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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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I did this and experienced no difference whatsoever.
GavinUK86
Member
That creates even more stuttering for me, that's on top of the rubbish performance outside of fullscreen.
Fullscreen, vsync and locking it to 30 with Rivatuner works fine if you wanna play it at 30fps.
I definitely noticed a difference but then everyone's experience will differ slightly.
Definitely running RadeonPro in 64bit mode? I wondered why nothing seemed different and I had no OSD at first.
Saw this in the i3/750ti thread, thought it'd be worth posting in here to give people an idea of what to expect.
Seems to match up with other benchmarks and what we've seen from people ITT.
This is bullshit.
No way am I getting 60+fps avg on a 780 ti with ultra settings without hairworks.
Saw this in the i3/750ti thread, thought it'd be worth posting in here to give people an idea of what to expect.
Seems to match up with other benchmarks and what we've seen from people ITT.
The performance of the 970 SLI is looking very good.
I keep going back and forth between getting another 970 or waiting for the 980 Ti.
MrRoflWaffles
Member
Can confirm, that's BS.
With everything maxed bar hair on a slightly OC'd 970 (120/225), I don't hit 70fps ever. Chart says minimum 71? lol.
Unless it doesn't mean Ultra?
EDIT: Yeah it 's referring to HIGH settings, my bad.
It doesn't say ultra, it says high quality.
UnrealEck
Member
Probably around 100c. Ideally I'd reccomend keeping it in the 80's. It's entirely up to you though. Higher temps (going close to the TJ max) might affect the lifespan of your card.
Saw this in the i3/750ti thread, thought it'd be worth posting in here to give people an idea of what to expect.
Seems to match up with other benchmarks and what we've seen from people ITT.
It should be noted that this is a test with HIGH settings across the board. Just checked out the article on gamegpu.ru.
UnrealEck
Member
Yep, HQ is High, VHQ is ultra.
Those numbers still appear somewhat generous. If you benchmark the game in a city or village, the numbers will change drastically. From what I've seen also (and I know I'm being a parrot here) Maxwell generally has a bigger lead over Kepler GPUs.
Yeah, that was high. This is for ultra:
Source: http://gamegpu.ru/rpg/rollevye/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-test-gpu.html
Source: http://gamegpu.ru/rpg/rollevye/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-test-gpu.html
Ok, so I've been able to play more without crashes since last night. What ultimately worked better for me is by playing the game in fullscreen, with the GTAV-drivers, and setting the frame rate to unlimited while V-sync off. After that setting V-sync to adaptive in Nvidia panel. Still have had one or two crashes, but maybe 3 hours apart.
STILL, I get these white artifacts in the game sometimes. Usually in the distance, but when they come nearer bugs start to happen. For example, I may be riding Roach when one of those artifacts appear. And in a second I'm thrown off Roach. WTF?
Anyone else getting these?
I'm on i5 4690K (not overclocked), Gigabyte GTX 780 ti (factory overclocked) and 8gb RAM. On Windows 8.1.
If I check HWmonitor after a session the GPU-temperature is on max 80c. CPU around 50-60c.
Anyone?
STILL, I get these white artifacts in the game sometimes. Usually in the distance, but when they come nearer bugs start to happen. For example, I may be riding Roach when one of those artifacts appear. And in a second I'm thrown off Roach. WTF?
Anyone else getting these?
I'm on i5 4690K (not overclocked), Gigabyte GTX 780 ti (factory overclocked) and 8gb RAM. On Windows 8.1.
If I check HWmonitor after a session the GPU-temperature is on max 80c. CPU around 50-60c.
Anyone?
ussjtrunks
Member
Believe they are high settings
Heres how I'm doing so far
Alienware X51, GTX 970, I7 3770 3.4, 16gb
Settings : Ultra with hairworks (MSAA off for hair), foliage distance set to high
Performance :
Cutscenes are running well when Geralts on screen they can drop into the low 30s due to hairworks (If MSAA isnt at 2x or off fps tanks heavily).
Gameplay is running at 40-60 in most areas only exception is if the Area requires alot off AO (Dark forest area or dense grass late at night) when it can drop to the high 30s.
Game runs really well haven't noticed any streaming stutters like those that GTA 5 had which is great + Added Bonus Vsnyc is Triple Buffered \O/
My experience so far has been pretty much on par with everyone else who has similar hardware.
I'm running with a 3570K @4.2, GTX 970, 16 GGB RAM, Game is on an SSD. Pretty much locked 60 fps 1080p.
I've got Foliage, Shadows, and Background Characters all set to High, everything else is on Ultra. No hairworks, and I'm using FXAA in the NVCP which definitely looks better and costs less than in game AA.
