Not sure how to do that, apparently it doesn't work with RadeonPro on DX11 or something.
No, ultra foliage + ultra shadows will brutalize your framerate.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Not sure how to do that, apparently it doesn't work with RadeonPro on DX11 or something.
No, ultra foliage + ultra shadows will brutalize your framerate.
franbatista123
Member
Many people have had crashes due to the ingame framerate cap so yeah, definitely use an outside utility. Hairworks is very unoptimized so definitely don't turn it on.
Song of the Turtle
Member
I kept telling myself that I'd need new GPU and now I wonder why I even thought about it. The 760 is more than enough if you can do without 60fps or 1440p.
Guess I can wait for Pascal.
No idea. I did have some random settings in the control panel on (trilinear buffering etc.), I was messing around with a lot of it yesterday so I can't say for sure.
Liquidus Snake
Banned
This game runs like console garbage...
synce
Member
Thanks. Never heard of RTSS, I'll look into it
MrRoflWaffles
Member
This video should answer and queries you have about enabling a cap in RivaTuner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CvoHXzaHKY
Horse Armour
Member
What is considered the best option for locking the game to 30FPS (need dat hairworks) on an nvidia card?
According to Durante, RTSS (Riva Tuner Statistics Server, included with MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision) is the best option for this.
Prophet Steve
Member
Rivatuner Statistics Server.
Burgess_101
Member
A little off topic but I was playing the game and rivatuner was showing this weird percentage value next to temp, anyone know how to fix it? It stays no matter if The Witcher is on or off though, but I first noticed it when I was playing last night.
Peterthumpa
Member
You should watch out about how you're planning to express your feelings here son. Bish is omnipresent.
RandomSeed
Member
Can someone link how we tweak hairworks again? I want to try the 2x MSAA method.
I'm at work right now, but I'm thinking by doing that, I can keep a consistent frame rate above 30 fps with my 780 Ti with all ultra settings with the exception of foliage distance set to high, shadows set to medium and grass density set to high.
I'm at work right now, but I'm thinking by doing that, I can keep a consistent frame rate above 30 fps with my 780 Ti with all ultra settings with the exception of foliage distance set to high, shadows set to medium and grass density set to high.
How much can i believe the guy in this video? I Have a HD7850 right now, and planning to upgrade to a GTX 960, and budget is tight.
Horse Armour
Member
Thanks, thought as much based on when I've used it in the past. Is using borderless windowed and/or 1/2 refresh rate in the nvidia control panel advised if locking at 30FPS?
What else are you doing to get rid of the judder? Using the in-game frame locker to 60? External locking to 60? What about vsync... adaptive, or full through Nvidia? In-game vsync?
I'm currently running with in-game vsync disabled, nvidia control panel vsync on, full-screen, DXTory locking 60fps, unlimited FPS in game, and I've eliminated quite a bit of the "turn camera while walking" judder, but not entirely. It's the best I've found so far after trying like 100 different combinations of the above and others.
Prophet Steve
Member
Borderless Windows ingame and I think triple buffering in Nvidia control panel, not sure on that last thing.
Well, yeah, it does seem to run about the same as on the consoles yeah. Luckily we have plenty of PCs with more powerful hardware than the consoles.
ss_lemonade
Member
That's the GPU utilization percentage I believe. Did you just update drivers and not reboot your computer? Have you tried restarting afterburner or maybe rtss after a driver update? I got the same thing too after updating my nvidia drivers and noticed that afterburner was still reading my old driversA little off topic but I was playing the game and rivatuner was showing this weird percentage value next to temp, anyone know how to fix it? It stays no matter if The Witcher is on or off though, but I first noticed it when I was playing last night.
Kamina
Golden Boy
I've been playing around a little to see what causes the choppy/stuttering camera on lower 30-40 FPS.
Turns out it is caused by Vsync. When turning off the problem is gone, but you have issues with steps and tearing.
Neither turing off Vsync ingame + turning it to On or Adaptive in Nvidia CP solved the problem.
Turns out it is caused by Vsync. When turning off the problem is gone, but you have issues with steps and tearing.
Neither turing off Vsync ingame + turning it to On or Adaptive in Nvidia CP solved the problem.
UnrealEck
Member
Awesome drivers nVidia. GJ guys.
Exited the game and had the same issue (not quite as bad but the same pattern) in Windows.
