Mad Season
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No, other than ultra stores all the textures in memory instead of loading them on the fly
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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SinSilla
Member
Dito, very annoying. Same as the sweetfx toggle.
CambriaRising
Member
Witcher 2 wouldn't let me either.
Felix Lighter
Member
I've finally had an opportunity to play. So far it has run very well for me. No crashes or serious bugs after 6 hours. So far so good.
Would High textures make loading times better?
Chrizzy_81
Member
Had some initial crashes, before realising I hadn't updated to the latest nvidia drivers. Doh. Running nicely now though. Fairly steady at 1080p locked 30 fps on a very modest rig of a8 5500 and 750ti mostly medium settings some high. Pretty impressed!
Thank you. Turning on Fraps worked. I don't know why I hadn't thought of that myself since that is like the #1 culprit for crashes on startup in any game.
It works now and it even says that it loaded the configuration but I don't see any difference to vanilla W3.
Is there a keyboard key I need to hit toggle it on and off?
Denton
Member
I have Logitech k400 and I can modify volume ingame in both Witcher 2 and 3.
Thank you. Turning on Fraps worked. I don't know why I hadn't thought of that myself since that is like the #1 issue for crashes on startup in any game.
It works now and it even says that it loaded the configuration but I don't see any difference to vanilla W3.
Is there a keyboard key I need to hit toggle it on and off?
There is a toggle key, but it isn't working with Witcher 3 at the moment.
Try alt tab to see if you can spot the difference (when you alt tab and return to the game, ReShade reloads).
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
The Witch Hunters outpost is giving me very bad performance, the frame rate is all over the place, whereas I'm getting 60fps locked everywhere else, there's no reason for it as it's inside and there's no one even here.
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It's the building where you face Menge
I set it to global at first but it was not far from working at full clock and at 39 temp compared to 30-34 when idling before so I turned it off and set it only for the game again
Hopefully it won't happen again!
Mad Season
Banned
God bless you and your reshade, Drogean. This is at 4k. 20 fps :'(.....
BUYING 10 FPS! BUYING 10 FPS! ANYONE SELLING?
looks too washed out
the card is seated correcty in the PCIe slot. the pcie power cables are indeed plugged in to the card. the correct drivers are installed (I ran DDU and reinstalled just to be sure). no other drivers are having issues...
I also installed evga Precision X16. My GPU is stucked at 135MHz. I can make it run at max, but clicking the "kboost" option, but unfortunately once a game starts it goes back to 135 MHz.. I have a 500W Corsair power supply. I'm thinking the cpu is getting all the power and starving the gpu.. maybe :'(
STILLethal
Member
Edit: nvm, figure it out
wanderjahr
Banned
God bless you and your reshade, Drogean. This is at 4k. 20 fps :'(.....
BUYING 10 FPS! BUYING 10 FPS! ANYONE SELLING?
Did you take that after taking a cat potion?
Piercedveil
Member
Is the .bak file in my documents the file I want to be messing with primarily? I noticed a bunch of .ini files in the game's directory as well.
Made a comparison between grass density on Ultra (2400 in the ini file) vs 3600. It's a subtle difference and the performance hit is fairly small.
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128390
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128390
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
Is anyone else dropping FPS when using bombs? Every time I use Northen Wind for example it jolts down to the low 50s for a split second, it's very jarring.
Sorry if it's been asked but did you install it via Reshade and then rename Reshade64.dll to dxgi.dll? That's the only way it worked for me (plus disable any overlays like Fraps of Rivatuner). Good luck.
Yeah I'm trying to get this preset to work: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=164891007&postcount=5323
The contents in the zip file are these:
So it should be just drag and drop in the x64 folder since the dll is already renamed.
I even get the message in the upper left corner that ReShade is loaded but the graphics remain unchanged.
I can't tell if you're trolling lol! It looks like a cell phone picture man...I'm sorry.
billmcdougal
Member
Ouch.
Ouuuch.Maybe his monitor settings are just really dark?
ENJOY UR FLAT CARTOONY PASTEL PAINTING THEN! *Runs away crying*
billmcdougal
Member
Ouch.
Preference is obviously subjective though. Nothing wrong with you happening to like that color palette / white balance.
