Nvidia says they're working on drivers to improve performance for the 600 and 700 series.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Nvidia says they're working on drivers to improve performance for the 600 and 700 series.
the device manager does read the card as a 970, my CPU is an i5 3330... I had a 670 before getting the 970 and I was getting better performance. I'm guessing the power supply is not supplying enough.
I'll double check that again
The lower settings have some SLIGHT shimmer / artifacting in spots, usually visible in cutscenes or up close (like under character's chins). Ultra-> high will save you like 3-5 FPS though, and the difference is miniscule.
I thnk this game has the best open-world shadow quality I've ever seen. Almost every other game I can think of on this scale has shit-ass blocky shadows that jitter along everything they touch, GTAV and Watch Dogs are prime offenders in that regard.
matrixman92
Member
well, thats a first. Went to turn in a quest and it made my entire computer freeze. Could still hear game music, but the game minimized and I couldnt do anything.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Check my previous posts in this thread same issue with Sli 980s also.
Hmm if I can get at least 5+ more frames with my 660, I'll be really happy. Gotta last with this card until Fall 2016.
Wag
Member
Understatement of the year.
The fact that I'm running 3 Titans and I'm struggling to get 30FPS @ 4k says a lot about the latest set of drivers.
ss_lemonade
Member
So I'm doing this well mission now (Devil by the Well contract) and holy crap is the well area destroying my 780. I have foliage, shadows and grass at high and I'm hitting < 40fps at 1920x1080. I even dropped to fricking 1280x800 and it still can't hold a constant 60fps. 1280x800, on a 780!
MrRoflWaffles
Member
Whoa, really? That's.. really strange. Wouldn't expect quicksaving to be the problem, but maybe there's something that process that is bugged somehow I guess?
Will try this, thanks for the HU
Kamina
Golden Boy
Did you try setting max pre-rendered frames to 1?
Slackbladder
Member
Only time I ever got stuttering with my 980 was after the last patch when the display was changed to windowed borderless. I changed back to fullscreen and it went away.
Seriously though, unless you have a crossfire setup, wtf do you need them for? The game runs fine for AMD users.
Thats exactly whyy!! lol
This recent AMD video says that 16x tesselation on hairworks looks the same as 64x tesselation. I'm on a gtx 780, is there a way to edit the hairworks settings down to 16x to test performance?
Here is a link for AMD users on how to do this, but is there something similar nvidia users can do using the nvidia control panel?
Here is a link for AMD users on how to do this, but is there something similar nvidia users can do using the nvidia control panel?
Oh. Welp.
Hey teammates
Hope somebody might like this reshade im putting together.
I've been trying to mimic the old screenshots
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Hope somebody might like this reshade im putting together.
I've been trying to mimic the old screenshots
Album Here
Its based on this sweetFX here here
Download here
SoraanTribal
Member
I really wish someone would make a mod for Playstation button layouts lol
Fahrenheit
Banned
Few things to check
Check to make sure it seated in the PCIe slot correctly.
Make sure the PCIe power cables are plugged in to the card.
Install the correct drivers? Google Display Driver Uninstaller, run it, install fresh drivers
Any other dirvers having issues? Check your device manager to see if you have anything labeled "unknown device".
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
This didn't fix the issue but actually exacerbated it for me.
JudgmentJay
Member
That's real neato.
So I've began to notice a stutter tonight in some areas when walking forward. It's weird because the stutter seems to occur in exact intervals and only when moving forward.
However, this stutter only occurs when Foliage Visibility Range is set to Ultra. If I knock this setting down to High, the stutter disappears completely. I also gain about 5 frames per second or so when I knock this down to High, but I would gladly give those frames up to play with this setting at Ultra. Hope this is something that they would fix in a patch.
However, this stutter only occurs when Foliage Visibility Range is set to Ultra. If I knock this setting down to High, the stutter disappears completely. I also gain about 5 frames per second or so when I knock this down to High, but I would gladly give those frames up to play with this setting at Ultra. Hope this is something that they would fix in a patch.
robotzombie
Member
i5, GTX780 here...how ultra can i go and still maintain 60 FPS?
Also, is there a new Nvidia driver for this game I should update to? The last one I did was for Wolfenstein Old Blood
Also, is there a new Nvidia driver for this game I should update to? The last one I did was for Wolfenstein Old Blood
Mad Season
Banned
with settings all at ultra and high (texture quality is ultra), why is this castle missing textures at this distance? GTX 980, latest drivers.
I'm running a 970 at 1080 and near ultra everything and getting 60 near 100% off the time. I even am able to turn on Hairworks. Hairworks gives me a noticeable hit once you go indoors, but after an initial hit I still average mid-50s even then. Only things I turned down where foliage distance to high, shadow quality down a notch and a couple other nearly unnoticeable settings. If you turn off Hairworks, you should be able to hit 60 consistently all the time no issue. I just leave it on since I'm a sucker for hair tech. It makes Gerald's beard in particular look amazing in closeups, so that's worth the performance hit for me. YMMV, of course.
Leatherface
Member
Hey teammates
Hope somebody might like this reshade im putting together.
I've been trying to mimic the old screenshots
Album Here
Its based on this sweetFX here here
Download here
That actually looks pretty impressive. I'll def try it out. Thanks!
You're going to be very happy! I'm running at 60fps with a mixture of high and ultra settings.
Nope
I haven't hit any pre-rendered in game stuff since 1.03, but the load screen cutscenes are still hitchy as hell for me. Could it have something to do with loading behind the scenes or some sort?
daninthemix
Member
The number of games I've heard "set power to Prefer Maximum Performance" is making me want to just set it and forget it globally.
Any downsides to this? Will the GPU still downclock when idle on the desktop?
Any downsides to this? Will the GPU still downclock when idle on the desktop?
justsomeguy
Member
Is this the issue where the cut scene runs fine for a second, then "lags" really badly then goes smooth then lags, over and over at the same interval (~1 second) all the way thru? Just started the game and that was unbearable.
Thanks both. It should be here in an hour, gotta love DPD delivery with live tracking.
I'd really like Hairworks on so I'll see if I can get acceptable performance with it on otherwise a solid 60 without sounds good.
It sucks that Hairworks is such a resource hog because it looks so good in dialogue closeups. The big hit I notice using it on a 970 is like a half second dip to sub-30 when I first enter a building and it switches from the "world" model of Geralt to the more detailed interior model. After that, performance is near perfect for me. I am using the overclocked EVGA SSC model, though, so other cards may get a slightly bigger hit.
I'm getting the EVGA SC ACX 2.0 so just a regular superclock. Not a super super
Are you using the HairworksAA ini edit?
I'm getting the EVGA SC ACX 2.0 so just a regular superclock. Not a super super
Are you using the HairworksAA ini edit?
I haven't touched the ini stuff. A bit much for me, but I might give it a look. I've only tweaked a few menu settings to get a stable frame rate.
Arent open world games like this more cpu heavy then gpu? Luckily for me I got a cpu just as good as my gpu
Witcher 3 doesn't really push my 4690k at all. I get maybe just over 50% load on all cores during the most intensive moments.
Really? WTF lol. I keep reading and hearing people say that an open world game is more cpu heavy. Doesn't bother me but ok :/
Every game and every game engine is completely different, that's why