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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
- Thread starter batman2million
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Well, using Nvidia Control Panel for adaptive V-Sync at half refresh rate did remove the stutters, but I noticed tearing even at a constant 30fps. So I switched back to in-game V-Sync - really hate tearing. Guess I'll have to find another way to get rid of the stutter. Honestly, it doesn't happen all the time, and some folks might not even notice it. Just that it can get a tad annoying sometimes.
UnrealEck
Member
Basically you're getting at least 20 FPS more than me on a 770. That's why I'm finding it hard to believe what some people are describing as a rock-solid 60 fps framerate.
Ha gtfo man. Kepler is fine.
Your expectations are just way above that of most gamers. Nothing wrong with that, but my 670 and shitastic Phenom are giving me more than acceptable performance (better visuals and performance than the PS4).
Not dead.
I'm sitting at 59 of 60 so I was hoping. Need to get those saddlebags for a temporary reprieve. Haven't been able to change inventory with cheat engine yet, probably searching the wrong value.
That sounds absolutely perfect! Installing my 970 as I type. Will jump in game very soon and report back.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
GE is really hit and miss. Usually miss, for me. I'd say use their recommended settings as a base, then tweak to find what works best for you.
Static Jak
Member
I'm already in fullscreen mode.
Looking around, there's no clear fix yet, hopefully they get on it quick with a patch.
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Yeah, I'm also scratching my head with regard to people talk about a solid 60. My 970's can't do it unless I really dial things back.
Yeah I'm guessing I'm more towards the 8% from what I can remember using HBAO+ in the past with my system, but if it doesn't drop me below 30fps I should probably use it.
The Witcher 3 Video Card Benchmark - Poor Software Optimization by CDPR
I can't help but agree. Very dissapointing scaling between settings.
I can't help but agree. Very dissapointing scaling between settings.
luca_29_bg
Member
Fonts size is too small i can't read anything! And i have an 55 inch full hd tv.....
Schnozberry
Member
i7-5820k
16GB RAM
GTX 980 Kingpin
ROG Swift
Other than foliage distance being dialed back to high, I have everything turned up at 1440p. Getting 55-70fps in most scenes. Some dips to the low 50s during hectic action sequences. G-SYNC to the rescue.
Is anybody else having an issue where no matter what setting they choose for window size, it always reverts back to borderless window? All other settings changes take effect as you would expect.
16GB RAM
GTX 980 Kingpin
ROG Swift
Other than foliage distance being dialed back to high, I have everything turned up at 1440p. Getting 55-70fps in most scenes. Some dips to the low 50s during hectic action sequences. G-SYNC to the rescue.
Is anybody else having an issue where no matter what setting they choose for window size, it always reverts back to borderless window? All other settings changes take effect as you would expect.
Smushroomed
Banned
running everything on ultra pre-set, near 60 fps, 1440p, gsync (rog swift)
i5 4670k oc to 4.4
strix 970 sli (non-oc)
16gb ram
ssd
i5 4670k oc to 4.4
strix 970 sli (non-oc)
16gb ram
ssd
It's rock solid 60 for me, no issues whatsoever. Keep in mind my 780 is the super clocked version that I've overclocked +40 core/150 mem on top of that...a 780 is around 25-30% faster than a 770.
I'm also on Windows 10 (10074/352.84) ,but I don't know if that makes a difference in any case.
about 5 fps
Static Jak
Member
Wow, new Nvidia driver is trash. Crashed yet again.
Yeah pick up those saddle bags! They were one of the first items I bought. Once I run into the weight issue I'll give CE a run and see if its easy to find
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
Yesterday I was crashing to desktop every 10 minutes, today I haven't crashed once after removing my GPU overclock, going back to just the factory overclock. GTX 970.
Hopefully. I was getting crashes pretty frequently, but soon as I switched to fullscreen I haven't had a single crash in 4 hours.
mdsfx
Member
Doing this limits me to high settings only
SirMossyBloke
Member
just crashed for the second time in 10 minutes. This time I was just setting a custom marker. This is impossible.
Yeah, that's the thing with me. I'm wondering what people here mean when they say, "rock-solid 60."
I can keep up 60 fps at 1080p with all settings set to max except shadows, foliage and grass density set to high, but even then I get drops to around 55 fps. That's not rock-solid to me. Any sort of drop for me from 60 is jarring, but that's just me personally.
That's why I decided to cap at 30 fps, but bumping up the resolution to 1440p to downsample and get some nice AA going. I get a solid 30 fps with no drops.
styl3s
Member
Yeah the first thing i bought was a saddle bag because i am a hoarder.
