Cmon hairworks on a single 970 at a locked 30!
probably unlikely
Crossing fingers for this as well.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Crossing fingers for this as well.
Krappadizzle
Member
Awesome news. I'm hoping my 780 gives me good 1080p/60fps performance.
What are you running now? Didn't you have a 580 back in the day for W2?
ColonialRaptor
Member
i7-3930k @ 4.4
2x 7970 oc maxed
24GB RAM
Running from my game specific SSD.
Hoping for fully maxed settings and some suitable INI tweaks and I'll be gutted if hairworks doesn't work. Hoping for 60fps.
Processor has twelve threads so that's certainly going to be useful in this core threaded game.
I don't know whether I believe in the "downgrade" crap or not but I'm torn as to whether I am happy or sad about it because if it was downgraded then I can run it on my system and not have to upgrade yet which I don't want to do yet or rather be able to play it for a second time looking better in a years time.
Edit: Linking this thread from the OT now.
2x 7970 oc maxed
24GB RAM
Running from my game specific SSD.
Hoping for fully maxed settings and some suitable INI tweaks and I'll be gutted if hairworks doesn't work. Hoping for 60fps.
Processor has twelve threads so that's certainly going to be useful in this core threaded game.
I don't know whether I believe in the "downgrade" crap or not but I'm torn as to whether I am happy or sad about it because if it was downgraded then I can run it on my system and not have to upgrade yet which I don't want to do yet or rather be able to play it for a second time looking better in a years time.
Edit: Linking this thread from the OT now.
I'm on a
FX6300 @ 3.5Ghz (gonna overclock it to 4.5 in the coming weeks, just need a better cooler and the chips OC well)
R9 280X 3gB
4gB of ram (lol)
I'll need better ram for the OC anyway so I'll be upgrading that to 8gB when I buy the new heatsink/fan. I just hope that OC to 4.5 is enough for a stable 60 at high-ultra settings. But it should be, the difference between a 6300 and a 8350 isn't *that* huge
I'm aiming for top graphics at 1080p. Will most likely have to lower some stuff for a stable 60, but that's cool. Guessing turning off some uneccessary effects like CA and DoF will net me some extra frames
How can a 3770k be below reqs when a 2500k is minimum?
FX6300 @ 3.5Ghz (gonna overclock it to 4.5 in the coming weeks, just need a better cooler and the chips OC well)
R9 280X 3gB
4gB of ram (lol)
I'll need better ram for the OC anyway so I'll be upgrading that to 8gB when I buy the new heatsink/fan. I just hope that OC to 4.5 is enough for a stable 60 at high-ultra settings. But it should be, the difference between a 6300 and a 8350 isn't *that* huge
I'm aiming for top graphics at 1080p. Will most likely have to lower some stuff for a stable 60, but that's cool. Guessing turning off some uneccessary effects like CA and DoF will net me some extra frames
How can a 3770k be below reqs when a 2500k is minimum?
Pretty much you can crank the standard graphical options as high as your PC will allow, but when it comes to all the little post-processing extras, it's really, really subjective.
Personally with TW3 I'll be turning off: Sharpening, Vignetting, CA, Bloom, Motion Blur & Gameplay DoF. However that's just effects that I personally dislike (Many I fucking loathe), and you might actually prefer the look of the game with some of those effects turned on.
Just find the "version" of the game which looks best for you
I believe usually how it works is whoever has the marketing deal with the publisher gets the code first to analyze and optimize for the drivers. The other party, in this case AMD, has to wait until it is actually released. They'll probably have something a few days after release.
At least the tweet makes it sound like it's a high priority for them. Didn't the GTAV driver take a while?
opticalmace
Member
It was out like 5 or 6 hours before the game was unlocked. I think the nVidia driver was out 9 or 10 hours before the game was unlocked.
Exentryk
Member
Pretty much you can crank the standard graphical options as high as your PC will allow, but when it comes to all the little post-processing extras, it's really, really subjective.
Personally with TW3 I'll be turning off: Sharpening, Vignetting, CA, Bloom, Motion Blur & Gameplay DoF. However that's just effects that I personally dislike (Many I fucking loathe), and you might actually prefer the look of the game with some of those effects turned on.
Just find the "version" of the game which looks best for you
Thanks. I'll mess around a bit, even though I don't like wasting time with these things.
Primethius
Banned
I'm rocking a GTX 980 for this game but I actually really want to run hairworks while playing at Ultra. What's a good cheap card I can get dedicated to physx?
Exentryk
Member
980 can do Ultra with Gameworks (Hairworks, HBAO+ etc) at 1080p and more than 40 fps at that worst of times. Overclock your 980 and it can easily be in 50+ minimum range.
CrichtonKicks
Member
I don't think W3's PhysX implementation can be offloaded separately. It's baked into all versions of the game.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Gonna try running this at 4k with a single Titan X on a gsync monitor. Wishful thinking? Hopefully it stays over 30 with most of the bells and whistles turned on, since I hate going below native res. DA:I and GTAV both run fine at max or near max settings (msaa off) at 4k, so I'll keep my fingers crossed!
Is this really a thing?
Here is a link to all cards supporting physx. http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_gpus.html
I have an old GTX 280 lying around. How would you go about getting games to utilize the 2nd GPU?
Primethius
Banned
Oh... well, I guess I'll take Exentryk's advice and just overclock.
Edit: Not sure why I assumed this was a thing.
Krappadizzle
Member
It was a thing for Arkham Asylum/City. I thought it could be offloaded too until someone told me otherwise last week.
Yea it can be a little frustrating at first, but eventually down the road you discover consistent effects you hate, and you'll go into settings menus changing everything automatically and it won't feel like a hassle at all.
