CyanideFuse
Member
Excuse the ignorance: How do I set a value for the LOD? I have just gone into the control panel and set it to allow but I cannot enter a value. Thanks.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Excuse the ignorance: How do I set a value for the LOD? I have just gone into the control panel and set it to allow but I cannot enter a value. Thanks.
Portugeezer
Member
How is performance on a 290??
There my dual 980's at it, averaged 90fps on Ultra. Video below with OSD using MSI Afterburner
Link: https://youtu.be/5iLyqlUltnM
PC Specs:
COOLER MASTER HAF X Blue Edition
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RS800-80GAD3-US 800W
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO
Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) - Overclocked to 4.3Ghz
(SLI) EVGA 04G-2983-KR GeForce GTX 980 Superclocked 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 ACX 2.0 PCI Express 3.0
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77
G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)
Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" ASUS Black Blu-ray Drive SATA Model BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS
(Shadowplay Dump Drive) SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
(OS Drive) SAMSUNG 850 Pro Series MZ-7KE512BW 2.5" 512GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Link: https://youtu.be/5iLyqlUltnM
PC Specs:
COOLER MASTER HAF X Blue Edition
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RS800-80GAD3-US 800W
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO
Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) - Overclocked to 4.3Ghz
(SLI) EVGA 04G-2983-KR GeForce GTX 980 Superclocked 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 ACX 2.0 PCI Express 3.0
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77
G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)
Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" ASUS Black Blu-ray Drive SATA Model BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS
(Shadowplay Dump Drive) SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
(OS Drive) SAMSUNG 850 Pro Series MZ-7KE512BW 2.5" 512GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Played with the game for around 2hours or so. Zero crashes so far. With an i5 4690k ( reverted to stock frequencies ), GTX 970, 16gb ram, it's holding 60fps perfectly running around and in combat with everything on Ultra except grass density and foliage distance which are on High. And with hairworks off of course. Without vsync, it seems to play around 70-90fps.
But i have issues with the cutscenes, they run at 30fps, seem really stuttery, and the audio is really low compared to the game audio. I remember seing a fix for the cutscenes in previous pages, some .ini changes i think ?
But i have issues with the cutscenes, they run at 30fps, seem really stuttery, and the audio is really low compared to the game audio. I remember seing a fix for the cutscenes in previous pages, some .ini changes i think ?
RadioactiveLobster
Member
You need to use Nvidia Inspector
Yeah, 1080p borderless windowed, forgot to mention.
Edit: Also, the new nvidia drivers crash randomly when using chrome on dekstop. People that are crashing ingame, make sure to turn off chrome in the background.
CyanideFuse
Member
Ah, okay thanks.
ChemicalWorld
Member
I officially give up for the day. That's my fourth time trying to install the game from the game disks and I keep getting an error each time. Gah. Might just try and download overnight from the GoG site with the code I have from the game. Still annoyed though....
Aren't those pre-rendered?
Static Jak
Member
So I locked the game at 30FPS, turned everything to Ultra and turned on Hairorks and I think I'll stick with it. After a while I got used to it and there's no real stutter as far as I notice anymore. And hairworks is too nice to not keep now, I spoiled myself using it. I'm actually really happy with these settings, never thought I'd be happy with 30FPS.
Some cutscenes are pre-rendered (like the one straight after the tutorial), locked at 25FPS as far as FRAPs seems to indicate.
CarbonFire
Member
I hate that motion blur is only a toggle in the menus, rather than a slider. There's a setting in the user config file to change the speed and intensity of the effect, but that's not really something that should be hidden in a config file. Default motion blur is smear city, especially radial blur.
Mad Season
Banned
hairworks is on. everything ultra except foliage and shadows
Burgess_101
Member
I cant seem to get my controller to work with the game, I am using DS4Tool but it just isn't working. I have tried hiding it and all that jazz and the controller works with everything else so I don't know what to do.
Something feels really off about the graphics in my game atm.. I played it briefly yesterday and it looked fine. I just booted it up now and everything looks like it is on less than low. Jaggies that weren't there yesterday, really poor looking geometry and textures. Everything is either on medium or high.. Does this look right? 
Mad Season
Banned
fizzelopeguss
Banned
can someone test something? turn on hardware cursor and see if it's reducing input lag slightly for the controller. I'm wondering if it's placebo on my end.
MaddenNFL64
Member
Game runs great, but I have had 2 crashes so far. One last night, and one just now. Pissing me off.
Slackbladder
Member
Well, so far it's all been good news for me.
Firstly the game is at 1080p and everything at Ultra except foilage and shadows which are high. Sharpening and CA are off. Hairworks on. Fullscreen.
Yet to get an accurate frame rate but I can tell it's 60 or very, very close. Only issue is cutscenes which stutter a little and the fight with the griffin where for some reason I got frame drops when zooming in with the crossbow. Generally everything is fine. Only graphic issues are rocks appearing on the road a few feet ahead of me and some pop-in on trees.
No crashes after a good 6hrs play. Also I believe V-sync is off and I get no tearing at all, even in fullscreen. But I'll need to check this.
i73770k@4.5ghz
GTX980 WINDFORCE 3X OC
8GBRAM@2400mhz
Pretty happy with performnce so far. I don't seem to be suffering from a jerky camera or anything untowards. Pleasently surprised.
I did try 1440p but I was definately at or near 30fps then. But it looks pretty good at 1080p. May try to change the AA option as posted above.
Firstly the game is at 1080p and everything at Ultra except foilage and shadows which are high. Sharpening and CA are off. Hairworks on. Fullscreen.
