This game.
Try updating driver/game version if you haven't.
Can also try unlocked FPS/Fullscreen (or whatever setting you aren't on). I haven't run into it in 60 hours since I last had it running uncapped/fullscreen windowed
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
- Thread starter batman2million
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Try updating driver/game version if you haven't.
Can also try unlocked FPS/Fullscreen (or whatever setting you aren't on). I haven't run into it in 60 hours since I last had it running uncapped/fullscreen windowed
CrichtonKicks
Member
Any ini tweaks that will spawn light sources in earlier? Really takes away from places like Novigrad.
Just tried 1.05. Works exactly like it used to. No issues with OC, precision and sweetfx, Titan X SLI. I've never seen any camera panning stutter so I didn't see a difference. The only periodic stutter I got was when geralt is running or on horseback. That still remains even though framerate is well above 60 at 1620p
Dictator93
Member
Yeah, until they recognize those camera animation problems (also happens on footag while running even), it won't be fixed.
I hope they look into that for future patches!
Chubzdoomer
Banned
Just for the heck of it, I went back and reinstalled the AMD 14.12 drivers from Dec. 2014 and guess what? There was literally NO difference in performance in The Witcher 3 compared to the 15.5 betas (even with HairWorks turned on and the 8x Tessellation tweak applied in CCC).
(Note: My GPU is an R9 270X just in case you're wondering.)
(Note: My GPU is an R9 270X just in case you're wondering.)
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Is there any different to medium shadows and high shadows?! I can't see one but if I drop from high to medium I can get a completely solid 60fps with no stutter whatsoever. As soon as a put shadows to high I'll get 50-60fps with stutter.
Also, I don't know why, but now having a better card I tried puttting sharpening on high and it looks really good at 60fps. Just looks super crisp and realistic.
Also, I don't know why, but now having a better card I tried puttting sharpening on high and it looks really good at 60fps. Just looks super crisp and realistic.
RickyRozay
Member
this is what I've been experiencing, I'm just not sure if it was this way prior to the patch or not in those specific areas.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
I honestly feel like I'm getting worse overall performance than before the patch, I never used to dip this often.
s_mirage
Member
There is, but it's pretty hard to spot unless you're going pixel hunting.
Sodding_Gamer
Member
I'll keep it at medium then. Game feels a mile smoother now on my 970
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
Yep, I dropped shadows and foliage distance to medium on my 970 and it's mostly 60fps, only a few weird dips here and there. Rest on ultra with hairworks off.
Getting constant menu-related crashes on the latest Nvidia drivers since 1.05. No problems before now.
Basically the game keeps chugging along but the display is frozen on a menu. Happens with inventory, crafting, map, shop etc.
The only way out of it is to blindly find the "Exit", "Exit to Main Menu", or "Load Game" options using the controller at which point it CTD's. Otherwise, I have to do a hard-reset.
I'm soooooo close to the end too. F*ck.
EDIT: Should also note that with the latest drivers and 1.05, I was able to turn Foilage Distance back up to Ultra and still maintain 60fps on SLI 780 Ti's. This was impossible before so that's something I guess.
Basically the game keeps chugging along but the display is frozen on a menu. Happens with inventory, crafting, map, shop etc.
The only way out of it is to blindly find the "Exit", "Exit to Main Menu", or "Load Game" options using the controller at which point it CTD's. Otherwise, I have to do a hard-reset.
I'm soooooo close to the end too. F*ck.
EDIT: Should also note that with the latest drivers and 1.05, I was able to turn Foilage Distance back up to Ultra and still maintain 60fps on SLI 780 Ti's. This was impossible before so that's something I guess.
RickyRozay
Member
Did the same as well with my 970
Latest update works fine w/ MSI Afterburner + RTSS.
You are propably on Steam, right? Disable Steam overlay and try again. I have GOG ver so can't confirm anything.
If you have another injector like RadeonPro with Witcher 3 profile, then disable that, or MSI A.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
Afterburner OSD crashes the game for me so I have to disable it.
chromatic9
Member
Here's a video of where the screenshots were took. MSI Afterburner video capture makes me lose 10-15 fps so went with foliage range to high. 70-77fps in video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1UVkgL4t-s&feature=youtu.be
Without recording its high as 87-90.
Frame rate I'm referencing are in relation to the screens I posted and talk with others general performance which some are getting the same and some aren't. No bog was talked about but I'll keep a look out for crookback bog
Corpsepyre
Banned
It's weird. I have the same GPU, and I've never experienced ANY performance gains after the updates for any new games. Do they even optimize for single GPUs anymore? The notes always mention Crossfire setups.
So im Running Sapphire R7 260x OC'd a tad bit...
CPU is an old Core 2 Quad q8300 (lol)
RAM 8GB
Unfortunately Fraps kills FPS during recording and compression in video is terrible...
but it runs at 1080p 30fps with almost all high settings with the exceptions:
shadows and background characters set to medium...
Water - Ultra
SSAO
Hairworks off
Motion Blur off
Sharpening off (i dont like how it looks anyway)
...and i get a solid 30fps (since im not a big PC gamer...and a HUGE console gamer... 30fps is acceptable for me lol.)
you can see in this little clip, its pretty decent, though running fraps kills it (you can see it hiccup when discovering the area) but without fraps... 1080p 30fps is pretty rad for my card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRMLuzK72N0
CPU is an old Core 2 Quad q8300 (lol)
RAM 8GB
Unfortunately Fraps kills FPS during recording and compression in video is terrible...
but it runs at 1080p 30fps with almost all high settings with the exceptions:
shadows and background characters set to medium...