Otherwise I'm sure other users will share their settings, and if there's someone who you trust and/or screenshots they post look great, just copy theirs.
ref
Member
1440p.
Agree with you completely, camera motion blur is dumb, CA can die in a corner and DoF really depends on how it looks. Object Motion Blur is a nice effect though, is that in? Haven't seen any.
Edit: Speaking of overclocks. How does the 280X fare? It's already based on a chip (well it's pretty much the same) that's factory OC'd.
FakeEdit: Turns out my XFX card is already OC'd from 800mhz seen in the reference design (with 1ghz Turbo) to a stable 1.01ghz
RickyRozay
Member
Really, 40 or 50 at 1080p? I thought andy said that will get you 60fps. I might be wrong on that though. My 970 even though its oced to a base 980 will suffer if not.
Am I the only one who thinks the hairworks stuff looks awkward as hell? Especially in cutscenes. Whenever it cuts from and back to Geralt it looks like his hair re-settles from some off-screen hair explosion. Not that it's any problem of mine since I'm on an AMD GPU (it looked bad in Tomb Raider too) but still
Good point, the framerates we're seeing now are still on old drivers.
Good point, the framerates we're seeing now are still on old drivers.
night13x
Member
So some things the community needs to be aware of:
1) Nvidia wants to sell you a new card...even if in reality it's actually not that much of an upgrade (example - a gtx 780 is just slightly slower than a gtx 970...and a 780 SC / OC can easily match it).
2) I'm not saying this will happen again, but don't buy into "game day drivers" too much especially after the recent GTA V driver screwup. Basically the driver before that gta v driver (which is still current) actually makes gta run much better.
3) I have a feeling this game is really optimized at this point and will run very well on ultra (without hairworks) near 60fps on a variety of cards.
My advice is to wait till the game is actually released (with day 1 patch and with/without gameday driver) before you make any major GPU purchasing decisions.
1) Nvidia wants to sell you a new card...even if in reality it's actually not that much of an upgrade (example - a gtx 780 is just slightly slower than a gtx 970...and a 780 SC / OC can easily match it).
2) I'm not saying this will happen again, but don't buy into "game day drivers" too much especially after the recent GTA V driver screwup. Basically the driver before that gta v driver (which is still current) actually makes gta run much better.
3) I have a feeling this game is really optimized at this point and will run very well on ultra (without hairworks) near 60fps on a variety of cards.
My advice is to wait till the game is actually released (with day 1 patch and with/without gameday driver) before you make any major GPU purchasing decisions.
I have a bad feeling AMD owners are going to get the short end of the stick for this one
Nothing new!
Hairworks is achieved via tessellation rather than PhysX. The only PhysX-based feature is the real-time environmental destruction:
I bet your 770 is ready, just not for Hairworks, which you won't get on an R9 either way ;P
I have the same card. Hoping for 1080p@60fps at high or at least medium settings. Either way, I would wait for the new cards before spending money on the 290x.
What's your source on 2?
You're not the only one. It's impressive tech on its own, but it's not very well integrated yet. I think it tends to look out of place visually, and performance-wise it's unduly taxing for what you get in return.
Some day, the same physics will be driving cloth, grass, hair, fur, feathers, and everything else like that but until it can be convincingly integrated across the whole game world, it's always going to look out of place.
Exentryk
Member
The tests Andy ran were 40+ fps. The game probably runs 60 in most areas, but may dip to 40 odd in heavy areas. Regardless, the game will be out soon and we can get some user results with different setups.
The question here is wether this was with the day one patch or without, since the "new" graphics seem to be more demanding.
Exentryk
Member
It wasn't the final build, and that's why the fps number wasn't in the charts.
Cabbagehead
Member
I hope i can run it on High to Ultra with some setting tweaks with an overclocked FX 6300 and a R9 280
........i hope
........i hope
CyberPunked
Member
My man!
Awesome! I can only start playing the game 18 hours after release anyway. (Midnight release here and work next day zzz).
I guess some tweaking results will be out by then.
Well. It turns out I have one of the better FX6300 chips. Managed to OC it to 4.2GHz stable. Topped out at 70 degrees C but after the fan got up to speed it hovered around 65 (+-1) degrees, which is safe . Oddly enough Prime95 doesn't make the fan go all the way up to 6k RPM so it ran a bit hot there, but within games everything is stable. It'll be better once I get the new heatsink installed, this is on the stock cooler :lol. I'm actually amazed. Then again 4.2 is just 100mhz over the TurboClock so it can handle that easily.
Witcher 2 gained a whooping 5 FPS in Flotsam (From 45 min to 50 min), granted it did help smooth out camera movement and such. So most likely it killed any microstutters or frame delays
BRING IT, WITCHER 3!
Hello good sir, we have similar interests. How are you OCing your FX, which motherboard? Any aftermarket cooler you'd recommend? We have the exact same rig save the fact that I have a 280X.
Can't wait for clothes physics. Imagine when we get chainmail that's made out of actual links *drool*
. Oddly enough Prime95 doesn't make the fan go all the way up to 6k RPM so it ran a bit hot there, but within games everything is stable. It'll be better once I get the new heatsink installed, this is on the stock cooler :lol. I'm actually amazed. Then again 4.2 is just 100mhz over the TurboClock so it can handle that easily. Witcher 2 gained a whooping 5 FPS in Flotsam (From 45 min to 50 min), granted it did help smooth out camera movement and such. So most likely it killed any microstutters or frame delays
BRING IT, WITCHER 3!
Hello good sir, we have similar interests. How are you OCing your FX, which motherboard? Any aftermarket cooler you'd recommend? We have the exact same rig save the fact that I have a 280X.
Can't wait for clothes physics. Imagine when we get chainmail that's made out of actual links *drool*