Yet to get an accurate frame rate but I can tell it's 60 or very, very close. Only issue is cutscenes which stutter a little and the fight with the griffin where for some reason I got frame drops when zooming in with the crossbow. Generally everything is fine. Only graphic issues are rocks appearing on the road a few feet ahead of me and some pop-in on trees.
No crashes after a good 6hrs play. Also I believe V-sync is off and I get no tearing at all, even in fullscreen. But I'll need to check this.
i73770k@4.5ghz
GTX980 WINDFORCE 3X OC
8GBRAM@2400mhz
Pretty happy with performnce so far. I don't seem to be suffering from a jerky camera or anything untowards. Pleasently surprised.
I did try 1440p but I was definately at or near 30fps then. But it looks pretty good at 1080p. May try to change the AA option as posted above.
Recommend the following:
Grass detail: high
Foliage distance: high
Background characters: high
Shadows: high
Everything else: ultra
HBOA+
All other PP on
I get the same frames (constant 60 in the open world, 50-60 in populated towns) as you and HBAO+ is worth it.
mysocksarepink
Banned
Static Jak
Member
Yeah I don't know why they chose to do that. Except for console reasons maybe.
You're doing better than a lot of us so far.
longdi
Banned
Up to the very first village, everything on ultra except hairworks(off), SSAO, sharpening/CA (off), foilage on High, shadows on High. Its been pretty smooth on 290X at 1600p resolution. Smoother than MSGV..
Surprisingly, it uses only 2580mb of vram max, am i doing something wrong?
Surprisingly, it uses only 2580mb of vram max, am i doing something wrong?
Peterthumpa
Member
Is anybody else not getting 5.1 sound when outputting via S/PDIF?
Only stereo here, other games work fine.
Only stereo here, other games work fine.
billmcdougal
Member
I'm getting to my wits end with v-sync, frame limiting, and stutter on my setup.
I just can't even get Rivatuner to limit to 30.
I just installed a new version of Afterburner (which now crashes sometimes) for the new version of MSI On-Screen Display Server / Rivatuner.
I had hoped that would result in Witcher 3 actually limiting to 30fps, as I read somewhere that updating to a 64bit Afterburner would help with that.
I just can't even get Rivatuner to limit to 30.
I just installed a new version of Afterburner (which now crashes sometimes) for the new version of MSI On-Screen Display Server / Rivatuner.
I had hoped that would result in Witcher 3 actually limiting to 30fps, as I read somewhere that updating to a 64bit Afterburner would help with that.
Pretty good. Hairworks is the killer but with it off I'm having no issue with it above 50fps ultra at 1080p. Of course I just played around a little early this morning so likely it will dip later when I get to more complex areas.
Nope. This game doesn't use much vram. Even max 4K, it only uses around 3.5GB. That maybe the reason why I don't think this game looks that great. I wish there were better textures = more vram.
I'm having the same issue, along with those pesky "control setup has changed" dialogs. Have to try with DS4Windows. I feel like this game might work best with a controller as there isn't all that much aiming.
Other than that the game runs really well at max detail on my 3570K @ 4.5 GHz, 16 GB, 970 SLI, SSD rig at 1440p. I capped framerate to 60 because I felt the game feels better to play that way. So far not a single stutter.
Having mostly played GTA V for the past month or so the movement in W3 feels odd, like it's too sensitive when on foot.
longdi
Banned
I agree a lot of the world textures look murky even on Ultra....
Furthermore, i dont think the game is pushing my OC 290X harder than BF4.
With BF4 the fans go really loud faster and longer, and it even black screen of death my PC, i had to tune down my overclock.
I've been playing this on a Lenovo Y50 laptop at 1600x900 with a mix of Ultra (Water and Textures), High (just about everything else) and shadows on Medium, and it's sticking to a pretty solid 30fps. I initially copied the settings from my home PC over and was getting 10fps at 1080p with them lol
*Movieframerate=60 in visuals.ini. Yep, I'm that guy, sorry.
wheres the ini located?
edit: nvm found it
billmcdougal
Member
That one should be visuals.ini in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Witcher 3\bin\config\base
Karl_Dilkington7
Banned
I'm also getting the same issue. I tried messing with the audio control panel and had no luck...
Thanks!
Wow, only 1700-1800MB vram usage with these settings. That's great, but also a little sad.
Dictator93
Member
So has anyone noticed higher VRAM usage by increasing the stream cache amount?
For me, it didn't seem to change anything.
For me, it didn't seem to change anything.
KaiserAlucard
Neo Member
Have:
i7 4770K @4.4Ghz
GTX 980
8Gb RAM
Manage to maintain around 50-60 fps at 1080p with foliage and shadows at high but it's not really satisfying. Would an upgrade in RAM from 8 to 16Gb would change anything?
i7 4770K @4.4Ghz
GTX 980
8Gb RAM
Manage to maintain around 50-60 fps at 1080p with foliage and shadows at high but it's not really satisfying. Would an upgrade in RAM from 8 to 16Gb would change anything?
On AMD hairworks seems to halve the framerate or worse. But that isn't really unexpected since it's nVidia supported and they obviously want to push people to their cards.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
I'm getting a locked 30 FPS according to Afterburner but I'm noticing quite a lot of stuttering, everything is maxed out. I don't mind locking the framerate to 30 but my god the stuttering is awful.
2 X 4GB 680 Classifieds, 16GB RAM and a i7 3820 @ 4.4.
2 X 4GB 680 Classifieds, 16GB RAM and a i7 3820 @ 4.4.