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The Witcher 2: Performance Thread [Enhanced Edition Patch - New content & 100+ fixes]
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TheDrowningMan
Member
How am I supposed to get into Catalyst Control Centre to make changes there? I've installed it, but there's no sign of it anywhere.
TheDrowningMan
Member
Rufus said:
There's nothing there. I've tried installing it seven or eight times now and it doesn't work. This time I created a new folder to put it in and, lo and behold, the folder is empty after the "installation".
TheDrowningMan
Member
Just wanted to say that I've sorted it out now. I was trying to install by my specific graphics card, but evidently that's the wrong way to do it on a Mac with AMDinstead having dedicated drivers. I was looking at it entirely from the Windows end of the equation and trying to install thus.
Doh.
Now, for AMD and Apple to get their acts together and release some newer drivers....
Edit: having not really PC gamed on recent years (at least not with anything visually intensive) I didn't know that the 5670 in my iMac is a mobility 5730. Downloaded the newest package for that card and all is even better. Running on medium with nothing adjusted and the performance has increased substantially. BIG improvement over the stock medium with the old drivers, in fact.
Doh.
Now, for AMD and Apple to get their acts together and release some newer drivers....
Edit: having not really PC gamed on recent years (at least not with anything visually intensive) I didn't know that the 5670 in my iMac is a mobility 5730. Downloaded the newest package for that card and all is even better. Running on medium with nothing adjusted and the performance has increased substantially. BIG improvement over the stock medium with the old drivers, in fact.
alysonwheel
Member
New nvidia beta drivers up now (275.50) -- anyone know if they contain the performance improvements for the Witcher?
Str0ngStyle
Member
So I will be cross posting this in the other thread, but I need some help. I backed up my saves for the game before wiping my HD clean and doing a fresh install of Windows 7. Everything went fine with the install, but now I cannot get my saves to load so I can continue playing. I placed all the files back where they are supposed to be, but still nothing. Has anyone else had this problem? Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
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Minsc
Gold Member
Str0ngStyle said:
From reading a bit about this online, consensus seems to be that it is not an uncommon issue, and is either (unlikely) your saves are set to read only, or something that got broken in the 1.2 patch. If you can get the game to run on version 1.1 somehow you probably will be fine. Otherwise, there's a chance that the upcoming 1.3 patch will fix this issue, but I haven't seen anything confirming such.
CecilRousso
Member
Hm. Odd thing. Downloaded Fraps to check the FPS, and it seems that most graphical settings have little or no effect. Tried the same scene, running around in floatsam, with these results.
1080p, maxed textures, bloom, some lightning. Everything else off. - avg 20fps.
1080p - same as above but without bloom - avg 22fps.
1080p with default low settings - avg 25fps.
720p with default low settings - avg 28fps.
My computer:
Laptop with CoreI7 720q processor.
Ati 5830
4gb Ram
Win7 64
Catalyst drivers vers 11.6
This doesn´t seem right. Games like Portal 2, Mass Effect 2 and the Total War games are running almost perfect on this computer.
1080p, maxed textures, bloom, some lightning. Everything else off. - avg 20fps.
1080p - same as above but without bloom - avg 22fps.
1080p with default low settings - avg 25fps.
720p with default low settings - avg 28fps.
My computer:
Laptop with CoreI7 720q processor.
Ati 5830
4gb Ram
Win7 64
Catalyst drivers vers 11.6
This doesn´t seem right. Games like Portal 2, Mass Effect 2 and the Total War games are running almost perfect on this computer.
CecilRousso
Member
knitoe said:
Even so, putting everything I can to a minimum should be able to push the FPS 30fps, when 1080p maxed textures and plenty of other eye candy gives me around 20fps.
CecilRousso said:
No really, that's the literal definition of being cpu-bound, if you get X fps with all the eyecandy on you'll most likely get the same even with all of it off, obviously depending on various degrees of cpu limitation.
AwesomeSauce
MagsMoonshine
coopolon said:
Yup
I used to get massive drops just running around Flotsam on my old C2D and thought maybe i should upgrade my gtx 260 sooner, but i got a good deal on an Phenom X6 with motherboard/ram combo and man did it make a difference.
Now i still average about ~30 fps on my gtx 260 @ high 1080p, but it smoothed out the frame drops in Flotsam big time.
AwesomeSauce said:
Yah, reading through this thread some people are reporting much better experiences though, as well at various random places I found via google.
Is there something I should turn off that is CPU intensive? I've tried with BoobPhysics low and medium custom .ini's and neither do anything to help. And this is just in the prologue I'm talking first 5 minutes of the game.
AwesomeSauce
MagsMoonshine
coopolon said:
You know what i actually was able to smooth things out with the expense of texture quality.
Try putting everything on high, but put texture down scale on low. It smoothed out areas where i got massive drops on my C2D and the texture downgrade isn't too noticeable besides Geralt's face.
Let me know how it works out for you.
Edit: Try out this config i just tweaked. It should slightly downscale the textures of the environment, but not too noticeable and keep Geralt's face detailed during close ups.
