I just made a Pinnacle profile for instant sign casting (hold RT + A/B/X/Y for the different signs) which also required changes in the input.settings file. Does anyone know if this file is changed after patch 1.04? I'm tempted to sit this one out, especially with reports of crashes and worse performance.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Kamina
Golden Boy
For the GTX980 Users:
I found that reducing Shadow quality and Foliage Dist. to High allows to have Hairworks 1080p/60 with everyting else on Ultra.
Raising Foliage to Ultra with Hairworks on and Shadow Quality on high gives you 50+ in dense Forest areas.
Looking at Nvidia's Teak guide I didnt find any noticable difference between High and Unltra Shadows. (http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...-guide#the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-shadow-quality)
I found that reducing Shadow quality and Foliage Dist. to High allows to have Hairworks 1080p/60 with everyting else on Ultra.
Raising Foliage to Ultra with Hairworks on and Shadow Quality on high gives you 50+ in dense Forest areas.
Looking at Nvidia's Teak guide I didnt find any noticable difference between High and Unltra Shadows. (http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...-guide#the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-shadow-quality)
JJKillaNOLE
Neo Member
Yes, smooth as butter for me. My Titan X is overclocked to around 1400 MHz
Oh yes I forgot about that, indeed the last few patches have definitely improved performance. I also forgot to stipulate that indeed oc'd Titan X will have more chance of achieving a locked 60fps.
Slackbladder
Member
No one else getting major glitching with explosions from blowing up nests? Grenade explosions are actually okay. But when nests blow up I get nasty black shapes everywhere. This is only since patch 1.04. Bloody annoying.
I have no idea why, but after updating to 1.04, any graphics changes I make are not saved, and the gamma is constantly turned all the way up. I made sure everything was set back to default, no dice.
I'm getting so frustrated with tweaking, should I just reinstall this game or something?
I'm getting so frustrated with tweaking, should I just reinstall this game or something?
fizzelopeguss
Banned
Fuck, image quality was already dogshit in this game, the last thing i needed to introduce was texture shimmering.
dampflokfreund
Banned
Set textures to high. It will tone down mipmap effect to -0.4, which also looks great and has no performance impact.
Jin
Member
I do. I get weird graphic glitches all over the sky when nest or Rotfiend explodes, something that never happens before. Are you on SLI or single card?
Yup, some details still fry, but is less annoying.
Do you guys have AMD or Nvidia cards? Please don't say AMD... I've played the 1.03 version without a single freeze or crash for over 30 hours now, just installed update 1.04 but I haven't tried it out yet. Hoping for the best...
Yes, 1080/60 is pretty much a given on very high/ultra. Though according to this thread you wouldn't be able to max out HairWorks and maintain 60. So I suppose it comes down to whether you really want HairWorks or not
Nvidia. But I probably worded my post oddly: 1.03 crashed like all hell for me. 1.04 has been fine so far.
Maybe the game switches between being utterly uncooperative with each brand's cards with every other patch lol
Sword Of Doom
Member
It's a feature that is simply way too expensive
Nice, Is hairworks worth the performance hit? can't tell since the game is downloading atm. (needs almost a day to finish, shitty internet)
any other settings with high performance hits?
sti4thewin
Member
stuttering issues fixed with this new update?
Hairworks isn't worth the hit.
Just put everything on Ultra apart from Shadows - put that on high. With this, you should get a solid 60FPS at 1080, even in demanding sections. Some areas will drop you to 50, but those are few and far between.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Nope. Gonna be a long wait.
Great news, will start with this and see if hairworks is worth the hit with the latest patches.
Thanks guys
Snapshot King
Member
Can someone explain what the new texture settings actually do? I see talk of mipmaps and such but I'm kind of lost.
How in the world? I am also on a 680 and if I replicate those settings I sit around 35-40 fps.
m_shortpants
Member
So what's the verdict? Shall I skip this patch for now?
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Deleted member 10571
Unconfirmed Member
I'm super sorry if I missed that particular post, but is someone in here playing or has tested the game on a Radeon 6850 on 4GB Ram? Can I start/play the game on low to med, or won't it even run at all?
plasticpassion
Member
Has someone developed a mod to remove durability yet? It's such a terrible mechanic.
Haven't seen a mod, but you can do that with cheatengine. Just gotta do it every time you start the game.
m_shortpants
Member
Do you have FPS set to 60/30?
Slackbladder
Member
I have a 3770@4.5ghz, a 980 and 8GB RAM@2400mhz and everything is Ultra except Shadows@Medium and Foilage Distance@High. Hairworks is on and res is 1080p. I get 60fps all the time unless I'm in a big fight with multiple Wolves etc which can hit my frames. Only other frame drops are when the camera is very, very close to Geralts head. If I lose Hairwoks I can go to 1440p with DSR and still maintain 60fps nearly all the time. No stutter in game or cutscenes.
Thanks, will try it later, hope it works ; )
Playing on Ultra textures?
Tried high? works nice for me.
But my mipmap was set to 0 :S Even though Ultra causes shimmering and looks totally different to before and turning it off with Ultra textures still has it at 0.
I feel like DOF is stronger than before too. It's alright. Maybe more rain too? Not sure.
Lovely Salsa
Banned
whats wrong with 35-40 fps? Its still more than the console versions and it looks better
I have a 4gb 760 and a 3570k but probably similar. I have a lot of mediums, couple high and a couple low settings. Still looks great.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
Well I solved my crashing issue. For some reason my bios got really messed up, my overclocks weren't working properly any more, tossing out whea logger errors constantly while playing and system stability was affected majorly. After re-flashing the bios and redoing my overclocks I'm 100% stable again. Prime95, IBT and Witcher all run perfectly with no issues, and no more whea errors, I can even use my old GPU overclock which I at first thought was causing the crash to desktop but it wasn't. Happy days!
Besthelboy
Banned
That shimmering in motion is really bad, any way to get rid of it?
SMAA mayyy be slightly better at lower resolutions...
Kill the windows shell and have your PC boot directly into The Witcher 3. With everything on low, textures on medium, light shafts and SSAO on, you'll get 24-28fps mostly. I know because my buddy has that card and an i5
I use sweetfx just to turn down the vibrancy a tad.
-0.05
It's easier on the eyes, might not be noticeable straight away. Colours still look great.
Also, I'm not sure if it's because mine is bugged in that mipmap is set to 0 in the config file but I still get the shimmering with ultra and high textures and it doesn't change the value in the rendering.ini file (which isn't read-only)...but damn things look good now.
I get that feeling from the vegetation that I got with 4K, but on 1440p. A slight clarity or something. You can feel it when there's a lot of vegetation.
-0.05
It's easier on the eyes, might not be noticeable straight away. Colours still look great.
Also, I'm not sure if it's because mine is bugged in that mipmap is set to 0 in the config file but I still get the shimmering with ultra and high textures and it doesn't change the value in the rendering.ini file (which isn't read-only)...but damn things look good now.
I get that feeling from the vegetation that I got with 4K, but on 1440p. A slight clarity or something. You can feel it when there's a lot of vegetation.
icecold1983
Member
Downsampling
Guide is updated with Mipmap Bias details, info on reverting the change and tweaking the value, and a look at the performance cost: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...-tweaking-guide#mipmap-bias-config-file-tweak
Like I say though, impossible to demonstrate the shimmering in screenshots and compressed vid. Tolerance for that will decide your bias level rather than the improvement in texture fidelity
Like I say though, impossible to demonstrate the shimmering in screenshots and compressed vid. Tolerance for that will decide your bias level rather than the improvement in texture fidelity