I'm thinking that's likely. Note how the opening cutscene before the title menu runs just fine.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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I'm thinking that's likely. Note how the opening cutscene before the title menu runs just fine.
Linked this in the downgrade thread and realized this might also be a place for it so here's a shameless self quote.
Link to post: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=164900043&postcount=7847
Link to post: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=164900043&postcount=7847
Saw this polish forum thread that might be a bit interesting.
A guy who achived some really nice results with a tweaked ini and color corrected sweetFX.
No more pastel colors, looks so much better.
Google Translated source and more images
daninthemix
Member
Welp, just did it and my clockspeeds stay at low on the desktop and during web browsing, so I guess this setting applies only to games. Going to leave it on.
I just did that (Power Management Mode > Prefer Maximum Settings, specifically for the game) and checked the core clock and memory clock while in-game
The memory clock is at 3005, but the GPU clcok is at 540 - I'm assuming that's the problem here? I turned UberSampling back on and got 28 PFS and nasty dips in the third chapter, this is definitely not the performance I had before this happened
I'm not sure what to do now.. any tips?
Edit: Fixed! Thanks for the help!
It seems I had to reset my PC after applying the settings for it to work. Do you guys recommend to apply it globally or just for the game?
Also, I've googled and it seems this is a fairly common problem with the 970 and even earlier Nvidia cards... google even completes the sentence for 970 540 mhz lol
I've even found one guy who described exactly what happened to me - playing The Witcher 2 and alt tabbing, then getting the performance drop
This is seriously good, amazing work.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
This comparison is just wow...
Definitely going to try it out.
And don't forget: AMD cards can run Hairworks
I wonder if this is what was causing my crashing this morning... Twice this morning I had nvlddmkm crash, but I had clocked 14 hours up to the first crash without any issues whatsoever, so I'm hesitant to blame my GPU (it's only factory OC'd anyway). Plus, I've never had my display driver crash in all of the three years I've owned the card.
I did just turn off adaptive power management in NVCP as per someone else's suggestion - unsure why this was on in the first place - but I can't test this until later as I'm going out.
Re quick-saving: I was doing this a lot last night and was fine but I've only just left White Orchard and the second map seems slightly more demanding in places, so I'm not sure if it's a combination of dodgy power management (due to being set to adaptive), shoddy Kepler drivers, or quick-saving.
Either way, I'll start making manual saves again and see how it goes with that and power management on maximum performance.
MaddenNFL64
Member
So I had a long playthrough friday. No stallouts, no crashes. Maybe its temporary, who knows, but I played damn near 7-8 hours in one stretch, no issues, so.... maybe its done.
One thing I did was switch off the in game AA, vsync and fps limiter, and forced it all with Radeon Pro instead, using FXAA. Game looks great, and no issues, so I think ill just follow suit.
One thing I did was switch off the in game AA, vsync and fps limiter, and forced it all with Radeon Pro instead, using FXAA. Game looks great, and no issues, so I think ill just follow suit.
m_shortpants
Member
Same here. Just finished a 3 hour session or so. No freezes or anything.
Pyramid head
Banned
I don't have access to my machine right now, but my system is:
i7 4790k
16gb 1866 DDR3
Geforce GTX 780 6gb version
Maxed out, with hairworks on, I was getting wildly fluctuating rates of 40 down to around 18 fps, with hairworks off, it averaged at about 45. Should I expect better performance than this? This is the only game I have which performs near this poorly.
I haven't had a chance to play it since release day and I havent played with the configs, so I'm not sure how much I can squeeze out of it yet.
i7 4790k
16gb 1866 DDR3
Geforce GTX 780 6gb version
Maxed out, with hairworks on, I was getting wildly fluctuating rates of 40 down to around 18 fps, with hairworks off, it averaged at about 45. Should I expect better performance than this? This is the only game I have which performs near this poorly.
I haven't had a chance to play it since release day and I havent played with the configs, so I'm not sure how much I can squeeze out of it yet.
Denton
Member
Digital Foundry full face off is out:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-face-off
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-face-off
I was wrong, consoles don't even use PC ultra textures, far from it.
Denton
Member
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Do you have a link to tweaked ini and sweetfx settings?
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Legend
CyanideFuse
Member
Other than hairworks and foliage distance then shadowing is the setting I look to turn down. If it can free up a few frames for other settings then that is great as the difference between medium and ultra isn't that big.