Yeah I'm trying to get this preset to work: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=164891007&postcount=5323
The contents in the zip file are these:
So it should be just drag and drop in the x64 folder since the dll is already renamed.
I even get the message in the upper left corner that ReShade is loaded but the graphics remain unchanged.
Are you on Windows 8.1 by any chance? Some people are reporting reshade does not work on 8.1
Also try this instead, updated version
http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/23/
SinSilla
Member
I haven't done that much, you can see the changes in bold below. This is how it looks like.
Code:
[Gameplay/EntityPool]
SpawnedLimit=150
[Hidden]
HasSetup=true
uiVerticalFrameScale=1
uiHorizontalFrameScale=1
[Localization]
SpeechLanguage=DE
TextLanguage=DE
Subtitles=false
[Viewport]
VSync=false
Resolution="2560x1440"
FullScreenMode=2
VSyncThreshold=0
OutputMonitor=-1
[Hud]
HudSize=0
[Budget]
cvMaxAllowedLightsShadowTime=1
cvMaxAllowedApexDestroTickedTime=0.2
cvMaxAllowedGrass=30000
cvMaxAllowedDecalsDynamic=10
cvMaxAllowedDynMeshes=104857600
cvMaxAllowedChunksSkinnedTime=2.5
cvMaxAllowedTrianglesSkinned=100000
cvMaxAllowedDecalsSSTime=0.1
cvMaxAllowedLightsShadow=3
TerrainTileMipDataBudget=100
cvMaxAllowedApexTicked=60
cvMaxAllowedActiveEnvProbesTime=0.1
cvMaxAllowedStatTextures=314572800
cvMaxAllowedSpeedTree=5000
cvMaxAllowedLightsNonShadowsTime=0.2
cvMaxAllowedSpeedTreeTime=2.2
cvMaxAllowedChunksStatic=1500
cvMaxAllowedTrianglesStatic=500000
cvMaxAllowedHiresChunks=25
cvMaxAllowedDecalsDynamicTime=0.5
cvMaxAllowedLightsNonShadows=40
cvMaxAllowedChunksStaticTime=1.5
cvMaxAllowedChunksSkinned=400
cvMaxAllowedApexDestroTicked=20
cvMaxAllowedStatMeshes=209715200
TerrainTileMinTimeout=2
cvMaxAllowedHiresChunksTime=0.2
cvMaxAllowedApexTickedTime=0.5
cvMaxAllowedCharTextures=209715200
cvMaxAllowedParticlesCountTime=0.2
cvMaxAllowedParticlesCount=1000
cvMaxAllowedGrassTime=1.5
TerrainTileTimeout=10
OcclusionQueryAdditionalMemory=5
TerrainTileLoadingTimeout=5
cvMaxAllowedDecalsSS=160
[Audio]
Subtitles=false
[LoadingScreen/TCR]
ShowProgress=true
[Game]
DoNotPauseWhileStopped=false
[PostProcess]
SharpenAmount=0
MotionBlurPositionTreshold=0.05
MotionBlurRotationTreshold=1
AllowAntialias=false
SSAOSolution=2
[Input]
PadVibrationEnabled=true
KeyboardCooldownSpeed=0.1
InvertCameraXOnMouse=false
InvertCameraYOnMouse=false
CameraAutoRotX=true
InvertCameraX=false
UIMouseSensitivity=0.3
CameraAutoRotY=true
RightStickCameraSensitivity=1
InvertCameraY=false
RightStickAimSensitivity=1
MouseSensitivity=0.3
[DLC]
DlcEnabled_dlc_001_001=1
DlcEnabled_dlc_002_001=1
[Gameplay]
Difficulty=3
[LevelOfDetail]
SwarmHideDistance=200
DecalsHideDistance=80
DimmerHideDistance=60
DynamicDecalsHideDistance=20
StripeHideDistance=60
[General]
ConfigVersion=1
[LoadingScreen/Editor]
Disabled=false
[LoadingOverlay/TCR]
FadeOutCooldownExtraTime=1
FadeInSpinnerTime=1
NoninteractiveSpinnerTime=3
FadeOutSpinnerTime=1
NoninteractiveEndCooldown=1
[Visuals]
InventoryBgColorScaleB=0.036
InventoryFixedLuminance=0.25
InventoryBgColorScaleG=0.034
MovieFramerate=30
GammaValue=1.48
InventoryBgColorScaleR=0.02
[Rendering]
[B]GrassDensity=3600[/B]
DecalsSpawnDistanceCutoff=10
TextureStreamingHeadsDistanceLimit=10
GlobalOceanTesselationFactor=64
TextureStreamingCharacterDistanceLimit=50
CascadeShadowFadeTreshold=1
