BrassDragon
Member
It's below that in Preferences, there's a submenu called Games then 'Automatically apply optimal settings'
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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It's below that in Preferences, there's a submenu called Games then 'Automatically apply optimal settings'
finalflame
Member
This doesn't fix it :/ This piece of shit game still reverts to Borderless Fullscreen EVERY time I try to set full screen. I have no clue what's going on, this is literally one of the most infuriating things I have ever dealt with.
What an absolute Shitshow this game has been since launch. At the beginning I was at least able to play for like 2 hours, since then it only takes like 10 seconds till it crashes, if it decides to let me start it at all.
Tried god knows how many settings etc. Think i'm done with it for now. Let's wait for the next patch. They are lucky that i can't sell my Steam games otherwise i would probably just do that.
Tried god knows how many settings etc. Think i'm done with it for now. Let's wait for the next patch. They are lucky that i can't sell my Steam games otherwise i would probably just do that.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
Does anyone know a full list of console commands available for the game? Or at least how to change the timescale?
finalflame
Member
So moving my resolution to 1920x1080 and then making it fullscreen works. I can then set 2560x1440 and it stays in fullscreen. But if I alt+tab out of and back into the game, or restart the game, it's back to fucking borderless fullscreen.
Borderless fullscreen butchers about 10-20fps in the game for me. This is driving me mad. Does anyone else have any ideas?
Borderless fullscreen butchers about 10-20fps in the game for me. This is driving me mad. Does anyone else have any ideas?
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Is there something in cheat engine or a mod available for changing weather? Trying to take some screenies and that confoundin rain is gettin the way of my shoot!
My GTX 590 runs this game like crap. I was getting about 40 frames maxed on Witcher 2 and now I'm getting between 10-20 frames in the intro area of the game. Not sure if SLI is working or not with my card (probably not). Anyone have any suggestions? What settings can I try to change without majorly sacrificing the visuals?
finalflame
Member
This is without gameworks am i right?
Probably. Just tested and, in the same exact spot, I am getting 108fps at Ultra w/o HairWorks, but everything else absolutely maxed, 1080p.
89fps with HairWorks set to "On", everything else the same.
i5-4670K, 16gb RAM, 2xGTX 980 SLi stock clocks.
To get solid 60 fps 1080p uber w/gameworks i would need a titan x then?
That is almost definitely *with* Hairworks.
This is without gameworks am i right?
EDIT: Ok, maybe not.
finalflame
Member
Ultra is as high as the game goes, apart from from custom .INI tweaks that are not yet well documented.
A TitanX could probably run the game w/ HairWorks at 1080p relatively close to 60. SLi 980s, I believe, perform about 20-40% better than a single TitanX depending on the application.
I dunno, I have the exact same setup with 16gb of RAM and an i5 instead of an i7, and in a non-demanding scene with HairWorks on I get ~90fps. I really doubt this includes HairWorks. My processor/RAM difference would not generate a significant difference from the test system they used.
I am extremely happy with the visuals and performance on my 970 GTX with i5 4690:
Running at a solid 60fps @ 1080p
HBAO+
AA on
Bloom on
DOF
ff
Detail: ultra
Grass: High
light shafts: High
background NPCs: High
hairworks: off
Shadows: high
terrain: ultra
texture: high
water: ultra
Running at a solid 60fps @ 1080p
HBAO+
AA on
Bloom on
DOF
ffDetail: ultra
Grass: High
light shafts: High
background NPCs: High
hairworks: off
Shadows: high
terrain: ultra
texture: high
water: ultra
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
At 2560x1080 with an i5 4670k and 970, I've had a surprisingly difficult time staying at even high settings at a fairly stable 60fps. It's not THAT much of a resolution increase, but jeez.
j0hnny_385
Member
So Borderless Windowed or Fullscreen? What do you recommend?
AFAIK, BW gives you Triple Buffering, right?
Running a Gigabyte GTX 970 G1, i5-4670K @ 3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, SSD, Win 8.1
AFAIK, BW gives you Triple Buffering, right?
Running a Gigabyte GTX 970 G1, i5-4670K @ 3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, SSD, Win 8.1
I am extremely happy with the visuals and performance on my 970 GTX with i5 4690:
Running at a solid 60fps @ 1080p
HBAO+
AA on
Bloom on
DOF
Detail: ultra
Grass: High
light shafts: High
background NPCs: High
hairworks: off
Shadows: high
terrain: ultra
texture: high
water: ultra
You can go higher than that. Leaving hairworks off, shadows and foliage distance on high is enough for you.
finalflame
Member
I don't have any noticeable frame time issues in Fullscreen, and it gives me ~15fps more than Borderless WIndowed. I really dislike BW for the performance hit.
Im running full screen with the settings i posted above. I'm very happy with how the game performs.
