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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Go full screen over Borderless.
I had a 770 4GB and an i5 4440 (before I upgraded to an i7 4790 and a 970 since the 770 decided to take an error 43 vacation once I added in the i7) and I was getting 27-30fps at 1080p with most settings on high and ultra
Put foliage down to High and you'll have a pretty much locked 60fps on a 970.
Thanks, I don't know why I didn't think of this lol. If the patch doesn't fix it I'll just do that instead.
wanderjahr
Banned
I hear people say this, but I get a much smoother performance with windowed borderless. Not only that, but I can keep my custom color profile. Maybe I could eek out a few more fps with fullscreen, but the judder is real.
I still run a 770. There's no way I'd try and run everything in ultra and high, but there are only a couple settings where that even makes sense, or at least there are diminishing returns in doing so. I get at least 45fps in the most demanding areas and 55-60 in others with the settings I use. I considered upgrading my GPU, but it's not really going to give me a picture/performance that looks $400 better.
PastorOfMuppets
Banned
You don't really need any mods. You might wanna wait for patch 1.07 though. It optimizes the inventory system and adds a stash.
Any .ini changes that might be necessary?
Smushroomed
Banned
I pray to the universe changed the controls to be way more responsive. I would play this game so much
The game does like to switch to Borderless Windowed inexplicably, but if you have it at 1080p on a 1080p display and its zoomed in, that's kinda weird.
Still, make sure its set to Fullscreen.
Name of this mod please? I been hoping there was one as hairworks looks terrible on Geralt from the front. Edit: I found it.
The game is demanding on your gpu...fans spin up because the work creates heat. If other games aren't causing the issue, it's because they aren't demanding games. If you want to avoid noise, play games that are easy on the gpu.....(but why buy a 970 if that's the case?)
GTAV, Project Cars, Far Cry 4, Assassins Creed Unity are all demanding games and none of them cause the fans to spin up to jet levels.
I agree, hardly any difference and you gain 5-10 more fps in some location (very dense forest areas at any time of the day)
Gumbie
Member
I don't know what happened, but my performance has tanked. Was previously getting solid 30 with the same settings at novigrad, but now I'm hovering just above 20. And I'm getting a lot more texture streaming issues than before. Only change I can think of is that I installed Win10 10162 build. I hope it's that, because if it's not then I have no idea what could be causing it.
j0hnny_385
Member
CybernatonEvolution
Member
You know what a common thing that these games do? Shitting on capable Kepler cards.
Felix Lighter
Member
It's possible that you're more CPU bound in those games, which would help keep your GPU usage down a bit compared to the Witcher 3. The card is getting hotter so it's apparent that the Witcher 3 is more demanding on your GPU with your system.
@feijoax @witchergame This DLC became available prematurely via XBL - wasn't ready. We advise against using it until it releases officially.
https://twitter.com/Marcin360/status/617995616170471426
The developer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been giving out free DLC bits since launch, mostly consisting of small outfits and short quests, but free nontheless. This week no DLC is scheduled to arrive due to a rather large quality of life patch, but on Xbox One and PS4, something may have leaked a little early for some folks.
That leak is Ciri's alternate outfit, which, according to the devs themselves, you should delete from your console -- as it may cause issues with the core game. Fair enough, I'm sure most of you can wait for a costume!
http://www.destructoid.com/did-you-download-the-ciri-costume-dlc-for-witcher-3-delete-it-295513.phtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Seems the new ciri outfit is bugged
https://twitter.com/Marcin360/status/617995616170471426
The developer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been giving out free DLC bits since launch, mostly consisting of small outfits and short quests, but free nontheless. This week no DLC is scheduled to arrive due to a rather large quality of life patch, but on Xbox One and PS4, something may have leaked a little early for some folks.