[Engine]
CustomRenderingSettings=1
PerformancePlatform=1
[Rendering]
TextureDownscale=1
AtlasTextureDownscale=1
DetailTextureDownscale=0
MaxTextureSize=2048
MaxAtlasTextureSize=2048
TextureMemoryBudget=900
TextureTimeBudget=10
MaxCubeShadowSize=1024
MaxCubeShadowCount=2
MaxSpotShadowSize=1024
MaxSpotShadowCount=2
FoliageDistanceScale=1.0
MeshDistanceScale=1.0
CharacterLodGameplayDownscale=1
AllowBloom=0
AllowShafts=1
AllowAntialias=1
AllowBlur=1
AllowDOF=0
AllowDecals=1.0
AllowVignette=1
AllowSharpen=1
AllowRain=1
AllowSSAO=1
AllowMotionBlur=0
AllowScatterDOF=0
AllowCutsceneDOF=1
DanglesLimiter=1
ShadowQuality=3
ShadowedLights=3
Fullscreen=1
VSync=0
UberSampling=0
alysonwheel
Member
coopolon said:
I get more than fine FPS -- istr 30-50fps in Flotsam, 30-40 in chapter 2 -- with the following config on my c2d e7200@3.16ghz, 4gb, gtx560 system:
That's at 1650x1080 with no significant loss of pretty, except for a bit of a reduction in ground LOD and no motion blur. Turning on the dangling objects limit and turning down decals made a difference to me I think, but that could have been wishful thinking on my part.
edit: html
Thanks guys. Turns out my problem was actually GPU drivers. I assumed it was CPU since I was maxing CPU performance and it didn't improve with changes in resolution or dropping the render settings, but it must have just been some weird GPU thing. Updated to the newest AMD drivers and I am still using 100% cpu but am now getting consistent 40-60 fps in the prologue.
I'm really glad. I was trying to tell myself it didn't matter and I'd be fine just waiting for my eventual upgrade, but I was still pretty bummed.
I'm really glad. I was trying to tell myself it didn't matter and I'd be fine just waiting for my eventual upgrade, but I was still pretty bummed.
CecilRousso
Member
Hm. The task manager shows at most 1% CPU usage on my Win7 64 bit machine with Core I7 720Q processor. That seems a bit strange (I´m really not up to date on how processors should behave nowadays).
kevm3 said:
Haha, I guess that just shows how old my machine is, The Witcher 1 was not at all a smooth experience for me. I played it again just before starting the sequel and in the last act with the fire, and the second to last act in the fields I'd get some real choppiness.
Finally got this game. I'm getting 30-40 FPS consistent on a GTX 460 and my 2500K at 4.0 ghz. I just shut off bloom , motion blur, uber sampling, light shafts and no vcync. The game looks incredible at 1080p I'm assuming the game gets way more demanding further in because that's way better than I thought.
I just shut off bloom , motion blur, uber sampling, light shafts and no vcync. The game looks incredible at 1080p I'm assuming the game gets way more demanding further in because that's way better than I thought.So i just bought the Witcher 2 today thanks to the Steam sale and am about 20 minutes in. So far i am very impressed by everything, especially the graphics. But one thing irritates me and i was wondering if any of you have found something around it.
Basically i am using the the Ultra+Config made by Boobphysics. I know the config works (already made the .ini file read only) because bloom is now not present in the game, however, i still seem to be having a lot of texture pop-in. Like foilage and characters pop-in during the first level. Is this normal?
Another thing that i seem to be experiencing is slow texture streaming during cutscenes. For example Geralt's face may look un-textured during the beginning of a conversation, but as the conversation switches from and back to Geralt, his face will then textured. I know Crysis 1 had a lot of texture streaming, but at least you could disable it. I tired looking at OP and could not find any info regarding this, so if anyone has any ideas, i would really appreciate it.
EDIT: I am adding a link to my steam profile in case anyone is curious to see what the texture streaming looks like. http://steamcommunity.com/id/kesucian/screenshots/
Basically i am using the the Ultra+Config made by Boobphysics. I know the config works (already made the .ini file read only) because bloom is now not present in the game, however, i still seem to be having a lot of texture pop-in. Like foilage and characters pop-in during the first level. Is this normal?
Another thing that i seem to be experiencing is slow texture streaming during cutscenes. For example Geralt's face may look un-textured during the beginning of a conversation, but as the conversation switches from and back to Geralt, his face will then textured. I know Crysis 1 had a lot of texture streaming, but at least you could disable it. I tired looking at OP and could not find any info regarding this, so if anyone has any ideas, i would really appreciate it.
EDIT: I am adding a link to my steam profile in case anyone is curious to see what the texture streaming looks like. http://steamcommunity.com/id/kesucian/screenshots/
Infinite_Daremo
Member
CecilRousso said:
You have a similiar spec to me. i7 M620 @2.67GHz w ATi HD5850. The CPU bottlenecks us, i don't know why, its more than capable going by the specs. Anyways, heres my config which allows me to play the game ~30fps-40fps. It only drops when there are lots of NPC's in towns but even then it should never drop below 25.
