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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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plasticpassion
Member
With my Titan X, I'm getting 50-60 FPS at 2970x1620 (DSR, resolution may be slightly different- guessed since not at my PC) with hair works (2x AA) and everything ultra except foliage distance (high) and shadow quality (high). It's wonderful.
I achieved a stable over clock on my Titan X: around 1200 MHz GPU clock and 1953 MHz memory clock. Gives me nearly 1.4Ghz top end clock speed. Although the temps are too high at times (81 at peak with 82% fan, although it usually runs 74C range). I'm currently researching a water cooled option to push it even further more safely.
I also splurged on the Acer XB270HU gsync 27" monitor which should be delivered today. Can't wait to see it on that beast! (I hope I don't receiver a defective one which I've seen happens frequently with their poor QC.)
Im interested in this as well. You should also try the witcher 3 mod thread. I don't have a link right now but you can search it easily.
I achieved a stable over clock on my Titan X: around 1200 MHz GPU clock and 1953 MHz memory clock. Gives me nearly 1.4Ghz top end clock speed. Although the temps are too high at times (81 at peak with 82% fan, although it usually runs 74C range). I'm currently researching a water cooled option to push it even further more safely.
I also splurged on the Acer XB270HU gsync 27" monitor which should be delivered today. Can't wait to see it on that beast! (I hope I don't receiver a defective one which I've seen happens frequently with their poor QC.)
Im interested in this as well. You should also try the witcher 3 mod thread. I don't have a link right now but you can search it easily.
That's strange, I play in 2560x1440 and never saw anything like that so far.Is there any fix for the lightshaft banding that occurs at resolutions >1080p?
Nice.
Haven't played since launch day, waiting for them to get their shit together, especially for the XP bug.
plasticpassion
Member
Where are save files stored? I need to backup since j have all these mods...
Is there any fix for the lightshaft banding that occurs at resolutions >1080p?
I had this issue running at 4K, but not anymore. I though it was corrected in a recent patch.
wanderjahr
Banned
G-sync I can see. Other than that, I don't know how else you get stutter free game play if you are not locked at either your refresh rate, or a multiple of it. Care to explain?
chromatic9
Member
GOG version is Documents/The Witcher 3/gamesaves
ISee
Member
Fraps or whatever.
I like the combo of Afterburner and Rivatuner for that... But there are enough alternatives or other ways.
plasticpassion
Member
Thanks
SinSilla
Member
Same for me, are you on Win10 already? I am and think that may be the Problem.
Denton
Member
I had it when downsampled via DSR (970).
SinSilla
Member
Downsampling via DSR from 1440p on my 970 works just fine without any visual artifacts.
bee
Member
Is there any fix for the lightshaft banding that occurs at resolutions >1080p?
i have the same issue at 4k, using the nvidia gta drivers (seen people using witcher drivers have it also though) one of the patches fixed it for a short while but now its back again :/
Tortahegeszto
Member
My specs:
MSI Gaming 270X 2GB (gpu overclocked @ 1200MHz)
AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3,5GHz
Geil 4GB 1333Mhz CL7
6 years old 320GB 7200RPM WD Blue HDD (so basically a potato)
And unfortunately I only tried it on my crappy 1440x900 monitor.
Through the training session and then the first fight I managed to keep 60fps with dips the 50s when changing areas and the game had to load some stuff with med-high settings using regular SSAO and withouth AA or hairworks.
I'm confident after I beat the first two games buying another 4 gigs of RAM and an SSD I'll be able to play it at constant 30 with some AA on.
MSI Gaming 270X 2GB (gpu overclocked @ 1200MHz)
AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3,5GHz
Geil 4GB 1333Mhz CL7
6 years old 320GB 7200RPM WD Blue HDD (so basically a potato)
And unfortunately I only tried it on my crappy 1440x900 monitor.
Through the training session and then the first fight I managed to keep 60fps with dips the 50s when changing areas and the game had to load some stuff with med-high settings using regular SSAO and withouth AA or hairworks.
I'm confident after I beat the first two games buying another 4 gigs of RAM and an SSD I'll be able to play it at constant 30 with some AA on.
Hey_Blinkin
Member
Has anyone tried the beta 15.5 AMD driver that was released a couple days ago? It says it's specifically for WItcher 3. I've never used a beta driver and not sure what to expect.
chromatic9
Member
I've seen the banding a lot using jim2point0's free cam. In game with the correct camera position I may have seen it once.