Herbs don't take up space though do they? For some reason i am compelled to pick every plant that pops up on my minimap.
ussjtrunks
Member
anyone not able to use the steam overlay ingame? all I wanna do is take screenshots
GavinUK86
Member
I pretty much disagree with everything in that article.
Just got them, was lacking the funds as I went craft happy earlier. I tried searching by max weight and current weight, but none of the values I found did anything when altered. If you manage to find it, please toss me a PM!
Blackage
Member
I'm getting alot of crashes around the first Nilfguard camp. Crashed when I walked in, after selling stuff to the merchant, after talking to the commander, and again after catching that Temarian soldier and bringing him back to the Nilfguardians.
Game crashes to desktop, but the audio keeps going for about 1-2 minutes.
Game crashes to desktop, but the audio keeps going for about 1-2 minutes.
SirMossyBloke
Member
I didnt crash once last night after 3 hours of play. Tried to play it for 20 minutes now and its crashed twice. Always seems to be when I access the menu.
Shai-Tan
Banned
yup. it's shameful how that's their way to compete. luckily most of the physx effects are goofy and simplistic since they are simulating with huge particles. hairworks looks ok - not sure if it's worth the peformance reduction even on my 970 but what annoys me is things like boxes inexplicably exploding into a bunch of pieces because they want to show physics. i've always wanted individual control over physx because of how pathetically they grasp for applications for those effects
Static Jak
Member
People all over are reporting crashes with the new Driver, even just using Chrome causes crashes.
I know it sounds crazy but 30 and 60 FPS don't feel that different when using a gamepad, it's not like GTAV where it's a night and day difference. Geralt controls kinda sloppy either way, after like 5 minutes I'm used to 30 and at least I don't have to sacrifice all them sweet graphics.
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For whatever reason, when I lock to 30 in-game the game seems to stutter a lot, which is something that does not happen when I have it set to 60 or unlimited. I'm going to try locking to 30 with riva tuner this evening to see if that changes things.
You know wha's the first thing you should do if you get crashes in any software and are overclocking? Disable your overclocks. Yes, all of them. If you still get crashes, then you can complain about drivers or games.
I can't help but call the author a clickbaiter. But seriously, all these people making definitive, detailed statements about game software without even being able to look at a profiler make me sick. At least this one is slightly more well founded than the likes of NXGamer.
Has to be something with your hardware I think. I'm susceptible to even the slightest stuttering. Have not stuttered at all capping to 30 with the in-game settings. Mind you, I'm running full screen though.
I'm running on a Factory OC'd GTX 780 Ti Classified + i7 2600k @ 4.2 gHz.
Same here! (although only played for an hour today so far, so not completely sure the problem has gone...). Will play more tonight and keep my fingers crossed.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Lots of crashing here. I very rarely (almost never) have crashes in games, but it's happening at least once an hour with W3. Pretty randomly, too. Tried all the usual stuff, like removing over clocks, but no dice.
QFT.
Running super-smooth 60FPS for me with my GTX970 and most settings on either Very High or Ultra (the hair-thing turned off though). My only issue right now is that the game have crashed (hard lock) for me twice after playing for roughly two hours. Extremely frustrating, as it happens out of the blue and everything else is working fine.
I hope CDPR will patch it soon, or Nvidia will provide new drivers if the issue is there.
Playing through GOG Galaxy, but guess that shouldn't matter. Edit: I'm also not overclocking anything.
I hope CDPR will patch it soon, or Nvidia will provide new drivers if the issue is there.
Playing through GOG Galaxy, but guess that shouldn't matter. Edit: I'm also not overclocking anything.
I can tell the difference easy, but it doesn't affect gameplay for me whatsoever. I've already stated, that I only need 60 fps for shooters and racing games. That's it.
I notice more the aliasing in this game just rendering at 1080p. I cannot stand it, that's why I'm downsampling from 1440p to bruteforce some AA. It's gorgeous just getting rid of 95% of those jaggies.
captainnapalm
Member
Can someone help me with DSR? I've never really used it before but want to give it a go here. I've got it set up so I can choose a new resolution in GeForce Experience. My original resolution is 1080p so what's a good resolution to crank it up to without crippling performance? And do I then turn off anti aliasing?
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also, anyone else occassionally being dropped back to the desktop, like you've alt-tabbed? When it's happened I've been able to click back into the game no problem (it's still running in the background), just seems odd it's dropped me to the desktop a handful of times.
I'm not sure it made a difference. It was in rendering.ini, so I thought I'll give it a shot since 8x seemed overkill for 1440p. Since neither IQ/performance had noticeably changed, I just left it in