The task manager is showing that because the game is minimised i imagine, when its in that state it wont update or render thus not hogging the CPU.
Code:
[Rendering]
AllowAntialias=1
AllowBloom=0
AllowBlur=0
AllowCutsceneDOF=1
AllowDOF=0
AllowDecals=1.0
AllowMotionBlur=0
AllowRain=1
AllowSSAO=0
AllowScatterDOF=0
AllowShafts=1
AllowSharpen=1
AllowVignette=0
AtlasTextureDownscale=0
CharacterLodGameplayDownscale=0
DanglesLimiter=0
DetailTextureDownscale=0
FoliageDistanceScale=1.6
Fullscreen=1
MaxAtlasTextureSize=4096
MaxCubeShadowCount=2
MaxCubeShadowSize=2048
MaxSpotShadowCount=2
MaxSpotShadowSize=2048
MaxTextureSize=2048
MeshDistanceScale=1.6
ShadowQuality=2
ShadowedLights=2
TextureDownscale=0
TextureMemoryBudget=800
TextureTimeBudget=10
UberSampling=0
VSync=0Also lower the res to 1600x900 or 720p. Hope this helps you enjoy the game. Also remove the FPS counter, itll drive you insane.
AwesomeSauce
MagsMoonshine
Tom Penny said:Finally got this game. I'm getting 30-40 FPS consistent on a GTX 460 and my 2500K at 4.0 ghz.
I was able to run the game in the mid 30s to 40s on a gtx 260 with Light Shafts and triple buffering enabled. Enable light shafts, they are glorious.
I'm sure since your specs are superior to mine that you can enable those settings and still get a really smooth experience. Also i think chapter 1 is a good way to gauge how the game will run for you in later chapters. If you can run around Flotsam and get decent frames then you should be set.
HooYaH said:
Thanks for the info. If it does occur throughout the game it is a total immersion breaker for me -_-
knitoe said:
PC Spec is:
- i5 2500k 4.6 ghz
- Stock GTX 570
- SSD
- 8GB RAM (1600mhz if i am not mistaken)
I don't seem to experience this problem in other games, but maybe it could be just my pc or how the game is built, like HooYaH said.
I beat the game with a lower spec computer and didn't have as much of a problem with it than you did.
It's got streaming everything though, that's why theres barely any loading screens. You can either stop or ignore it/deal with it.
I'd much rather take some minor pop in (this isn't Unreal 3 engine pop-in), than have a billion loading screens any day.
It's got streaming everything though, that's why theres barely any loading screens. You can either stop or ignore it/deal with it.
I'd much rather take some minor pop in (this isn't Unreal 3 engine pop-in), than have a billion loading screens any day.
With those specs, you shouldn't be having the problem. The user guide that you are using says should have at least 1.5GB of video ram. Your card only has 1.2GB. Maybe, try lowing the mesh and foliage settings. If that doesnt help, your overclock maybe not stable. Revert to stock and test. If problem persist, reinstall drivers.Kambing said:
Gvaz said:
Yeah, i have come to realize this. I do prefer pop-ins as opposed to screen loadings but my biggest problem was probably the texture streaming which thankfully seems to have gone away when i edited the user.ini file.
knitoe said:
Yeah it's weird, i changed the vram budget in the config file from 1GB to 1.2GB and the texture streaming seems to have disappeared completely. Thanks for the help with trying to diagnose the problem, i really appreciate it =)
Recently got this game on the Steam sale, and I used the second ini configuration (the Medium-High Performance Focused one), since I have a Radeon 5770.
I got a significantly better performance with it, but I was wondering: if I make any changes in the advanced settings, will it overwrite all the changes I made on the ini file?
And if I just want to use the ini to make further additions, does anyone have any suggestions on values I can increase without sacrificing the framerate?
For reference, these are my specs:
I got a significantly better performance with it, but I was wondering: if I make any changes in the advanced settings, will it overwrite all the changes I made on the ini file?
And if I just want to use the ini to make further additions, does anyone have any suggestions on values I can increase without sacrificing the framerate?
For reference, these are my specs:
Saren is Bad
Member
I've been reading up on SLI performance, and am still confused. Changed the SLI flag and got excellent performance but had the light issue. Without the SLI flag I can't even get 60fps lock (no uber) with GTX580 SLI and 4.5Ghz 2600k.
Is still the best course of action to do the SLI flag and change the frame render in the nVidia control panel?
Is still the best course of action to do the SLI flag and change the frame render in the nVidia control panel?
I'm about to get back into this game after taking a break. I have an HD6870, and the settings I'm using right now are boobphysic's ultra+ ones. Should I stick with those, or are there better ones I should try out? The game ran pretty good with those but I wouldn't mind testing out some other settings as well.
CecilRousso
Member
What kind of CPU do you have?jvalioli said: