NoMoreTrolls
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Is there a GAF overclocking guide? I'm rocking an i5 4690k and a 970, FWIW. I've never OC'ed something before and don't want to break anything.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
- Thread starter batman2million
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Thanks everyone, hard to believe I'll be playing in about 3 1/2 hours.
I'll have to find something to keep the kids out of my gaming room tonight..lol.
Slackbladder
Member
So no guarantee of 60fps with a 980 with ultra settings and no hairworks? I might lock it to 30 and crank it up instead.
Stock FX6300 is in the green 
. Medium-High settings here I come! Can probably reach High-Ultra if I OC the CPU a bit? .
Any word of which settings are CPU intensive? R9 280x peforms better than the 285 in the end, as expected, ready for ultra at 1080p whereas they recommend medium-high for the 285. CPU gonna bottleneck me a tad before I OC though.
Edit: Wait, is the Gamestar.de stuff bunk? Still, shouldn't expect the 6300 to perform that bad if the game isn't *that* CPU intensive and has good core scaling. Any members of the FX6300 club report back to me if you're playing this as soon as it unlocks!
. Medium-High settings here I come! Can probably reach High-Ultra if I OC the CPU a bit? . Any word of which settings are CPU intensive? R9 280x peforms better than the 285 in the end, as expected, ready for ultra at 1080p whereas they recommend medium-high for the 285. CPU gonna bottleneck me a tad before I OC though.
Edit: Wait, is the Gamestar.de stuff bunk? Still, shouldn't expect the 6300 to perform that bad if the game isn't *that* CPU intensive and has good core scaling. Any members of the FX6300 club report back to me if you're playing this as soon as it unlocks!
Neko Mimi Mode
Member
GTX 750 (not TI)
i5-4460
What say you, GAF? Think this is going to be playable at 1080p for me?
i5-4460
What say you, GAF? Think this is going to be playable at 1080p for me?
CarbonFire
Member
3 1/2 hours? Google tells me 7pm ET is 11pm GMT which is 2 1/2 hours from now (20:30).
Edit - never mind. The site says midnight London.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Sees 6970 in the red.
Cries self to sleep
You think locked 30fps, 1080p, ultra + HairWorks is possible on a 980?
Peterthumpa
Member
Ditto. Will try 2560x1440 with Ultra and Hairworks at 30 FPS with my 970.
I guess it should be doable.
Pre-set? I imagine so. It likely wouldn't be able to handle those insane tweaks though.
RazorbackDB
Member
How is a 260x red and a 7790 yellow?, 260x is an overclocked 7790 and most come with more memory.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Well the chart seems to indicate anything under 40 fps is "unplayable" so god knows really.
Absolutely - people have said that it'll run at 40-50 FPS in the worst case scenario without hairworks. I'm sure that a locked 30 is doable for the vast majority of the game.
Okay that's weird, the 260x has better specs across the board :lol
SmartWaffles
Member
Pretty sure it has to do with turn 10's excellent motion blur. Driveclub never feels as good as Horizon 2 despite both being 30fps.
OldAsUrSock
Banned
Nvidia needs to get its act together. There is no way a 960 can perform better than a 780ti unless they gave special treatment to Maxwell.
People with high end PCs talking about 30fps should watch this before deciding for sure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2mJaYQhaYc
Granted, this is old ultra, and Low is way lower than you'd need to run at 60fps, but it's still a decent way to put graphic settings vs framerate and decide which one makes a bigger impact for you, since their rig wasn't holding 60fps at Ultra.
Watch at 60fps, obviously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2mJaYQhaYc
Granted, this is old ultra, and Low is way lower than you'd need to run at 60fps, but it's still a decent way to put graphic settings vs framerate and decide which one makes a bigger impact for you, since their rig wasn't holding 60fps at Ultra.
Watch at 60fps, obviously.
