finalflame
Banned
Stop making me want to spend money on one of those sweet, sweet Acer IPS G-Sync 1440p monitors.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
- Thread starter batman2million
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Stop making me want to spend money on one of those sweet, sweet Acer IPS G-Sync 1440p monitors.
ColonialRaptor
Member
I've looked through the bin files and it looks like the game should be quite tuneable above the standard settings in the game. Possible to push it much further than it is initially.
finalflame
Banned
Happened for me during the cutscene after the campfire scene, and then again in the first tavern after choosing a dialog option.
Haven't tested for SLi scaling yet but this is ridiculously disappointing to hear. Another game, developed closely with nVidia, having terrible SLi support at launch. Absolute fucking crap. CDPR really has let their entire operation go into the toilet.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Nice. Mind turning hairworks on and telling us your results? Also bump it to 4K if possible?
Hoping for 4K hairworks on with some tweaking on my SLI 970 FTW's with a bit of an OC.
Game unlocked like 15 minutes before I had to leave for work. Was so tempted to call out. Will play 12.5 hours from now.
Turbowaffles
Member
For the new page. I'll leave it alone after this.
whatsinaname
Member
The loading times are such a HUGE improvement over Witcher 2.
Turned off Hairworks? That caused a stuttering mess for me.
Yeah, something's definitely up. That sounds exactly like my system, minus the SLI. I'm hoping Driver Sweeper will do the trick for you.
Did the same for me windowed or not.
My audio dies each time. That means it's the Nvidia driver crashing.
I just did a full driver uninstall...restarting.
RandomSeed
Member
Yep. I imagine AMD will release drivers in the next few weeks that may even bump the FPS a few...which would be great, because if the minimum FPS goes up just a couple, I (we) could turn up a few more options. HBAO+ and shadows only drop a couple of frames, but it's enough to dip under 30 right now.
Cannon Goose
Member
Time for the best part of PC gaming tweaking settings!
i7 4770k 4.2 ghz, GTX 980 and 16gb DDR3, playing at 1080p every setting maxed out(Hairworks is set to All) except for Chromatic aberration and Blur(i dont like either), so far min fps is 39, average is 45 fps, also i dont know if its just me but Borderless seems to be causing a lot of sttuter so i changed it to Fullscreen, i got my hopes too high after hearing that one GTX 980 could get this game at 60 fps average, also my game crashed 3 times in 45m
Is the game's first cutscene (The one with the battle and the crow to the eye) mute? I don't have any sound at it, but it's normal for the rest of the game.
You could probably run a mix of ultra/high at locked 30fps. I think that's better than ps4 performance.
You could probably run a mix of ultra/high at locked 30fps. I think that's better than ps4 performance.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
KINGofCRA5H
Member
I just played for about 30 min before it crashed, longest so far. This sucks.
4970k @ 4.8
980 FTW
16gb RAM
Win 8.1
Getting pretty close to 60fps, everything on except motion blur and CA, 1440p, ultra, vsync on, hairworks off
Playing with a controller
Borderless wouldn't work, neither does fullscreen
4970k @ 4.8
980 FTW
16gb RAM
Win 8.1
Getting pretty close to 60fps, everything on except motion blur and CA, 1440p, ultra, vsync on, hairworks off
Playing with a controller
Borderless wouldn't work, neither does fullscreen
Drama Zed Nod
Member
Yup, im on a controller but i used the M/KB for a bit and it was also fine.
I've only played for an hour so not at any heavily populated areas but so far i haven't had any slow down, not stuttering, not a single tear and my responsiveness seems more or less unaffected. I would say its averaging in the 40s and 50s as opposed to dramatic 30-60 all the time.
OmegaDL50
Member
Can you tell me you your configuration or show me a screenshot.
I need to see what I'm doing wrong then.
Doesn't make a difference. Framerate's fine if I stay in a small area and walk around. Once I start moving far enough that the game wants to load in more areas, I get a stutter.
Feels like something that won't be easily fixed, if it gets fixed at all.
edit: Actually, that's not true. Once it starts stuttering, it continues to stutter for a while even if I just stand still and rotate the camera.
Sinnermighty
Member
2700k @ 4Ghz
GTX 670 slight OC
Med-High settings @50-60 fps
Windows 10 10074
Still getting constant crashes every 5-10 minutes on 350.12, 352.84 and 352.86
No other game is doing this.