That leak is Ciri's alternate outfit, which, according to the devs themselves, you should delete from your console -- as it may cause issues with the core game. Fair enough, I'm sure most of you can wait for a costume!
http://www.destructoid.com/did-you-download-the-ciri-costume-dlc-for-witcher-3-delete-it-295513.phtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Seems the new ciri outfit is bugged
family_guy
Member
I'd get the 9999 weight mod. I hate inventory management.
shiftplusone
Member
I guess this would count as a performance thing..
does anyone else have ridiculously low volume when the animted cutscenes are playing? Opening loading cutscene and the like are at least 50% of regular gameplay volume. it's maddening
does anyone else have ridiculously low volume when the animted cutscenes are playing? Opening loading cutscene and the like are at least 50% of regular gameplay volume. it's maddening
Yeah could be.
Could also be significant that I played all those (other than PCars) in cold weather!
Yep, this helped me immensely during my play through. A secondary effect is it helps your money situation since you can pick up everything you run across.
With my locked 60fps setting in GTA V i can hit about 64c on my 970.
With my close to locked 60fps in Witcher 3 i get 70-72c. This is with hair works. If i turned hairworks off with my current setting i run about 70-85% usage and would run about 65c.
The reason is that witcher is much more optimised, it can run very close to 99% GPU usage all the time, whereas for GTA V 60fps settings, you have to turn down settings that cause it to drop at certian point in the game. That means the GPU is working around 70-99% usage giving overall lower temps.
If i run 4K in GTA V with my settings kept the same, i can hit 70c too. So its not that Witcher is more demanding, its that Witcher is more consistent allowing you to crank settings up more on average.
Yeah, those and the prerendered cutscenes have low volume and some have hard coded subs, but there aren't many of them.
This is what im running on a GTX 970 1545/3900Mhz and i7 3770 4.2Ghz
1920x1080
Hairworks On
Background characters High
Shadows Medium
Terrain Ultra
Water High
Grass High
Textures Ultra
Foliage range High
Detail Ultra
Motion blur On
AA Off
Bloom On
Sharpening Off
Ambien Occlusion HBAO+
Depth of Field On
Chromatic Aberration Off
Vignetting Off
Light shafts On
In my User.settings i changed
CascadeShadowDistanceScale0=2
CascadeShadowDistanceScale1=2
CascadeShadowDistanceScale2=2.5
CascadeShadowDistanceScale3=2.5
and added
[Streaming/Textures]
UseMipRefiner=true
Its pretty solid 60fps, only sometimes there is a small stutter in Novigrad between 60 and 57fps, and when bringing the camera super close to Geralt the fps drop to 45.
1920x1080
Hairworks On
Background characters High
Shadows Medium
Terrain Ultra
Water High
Grass High
Textures Ultra
Foliage range High
Detail Ultra
Motion blur On
AA Off
Bloom On
Sharpening Off
Ambien Occlusion HBAO+
Depth of Field On
Chromatic Aberration Off
Vignetting Off
Light shafts On
In my User.settings i changed
CascadeShadowDistanceScale0=2
CascadeShadowDistanceScale1=2
CascadeShadowDistanceScale2=2.5
CascadeShadowDistanceScale3=2.5
and added
[Streaming/Textures]
UseMipRefiner=true
Its pretty solid 60fps, only sometimes there is a small stutter in Novigrad between 60 and 57fps, and when bringing the camera super close to Geralt the fps drop to 45.
wanderjahr
Banned
Has anybody toggled their CPU hyperthreading at all? I've never turned it off, but read in the Nvidia forums that it helps. I'm about to try it for shits and giggles.
The new patch will give us stashes for junk we don't want to sell
http://thewitcher.com/news/view/1078
anotherthought
Member
Just bought a used 670 for 80 and it overclocks really well(1280mhz/3703mhz). Together with my stock i5-4670k I'm getting 40-50fps(occasionally higher, rarely lower.) on mostly High/Ultra settings:
1920x1080
Hairworks Off
Background characters High
Shadows High
Terrain Ultra
Water High
Grass Medium
Textures Ultra
Foliage range High
Detail Ultra
Motion blur On
AA On
Bloom On
Sharpening Off
Ambien Occlusion SSAO
Depth of Field On
Chromatic Aberration Off
Vignetting On
Light shafts On
Just in the beginning areas and haven't really experimented with the settings too much- HBAO+ lowers average framerate by about 4fps, maybe it's worth it?