VindictiveGnome
Member
I'm pretty happy with the performance I'm getting from my 770 4gb and FX 8350. Hairworks if off and everything is just about on ultra. It was getting around 35ish fps, but I just went ahead and locked it to 30 fps.
higher on which settings? My monitor is only 1080p
Made my peace with:
1440p
30fps lock
Everything on ultra but shadows (high)
Hairworks on
GrassDensity 3600
Hairworks AA: 4x (doesn't help much, but I can't tell the difference from 4x to 8x anyway)
Never goes below 30f fps, and the game looks amazing. The higher resolution really helps to smooth all the foliage.
i5 4460, gtx 970, 8 GB.
Every setting with the exception of shadows and foliage distance, which should stay on high. And hairworks off, of course. 1080p is about right for 60 fps.
1440p
30fps lock
Everything on ultra but shadows (high)
Hairworks on
GrassDensity 3600
Hairworks AA: 4x (doesn't help much, but I can't tell the difference from 4x to 8x anyway)
Never goes below 30f fps, and the game looks amazing. The higher resolution really helps to smooth all the foliage.
i5 4460, gtx 970, 8 GB.
Every setting with the exception of shadows and foliage distance, which should stay on high. And hairworks off, of course. 1080p is about right for 60 fps.
TheTurboFD
Member
has anyone messed with the engine settings?
I've tried
Setting Ubersampling = 1
maxtexturesize = 4096 instead of 2048
allowMSAA= 1
MSAAsample = 1
and I haven't seen a difference really :/ Ubersampling and MSAA were set to 0 but switching them to 1 made no difference.
I've tried
Setting Ubersampling = 1
maxtexturesize = 4096 instead of 2048
allowMSAA= 1
MSAAsample = 1
and I haven't seen a difference really :/ Ubersampling and MSAA were set to 0 but switching them to 1 made no difference.
Lockjaw333
Member
Came across a level 15 bear as a level 5. Decided to challenge him, was an epic fight that lasted at least a few minutes.
For some reason I decided to turn hairworks on in the middle of the fight to see how the bear looked. WELP, there goes my 60fps. It looks so freaking incredible. I feel like I need to have this on. ..
Think they said they haven't activated ubersampling yet and will do so sometime in the future. And MSAA should be set to 2 (or 4 and 8) but I think that isn't working either. The only MSAA that is functional right now is the hairworks one I believe.
Slackbladder
Member
GOG Galaxy really isn't vey good. Decided to download to my laptop to give the game a try (not expecting much) and then clicked install. GOG then decided to re-download the game for some unknown reason. I found the folder and clicked the install application there instead. Why the hell did it want to re-download 26GB of data when I simply needed to install the game from the data I had? Didn't have this problem on my desktop.
Alright, very surprised how well the game ran on my ancient secondary Rig.
1600x900
GTX 460 2GB
X4 925 @2.8Ghz
4GB DDR3
Everything off/low except....
All of my shots have the frame-rate in one of the corners.
Average was 29-30fps with some dips, but not bad even out and about in the open world, and when fighting 4 creatures at once. However, this dropped into an average of 22-24fps in a town.
More shots on the above settings. The game is still well above average looking even at these settings.
Because the towns caused trouble in the mid-low 20s, I dropped everything to low.
This brought the framerate up to an "acceptable" level if one really wanted to play it. No file tweaking here, just the in-game settings.
Here is the game, everything off/low in town. There were still fluctuations in the 26-32fps range, but the game held around 34-40fps more often than not.
If you don't mind 1600x900 and everything turned down, then you can certainly run the game. I don't have my old rig hooked up to a 1080p set, so I wasn't able to test that. At 1360x768 the game approached the 45-50fps range (for those interested).
1600x900
GTX 460 2GB
X4 925 @2.8Ghz
4GB DDR3
Everything off/low except....
All of my shots have the frame-rate in one of the corners.
Average was 29-30fps with some dips, but not bad even out and about in the open world, and when fighting 4 creatures at once. However, this dropped into an average of 22-24fps in a town.
More shots on the above settings. The game is still well above average looking even at these settings.
Because the towns caused trouble in the mid-low 20s, I dropped everything to low.
This brought the framerate up to an "acceptable" level if one really wanted to play it. No file tweaking here, just the in-game settings.
Here is the game, everything off/low in town. There were still fluctuations in the 26-32fps range, but the game held around 34-40fps more often than not.
If you don't mind 1600x900 and everything turned down, then you can certainly run the game. I don't have my old rig hooked up to a 1080p set, so I wasn't able to test that. At 1360x768 the game approached the 45-50fps range (for those interested).
Mad Season
Banned
It will only stay on full screen with a capped resolution choice not unlimited
I've read most of this thread and i have to consider myself lucky, the only time i had a crash was when i OCed my GPU, 1 time, when back to stock and never again, have played for over 20 hours and not a single bug or problem, have a 980 and a i7 2600k @4.2, i have mostly everything on ultra, shadows and foliage distance are on high and hairworks is off, i get s rock solid 60, i tried and tested everywhere to bring it down and nothing, solid 60, ended up turning fraps off and started enjoying the game, i love it, it will be hard to play another open world rpg without comparing it to witcher 3, game is indeed phenomenal
4790k
G1 970X - slightly overclocked
16GB ram
1680&1050 resolution
I'm playing with HBAO+, Hairworks turned off and everything on ultra except for foliage distance (read in this thread that it doesn't make a real difference in-game but does for frame-rate, correct me if I'm wrong)
Game feels really great! Got to the inn and rode my horse around, so far no sign of slow downs or anything of that sort.
