ColonialRaptor
Member
Yep these crossfire drivers from AMD are terrible to be honest I'm still getting better performance with crossfire disabled. Wtf?
When the r9 300 comes out I'm going to consider grabbing a 980 if nvidia drops the price.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Yep these crossfire drivers from AMD are terrible to be honest I'm still getting better performance with crossfire disabled. Wtf?
When the r9 300 comes out I'm going to consider grabbing a 980 if nvidia drops the price.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
This is why I swore off AMD GPUs... NVidia is miles ahead with SLI support.
I know it says it in the driver notes so you've probably already tried, but turn off anti-aliasing in the game's post-process settings. Don't know why a simple post-process solution is giving AMD's driver team so much trouble, but it almost doubled my frames when I disabled it. Have to use RadeonPro's SMAA instead but at least it works and I can finally play at a locked 1440p/60 with all ultra settings.
I assume it is due to the AA being temporal. So if you have AFR then both gpus need to share frame data. I don't know how nvidia is doing it, but they probably have a different implementation allowing for this.
Chubzdoomer
Banned
Same deal as the leaked 15.5s... no performance improvements in The Witcher 3 what-so-ever for me (R9 270X). Can't say I'm surprised.
curiouscharles
Member
i'm seeing this too in places and at random times - and i'm on a brand new 144Hz IPS w/ G-SYNC.
that, combined with the egregious colour banding present in this game, leads me to believe it's something in the game engine itself, not our displays [read: I HOPE!].
Well its good to know its not just my decrepit TV. 60hz 1080p so its been pretty relevant for a long time and normally it has really solid picture. Haven't tried it on my monitor yet, but I don't think I need to now.
Holy shit. I'm downsampling this game. Been experimenting with custom resolutions still. I must hit 60FPS but my God does it look amazing. I really can't wait to finally buy a Gsync monitor.
Native res - 1920x1200, third shot I was having fun with Hairworks as much as I love it I'd rather have 60FPS then it on. I don't think I could afford another Titan X.
So good at 2560x1600 - love the DoF in the second shot.
Downsampled from 2880 x 1620 highest I can go while keeping 60 frames
Anyone have this monitor? Still looking around and could use suggestions.
Native res - 1920x1200, third shot I was having fun with Hairworks as much as I love it I'd rather have 60FPS then it on. I don't think I could afford another Titan X.
So good at 2560x1600 - love the DoF in the second shot.
Downsampled from 2880 x 1620 highest I can go while keeping 60 frames
Anyone have this monitor? Still looking around and could use suggestions.
Either steam compression ruins the shots or the in-game AA doesn't get picked up on those shots, or both. :/
same here, even tried my panasonic plasma to see if its the game or my new g-sync monitor
I actually turned off the ingame AA. I guess it's very noticeable in the screenshots but I don't really notice while playing.
TBH, I find these shots to be hideous. Lack of AA plus the excessive sharpening is completely ruining IQ. I can't help but think that this would be a flickery mess in motion. Maybe consider using AA and turning off the sharpening filter?
Are AMD's drivers safe to use?
man wtf is going with the image quality in your screens, is that really what the game looks like? That doesn't look downsampled at all.
man wtf is going with the image quality in your screens, is that really what the game looks like? That doesn't look downsampled at all.
ColonialRaptor
Member
Nope. Mega fail. Less performance here.
I've also noticed the banding to a degree...
I'm playing it on a 50" Panasonic ST60, and the sky's banding issue at certain ToD is only going to be worse on a plasma due to the inherit dithering and limited gradient steps of the display. Strange that it's still that apparent on other display types, though It isn't horrible by any means.
As for the "screen door" effect, I can only imagine you're all referring to that semi-transparent black dotted pattern that appears in squarish clumps during LOD transitions, or in cutscenes sometimes on character faces, etc. That I believe is an engine issue (some sort of alpha transition dither?), and was also present in The Witcher 2.
I get this but after minimizing the game closes cleanly without the audio going.
Mad Season
Banned
I have:
evga GTX 980 sc
8 GB ram
2500k oc'd to 4.5
24" monitor at 1920x1080 native
I have everything at ultra except foliage distance and shadows at high. The game runs 60 FPS. I've always wanted to try and down sample but to maintain 60fps what is the max down sample you think I can go to?
evga GTX 980 sc
8 GB ram
2500k oc'd to 4.5
24" monitor at 1920x1080 native
I have everything at ultra except foliage distance and shadows at high. The game runs 60 FPS. I've always wanted to try and down sample but to maintain 60fps what is the max down sample you think I can go to?