So according to this my i7 920 oc'd to 3.6, 7950 @ 3gb and 16gb ram should do fine on medium and if I try and lock it to 30 hopefully let me put a few things on high.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
I really should've started playing the first Witcher the day I ordered my new card, I'd probably be at least half way through the second game by now. Assuming I put the time in of course. Even better if I played through them when I bought them off Steam almost two years ago. Maybe I'll start W3 at the end of the month.
Dictator93
Member
The game is a forward+ renderer and is probably using lots of compute. Nonetheless, it would be sad to see the 780Ti so thoroughly dethroned.
Uh, coming from someone with a 980m myself - there's no way that's happening.
The 970 in the graph isn't getting 60FPS at 1080 with Hairworks off, no way you're doing better than that.
Never dipping below 30FPS seems reasonable though.
ndawgdrake
Member
See my previous post, my 6970 brotber. The chart has glaring flaws.
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
That chart looms dumb to me.
Do they mean unplayable at 1080p 40+ fps?
Because the resolution can be lowered, people can play at 30 fps etc lol. Kinda disregards half the reasons to game on a PC.
Adry9
Member
How accurate is that? I'd be thrilled if my 7950 Boost can move the game @ 1080p/60fps on Medium even if I have to leave some stuff on low.
Peterthumpa
Member
We'll see. Maybe lowering grass to high? We'll see.
CyberPunked
Member
These are the only tweaks I plan on using:
Code:
CascadeShadowDistanceScale1=4 (Visibility of close shadows)
CascadeShadowDistanceScale2=4 (Visibility of far shadows)
GrassDistanceScale=3 (grass LOD distance)Interesting, thanks. Wish Nvidia came up with some new "pseudo-60fps" motion blur technology for 30fps gaming that you could enable like DSR. On second thought it'd destroy their sales b/c 30fps would actually become tolerable. I can dream.
Every 10 mins or so I give the PRE-LOAD button on Steam a nudge hoping it will allocate but alas get the 'not released yet you impatient sod' dialog box. Oddly the unlock time on the store page is one hour earlier than the countdown on GOG so finger crossed.
I have not a single component on this chart, no CPU, no GPU, not even the amount of memory.
I have not a single component on this chart, no CPU, no GPU, not even the amount of memory.
Thankfully the good kind of not included.
theignoramus
Member
Gaf does the game unlock in about 130 minutes time or 190 minutes time?
Dictator93
Member
Lol, those are the exact same ones I was gonna use
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Fuck 1080p. I will be playing the game in 900p with more FPS and much higher settings.
CyberPunked
Member
Lol, those are the exact same ones I was gonna use
They have the highest reward for the little performance they take.
razgriz417
Member
If I'm not mistaken, the performance guide mentions something about Maxwell being up to 3 times faster at tessellation than past generation GPUs, which may be a legitimate reason for the disparity between the two technologies in the benchmarks we're seeing.
The feel of 60fps
RickyRozay
Member
not sure about anyone else but I've already had the new game ready drivers crash once while surfing the web which is unheard of for me, hopefully it won't screw with me come game time.
Thaedolus
Member
Only if you're being capped by vsync at some refresh rate below what your machine is capable of. If you're only putting out <50 FPS or something like that, disabling vsync won't help anything. Gsync does help smooth out stuttering from variable framerates, however.
Mad Season
Banned
yea, makes no sense to me
OldAsUrSock
Banned
Not when a rebranded 7970 is close to a 780ti.
Happened to me with GTA V drivers, had to downgrade (still not home so I didn't test the new drivers)
Are you on Kepler too? Could that have something to do with low Kepler performance?
ScepticMatt
Member
720p 30 ish on low is my target .. I hope .. please
thehillissilent
Member
I'm in the same mindset. I will even go as low as 720p (blasphemy, I know) to get that high FPS and high settings.
I'd say yes, that's what i'm gonna try, benchmark says a GTX 980 achieves 49fps avarage and 46fps minimum with everything on Ultra/1080p but HairWorks and HBAO+ turned off, now i don't think those 2 features cost 20fps on a GTX 980.
So i'm confident that i'll be able to run it with everything enabled at locked 30fps without any drop, and maybe my 980 won't be even used at 100% to achieve that frame rate.