I would even say medium, unless compared side to side it's barely noticeable but the performance gain is.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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I would even say medium, unless compared side to side it's barely noticeable but the performance gain is.
I stopped using FRAPS because the slightest drop (2-3 frames) in the Witcher 3 just drove me fucking insane and I was wondering why it would do that on my new rig. Now, I don't have it on anymore and I'm enjoying it a hell of a lot more.
robotzombie
Member
Thanks, I'll try that
Anything else give little value per performance consumption?
Should I mess around in any of the other options than the graphics section?
I do wonder if the black screen crash is happening more frequently to those with non-reference factory overclocked gpus? I've had another gpu crash after adjusting my gpu's fan curve using MSI afterburner.
My gpu's(gtx 980 ftw) temp topped around 75c during the most demanding scenes(out in the open, fighting multiple hairy monsters with hairworks enabled) while constantly maintaining the card's boost speed 1380mhurtz.
Funny thing is when the gpu crashed, both happened during non-demanding scenes, cut scene and in the menu.
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
Tell me about it. When I play this on my laptop with fraps on it drives me nuts if I hit an area that struggles a bit.
With it off I just get on with the game lol.
Cannon Goose
Member
Anyone else getting random hard vibrations from their controller while roaming around? I'm using DS4Windows and a PS4 controller and every now and then I'll get a really big vibration for about half a second. At first I thought it may have been Geralt's medallion vibrating or something like that, but it happens when there's nothing going on.
veggiesaurus
Member
I get that as well. I haven't tried it with an xbox controller to see where the blame lies. I thought it was geralt getting poinsoned
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Glad I'm not the only one! So random lol
Pretty sure windowed mode automatically disables SLI until you re-enable full screen.
Eduardboon
Member
So I tried upping my gamma on windows and playing on borderless. Doesn't seem to stick 
. Such obvious black crush, reminds me of playing oblivion on 360.
. Such obvious black crush, reminds me of playing oblivion on 360.publicpwnerer
Member
I just finished the game on console, and then immediately bought it for PC for a Death March playthrough. Thought I'd test it on my system before thoroughly replaying it.
680 2GB SLI, 3570K @ 4.2, 16GB RAM. With the Ultra preset...then turning foliage density and textures to High I'm getting a steady 60FPS, although I did hit a segment which reduced it to 50 for a brief moment. I imagine Novigrad will test how steady it truly runs.I read the PCGamer / Durante Article and followed the instructions...definitely helped with the "smootheness". Playing in borderless windowed forces me to have to constantly turn f.lux on and off manually however, which is a pain in the ass.
Despite running the game at a satisfactory setting / FPS, I'm really concerned about my fan speeds and noise. GPU 1 sits at around 70-71 degress, and GPU 2 sits at around 63-67 degrees,but the fans are roaring at around 80% just to keep it from hitting the 80 degree mark. (Insanely loud, is this going to prematurely kill my GPU's?)
Usage seems to be almost 85-99% of both cards, which is good I guess. Should I just set everything to High in order to address the fan speed / noise?
680 2GB SLI, 3570K @ 4.2, 16GB RAM. With the Ultra preset...then turning foliage density and textures to High I'm getting a steady 60FPS, although I did hit a segment which reduced it to 50 for a brief moment. I imagine Novigrad will test how steady it truly runs.I read the PCGamer / Durante Article and followed the instructions...definitely helped with the "smootheness". Playing in borderless windowed forces me to have to constantly turn f.lux on and off manually however, which is a pain in the ass.
Despite running the game at a satisfactory setting / FPS, I'm really concerned about my fan speeds and noise. GPU 1 sits at around 70-71 degress, and GPU 2 sits at around 63-67 degrees,but the fans are roaring at around 80% just to keep it from hitting the 80 degree mark. (Insanely loud, is this going to prematurely kill my GPU's?)
Usage seems to be almost 85-99% of both cards, which is good I guess. Should I just set everything to High in order to address the fan speed / noise?
That explains the performance drop. I also learned you can't control volume on your keyboard in this thread too! I was wondering WTF was up with that.
I'm using an Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti, using the nvidia 'optimized' settings.
Yeah, it's not the greatest anymore, but when the game is running, it runs fine (by my own personal standards, which are lower than most). I also keep getting a message pop up that windows 7 has changed its color scheme or something like that, which minimizes the game sometimes. I tell it to not remind me, but it pops up again next time I play the game (pc has been powered off since). *shrug*
I'll try rolling back later tonight and tomorrow to see if it helps, thanks. Or maybe it would just be worth it to wait it out and see if there's a fix?
Any advice on the best way to roll back a driver before I start tinkering and break something?
When I first saw this game running my Titan X at 95%+ Load full time no matter what was going on, I thought it was a sign that the game was well optimized. After reading all the performance complaints from pretty much anyone below a 970/290X I'm not so sure.
Is there a way to rebind the combat roll to double tap movement keys? I edited the ini files to change space to dodge instead of roll but I can't find a way to make double tap movement do the roll now instead of dodge. I tried editing both input.settings and input_qwerty.ini but it doesn't seem to work.