[B]CascadeShadowDistanceScale2=3[/B]
MaxTextureAnizotropy=8
TextureStreamingDistanceLimit=40000
TextureMemoryBudget=800
CascadeShadowDistanceScale3=1.5
MeshLODDistanceScale=1
ScaleformTextureUnstreamDelay=2.5
DecalsChance=1
TerrainReadAheadDistance=200
HairWorksLevel=0
MaxTextureAnisotropy=16
TerrainScreenSpaceErrorThreshold=1.6
MaxTerrainShadowAtlasCount=4
HardwareCursor=true
TextureInFlightCountBudget=12
TerrainErrorMetricMultiplier=6
CascadeShadowmapSize=3072
[B]CascadeShadowDistanceScale0=2[/B]
MeshRenderingDistanceScale=1.5
CascadeShadowQuality=1
[B]CascadeShadowDistanceScale1=2[/B]
[Input/Gestures]
EnableSwipe=true
EnablePan=true
EnableGestures=true
EnablePinch=true
[LoadingScreen]
FadeInTime=3
SkipShowWithAnyKey=true
GameRevealTime=3
SkipHideDelay=3
SkipInputDelay=0.25
FadeOutTime=1.5
SkipAutoshow=false
[Engine]
LimitFPS=0
[Rendering/SpeedTree]
[B]GrassGenerationEfficiency=0.001[/B]
GrassDistanceScale=1.5
FoliageDistanceScale=1.8
[B]FoliageShadowDistanceScale=108[/B]
GrassRingSize=16777216
[Save]
ShowCompatWarning=true
[Kinect]
Kinect=true
[Foliage]
MaxVisibilityDepth=24I'm on 8.1 and your reshade works fine for me. Amazing work by the way. I love it.
jacksepticeye
Member
Vegetated areas in this game are gorgeous. Novigrad looks pretty crappy at times though, it's really flat and bland.
finalflame
Banned
Guys -- this is driving me insane. The game will NOT let me set it to Fullscreen anymore. I select it, confirm, and it just goes right back to Borderless Window. What the fuck is happening? Has anyone else had this issue? I've tried uninstalling the user.settings, and entirely deleting that folder while keeping my save games, but nothing seems to do it
wanderjahr
Banned
RIP mobile users
Chrizzy_81
Member
I take that all back. after an hour or so of steady performance, I kept getting freezes constantly and a noise akin to being ripped out of the matrix. Rolling back to the GTA V driver seems to have fixed it though.
Guys -- this is driving me insane. The game will NOT let me set it to Fullscreen anymore. I select it, confirm, and it just goes right back to Borderless Window. What the fuck is happening? Has anyone else had this issue? I've tried uninstalling the user.settings, and entirely deleting that folder while keeping my save games, but nothing seems to do it
For some reason the window (game exe in taskbar) has to be clicked after launching. It's a strange glitch that needs to be addressed imo.
Mango Positive
Member
I am having the same issue. Annoying.Guys -- this is driving me insane. The game will NOT let me set it to Fullscreen anymore. I select it, confirm, and it just goes right back to Borderless Window. What the fuck is happening? Has anyone else had this issue? I've tried uninstalling the user.settings, and entirely deleting that folder while keeping my save games, but nothing seems to do it
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Ok just double checked by disabling SLI: I get the same performance with SLI enabled as I do with it disabled. SLI is completely broken right now.
I'm using the SLI bits from the latest Nvidia update but I'm not using the latest Nvidia drivers because they're so unstable that they BSOD my computer on load up. Not that I think that matters as I tried the game with the latest drivers this morning and had the same problem of SLI not working.