Did 1.04 fix it? I'm still on 1.03
Did 1.04 fix it? I'm still on 1.03
60 FPS helps so much with the lag in the controls. It's a huge difference for me and doesn't feel anywhere near as clunky. It's really hard to go back to 30.
billmcdougal
Member
Nope. Win7
I can only agree. I tried locking the fps to 30fps with RTSS and crank up the visuals but it played worse. So I went back, dialed down shadows and foliage visibility range, disabled Hairworks and enjoyed my higher framerates.
It's not 60fps locked but 50-60 is perfectly playable for me.
RandomSeed
Member
Did you see a page or so back about the scan code box in DS4windows?
Mad Season
Banned
Steam has s built in FPS counter
Try the 1.000 times better preset. It's my favorite. Makes the game look amazing imo.
FullMetalx117
Member
Just bought it! Any recommended configs for the GTX 770 2gb? Should I mess with the ini file?
Steam has an FPS counter these days. It'll work even if you have to add the game as a non-Steam shortcut.
Yeah, I have a 670 on my secondary PC and the framerate hovers from 30-45 a lot of the time. The difference between that and my 970 at mostly 60FPS feels huge. The combat is so much more responsive and my complaints with the clunkiness of the movement are minimal.
I'm thinking about getting another 970 for my second PC at this point. It's that much of an upgrade for this game. It just plays so much better at higher FPS.
Yeah I've been eyeing up 16gb of RAM for a while now, I think I might pull the trigger once I get paid this month.
I'll try reinstalling the drivers later this week if the problem persists. Rather confusingly it just stopped happening after a while and now everything's back to normal.
Chrome has never given me any issues like this before, but it appears to have fixed itself. If it occurs again I'll probably just reinstall it and see if that fixes it.
Corpsepyre
Banned
Have any AMD users felt any difference with the newly released beta drivers for the game? Any bump in FPS, anything at all?
Kepler fix drivers out http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/85823/en-us
Edit: WOW and also makes GSYNC work in window mode, fucking sweet!!
Edit: WOW and also makes GSYNC work in window mode, fucking sweet!!
Can someone with a Kepler GPU confirm this?
wanderjahr
Banned
On it. I will update this post with results. Going to go to abandoned village to do some pre-update tests.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
That argument assumes 30fps is stutter free on the PC, but I notice a really off putting judder effect at that frame rate. Unlocked between 40-60 is not perfect but it's better than 30 for me. So I will never lock the frame rate at 30.
My theory is that 30 without motion blur is below my threshold for believable motion. And computer monitors don't refresh at exactly 60hz.
So I'm having the crashing with audio still going bug thingy. This is on my 680. I borrowed a friends AMD 7970 card and the thing ran without a problem. No crashes, no nothing. It was fine.
I decided to put the 680 back in and do a fresh driver install and....it crashed again. So it seems to be the card specifically.
I decided to put the 680 back in and do a fresh driver install and....it crashed again. So it seems to be the card specifically.
robotzombie
Member
So I have an i5 and a gtx780
I also just realized I only have 8 gigs of ram, thought I had more
How much if at all do you think that is holding me back?
I also just realized I only have 8 gigs of ram, thought I had more
How much if at all do you think that is holding me back?
Locking the game at 31fps via RivaTuner, and with Adaptive 1/2 Refresh-Rate produces a smoother" 30fps. Feels better to me than a variable framerate going from 30-50. That's what my game runs at with the framerate capped at 60, and it feels horribly inconsistent. Tons of judder and stuttering.
I don't get that cool wave effect when using Aard. I get a bunch of smaller ripple effects but not that cool after-shock effect. Single GPU here
billmcdougal
Member
Thank you so much, that did it.
Now my only problem is that I tried to set swipe left and swipe right to some signs, but it seems really oversensitive and wonky.
DXLelouch153
Banned
description says enhancements for the newest titles
i assume Witcher 3 would be on that list
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Installing (titan x). Hope they didn't fuck anything up.
bigwinnerx
Member
Depends what you want to do but I'm running on Ultra everything except for shadow, texture and foliage on high, hairworks off on locked 30 and it looks pretty great.
Yep. I was locking it at 30 and turning eveything (except hariwors) to ultra... but the controls.. oh my god, just got frustrated. Went back to around 55 FPS and it's like night and day.
