 55) was changing the wrong .ini file. Changing the appropriate one seems to bring me back to the performance I had before so not sure what's going on.I'll play with it some and see if I can figure it out.
BoobPhysics101
Banned
scy said:Apparently not
I'll play with it some and see if I can figure it out.
You do realize that the Ultra+ Settings aren't meant for performance, but for eye candy? It's most likely going to have a negative impact on performance for better image quality.
Domcorleone
Member
BoobPhysics101 said:
Hey boobphysics, thanks so much for your settings! I no longer get the choppiness I was experiencing, I'm using the high config you had posted. I get pretty much a stable 30. I added bloom, SSAO and dof. What does sharpen do?
Also I am thinking of simply deleting witcher 2 completely and reinstalling since my menu takes 4 sec to load when I pause the game, never did that before. Will I lose my saves? I have the steam version
I think someone had postulated that the reason why the menu takes so long to load after a while is because the game makes so many saves. There's a save manager linked in the OP that you can use to get rid of old saves that you don't want anymore, and that might help.Domcorleone said:
BoobPhysics101 said:
Yeah, I know. I did see an increase in FPS from what I had last night (and basically my entire playthrough of constant 50-60). No change otherwise in my setup that has gotten me to a relatively stable 60 FPS so I'm just a little confused.
Basically, used the settings to see if there was going to be better IQ without a huge hit in my FPS. Instead, saw an FPS hit and not sure why.
Aeana said:
This. I have to clear my saves every night basically; 1 GB of saves seems to bring my menu loading to occasionally pause. It's annoying but the save manager utility makes it a fairly painless process.
SolidsnackooFoxhound
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Wrong Thread. Just woke up i really need to stop doing this. Sorry GAF.
bloodforge
Member
Anyone found a way to move the non-combat camera back?
AgentOtaku
Member
bloodforge said:
I wish
Not to mention wish they keep their slightly to the left Over the Should view from earlier builds =/
BoobPhysics101
Banned
Domcorleone said:
Sharpen is only turned on when AA is enabled. The game uses MLAA which can cause blurriness, so I believe they run a sharpen filter as well to combat blurriness with AA.
I would suggest keeping DOF and turning off SSAO and bloom. SSAO causes a huge performance hit and bloom makes the game look worse (to me, at least).
When my M17x R3 w/6970M comes on Tuesday I'll start experimenting with tweaks for high end rigs. Right now I'm pretty comfortable doing mid-range tweaks on my G73JH w/5870M, but the 6970M is a totally different beast since it's about 60-70% faster and has 2 GB of VRAM. Should be able to figure out what the optimal VRAM setting is for 1.5-2GB VRAM cards.
Playing this in Ultra with Uber off and I'm freakin' impressed. The textures are incredibly detailed. If it weren't for the occasional janky animation, this would be totally perfect. No issues with the gfx here at all. I simply used the default Ultra settings and it runs smooth as hell. Loading is almost instant too. Not sure how the hell they did that.
BoobPhysics101
Banned
Salaadin said:
Try it and see what happens. The worst thing that could occur is the game will crash to desktop or it'll run like molasses.
LiK said:
Streaming. Instead of forcing everything in all at once, they gradually load as needed. Very common in console games and large open world games which are coded to reduce memory footprint.
I hope they optimize the streaming in future patches to take further advantage of the gobs of system RAM + SSD's present in today's high end rigs.
I tried everything that's been posted anywhere but I can't get the LOD to and pop-in to change at all. It's the same regardless of preset or how much I bump it up in the .ini. Tried reinstalling the game, reinstalling graphic drivers, everything. Looks so bad at this point. I give up.
cj_iwakura
Member
Evidence that my ancient CPU does indeed run W2:
This game looks so good!
Can't wait to get to stuff I've seen screenshots of elsewhere. I honestly can't believe this stuff is coming out of my PC.
Can't wait to get to stuff I've seen screenshots of elsewhere. I honestly can't believe this stuff is coming out of my PC.
gdt5016 said:
Worked really well for me before the 1.1. The added memory size definitely gave me a bump in performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2cemx0qJl0
This is with ultra preset, no extra tinkering so all the options should have been carried over to the user.ini without any problems.
Can anyone just tell me if this is normal or not? Because it's like this for almost everything... bushes, weapons people carry, details on clothing, certain walls, foliage, etc.
Just messed around with AllowSharpen, and I think I like it better off! Looks really good, and gets rid of that weird shimmer. I'm on my laptop now, but I tweak some more on my tv, see now I like it there.
I'm getting the same sort of pop-in as the guy above now, seems to be a real issue, that CDPR need to fix.
I'm getting the same sort of pop-in as the guy above now, seems to be a real issue, that CDPR need to fix.
Blast Processing
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gdt5016 said:
I'm going to try the one recommended for 1GB VRAM cards. I noticed a few paramters missing from my custom settings.
What are TextureTimeBudget & CharacterLodGameplayDownscale?