Chrizzy_81
Member
It's fairly painless to roll back, provided you had the GTA V driver just use control panel,device manager find your graphics card, go into the options and you'll see an option to roll back to previous driver. Then you can just update with the nvidia updater if/when nvidia decide to update the current driver.
I have not noticed any performance difference with the new driver to the GTA V one but I guess YMMV.
Felix Lighter
Member
Could it be the vibration that happens when your quen sign times out?
Chubzdoomer
Banned
Yeah, I do wish the water looked better. Compared to water in most modern games, it looks pretty damned bad.
For those that like Hairworks on beasts and Geralt's beard, but not his hair, I suggest you visit the barber in Novigrad and get the haircut that is short on the sides, with the rest tied up in a pony tail.
It improves performance in close ups, and stops all that loose hair from constantly blowing around in all directions, which honestly looks like someone taking a blow dryer to a mop.
It improves performance in close ups, and stops all that loose hair from constantly blowing around in all directions, which honestly looks like someone taking a blow dryer to a mop.
CPU utilization is quite good, which is part of why its NOT a bottleneck.
I think I'm getting a strange bug where sometimes characters pop-in really late as I'm wandering around- I don't know why. In places with NPCs standing around, I'll stop moving with Roach and characters will appear in front of me- anyone having this issue? It happens every so often in places where there are a lot of NPCs.
Running it capped at 30, Hairworks on, Ultra everything, 1440p.
Running it capped at 30, Hairworks on, Ultra everything, 1440p.
MrRoflWaffles
Member
Does it look better than it did in TW2? Distinctly remember getting this cut in that game and it looked like his hair had been drawn on with Tip-Ex or something
m_shortpants
Member
Press Print Screen. Screenshots get saved next to your witcher3.exe file.
Does it look better than it did in TW2? Distinctly remember getting this cut in that game and it looked like his hair had been drawn on with Tip-Ex or something
I think it looks pretty good. Try it out. Only costs 10 orens.
Thank you!
But having a good GPU seems to matter more than having a good CPU. Maybe bottleneck was the wrong word?
I was in the same boat with my 970 I just bought a couple days ago. I 'm also noticing the same pattern with factory O/C'd cards. Thankfully, using afterburner to adjust my fan speeds to around 50-60%, it has helped lower my temps below 70 degrees. This has stopped the crashes completely.
Some are saying to RMA the cards if they are black screening at around 75, so I might do that. At first, I thought it was my PSU dying but once cooling the card with a higher fan speed it definitely ruled out that it is not my PSU since it is using more power.
Expect this to be the trend since console CPUs are so weak. Aka 2500ks will last forever.
Latvian Hitman
Member
That's what I was thinking, too.
CuckFupertino
Banned
Yes, I thought it was a game mechanic I wasn't picking up on. Witcher Sense doesn't really find anything when it happens, though.
I'm using an Xbox One controller, by the way.
I was having trouble getting a smooth experience on my i5 2500k and 970.
1080
Shadows High
Grass High
Foliage High
Hairworks off
Everything else Ultra/On (both Blur off - preference)
Counter was reading solid 60 but it wasn't smooth. Slight stutter every now and then and drops to what looked like 40-50 but still reading 60fps.
Tried Durante's advice, but no luck.
Playing around with the settings I'm now on:
Unlimited fps
Vsync on
60 limit via Riva Tuner
And it's a solid 60, very smooth, no stutters or drops. Messing with settings doesn't seem to do what I'd expect it too, so I'm just going to leave everything alone now and hope it doesn't start stuttering again.
1080
Shadows High
Grass High
Foliage High
Hairworks off
Everything else Ultra/On (both Blur off - preference)
Counter was reading solid 60 but it wasn't smooth. Slight stutter every now and then and drops to what looked like 40-50 but still reading 60fps.
Tried Durante's advice, but no luck.
Playing around with the settings I'm now on:
Unlimited fps
Vsync on
60 limit via Riva Tuner
And it's a solid 60, very smooth, no stutters or drops. Messing with settings doesn't seem to do what I'd expect it too, so I'm just going to leave everything alone now and hope it doesn't start stuttering again.
dampflokfreund
Banned
Indeed. The game scales extremly good on CPUs, even my i5 4210U handles the game very well.
My FX6300 beats the consoles even. I expect it to handle multiplats even better after DX12 hits. Budget PC gaming 4 lyfe
Off-topic but this may explain my terrible Project Cars performance in SLI. I have the Game Ready Witcher 3 driver as well. I am waiting for the big patch with 600+ changes to hit before I dive in. I am getting bad SLI performance in Project Cars with this driver...GPU utilization really isn't at 90%+.
Was the same happening to you?
Eurogamer clarified that, the 600+ changes patch was actually the day one patch.
You using SLI? The people reporting poor performance are.
Here:
Ah ok. Good to know. Thanks.
Nope, single GPU. Drivers are precisely why I'll never, ever go SLI.
Too wonky or barely functional in too many cases.
RandomSeed
Member
Is it known that when in combat on horseback, if you hold down the attack button, the game goes into slow motion? Much easier to land attacks. Also, with the music kicking ass, it's pretty damn cool.
I've put a ton of hours into the game, and I only just figured this out.
I've put a ton of hours into the game, and I only just figured this out.