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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Oh shit I didn't connect this patch with the aliasing I was seeing for some reason... might have to set it to 0 :/ especially considering my performance seems to have worsened too.
Felix Lighter
Member
I've played 33 hours without a crash but I had multiple crashes in Chrome to the point that I had to disabled hardware acceleration. I look forward to enabling it again so I don't have to deal with screen tearing when viewing a fullscreen video.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
Banned
New patch has started crashing the game. I was not having crash issues prior to 1.04. Nvidia user.
I got one crash back when the game was version 1.02 and for me the fix was turning off framelimit ingame, setting off vsync but turning on adaptive vsync in nVidia CP and setting power management in nVidia CP to maximum performance.
After that i played about 20 hours with version 1.02 and no crashes at all. Also not a single crash after patch 1.03 and 1.04 for about 20 more hours I have played. Maybe for someone it will help.
After that i played about 20 hours with version 1.02 and no crashes at all. Also not a single crash after patch 1.03 and 1.04 for about 20 more hours I have played. Maybe for someone it will help.
Doesn't seem like frame skipping per se. It feels like it, but neither the framerate or frametime sugest a frame being skipped in the renderer. A frame in the walking animation while on horseback though seem to be missing. The animation together with the camera constantly skips forward. Rough animation reset? It's really annoying, but thankfully that's the only time it occurs. Animation and controls overall feels rough in this game.
preheatedbibby
Banned
Anyone playing on a Core II Duo q9300? This is my only worry for my machine. I'm pretty sure my 7850 will play it on medium.
veggiesaurus
Member
It doesn't go down if you're on the roads.
Not a bug, it's by design. I guess the developers just implemented this as a way to quickly move around the map whilst sticking to the roads on horseback.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
1.04 introduced a lot of pop-in for me. NPC's and light sources fade in much closer now, and distant foliage lod pop is much more noticeable. Anyone else getting this? Still have everything on ultra (hairworks off).
Dictator93
Member
I have not noticed a difference on ultra. I tend to have a really good eye for these things.
But then again, I am not infallible.
Guys, can someone explain to me what the Blur option in the post-processing settings menu is supposed to do?
It's not about depth of field. Motion blur is a separate setting altogether. What exactly am I losing when I switch this thing off?
Only happens when going full steam on horseback though. And since there are no consequences to bumping into people while on horseback, I don't care.
It's not about depth of field. Motion blur is a separate setting altogether. What exactly am I losing when I switch this thing off?
I've been noticing this. In large cities some NPCs load in way later than others. In smaller settlements, sometimes I can see NPC chat bubbles and floating objects before the characters are loaded in.
Only happens when going full steam on horseback though. And since there are no consequences to bumping into people while on horseback, I don't care.
Do an Aard. The corners of the screen warp and blur. That's "Blur": http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...#the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-blur-and-motion-blur
I noticed a few people using sweetfx for this game. It seems to look better, at least in screenshots. Is there a popular profile everyone is using? can anyone make any recommendations? I've never used it before. Seems that all you have to do is copy and past some files. Let me know if there is more to it than that. Thanks.
Aha! Much obliged.
Didn't notice those effects before TBH, even when I had blur enabled.
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Deleted member 325805
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Hairworks seems much better since the patch? Just got around to trying it since the patch and it's not plummeting when facing a pack of wolves like before.
I'm dropping to the low 50s instead of mid 40s, it seems to get better every patch by a few fps. Still not viable for me as I can't abide dips but maybe one day at this pace.
I'm dropping to the low 50s instead of mid 40s, it seems to get better every patch by a few fps. Still not viable for me as I can't abide dips but maybe one day at this pace.
They shaved the wolves.
No, seriously, they improved the HairWorks somehow. It's even in the patch notes IIRC.
Yup:
I wonder if they altered the AA line in the ini file or changed something to do with tesselation that AMD users could do in CCC.
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Deleted member 325805
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For me it has gone from mid 30s > mid 40s > low 50s with each patch, this is with hairworks on all in the middle of a pack of wolves. Maybe 60fps locked with hairworks on could be a reality at some point, if they can keep on optimising it. Especially if they give us a monsters only option.
I should post up my problem from yesterday, see if anyone else has dealt with it.
I was playing yesterday and the game locked up, and then the screen went black. I imagine this is the video driver crashing because I could still hear the game and could bring up the menu and all that. I had to hit the reset button on my computer though. After it rebooted I started up the game to load my save and it crashes every time when the game loads. I thought my save had corrupted, but no others saves would load either. I verified the game in GOG Galaxy, but that didn't fix anything. I eventually uninstalled and reinstalled the game which fixed it. I wonder if I could have just deleted the DLL files and verified it again? Either way, kinda had me worried for a second.
I was playing yesterday and the game locked up, and then the screen went black. I imagine this is the video driver crashing because I could still hear the game and could bring up the menu and all that. I had to hit the reset button on my computer though. After it rebooted I started up the game to load my save and it crashes every time when the game loads. I thought my save had corrupted, but no others saves would load either. I verified the game in GOG Galaxy, but that didn't fix anything. I eventually uninstalled and reinstalled the game which fixed it. I wonder if I could have just deleted the DLL files and verified it again? Either way, kinda had me worried for a second.
JudgmentJay
Member
Opposite for me. On 1.03 I was noticing alot of NPC pop-in, but yesterday after updating I didn't experience any in the 8 hours I played. Distant foliage LoD is the same.
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hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
I have noticed more and more NPC pop-in happening lately not so much foliage because of this latest patch. Then again, I have had zero lock ups and freezes as well.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...-guide#the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-shadow-quality
The author of that article posts here too.
Edit: beaten like an Radeon graphics card.
Yes and it's awful.
Check your VRAM usage. Mine has dropped by more than 35% on average since v1.04 without changing any settings. It's as if the game is forcing everything to Low when it comes to texture/asset streaming.
I posted these last night but I'll quote them for a new day and hope someone finds a solution:
notoccupanther
Member
Zero crashes on mine too (280x) but tried the 15.0 with vsr beta last night and upped it to 2K and it crashed spectacurlarly
Can I ask what frame rates you're getting with Win10?
I'm hovering around 45-50 with most on Ultra apart from Foliage and Shadows ... if I bring water and HBAO+ down it hits 60 after about an hour of play ..
Just curious as to whether win10 would perform any better than win8.1
Thanks
did you check your textures settings? Idk y but the patch automatically sets the textures to low so you have to manually go in and change them back to ultra.
I'm having a great time but randomly the fps displayed by Fraps doesn't feel like that specific number. For example, I usually get ~ 45fps, but sometimes (even if Fraps says it's 45) it doesn't feel that way... More like sub-thirties or even lower. Is this an issue or is it just in my head?
Of course :|
AFAIK, the Low thing is just a bug that happens when you tweak texture settings using the ini. The patch triggered this by adding the mipmap line.
Just to be sure, I switched it back to Ultra, did a full save and restart and it's exactly the same.
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For the others that have mentioned having pop-in since v1.04, are you guys using Kepler cards by any chance? Maybe it's platform specific? I'm using two 780 Ti in SLI.
Kamina
Golden Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r84HcI9cf4 Here's the Core 2 Quad Q9300 with a GTX970. Seems your CPU won't bottleneck you at all
. The game runs spectacularily well on a wide range of CPUs.Edit: Looking at your particular GPU it seems you should be able to reach 30 FPS on High settings. Granted the first clip has the CPU overclocked to 4ghz.
Edit #2: Final verdict A Q6600 at 3ghz runs it over 30 FPS at all times, your Q9300 is at 2.5ghz so you should be fine, but you could always look into overclocking
Not so sure now actually given this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPFkEJ7lBeI
Dammit, I even got the CPU wrong in that first video. Super sorry if I got your hopes up man :/. Still you got some upgrade choices on that socket that might bring you up to a stable 30, your GPU can handle the game at High
JudgmentJay
Member
I have 3 680s, but as I said, I didn't have any pop-in issues yesterday. Did prior to 1.04 though, but it was rare.
Nope, no issues here.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
A single Titan X for me.
Edit: 1.03 vram usage was as you said, but I haven't checked after the patch. Will do so after work.
With an OC'd 750ti you can expect to run console settings at a more stable framerate than consoles. Probably also with better AF.
No, there are lots of people (including me) without issues on 1.04.
Like with all issues, people experiencing them are a lot more likely to post.
I'm as likely to post either way, I like to complain as much as I love to gloat.
Revolutionary
Member
Huh.. just got my first crash when I decided to use in-game vsync rather than nvidia CP. Back to driver level vsync I go.
No matter what I adjust, the game won't use more than 1.7GB of VRAM. I've tried running [TextureMemoryBudget] from the Ultra default of 800 to 6400 and it does absolutely nothing.
Can anyone confirm whether or not the [TextureMemoryBudget] ini setting ever actually did anything? I think that might be the thing that's causing pop-in for me since moving to 1.04.
I've since deleted the user.settings config file to let the game create a fresh copy and the setting has now completely disappeared as if it was removed in the patch and just left there...uh...vestigially? Adding it back in has no effect.
Can anyone confirm whether or not the [TextureMemoryBudget] ini setting ever actually did anything? I think that might be the thing that's causing pop-in for me since moving to 1.04.
I've since deleted the user.settings config file to let the game create a fresh copy and the setting has now completely disappeared as if it was removed in the patch and just left there...uh...vestigially? Adding it back in has no effect.
Well, to me it feels exactly like frame skipping and I think it's always there, just not as obvious as on the horses back. But whatever it is, it's very annyoing. And I agree about animation and controls, that is not Triple-A stuff.
SodiumBenzoate
Member
Just wanted to chime in about the pop in with the new patch.
It's awful, to the point that sprinting in novigrad for me will make NPCs spawn directly in front of Geralt (and then it will take ~15-20 seconds for them to be to interactible, which is really goddamn annoying)
It's awful, to the point that sprinting in novigrad for me will make NPCs spawn directly in front of Geralt (and then it will take ~15-20 seconds for them to be to interactible, which is really goddamn annoying)
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Hmm, I deleted mine and restarted the game and I still have a texturememorybudget line. Did you delete the user.settings file in my docs or somewhere else?