Water - Ultra
SSAO
Hairworks off
Motion Blur off
Sharpening off (i dont like how it looks anyway)
...and i get a solid 30fps (since im not a big PC gamer...and a HUGE console gamer... 30fps is acceptable for me lol.)
you can see in this little clip, its pretty decent, though running fraps kills it (you can see it hiccup when discovering the area) but without fraps... 1080p 30fps is pretty rad for my card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRMLuzK72N0
R9 270x Graphics
i5-4590 CPU
6gb RAM
Running everything on high. Vsync.
Hairworks off.
Everything is smooth with little to no jitters. Recently upgraded from an i3 CPU which made a big difference. No complaints at the moment except for the performance tradeoff with Hairworks. I think it looks nice but isn't worth the ~10fps
i5-4590 CPU
6gb RAM
Running everything on high. Vsync.
Hairworks off.
Everything is smooth with little to no jitters. Recently upgraded from an i3 CPU which made a big difference. No complaints at the moment except for the performance tradeoff with Hairworks. I think it looks nice but isn't worth the ~10fps
Gog. And I'm not the only one with the issue. There's something weird in there.
This I didn't try yet but I will when I get the chance
Corpsepyre
Banned
Hi. I have an i3 4130. How big of a jump did you get from that CPU? I'm thinking of getting i5 4590.
Futurevoid
Member
Anyone else still experiencing the Rotfiend explosion bug on 1.05? Any fix?
Felix Lighter
Member
Artifacts? I've seen that happen but it was prior to 1.05. I've seen other people report it as well.
.Futurevoid
Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NECqC6s4M_Y
Did a few searches and there appears to be a ton of reports of it on the official forums. Its not a video card issue, either. It appears to happen more when multiple Rotfiends are grouped and trigger a chain of explosions.
The game has run flawlessly for me outside of that.
Felix Lighter
Member
Yeah, that was the PS4 version as well. It's one of those bugs that freaks you out but it's been reported so many times and on different platforms, I'm not too worried about it other than it looks terrible.
wanderjahr
Banned
Does it tear if you go windows borderless?
Futurevoid
Member
Yeah the first time it happened I thought my new 980ti was dying or something. lol.
No, but there's a lot of added input lag.
Running here with AfterBurner + RTSS + Reshade + SweetFX on 1.05
Felix Lighter
Member
I have been running into a bug I never experienced before 1.05. Sometimes when I load a save, the game just goes to a black screen and hangs. I have to force exit the process. I relaunch and the save loads. It's the first serious bug I've encountered.
JudgmentJay
Member
I was worried about Skellige because I'd read that it's more performance-intensive than Novigrad/Velen. Ever since arriving, I've been able to set everything to ultra (hairworks still off) and never drop below 60 FPS. Before I had to have foliage distance at high. Maybe the patch helped? 1.05 hit right as I was starting the area. Really loving the environment. And dat music.
I did experience my very first crash though... 102 hours in. Very exciting.
I did experience my very first crash though... 102 hours in. Very exciting.
I really need a button that clears everything off the screen so I can just take screenshots without turning the pieces of it off individually. Also, I wish pressing a button to take a screenshot during a cutscene or dialogue setpiece didn't show "Press SPACE to skip" or whatever!
hermeslyre
Neo Member
That's one solution. Maybe the only solution if you need to stay with the latest driver release.
But the better solution is to roll back to 352.12 or 347.xx which is stable for most people and overclock to your hearts content. The guy above was disappointed he couldn't get a locked 60fps on his new 970, overclocking is the optimal solution to that. All these 900 series cards have 15 - 20% extra performance just waiting to be unlocked with a couple slider adjustments.
berval
Member
I've had this happen since 1.03. It's the gog version and it only seems to do this when I launch it through steam. Works just fine if it's launched through galaxy.
Not a very demanding area and you're not doing anything but walking.
How about in a city? In Novigrad? The Swamp? Other more demand in areas?
Felix Lighter
Member
I saw a hotfix driver for that was posted earlier here.
Interesting, I have the Steam version, it first started happening today after 75 hours of playtime.
chromatic9
Member
You said
You did reply to my post which contained the screenshot of an area and seem to ask for a video, hence the video in that same area. Now I have to be in Novigrad or this specific swamp.
I did state from the outset I haven't got to Novigrad when initially replying to someone else, which was more about general performance, not a specific area and I get the same in Oxenfurt. Is Oxenfurt no good either?
The whole thing was about what you're mostly getting.
How about you fast travel to Oxenfurt and Mulbrydale and compare. Do you get 50-60 with the same settings. T'was what the video is, info to compare.
Cannon Goose
Member
I can't remember the exact wording, it's something like "shaved sides and a ponytail."
Do NOT get the "short on top, shaved sides and a ponytail" cut! It looks absolutely ridiculous.
hermeslyre
Neo Member
Sevenfold
Member
Strange. I'm alt-tabbed a lot and my GPU screams unless I open the map before I do. Not checked usage, will later, but it's real quiet.