Yeah I'm never buying another AMD card again. This shit is awful. Omega drivers were pretty cool, but Nvidia has been taking AMD's lunch for the last two years on nearly every major game. Batman will be no different. :/
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Yeah I'm never buying another AMD card again. This shit is awful. Omega drivers were pretty cool, but Nvidia has been taking AMD's lunch for the last two years on nearly every major game. Batman will be no different. :/
Yes! It's a complete game changer.
You should take a look at performance of the previous GTX 700 series... 780 is only matching a 280X. Maxwell performs great but Nvidia totally ditched Kepler in this game, supposedly a driver update is coming to fix it but we will see.
Wag
Member
I seriously have doubts about a Kepler update, especially with the 980Ti coming out. The best we can hope for is a performance increase if DX12 support is added to the game.
Are people up in arms about this? I haven't paid close enough attention, I suppose.
I'm actually fine with sign usage (especially given most of their large charge ups). The macro that made the game way better me was setting the map open to to the touch pad click. It only saves a couple button presses, but given how much I open the map it really saves my sanity.
Holy crap. Great idea!
I made a shift button configuration for the 360 pad, but that sounds potentially even better. Can you still charge the signs with that configuration?
There's been a lot of uproar about it over on the Nvidia forums, that's what got them to investigate in the first place. I find it strange this went overlooked considering it's an NV sponsored title... but then again, if you dig deeper there's actually numerous games Kepler performance has went down relative to AMD's R9 series and the newer Maxwell cards. TW3 is just one of the more drastic examples.
Cannon Goose
Member
If you want to free up one of your DS4 buttons for another macro you can actually access the map from a controller with just one button press. Just press and hold the start button (Options if using a DS4 controller) and it will take you directly to the map!
KCroxtonJr
Member
Not sure as I'm not far enough in the game yet, that is something I have been wondering about though...
I notice some stutter on mid-close range objects during trot, for the rest I'm glad about how the game performs on my rig:
https://youtu.be/UF8hwOYRqJQ
Let's see how it holds in the upcoming locations.
https://youtu.be/UF8hwOYRqJQ
Let's see how it holds in the upcoming locations.
There was a way better graph in the PC Gamer article by Durante. Essentially: If you have quadcore CPU with more then 2.2 GHz, you are fine.The game can be very CPU bound sometimes :
1.04 CPU benchmarks :
Well I've finally fixed the crashing while ocing, I've had to put the clock speed from +241 to +81, I've had around 5 hours of crashless gaming, so it is possible to OC, just can't go very high at all! I guess it helps smooth out some dips, defintely smoother than at stock speeds.
Dictator93
Member
What is the problem with it?
According to Nvidia's guide there's no difference between levels of terrain detail at the moment. Apparently its supposed to adjust levels of tessellation. As far as I can tell there is very little to no tesselation on most things like buildings. Right now it only seems to be used for water.
Meh, the 2nd shot could be a lot better with tesselation
Awesome looking game, and with enjoyable story and decent combat to boot that keeps me interested unlike DA:I and Skyrim.
The game can be very CPU bound sometimes :
1.04 CPU benchmarks :
Yep, I've been noticing that people with i7s have been getting a few more frames than myself and my 4670K @ 4.5 with the same or similar setups.
Slackbladder
Member
Okay. Where do I find that? Doesn't seem to be in the render.ini file.
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Didn't know that, thanks.
Huh. Quite different from other CPU benchmarks I've seen from the game.The game can be very CPU bound sometimes :
1.04 CPU benchmarks :
Also, CPU's with more than 4 cores showing an advantage as well. I hope that trend continues.
To be fair, that was 4 Haswell-E cores. (the "E" part doesn't matter much, but it makes a minor difference in cache). I very much doubt that you could expect 60 FPS from 4 older Intel or AMD cores at that frequency.
It is interesting that 1.04 seems far more CPU bound than earlier versions in GameGPU's own benchmarks:
What happened?
Edit:
Hmm, one is labeled "VHQ" and one "HQ".
SinSilla
Member
Sure worked for me.
1440p Ultra without hairworks locked 30fps on my gtx970 had some minor hiccups now and then. After that fix i didnt notice it anymore.
I took a look at the rendering.xml file located in "The Witcher 3\bin\config\r4game\user_config_matrix\pc," which lists all the preset differences between graphical settings, and found this:
<Var id="Virtual_TerrainOptionVar" displayName="terrain" displayType="OPTIONS" tags="refreshEngine">
<OptionsArray>
<Option id="0" displayName="low">
<Entry varId="TerrainErrorMetricMultiplier" value="30"/>
<Entry varId="TerrainScreenSpaceErrorThreshold" value="4.0"/>
</Option>
<Option id="1" displayName="medium">
<Entry varId="TerrainErrorMetricMultiplier" value="20"/>
<Entry varId="TerrainScreenSpaceErrorThreshold" value="3.0"/>
</Option>
<Option id="2" displayName="high">
<Entry varId="TerrainErrorMetricMultiplier" value="10"/>
<Entry varId="TerrainScreenSpaceErrorThreshold" value="2.0"/>
</Option>
<Option id="3" displayName="uber">
<Entry varId="TerrainErrorMetricMultiplier" value="6"/>
<Entry varId="TerrainScreenSpaceErrorThreshold" value="1.6"/>
</Option>
</OptionsArray>
</Var>
So it definitely looks like it's doing something, just maybe not what most assumed it was supposed to do.