I got 3 crashes in a little over 3 hours of play time. I'm like 99% certain it's not due to my overclocks on either my CPU or GPU.
On a semi related note...I had been noticing a lot of my games lately (DA:I, FC4, GTA, TW3), even when "locked" at 60 fps, would very briefly "hitch" to about 56 fps for less than a second and then jump right back up to 60. I had been completely stumped as to what the hell was causing it, until last night when I stumbled upon someone on Tom's Hardware a few months back who had the same issue and was using a DisplayPort to connect his Monitor to his GPU, just like I was. He suggested that changing over to an HDMI cord solved his problems, so I tried it...and viola. It's definitely better now. I'm not sure whether my cable was faulty, or if DisplayPort simply just isn't the way to go for whatever reason. So if anyone is having any similar issue and is using DisplayPort....try it out.
I'm running with a 3570K @4.2, GTX 970, 16 GGB RAM, Game is on an SSD. Pretty much locked 60 fps 1080p.
I've got Foliage, Shadows, and Background Characters all set to High, everything else is on Ultra. No hairworks, and I'm using FXAA in the NVCP which definitely looks better and costs less than in game AA.
I got 3 crashes in a little over 3 hours of play time. I'm like 99% certain it's not due to my overclocks on either my CPU or GPU.
On a semi related note...I had been noticing a lot of my games lately (DA:I, FC4, GTA, TW3), even when "locked" at 60 fps, would very briefly "hitch" to about 56 fps for less than a second and then jump right back up to 60. I had been completely stumped as to what the hell was causing it, until last night when I stumbled upon someone on Tom's Hardware a few months back who had the same issue and was using a DisplayPort to connect his Monitor to his GPU, just like I was. He suggested that changing over to an HDMI cord solved his problems, so I tried it...and viola. It's definitely better now. I'm not sure whether my cable was faulty, or if DisplayPort simply just isn't the way to go for whatever reason. So if anyone is having any similar issue and is using DisplayPort....try it out.
MrRoflWaffles
Member
Think I am gonna totally reset my settings (tweaked a heap of config files yesterday night and something is keeping me below 60 all of a sudden) and run a load of tests to see how I perform overall.
Any suggestions for good places to test average fps that'll be consistent with the majority of the game world?
I'm only in the very first opening area right now as I've only really been fiddling with the damn graphics
Also, regarding BG characters:
from: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...r-3-wild-hunt-number-of-background-characters
May not make much difference having it on high if that scenario never actually happens anyway
Any suggestions for good places to test average fps that'll be consistent with the majority of the game world?
I'm only in the very first opening area right now as I've only really been fiddling with the damn graphics
Also, regarding BG characters:
from: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...r-3-wild-hunt-number-of-background-characters
May not make much difference having it on high if that scenario never actually happens anyway
Will do them soon. Game is downloading right now. Once it's done I'll test with the latest drivers and then the older drivers and let you know the results. People on Nvidia thread are claiming improvements, so I'd do it regardless just in case. One guy said he could barely hit 35fps with the latest drivers, and when he reverted to the 350.12 drivers he was getting 45-55fps. Seems... Exaggerated... Which is why I'm dying to test this out.
wanderjahr
Banned
clamp doesn't work with fermi gpu's and newer
Hey Derp do you know anything about performing a driver roll-back and using nvidia inspector to implement the W3 sli profile? I could have sworn I read something about that in the nvidia forums but cant find it now..
UnrealEck
Member
Right after that image showing excellent SLI scaling on the Titan X.
It just reinforces this whole notion that the driver optimisations for Witcher 3 are based around Maxwell and not Kepler.
Alright, thanks. I'll just play with headphones on and stop worrying, then.
Dictator93
Member
Couldn't it also point to the fact that this game is perhaps using more tesselation and compute than we know of how?
Heck the entire post processing chain could be a compute shader on top of the forward+ compute.
Gumbie
Member
Shifty1897
Member
I know I could play on High settings / Hairworks off to get a smooth 60fps, but I've been playing Ultra / Hairworks on with a lock on 30fps and the game is just breathtaking.
When the game looks this good, I may be okay with 30 fps.
When the game looks this good, I may be okay with 30 fps.
wanderjahr
Banned
Nvidia has to offer something to gpu enthusiasts!! It would be kind of funny to read through this thread when Witcher 4 comes out.
Looking forward to seeing your results. If you end up with more fps, I'm definitely reverting back.
Of course, that would just put more suspicion on Nvidia as well.
I'm still getting framerate drops into the 20's with a 970 and i5 3570s. When I first launch into the game the framerate is relatively high staying in the 60's and 70's. But as I start moving around, it flutters between the 50's and 20's. Is there a performance patch on the horizon for this because it's just annoying now?