Check these out from Andy's nVidia guide: http://www.geforce.co.uk/whats-new/...-guide#the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-shadow-quality
Denton
Member
Can't, which is why I hinted at you doing it
I'm a bit busy at the moment, but I'm sure someone will do it.
CyanideFuse
Member
I was interested to know this but I keep forgetting to test. Thanks for the info; I think I will do the same and set "prefer maximum performance" globally as I am increasingly setting profiles with this on.
Off-topic from W3 but does any one know if applying this power management stops the GPU crashes on older games when running with an overclock? I find old games don't work too well with an overclocked GPU (to do with Maxwell architecture downclocking or something?) and I have to keep switching the OC off when playing these games.
I think I've heard about three dozen different 'fixes' for crashes that have worked for people so far. lol
I haven't had a single crash since the update to 1.03, but I'm not taking that to mean I wont still run into a rash of crashes at some point. Before, I could get like 5 crashes in an hour, and then play the next 3 hours crash-free, then a crash, then a few more hours no problem, then a few crashes, etc etc.
The only thing I've done is underclock my card(to OEM stock speeds), which I don't really know if it's helping with crashes or not, but it certainly helps with temps, which seem unusually high when playing this game.
I'm still a little scared of going into the menus at times, but I'm saving often and the game boots and loads so quickly, it honestly hasn't been as much of a hassle as it would have been otherwise.
Thanks.Glad to see you back sean, long time no see.
Been itching to talk about Witcher 3 with y'all.
Dommel
Member
I thought this was going to be supported natively by the game but sadly it's not.
I could really use a mod like that.
Dommel
Member
Has anyone else have villager's popup right around you when entering a town or village?
I rode into Crow's Perch yesterday at the slowest horse speed and although there were already a lot of villagers doing their thing a few still pop-upped left and right as I was riding through town.
That's more of a bug than a streaming/config issue right?
i7-5820K
980GTX
16GB
I rode into Crow's Perch yesterday at the slowest horse speed and although there were already a lot of villagers doing their thing a few still pop-upped left and right as I was riding through town.
That's more of a bug than a streaming/config issue right?
i7-5820K
980GTX
16GB
Haha, seriously.
Anyways, wanted to say that for those with a really good setup(970 at the very least) and aren't performance snobs, I'd really look into trying to get the game running at 4k(or at least much higher than 1080p) and locking it down to 30fps. I'm not saying you *should* do this, but I think it provides an option for those wanting something more. At 4k, it is almost like the foliage gets replaced with entirely new, higher quality assets. Pretty incredible difference how much more detail you get, along with the much cleaner image obviously.
Check out this comparison I made:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128337
Dictator93
Member
This sometimes happens for me and I am not sure why. I think they need to adjust some of their stream in stuff in a patch. The performance doesnt degrade when they are added on screen... the y just kinda.. pop in too lowly. If the game using more VRAM and RAM would solve that problem.. .I would gladly trade those two resources.
If downsampling... an interesting thing you can do to gain performanc eis turn off Hairworks MSAA sampling. You are already getting 4 subsamples for every pixel (and not just geometric edge pixels), so it could be pretty interesting to see how it performs).
I might have to check that out. I am a performance snob so I'm happier at 60fps, better foliage/IQ be damned, but yea, that sounds interesting to try out at least.
There's something that's always bothered me with Witcher 2 and 3. It's this sort of white "screendoor" pattern that pops up sometimes as textures are fading in and out. Anyone know what this is, or what I can do to get rid of it? It's pretty distracting. I mostly notice it when I'm passing through foliage.
This is what I've been trying to do with my 780 Ti, but I can't because Nvidia's crippled my balls. At 4k I get anywhere from 20-26 fps with hairworks off, shadows medium, foliage distance high and everything else maxed (grass density pushed further than ultra with the file tweak). I don't know what to turn down that won't effect image quality and the amount of foliage on the screen. If anyone has a way to run 4k 30 fps on a 780 Ti without killing too much of the graphics settings, please let me know.
Honestly if anyone has a rig that can do 4k, just do it and see what it looks like. It's absolutely incredible. Foliage looks SO much better and more defined.
Look forward to seeing what the driver updates are going to do for kepler. I somehow doubt there'll be much of an improvement. Definitely not more than 5 fps. They still need to cripple us a bit for sales purposes. My 4k 30 fps dream was dead from the beginning.