Overall very happy with it.
1920x1080
Hairworks Off
Background characters High
Shadows High
Terrain Ultra
Water High
Grass Medium
Textures Ultra
Foliage range High
Detail Ultra
Motion blur On
AA On
Bloom On
Sharpening Off
Ambien Occlusion SSAO
Depth of Field On
Chromatic Aberration Off
Vignetting On
Light shafts On
Just in the beginning areas and haven't really experimented with the settings too much- HBAO+ lowers average framerate by about 4fps, maybe it's worth it?
Overall very happy with it.
Works my GPU really hard, yea. The fans work hard because it heats the GPU like no other. Regularly hit up to 80C in TW3 with the card underclocked, whereas in most games I'm between 65-72c even after long play sessions with a factory overclock.
LordAmused
Member
New patch is out. 2.2GB download. Will report performance soon.
EDIT: Apparently, it's not patch 1.07.
EDIT: Apparently, it's not patch 1.07.
Interfectum
Member
It's for the artbook.
wanderjahr
Banned
Going to the Abandoned Village will be a good test to see how your settings will fare in the more demanding areas of the game. I'd reduce your shadows to medium and maybe switch to FXAA via NCP. Using the optimization guide, I'd maybe change a couple more of your settings as there is little to no visual difference between them, yet the cost is considerable. I know it's not sexy to see "medium" ticked on one of your settings, but believe me, the performance boost is worth it and you won't even know the difference unless you are pixel hunting. And finally, for shits and giggles, mess with your PhysX. Change it to CPU and then back to GPU and see if there is any improvement. My kepler sees well over a 10% increase when I leave it on CPU. Nice OC btw.
As for other settings, I've found using RTSS to cap framerate at 60fps and leaving fps unlimited in-game makes for smooth gameplay. Uncheck vsync and enable windowed borderless.
Or just, you know, forget everything I said because this game is awesome and you'll enjoy it regardless
LordAmused
Member
Yeah, just saw the Steam Forums post from CDPR as I was clickling Submit Reply. Got my hopes up a little bit
Does anyone get little circles of lights sometimes when playing? I have a OCed 970 that I turn way down for this games since it's OC sensitive and still get these little red blobs on the screen from time to time that aren't like normal GPU artifacting I've seen. My temp never goes above 80 degrees either.
anotherthought
Member
Going to the Abandoned Village will be a good test to see how your settings will fare in the more demanding areas of the game. I'd reduce your shadows to medium and maybe switch to FXAA via NCP. Using the optimization guide, I'd maybe change a couple more of your settings as there is little to no visual difference between them, yet the cost is considerable. I know it's not sexy to see "medium" ticked on one of your settings, but believe me, the performance boost is worth it and you won't even know the difference unless you are pixel hunting. And finally, for shits and giggles, mess with your PhysX. Change it to CPU and then back to GPU and see if there is any improvement. My kepler sees well over a 10% increase when I leave it on CPU. Nice OC btw.
As for other settings, I've found using RTSS to cap framerate at 60fps and leaving fps unlimited in-game makes for smooth gameplay. Uncheck vsync and enable windowed borderless.
Or just, you know, forget everything I said because this game is awesome and you'll enjoy it regardless
Thanks, those are some substantial tips! I'll definitely give them a try. Not super diehard about the framerate, but I enjoy tinkering way more than I should
Unloading the gpu sounds good considering how hot it runs, really hard to keep it under 70c.
Obliterator
Member
Yeah, I don't think this mod works anymore? Or if so I guess I'm doing it wrong? I cannot get it to function at all
wanderjahr
Banned
If anybody is curious, I messed with hyperthreading and observed no change with our without it on my i7-930. Here is some more in-depth details/numbers.
wanderjahr
Banned
Sutton Dagger
Member
That sounds like your core clock on your GPU is still too high. Have you benchmarked it with heaven 4.0?
I've got a Gigabyte G1 970 and with a 150+ core and 250+ memory OC I'm not having any issues.