If you have a single card you may get some benefits. But it isn't like the older driver was bad either.
If you have a crossfire setup...better luck soon?
curiouscharles
Member
lol, yup - these screens look horrible, you high man?
sti4thewin
Member
please for the love of god turn off sharpening especially when your downsampling. sharpening is ruining these otherwise great shots
Damn. Anyone else got better news?
RazorbackDB
Member
I went back to W10 drivers, a lot more smoother, I also tried copying the profiles from 15.5 but I don't know if it actually did anything, I have a single gpu.
This is puzzling. Your 1200p shots have lesser aliasing than your downsampled shots. Sup with that?
probably left sharpening on
Tested more thoroughly. The new drivers did nothing for my framerate on my 280X, in fact I think the game runs slightly better with the 14.12 drivers for me, so I'm rolling back to that since that has been safe for now.
Really disappointing that I didn't get shit from these drivers.
Really disappointing that I didn't get shit from these drivers.
running a 970 and an i5 2500k at 4.4ghz and i still can't really turn on hairworks. i get 60fps constantly in all situations with it off (and everything else maxed) but can't quite hold it indoors or in battles when it's on. it's barely noticeable anyways but still. those dips from 60fps annoy the piss out of me so i turn down what's needed to stay above lol
You won't get 60fps at /all/ times with everything max on that system.
I have the same CPU/GPU and I have to turn foliage and grass to high to get /almost/ solid 60 with dips to 50 in certain towns or 55-60 in other foliage rich areas.
I just got the game and wow, I'm getting 45-50 fps with a mixture of settings on my rig (4670K @ 4.5, 290 @ 1007/1400):
My settings:
Post Processing:
Motion Blur: on
Blur: on
AA: off
No Sharpening
HBAO+: on
DoF: on
CA: off
Vignetting: on
Light Shafts: on
Graphics:
No vysnc
unlimited fps
1080p/122Hz full screen
Everything on ultra except for grass, foliage, and shadows
Hairworks for everyone (x16 tessellation and 2x MSAA)
Hairworks looks fucking amazing and the new drivers make it run even better (I hope more people get to experience the game with Hairworks on). I get over 60 fps with Hairworks off but I'm making an exception for this game by keeping it on.
Ah, PCs and the graphical freedoms they bring.
EDIT: Before the tweak, I tried full Hairworks and lost like 20 fps (from 60). After the tweaks the drop was dramatically reduced to 10 fps from 60.
My settings:
Post Processing:
Motion Blur: on
Blur: on
AA: off
No Sharpening
HBAO+: on
DoF: on
CA: off
Vignetting: on
Light Shafts: on
Graphics:
No vysnc
unlimited fps
1080p/122Hz full screen
Everything on ultra except for grass, foliage, and shadows
Hairworks for everyone (x16 tessellation and 2x MSAA)
Hairworks looks fucking amazing and the new drivers make it run even better (I hope more people get to experience the game with Hairworks on). I get over 60 fps with Hairworks off but I'm making an exception for this game by keeping it on.
Ah, PCs and the graphical freedoms they bring
.EDIT: Before the tweak, I tried full Hairworks and lost like 20 fps (from 60). After the tweaks the drop was dramatically reduced to 10 fps from 60.
"In testing"' - no idea what time frame that implies but I'd be surprised if it wasn't out before the launch of the 980 Ti.
In the meantime you can either delete the Cloth PhysX dll file from your Witcher 3 directory or set PhysX to be handled by the CPU exclusively. Either of these solutions seems to relieve the stress that is being put on Kepler GPUs and should help with performance to a decent degree.
RandomSeed
Member
With 14.12, going from high to ultra on water doesn't hurt my framerate. With 15.5, I lose 5-6 fps going from high to ultra. Hmmmm
DJSebolski
Member
It's situational, the performance increase isn't in all areas.
Okay no one seemed to inform the people over at the Nvidia forums (who are going wild) about the fix, so I've made a thread there and given full credit to Qassim and the video creator. Hope you guys don't mind.
Also we don't know if there is more to be fixed, do we? It's just a matter of waiting for Nvidia to release their fix to see what else happens right?
Also we don't know if there is more to be fixed, do we? It's just a matter of waiting for Nvidia to release their fix to see what else happens right?
I heard the previous version of reshade 16 makes the toggling work.
GHG
Member
Cool, good to know. Will check this out in a bit then.
So are we sure this is a problem on nvidia's end then when deleting a game file is what solves the problem?
I don't suppose you know where I can get the file for that?