L0st Id3ntity
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It does.gdt5016 said:
Sharpen off: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2286376/witcher2 2011-05-27 23-39-24-80.jpg
Sharpen On: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2286376/witcher2 2011-05-27 23-36-44-73.jpg
edit: Thank god the only light bleeding source in chapter 2 (Roche) is the sun :lol, so I can fully use sli as long as it's day time.
BoobPhysics101
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Blast Processing said:
TextureTimeBudget should be how long the game caches textures in VRAM, and CLGD should (guessing, haven't really messed with it too much) determine whether or not the game uses aggressive LOD downscaling on character models as they get further away.
Haint
Member
Aurarian said:
It under clocks when it crashes under stress as a safety precaution. Restarting your computer should fix it. You should be able to go somewhere between 800/1600 and 850/1600 at stock voltage. It takes a lot of prolonged trial an error to find a 100% stable speed if you're trying to push it to the very edge. You'll find a position that works 95% of the time, but still causes the odd random crash. You need to dial it back 5 or 10mhz from that position.
Okay I think i'm happy with my settings now.
Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.67GHz - 4gig ram - 5850 1gb
Heres whats in my user.ini
[Rendering]
TextureDownscale=0
AtlasTextureDownscale=0
DetailTextureDownscale=0
MaxTextureSize=2048
MaxAtlasTextureSize=4096
TextureMemoryBudget=800
TextureTimeBudget=10
MaxCubeShadowSize=2048
MaxCubeShadowCount=3
MaxSpotShadowSize=2048
MaxSpotShadowCount=3
FoliageDistanceScale=1.6
MeshDistanceScale=2.2
CharacterLodGameplayDownscale=0
AllowBloom=0
AllowShafts=1
AllowAntialias=1
AllowBlur=0
AllowDOF=0
AllowDecals=1.0
AllowVignette=0
AllowSharpen=1
AllowRain=1
AllowSSAO=0
AllowMotionBlur=0
AllowScatterDOF=0
AllowCutsceneDOF=1
DanglesLimiter=0
ShadowQuality=3
ShadowedLights=3
Fullscreen=1
VSync=0
UberSampling=0
There's not much of a difference performance wise from Ultra to High for me. Overall I have to say "MeshDistanceScale=2.2" makes a huge difference pop in wise. I've tried even higher values but it didn't work very well. "FoliageDistanceScale=1.6" Is big because I don't notice as much pop-in for grass and what not. If anyone has similar specs to me and is looking for Ultra settings + some performance tweaks should try these I guess.
Thanks again to BoobPhysics101!
Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.67GHz - 4gig ram - 5850 1gb
Heres whats in my user.ini
[Rendering]
TextureDownscale=0
AtlasTextureDownscale=0
DetailTextureDownscale=0
MaxTextureSize=2048
MaxAtlasTextureSize=4096
TextureMemoryBudget=800
TextureTimeBudget=10
MaxCubeShadowSize=2048
MaxCubeShadowCount=3
MaxSpotShadowSize=2048
MaxSpotShadowCount=3
FoliageDistanceScale=1.6
MeshDistanceScale=2.2
CharacterLodGameplayDownscale=0
AllowBloom=0
AllowShafts=1
AllowAntialias=1
AllowBlur=0
AllowDOF=0
AllowDecals=1.0
AllowVignette=0
AllowSharpen=1
AllowRain=1
AllowSSAO=0
AllowMotionBlur=0
AllowScatterDOF=0
AllowCutsceneDOF=1
DanglesLimiter=0
ShadowQuality=3
ShadowedLights=3
Fullscreen=1
VSync=0
UberSampling=0
There's not much of a difference performance wise from Ultra to High for me. Overall I have to say "MeshDistanceScale=2.2" makes a huge difference pop in wise. I've tried even higher values but it didn't work very well. "FoliageDistanceScale=1.6" Is big because I don't notice as much pop-in for grass and what not. If anyone has similar specs to me and is looking for Ultra settings + some performance tweaks should try these I guess.
Thanks again to BoobPhysics101!
BoobPhysics101
Banned
mileS said:
You're welcome, if you find better settings for your 5850 make sure to post them up. Most of all, don't get too addicted to tweaking and just enjoy the game!
Wallach said:
Sharpen isn't meant to be used on its own, it only enables when antialiasing is enabled. I'd recommend having it off. Anyone that wants sharper textures needs to use 16x Anisotropic Filtering and maybe use negative LOD settings through NVidia Inspector or RadeonPro.
subversus said:
Get it here and place it in your CookedPC directory
http://www.mediafire.com/?i68ylsjy13vba03
3chopl0x said:
thanks.
I also recommend everybody to check their ini settings and set atlas and max texture resolution ant 4096. May be it's placebo effect, but it looks better than 2048 set there by default. I think that no game is able to handle 4096 textures, but stil...
Sutton Dagger
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Anyone played Witcher 2 on the 27" imac yet? I'm getting this game in the next month or so and just wondering how it will run.