Edit: Were you running any sweetfx preset in those comparison shots by any chance? They look great.
Yea, even if you don't stick with it, it's worth doing just to see it.
Nope, vanilla TW3. It's just the specific location.
Thought I'd post for anyone with a similar setup that wants to know about performance
i7-4770S 3.1
12gb
GTX 760 3gb
Assuming I just met the minimum specs, I played the first 3 hours on low. Everything seemed decent enough. I woke up this morning and figured what the heck, I'll try to move it to high and see what happens. Much to my surprise, I've been able to maintain 28-35 fps on high (I did turn shadows down to low). I spent about an hour playing, no crashes.
i7-4770S 3.1
12gb
GTX 760 3gb
Assuming I just met the minimum specs, I played the first 3 hours on low. Everything seemed decent enough. I woke up this morning and figured what the heck, I'll try to move it to high and see what happens. Much to my surprise, I've been able to maintain 28-35 fps on high (I did turn shadows down to low). I spent about an hour playing, no crashes.
I think it's just a matter of the scalability. The lower settings just don't provide the sort of reduction in quality that is going to boost your framerate considerably.
Optimization in this game seems absolutely fine.
wanderjahr
Banned
Read the optimization guide. I'm guessing you could boost your fps by 25% by lowering some resource hog settings while keeping a similar iq. I have a 770 and get about the same framerate as you though I tailored my settings to the optimization guide.
I have seen people report a similar issue to mine in prior pages of this thread wondering if anyone found a solution for it yet. I submitted my crash log to CDPR today in hopes it will lead to a permanent fix.
Upon starting a new session of the game I see red graphical errors like tiny balls flying through the screen. Often times large squares of the screen will have a purple tint flicker in and out (this sometimes happens to geralts hair). This will continue shortly until the video image freezes but the audio will continue then ultimately crash the game with a crash log.
Only way around this I have found is to change my graphic settings to low before starting a new session and see if the errors occur if not then change back to ultra and carry on. I did this yesterday and played for hours on 1.03 with no issues afterwards.
win 8.1
4770k @ 4.2
16gb
EVGA 980 2.0 acx (no overclock)
latest nvidia driver
turned off precisionx (this caused many problems)
playing at 2560x1600 with everything maxed or near maxed
apologies if this has been asked and answered already
Upon starting a new session of the game I see red graphical errors like tiny balls flying through the screen. Often times large squares of the screen will have a purple tint flicker in and out (this sometimes happens to geralts hair). This will continue shortly until the video image freezes but the audio will continue then ultimately crash the game with a crash log.
Only way around this I have found is to change my graphic settings to low before starting a new session and see if the errors occur if not then change back to ultra and carry on. I did this yesterday and played for hours on 1.03 with no issues afterwards.
win 8.1
4770k @ 4.2
16gb
EVGA 980 2.0 acx (no overclock)
latest nvidia driver
turned off precisionx (this caused many problems)
playing at 2560x1600 with everything maxed or near maxed
apologies if this has been asked and answered already
That's graphics artifacting, usually unstable overclocks cause it, but in your case the graphics card could be defective. Try downclocking it or increasing the power limit/voltage and try again. Could also be your psu/mobo causing your gpu to be unstable, but there's a smaller chance of that being the problem.
I'm not at all a fan of that. Just leeches the colour out of it.
Dries
Member
I would love to play this game in 4K, but my single 980 just isn't enough for that. I don't really care about HairWorks, but I DO want every slider at Ultra. I you really want 4K and Ultra settings I'd think you'd need at least a 980 SLI setup. Or a Titan X? All I know is my single 980 isn't enough.
Right now I'm playing at 2804 x 1577, all Ultra settings and no HairWorks on a 1440p monitor. Looks great and grants me a capped 40 fps (G-sync).
Right now I'm playing at 2804 x 1577, all Ultra settings and no HairWorks on a 1440p monitor. Looks great and grants me a capped 40 fps (G-sync).
God bless you and your reshade, Drogean. This is at 4k. 20 fps :'(.....
BUYING 10 FPS! BUYING 10 FPS! ANYONE SELLING?
Eww, too washed out.
I would consider it but the clues dont lead me to a hardware defect seeing how I can somehow play the game at 2560x1600 on ultra and then have zero issues for like 6+ hours after fiddling with settings and somehow making the problem go away. If this was a hardware issue then it should have presented itself again in that 6 plus hours of intensive usage.