Disabling and re-enabling the graphics card didn't fix it, had to reboot the PC.
This sort of thing along with the crashing is pissing me off.
Exited the game and had the same issue (not quite as bad but the same pattern) in Windows.
Disabling and re-enabling the graphics card didn't fix it, had to reboot the PC.
This sort of thing along with the crashing is pissing me off.
MrRoflWaffles
Member
Static Jak
Member
This is honestly the worst driver update I've got from Nvidia. They most have rushed this one out for launch.
Go to your witcher 3 folder > bin > config > base.
Open the Rendering.ini file in something like notepad++ and find the line that says HairWorksAALevel=8. Change the 8 to either a 2 or a 4. Or 0 to turn off AA. Then mark the file as read only afterwards.
Kamina
Golden Boy
I'm on a GTX980.
Setting Hairworks MSAA from 8 to 2 gave me 5+ FPS. It only drops to the high 40's when i'm running around in dense forest areas, everything else being set to Ultra, except Foliage to High. Otherwise i am on 55 - 60 FPS.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
I have a 144hz gsync monitor and two 980s in SLI and the judder is very strange. When I use the xbox controller to pan the camera around Geralt while standing still or moving it's silky smooth. With the mouse I get the annoying judder and I can't get rid of it. My fps is always above 60.
Do u have hairworks set for everything or just Geralt?
Portugeezer
Member
The crashes seem to get more frequent now. I think I might just wait for a patch rather than saving every 5 minutes just in case.
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Thaedolus
Member
I've had my driver crash while browsing the web a couple times too. No reboot, but it becomes unresponsive for ~10 seconds, then black screen, then notification that it crashed and restarted.
Burgess_101
Member
Yeah maybe its just a restart, I thought I may have after updating last night but maybe not.
UnrealEck
Member
Yeah this was happening to me with (I think) the GTA5 drivers. Something to do with 3DVision was causing it I think. When it crashed it was trying to recover several times so I'd see that little notification from my taskbar popping up and blinking because it was trying to reload the drivers.
I didn't used to have much trouble with nVidia's drivers in the past.
Static Jak
Member
I hope we get news at least of a hot fix patch before the weekend.
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Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
billmcdougal
Member
I think ds4windows itself may let you change the touchpad to act as different keypresses. Is like to try setting it to whatever key opens map.
I also haven't figured out how to get to the save /exit type menu on ds4
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Still can't believe that lowering the clocks on my GPU stopped the crashing. Also dropped my temps by 10-15 degrees. I mean, really? Even on a FTW model which is factory OC'd. I lost about 10fps though, obviously, so I turned down foliage to high and now I'm back at stable 60fps. No hairworks.
The Wraith
Member
I have everything stock in my rig and I get random crashes when im in the inventory screen. The fact that it happens ONLY when im in the inventory screen leads me to believe its a bug not an issue with overclocking.
60 hz with locked 30 adaptative means ALWAYS tearing by definition.
Adaptative vsync is not supposed to prevent tearing. The vsync is dropped when you don't exceed your monitor's refresh rate.
As soon as you hit 60 vsync is engaged, but below that you will get tearing.
At least this is what happens the few times I've tried.
The Wraith
Member
Anyone know if there is a way to bind the Xbox button on a controller to bring up the map on the PC?
m_shortpants
Member
Yup. It's blowing my mind how many people are having issues, and nothing seems to fix it. Hopefully they can get a fix out by the weekend. Or that's going to be quite annoying.
Last night it seemed like turning off vsync and setting fps lock to unlimited helps, but then the game didn't look great running at 70-80 like that.
The Wraith
Member
Its quite annoying but it makes me save constantly so that isn't so bad. They need to get a fix out for this.
s_mirage
Member
Wow, hairworks runs like absolute crap on my 780Ti: it drops below 30 fps when the camera gets close to Geralt's head. Nice going Nvidia, you've created an effects package that requires a mystifying amount of GPU grunt compared to how good it actually looks.
Hairworks off doesn't look bad anyway.
Hairworks off doesn't look bad anyway.
Seriously, the camera is so far away from the action and the game is so effin' dark, you can even barely tell what kind of hair anyone has, especially minor monsters like the wolves.
Regarding the AMD method to optimizing Hairworks through CCC, it's not working on my 280X...