GTX 670 slight OC
Med-High settings @50-60 fps
Windows 10 10074
Still getting constant crashes every 5-10 minutes on 350.12, 352.84 and 352.86
No other game is doing this.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/617335934148366934/
I am going to try this, from steam forums
You'll be able to run it on Medium at a solid 60FPS with hairworks off I'd imagine.
It will look similar, probably better than PS4, but with the added bonus of silky smooth frame rate which is what ultimately made me go with the PC version.
Oh and Medium is nothing to cry about in case that sounds disappointing, the differences between Medium and Ultra aren't too much of a gap. It still looks great.
Useful image on how well you will be able to run the game HERE.
d00d3n
Member
My audio did not die, though. Right when the battle was about to start the game window was minimized, but I kept hearing audio as if the battle was playing out. After about 20 seconds the Witcher 3 process ended. To be more specific, this was the first battle against beasts after doing the tutorial part in the Witcher fort.
Drama Zed Nod
Member
For me G-Sync is what makes me play on my PC over my Xbone/PS4 even though i have the big screen and sound system hooked up to those.
Even though i'm on my second swift (first one died, they don't have a great track record) i absolutely love it (when it works).
NoMoreTrolls
Banned
Game keeps resetting my graphics settings... Anyone else having this problem?
(Happens after I use the automatic setting from Geforce Experience)
(Happens after I use the automatic setting from Geforce Experience)
Look at this :
http://www.reddit.com/r/witcher/comments/36ewbt/official_bug_thread/
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/36678-Crash-To-Desktop-No-error-messages-(FX-8350-GTX-970)
http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/617335934148413615/
And many others just like this in various forums. This is the first game in my life that made me doubt my machine might have a problem somewhere hardware wise. Never had this kind of problems with any game before -except bf3 which was driver related at the time and at least single player was working flawless- This can't be driver related because all kinds of hardware from titan-x's to amd fx 8350's are effected.
This is ridiculous.
http://www.reddit.com/r/witcher/comments/36ewbt/official_bug_thread/
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/36678-Crash-To-Desktop-No-error-messages-(FX-8350-GTX-970)
http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/617335934148413615/
And many others just like this in various forums. This is the first game in my life that made me doubt my machine might have a problem somewhere hardware wise. Never had this kind of problems with any game before -except bf3 which was driver related at the time and at least single player was working flawless- This can't be driver related because all kinds of hardware from titan-x's to amd fx 8350's are effected.
This is ridiculous.
GTX 780
i5-2500
8GB RAM
Performance is much worse than I thought, but the upshot is that the 30 FPS lock is really well implemented and smooth as silk. Not even gonna try for 60 FPS.
I just set everything to high, turn off hair works, turn on HBAO, and forget it.
(Also, no crashes so far but it's only been 30 minutes)
i5-2500
8GB RAM
Performance is much worse than I thought, but the upshot is that the 30 FPS lock is really well implemented and smooth as silk. Not even gonna try for 60 FPS.
I just set everything to high, turn off hair works, turn on HBAO, and forget it.
(Also, no crashes so far but it's only been 30 minutes)
did this get posted here before? http://international.download.nvidi...ak-interactive-comparison-1-9600-vs-2400.html
dat ini change
dat ini change
Hey_Blinkin
Member
Turning down "foliage visibility" from ultra to high gets me 10 more fps. From 35 to 45. Everything else Ultra w/ SSAO and no motion blur at 1080p. Seems to be the biggest jump I've seen from any setting so far.
4770k @ 4.2
7970 @ 1050 w/ latest drivers
16gb ram
windows 8.1
4770k @ 4.2
7970 @ 1050 w/ latest drivers
16gb ram
windows 8.1
3 crashes so far, otherwise I'm getting 60 (everything on ultra) with some annoying small drops/stutters. 1080p, 970 SLI and a 2600k@4.4.
Same here, I ended up manually setting the recommendations.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Running ok for me on a single 970, locked to 30, everything cranked including hairworks at 1440. Damn pretty game.
Koutsoubas
Member
Seems like 980GTX and 970 SLI has crashes every 15 minutes.
Good God that's horrible.
Good God that's horrible.
OmegaDL50
Member
Okay I definitely can run this game on Ultra at 30fps with Hairworks turned off.
The lowest drop being to 28fps.
I think I'll drop shadow detail and background characters to high and see if that fixes the dropping down to 28fps.
Still it looks amazing.
Far superior to my Skyrim + 2K Textures and ENB setup.
The lowest drop being to 28fps.
I think I'll drop shadow detail and background characters to high and see if that fixes the dropping down to 28fps.
Still it looks amazing.
Far superior to my Skyrim + 2K Textures and ENB setup.