It's definitely 60 fps or more, the game is incredibly smooth.
Any tips on how to maximize performance with my rig? any way to turn on Hairworks while still maintaining the same graphics quality and 60 fps?
G1 970X - slightly overclocked
16GB ram
1680&1050 resolution
I'm playing with HBAO+, Hairworks turned off and everything on ultra except for foliage distance (read in this thread that it doesn't make a real difference in-game but does for frame-rate, correct me if I'm wrong)
Game feels really great! Got to the inn and rode my horse around, so far no sign of slow downs or anything of that sort.
It's definitely 60 fps or more, the game is incredibly smooth.
Any tips on how to maximize performance with my rig? any way to turn on Hairworks while still maintaining the same graphics quality and 60 fps?
Same thing happened to me. I noticed it by accident when I went to change the resolution.
Did you not attempt my fix????
Alt tab out of the game and then click icon in taskbar back in. then switch to fullscreen mode in options.
PROFIT
JJKillaNOLE
Neo Member
From my personal experience I have the game completely maxed out, with hairworks on, and never dip below the 60fps mark. This is on a single Titan X @ 1080p. I do have vsync on at the moment until my replacement monitor comes in.
Edit: system specs are
5960x @ 4.0 ghz
Titan X @1400 MHz boost clock
32gb ram
Checking a problem on my end:
People using the latest chrome and nvidia drivers...
Do you see a difference between the two halves of this image (lack of black crush on the right should be super clear in comparison):
For me on chrome, both look like the left side. Was thinking it might be since the new drivers or something as there were some issues with chrome and crashing recently...
People using the latest chrome and nvidia drivers...
Do you see a difference between the two halves of this image (lack of black crush on the right should be super clear in comparison):
For me on chrome, both look like the left side. Was thinking it might be since the new drivers or something as there were some issues with chrome and crashing recently...
TheTurboFD
Member
Hmm no wonder. Tried all those and my nvidia drivers instantly crashed.
Ultra foliage distance makes a huge difference for me. It adds shadows to trees/bushes and increases the number of trees/bushes even a few meters away from you. It adds a lot of depth to the forests and swamps, I turned off hairworks so I could set foliage distance to ultra, they're both very expensive.
Hairworks is kinda wonky even if you lower its AAdetail. Zoom in to Geralts face and fps tanks with hairworks on a 970 while maintaining ultra graphics. It's possible to get 60 fps with random huge drops if you do high shadows, high foliage distance and hairworks on with AAdetail reduced though.
Two images are definitely different. Black crush on left, fine on right.Checking a problem on my end:
People using the latest chrome and nvidia drivers...
Do you see a difference between the two halves of this image (lack of black crush on the right should be super clear in comparison):
For me on chrome, both look like the left side. Was thinking it might be since the new drivers or something as there were some issues with chrome and crashing recently...
Ubersampling I believe is already used for in-engine 'cutscenes', and I think is otherwise quite useless as we have driver-based downsampling now from both AMD and Nvidia.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Checking a problem on my end:
People using the latest chrome and nvidia drivers...
Do you see a difference between the two halves of this image (lack of black crush on the right should be super clear in comparison):
For me on chrome, both look like the left side. Was thinking it might be since the new drivers or something as there were some issues with chrome and crashing recently...
Yup definite difference.
These new Nvidia drivers have been a disaster. BSOD'ed the shit out of my computer before i reverted back to the GTAV drivers and not had a problem since.
Same here. Titan X at 1300 MHz, never dips below 60 at 1080p
Random_Stranger
Neo Member
Having the same feeling. If I could return this game I would, but I got it for free with the 970. I have spend days trying to get this to work correctly.
Are you able to keep 60 FPS with foliage distance on ultra tho? anything I might need to lower to maintain the frame-rate?
Shame about Hairworks.. looks pretty amazing on monsters from the gifs I saw, but will it do without
Oh yeah, totally forget to mention... got terrible stuttering during all the cut scenes, whats that all about?
Got the same rig as yours
JJKillaNOLE
Neo Member
So far I have been very impressed with this card!
Thanks again guys, I rolled back and it's still the same with a fresh install of chrome, no extensions and totally reset. Firefox ain't the worst anyway.
Have you set pre-rendered frames to 1 in the control panel? I assume this isn't because of fps dips.
Yeah turn down shadows to high for ultra foliage distance, I have an average of 66 fps lowest 58, although my 970 has more than a slight overclock. The difference between high and ultra shadows is negligible and frees up 5 fps or more.
For stuttering set max pre-rendered frames to 1 in driver settings and set game to fullscreen mode.
wanderjahr
Banned
What does this do technically speaking? How many pre-rendered frames does TW3 do by default? Why would reducing it to 1 offer a smoother experience? I'm asking because I see this mentioned a lot.
Dictator93
Member
did you ever set the config ini to read only?