Dictator93
Member
To be fair, that was 4 Haswell-E cores. (the "E" part doesn't matter much, but it makes a minor difference in cache). I very much doubt that you could expect 60 FPS from 4 older Intel or AMD cores at that frequency.
It is interesting that 1.04 seems far more CPU bound than earlier versions in GameGPU's own benchmarks:
What happened?
Edit:
Hmm, one is labeled "VHQ" and one "HQ".
VHQ is where it matters most apparently.
I love the way that test is presented. Simple, but very effective. Thanks, I subscribed to the channel.
The game can be very CPU bound sometimes :
1.04 CPU benchmarks :
Wow, what a huge difference between stock sandy 2500k and haswell 4670k, didn't expect that. I wonder where my 4690k@4.7ghz falls on that chart, although cpu usage never goes above 75% using all ultra settings minus hairworks.
Static Jak
Member
Anyone know where I can find any Save Files. Lost mine the other night and would rather not start over.
If you're on AMD DEFINITELY do not play anything but the proper full-screen mode. The difference in smoothness is astounding.
I don't understand how is this chart accurate.
I have a 4670k. Overclocking it to 4.2 did jackshit for my framerate. I mean, not even a single additional frame.
The game can be very CPU bound sometimes :
1.04 CPU benchmarks :
I don't understand how is this chart accurate.
I have a 4670k. Overclocking it to 4.2 did jackshit for my framerate. I mean, not even a single additional frame.
It can easily be explained by the fact that you may have benchmarked a difference location. Their CPU bench video is posted, take a look.
Everyone has tried everything possible to fix it, and nothing works.
CDPROJEKT hasn't even acknowledged it as a problem, so it may never get fixed.
I've shelved the game myself because it is so fucking irritating, it saps all enjoyment out of the game for me.
Hoping they will fix it, but it really seems unlikely.
ScepticMatt
Member
yes higher foliage distance ... more draw calls would be my guess.
Well then, this is disappointing. I've barely played it specifically because of this and the Kepler issue. Gaaaah
PeterVenkman
Member
So I take it stutter is just gonna happen in this game?
I have tried in game Vsync, nvidia Vsync, d3d, and the RTSS frame lock method, all produce noticeable stutter when panning the camera.
I still am worried I didn't get the correct method right with RTSS - it was noticeably the worst of the bunch, stuttering constantly despite holding 60fps.
970/i5 2500k with all ultra except hair works off and foliage to high
EDIT: Ha ok, my bad, didn't even see the above convo was exactly this. Well that's a bummer. I was even hoping locking to 30 fps might help, but it doesn't
I have tried in game Vsync, nvidia Vsync, d3d, and the RTSS frame lock method, all produce noticeable stutter when panning the camera.
I still am worried I didn't get the correct method right with RTSS - it was noticeably the worst of the bunch, stuttering constantly despite holding 60fps.
970/i5 2500k with all ultra except hair works off and foliage to high
EDIT: Ha ok, my bad, didn't even see the above convo was exactly this. Well that's a bummer. I was even hoping locking to 30 fps might help, but it doesn't
Felix Lighter
Member
I find the I5 2500K -> i7 2600K difference even more interesting. More threads has a huge impact according to that chart.
If your very GPU bound, that would make sense and the other chart indicates that lower than Ultra settings takes the CPU out to of the equation for modern intel i5/i7s.
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/thre...-Thread-Share-your-info?p=1698075#post1698075
They have acknowledged the issue.
Felix Lighter
Member
Double post. Sorry.
ndawgdrake
Member
Performance is seemingly better with the Catalyst 15.5b drivers on my 6970. Will upgrade videocards after the big announcements next month.
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Just downloaded a profile for DS4windows from nexus mods for this game so I can use the swipe functions for inventory and stuff... But for some reason there seems to be a fair amount of controller lag. If that's what it's called?! Anyone else finding this? I haven't played it for a few days and even with my old profile running it just feels a bit, off.
s_mirage
Member
It seems so. The closet I've got to eliminating stuttering is to lock at 30 using half rate adaptive VSync rather than the in game limiter. That got rid of pretty much all of it for me, with the trade off being somewhat laggy menus.
If I lower my settings and run at 60 (most of the time), it's generally okay but tends to enter stutterville periodically (while the framerate is apparently constant).
RTSS hasn't helped me an awful lot.
SliChillax
Member
There was a rumor that with the 980Ti being released the 980 would get a price cut. If the 980 gets a price cut then I assume so will the 970 so just wait one month maximum and then decide.