TheFNEffecT
Member
Fixed a ton of my crossfire flickering issues I was getting. Some menu elements still flicker but no more flicker of terrain and whatnot. Seems to have smoother performance overall, about 6-9 fps gain.
Felix Lighter
Member
I hope I can re-enable hardware acceleration in chrome. I'm sick of screen tearing in fullscreen videos.
wanderjahr
Banned
Ok, tested 353.06 (using 352.86 before) just now. Bottom line, I experienced ~10% improvement without Hairworks on my settings. With Hairworks, I was able to get 30fps locked most of the time. To get those settings though, I still had to select CPU for PhysX in NCP. More details below. But first, hardware/settings.
Hardware
CPU: i7-930 (3.6 GHz)
GPU: GTX 770 4GB (GPU Boost Clock 1177 MHz, Memory 3705 MHz, Over Voltage +12.5 mV)
RAM: 12GB
HDD or SSD: SSD
Post Processing
Motion Blur: On
Blur: On
AA: On
Bloom: On
Sharpening: Off
AO: HBAO+
DoF: On
Chromatic Aberration: Off
Vignette: Off
Light Shafts: On
Video Settings
Vsync: Off
Maximum Frames Per Second: Unlimited
Resolution: 1920x1200
Display Mode: Borderless Window
Hairworks: Off
Number of background characters: Ultra
Shadows: High
Terrain quality:Ultra
Water quality:Ultra
Grass: High
Textures: Ultra
Foliage range: High
Detail level: Ultra
NCP
Vertical Sync: Adaptive
Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance
PhysX settings Processor: CPU (switched to GPU for testing)
Maximum prerendered frames: 1
I did my tests in the abandoned village at noon in sunny weather. On the old drivers, the lowest fps I experienced in the abandoned village was 35.4 (PhysX=CPU) and 31.4 (PhysX=GPU). With the new drivers, I never dropped below 40fps (PhysX=CPU) and 34.3 (PhysX=GPU).
After noticing such an improvement using CPU as the PhysX workhorse, I wanted to see how it would perform with Hairworks. I rode my horse from the abandoned village and to the shopkeep right before the inn. I talked to him and then fought a pack of three wolves. The lowest dip was right when I started talking to the shopkeep and that was 28.6fps. I then capped my fps at 30 with RTSS and played like I normally would with Hairworks and only noticed a dip when I went to menus or talked to somebody.
So there you go. Def an improvement, but odd that I still need to select CPU in the NCP.
EDIT: I tried some old overclock settings and it's still crashing. Staying with a very mild overclock.
Hardware
CPU: i7-930 (3.6 GHz)
GPU: GTX 770 4GB (GPU Boost Clock 1177 MHz, Memory 3705 MHz, Over Voltage +12.5 mV)
RAM: 12GB
HDD or SSD: SSD
Post Processing
Motion Blur: On
Blur: On
AA: On
Bloom: On
Sharpening: Off
AO: HBAO+
DoF: On
Chromatic Aberration: Off
Vignette: Off
Light Shafts: On
Video Settings
Vsync: Off
Maximum Frames Per Second: Unlimited
Resolution: 1920x1200
Display Mode: Borderless Window
Hairworks: Off
Number of background characters: Ultra
Shadows: High
Terrain quality:Ultra
Water quality:Ultra
Grass: High
Textures: Ultra
Foliage range: High
Detail level: Ultra
NCP
Vertical Sync: Adaptive
Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance
PhysX settings Processor: CPU (switched to GPU for testing)
Maximum prerendered frames: 1
I did my tests in the abandoned village at noon in sunny weather. On the old drivers, the lowest fps I experienced in the abandoned village was 35.4 (PhysX=CPU) and 31.4 (PhysX=GPU). With the new drivers, I never dropped below 40fps (PhysX=CPU) and 34.3 (PhysX=GPU).
After noticing such an improvement using CPU as the PhysX workhorse, I wanted to see how it would perform with Hairworks. I rode my horse from the abandoned village and to the shopkeep right before the inn. I talked to him and then fought a pack of three wolves. The lowest dip was right when I started talking to the shopkeep and that was 28.6fps. I then capped my fps at 30 with RTSS and played like I normally would with Hairworks and only noticed a dip when I went to menus or talked to somebody.
So there you go. Def an improvement, but odd that I still need to select CPU in the NCP.
EDIT: I tried some old overclock settings and it's still crashing. Staying with a very mild overclock.