None of my graphics settings are on Ultra, most on high, foliage distance on medium and number of characters on low, shadows on low also. Post-processing DOF, Motion Blur, Sharpening are all turned off, everything else is on high, No AA, using FXAA from Nvidia inspector, changed setting to Performance and number of pre-rendered frames to 2, Triple buffering off and anisotropic filtering set to 16x. I even overclocked my card ffs. I thought my rig would be at least enough to get steady 60 fps frame rate. I'm also getting audio cracks and sync issues. Not sure what that's about.
GTX 970
i5 3570s
8gb RAM
None of my graphics settings are on Ultra, most on high, foliage distance on medium and number of characters on low, shadows on low also. Post-processing DOF, Motion Blur, Sharpening are all turned off, everything else is on high, No AA, using FXAA from Nvidia inspector, changed setting to Performance and number of pre-rendered frames to 2, Triple buffering off and anisotropic filtering set to 16x. I even overclocked my card ffs. I thought my rig would be at least enough to get steady 60 fps frame rate. I'm also getting audio cracks and sync issues. Not sure what that's about.
GTX 970
i5 3570s
8gb RAM
In my experience it is. Sharp edges like sword blades as well as the chain of the witcher medallion look unnaturally shimmery and shiny when using fxaa.
Saw this in the i3/750ti thread, thought it'd be worth posting in here to give people an idea of what to expect.
Seems to match up with other benchmarks and what we've seen from people ITT.
I've come to realize those benchmarks are bullshit. I am NOT getting close to 60fps on a 280X. It hovers between 30 and 40 the vast majority of the time.
I've thought about that before, but I don't believe it. AMD cards aren't that goof as tessellation yet outperform the Kepler cards, and Maxwell isn't really that much better than Kepler at compute (IIRC) and still falls well behind AMD cards on that.
Sourtreats
Member
This work perfectly as a temporary solution. Doesn't override any of the default pad controls and now my guide button is the map button.
MrRoflWaffles
Member
You should be getting 50 ish minimum on a 970 with no hairworks. With those settings, 60+ easy. You tried any other games to test for problems with your system?
Agreed.
That chart is for all High settings, not Ultra, just FYI. If you're getting 30-40 with all High, fair enough.
i7 2600k @ 4.5
Sli 670's w/352.86 driver
8GB ram
I have everything at Ultra other than shadows and foliage view distance on high, Hairworks off and with a few of the post-processing options like sharpening and motion blur turned off, at 1080p I'm getting a pretty solid 60fps with some dips into the mid 50's in the starting area. Pretty much what I expected. I am getting some slight stuttering however.
Foliage view distance is the killer, fps drops from 60fps on High to low 40's on Ultra in the same scene.
Sli 670's w/352.86 driver
8GB ram
I have everything at Ultra other than shadows and foliage view distance on high, Hairworks off and with a few of the post-processing options like sharpening and motion blur turned off, at 1080p I'm getting a pretty solid 60fps with some dips into the mid 50's in the starting area. Pretty much what I expected. I am getting some slight stuttering however.
Foliage view distance is the killer, fps drops from 60fps on High to low 40's on Ultra in the same scene.
Man can you screenshot your Nvidia Control panel settings for the game, you seem to have a very similar rig to mine bar the additional 8gb of RAM and more powerful CPU and your performance sounds like a dream compared to what I'm getting. Is FXAA all you forced on there?
I haven't really tested with other games yet, but I will do so when I get home. It's just been driving me crazy.
UnrealEck
Member
It could be that and I can't say it's not since I'm really not anywhere near technically adept to say so.
From what I can tell though, the difference between Maxwell and Kepler in games like Ryse isn't similar to that of Witcher 3. (eg. 780 Ti being bested only slightly by 980)
As for tesselation, I'm not sure Witcher 3 even uses much if any tesselation outside of hairworks. I haven't found anything that suggests Maxwell is better at tesselation than Kepler either, but I have seen people citing it as the reason for the differences between the architectures in Witcher 3's performance.
I know that nVidia said they're 'investigating' things anyway. They wrote the drivers, I really don't think investigating is needed if Kepler is genuinely underperforming. I think 'honesty' is what's needed.
With that said, some benchmarks are showing Kepler is almost as good as the Maxwell cards when looking at the typical equivalents (eg 780 Ti versus 970 or 960 vs 770).
Gumbie
Member
Someone posted the Ultra chart a little bit further down. It shows the 280x at 40.
CyanideFuse
Member
I can't wait to try this out later on! I have a 970 so it will be very interesting to see the cost reduction on the usage.