I'm using the SLI bits from the latest Nvidia update but I'm not using the latest Nvidia drivers because they're so unstable that they BSOD my computer on load up. Not that I think that matters as I tried the game with the latest drivers this morning and had the same problem of SLI not working.
BrassDragon
Member
Guys -- this is driving me insane. The game will NOT let me set it to Fullscreen anymore. I select it, confirm, and it just goes right back to Borderless Window. What the fuck is happening? Has anyone else had this issue? I've tried uninstalling the user.settings, and entirely deleting that folder while keeping my save games, but nothing seems to do it
Are you using GeForce Experience? It defaults Witcher III settings back to what it considers optimal at every boot-up. You can go into its Preferences menu to switch it off.
finalflame
Banned
Thanks guys. I jumped the gun and just reinstalled the entire fucking game, so it's downloading now (150mbit internet, so not a bother).
That said, glad to know I'm not alone. I'll try these solutions once it's reinstalled.
Where in GeForce experience is that? I disabled "Automatically scan for games daily" and "Recommend optimal settings", but can't see a preference to disable auto-setting optimal settings.
I rolled back my drivers (GTAv set) to try to combat the crashes and got the exact same performance.
970 here too.
I haven't compared them post 1.03 though.
tycoonheart
Member
Me too. It's driving me nuts.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Is it possible to roll back Witcher 3 to patch 1.02?
Feels like SLI got fucked by 1.03.
Feels like SLI got fucked by 1.03.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Guys can anyone give more suggestions on how to eliminate stutter/hitching/judder that occurs during camera or character movement even with above 60 fps on a GSync 144hz monitor and a SLI 980 set up? Game is installed on a SSD. Tried the following without fixing it:
- Disabling Sli
- Enable triple buffering
- Experimenting with different VSync options, GSync still best option
- Tried borderless fullscreen, even worse
- Capping frames at 60
- setting pre-rendered frames to 1 in Nvidia control panel
- Changing all graphics settings to low, fps goes much higher at 144 but judder/stuttering still there
- trying different refresh rates
When I move the camera there is a noticeable ghosting effect/after image that doesn't occur on other games like GTA5 or Ground zeroes and the camera movement doesn't feel smooth, there is a separate issue that causes stutter when moving, I suspect this is related to streaming though... Maybe you all have this but I'm just more sensitive to it?
- Disabling Sli
- Enable triple buffering
- Experimenting with different VSync options, GSync still best option
- Tried borderless fullscreen, even worse
- Capping frames at 60
- setting pre-rendered frames to 1 in Nvidia control panel
- Changing all graphics settings to low, fps goes much higher at 144 but judder/stuttering still there
- trying different refresh rates
When I move the camera there is a noticeable ghosting effect/after image that doesn't occur on other games like GTA5 or Ground zeroes and the camera movement doesn't feel smooth, there is a separate issue that causes stutter when moving, I suspect this is related to streaming though... Maybe you all have this but I'm just more sensitive to it?
Phanatic8390
Member
This might be a better spot to ask this than the OT.
Has anyone installed the DRM free version from GOG, not using Galaxy? How big was the download? Patching require downloading separate .EXEs like the pre-Steam days?
Not sure I want to bother with Galaxy for just one game.
Has anyone installed the DRM free version from GOG, not using Galaxy? How big was the download? Patching require downloading separate .EXEs like the pre-Steam days?
Not sure I want to bother with Galaxy for just one game.
finalflame
Banned
I've definitely noticed this on and off. It's a shame you're experiencing it with such a beastly rig. I have the same setup, but instead of a 144hz G-Sync monitor it seems to happen on both a 1080p60 TV and a 1440p/120hz Korean IPS monitor.
I have a feeling it must be there for everyone, and people's sensitivity just varies. I go back and forth between noticing it and not noticing it :/
Edit: Holy FUCKING SHIT. Even after reinstalling the game, deleting the Documents\The Witcher 3 folder, unplugging secondary monitor, shutting down GeForce Experience, and making sure I have selected TW3 icon in the taskbar, I STILL CANNOT FUCKING SET FULLSCREEN. What is happening?!
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Arg, it's really frustrating me to no end. I think once you notice you start to focus on it and it just gets worse and worse.