The Witcher 2: Performance Thread [Enhanced Edition Patch - New content & 100+ fixes]
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Yeah, on Ultra, but it goes down pretty hard whenever an enemy shows up (around 18 or so), not worth it. I'm also just playing on 1280x720Kyaw said:
But Very High is about 400, if that's too high, wouldn't 1000 break my GPU in half? Seriously the game has one shitty config screen if you have to fiddle with the .ini. But as I said, I'm perfectly fine with "High" texture memory budget, I barely notice the texture streaming.
But I suppose I could try it out
. But isn't 1000 too high a setting for 1gB of vram?For those wondering, I have turned SSAO and Bloom off (looks way better that way
!)Edit: What really confuses me though is the fact that I get worse framerate using lower texture memory allocation. Is that because my CPU has to work harder or something?
vexvegaz said:i envy you guys pulling those 80+ FPS
hopefully in june when i can get my second 570 ill reach 80+ with some oc'ing
Why would it matter if you could pull ~60? I mean for me it's just a case of getting the most you can get out of the system, be that 60fps or 600fps I'll still cap it at 60.
Salaadin said:
Yeah I hear ya man, I figure myself a guy with a good eye when it comes to fps and all that but there are a couple of games where I've had a hard time discerning infrequent dips, Crysis 1 and witcher 2 are two of those.
Just like you I couldn't notice the dips from say 60 to 50 or w/e in witcher 2 unless I had a counter up for other reasons, but in a game like SF4 or something when it goes from 60 to 55 you die inside.
vexvegaz said:
Oh no doubt, I mean of course if you're running a game in the 100-200fps bracket you won't ever feel like the game is crawling, but hover around 60fps and it can get dangerous depending on the game. I just like you have that curse of finding enjoyment with high numbers but when it comes to for example tw2 I wouldn't be envious per se if people could run the game on the same settings but get 80 fps vs whatever.
Corky said:
Yeah. Some games just feel so jarring when the fps drops. Crysis was the same way for me too....fps varies alot but I dont really notice it. I wonder why that is.
Screen tearing is the worst thing in any game, imo. Its the main reason why I keep Vsync on (thru d3doverrider mostly)regardless of what Im playing. I think I hate tearing more than fps drops.
Gully State
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From reading these impressions, I'm kinda glad I didn't dive head first into the patching train. The extra frames aren't worth not being able to scroll text with the gamepad..
Salaadin said:
I think I read somewhere that in certain games the motion blur will somehow "hide" slight drops in fps. Could be wrong though.
True that, agree 100%, if we're to take it to the extremes I'd rather have 30fps triple buffered than 60+ fps and tearing out the ass. Thank god for triplebuffering. Out of the probably 100 games or so I've tried with d3doverrider only :
a) gta 4
b) valve-games
Give me trouble, GTA much more than the others. The load times go from 15 s to like 4 minutes. And in the valve-games the induced mouselagg is sadly that much more noticeably when enabling triplebuffering.
Corky said:
I agree on all accounts.
I have the same issues with Valve games. Crysis and Warhead 64bit wont work in d3doverrider at all for some reason. I have to use the in game option.
NyxQuest and Terraria wont boot at all unless I set them up in d3doverrider to "No Detection" but theyre the only 2 games I had to do that for.
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Corky said:
That map is so useless, but thats a good thing because it teaches you to remember the area in your mind.
Blast Processing
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Admittedly, I haven't tried playing with a pad, but KB&M is second nature. I like being able to just hit 8 for Quen, 5 for Aard, 7 for Igni, etc. Are there enough buttons on the pad to include the medallion and adrenaline functions?
The region map is useless, but I don't have a problem with the local map. Without it labeling shops and crafters I'd be hopelessly lost.
The region map is useless, but I don't have a problem with the local map. Without it labeling shops and crafters I'd be hopelessly lost.
As a new PC gamer, this combat was a nightmare with a kb+m on this game. Keys too far, wasd wasn't helping dodging and moving between enemies, yadda yadda, (ctrl was mega uncomfortable, for example), but the gamepad was perfect. Hopefully the analog menu glitch is fixed before I start actually playing (I was just tweaking and configuring before).
thetrin said:
Fucking chapter 3 and it's map (No, more like, fucking chapter 3!). I literally spent like a whole hour trying to get to where i wanted to go.
Easy_D said:Yeah, on Ultra, but it goes down pretty hard whenever an enemy shows up (around 18 or so), not worth it. I'm also just playing on 1280x720
But Very High is about 400, if that's too high, wouldn't 1000 break my GPU in half? Seriously the game has one shitty config screen if you have to fiddle with the .ini. But as I said, I'm perfectly fine with "High" texture memory budget, I barely notice the texture streaming.
But I suppose I could try it out
For those wondering, I have turned SSAO and Bloom off (looks way better that way
Edit: What really confuses me though is the fact that I get worse framerate using lower texture memory allocation. Is that because my CPU has to work harder or something?
1000 shouldn't break shit as long as you have a GPU with 1gb or more.
I thought you were playing it at 1080p. I was getting 60fps with 720p with everything maxed out minus uber.
I bought GOG version (my retail CE can go fuck itself, the patch doesn't want to install) and downloading it at the moment.
Should I patch it with day 0 patch or is it already patched?
I don't know if I should patch it with 1.1 though. I don't play with gamepad, are there any good fixes?
Also I have the latest ATI "fix", does it ruin bloom for everybody or some specific cards? I have 6950.
Should I patch it with day 0 patch or is it already patched?
I don't know if I should patch it with 1.1 though. I don't play with gamepad, are there any good fixes?
Also I have the latest ATI "fix", does it ruin bloom for everybody or some specific cards? I have 6950.
Kabuki Waq
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right now i have a Single 5870 i am thinking of getting another one for this game. After the AMD hotfix how is the framerate for 5870 CF?
Corky said:
No, I don't have a problem with the way it looks but it takes off around 5-10 FPS for me while I keep the same framerate with 4x on the NVIDIA control panel. I don't really think AA is working though cause there isn't a difference between it being off and the AA off in game when it's on by itself.