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[Daverid]

Anyone else getting stuttering when they activate INI tweaks?

My game runs smooth as butter when I've just got all the default stuff set to max, but as soon as I try to touch the INI, the game freaks the fuck out and I end up with stuttering every second or so when I move fast (Gallop or Running) or am moving the camera around a lot. Which is really frustrating because the INI tweaks really do make the game look a solid chunk more beautiful, but I cannot handle the damn stuttering.

Any tips? Anyone who had a similar problem but fixed it? (I'm running SLI Titan X's, tried various resolutions, updated drivers blah blah)

 

[Ganzor]

Anyone else just got a new update for the game? 640mb size

 

[Awntawn]

It's not great, but it's not unplayable. It's an open world game though, so I expected bugs at launch. If it isn't patched within a week or two I'll join in with my own pitchfork, but until then I can deal with a crash every hour or two and still (mostly) enjoy the heck out of this amazing game.

I was in your shoes yesterday. Three straight crashes within an hour soured that real quick for me.

I just wish there was a little more vocal outrage, if only because it seems to be the only way to make the developers aware of the issues. If the latest tweet about font size being their current priority is anything to go by, they don't seem to be yet.

 

[aravuus]

Just in case people in this thread don't know yet... *Ahem*...

...

:/

 

[Ruprit]

Anyone else just got a new update for the game? 640mb size

Yeah, the changelog mentioned performance improvements for hairworks.

 

[Tc91]

Anyone else just got a new update for the game? 640mb size

I did and the download speed in GOG Galaxy is absolutely terrible.

0.1MB/s, anyone know if you can uncap it or something?

 

[mdsfx]

Anyone else just got a new update for the game? 640mb size

Oh reeeally...? Any info on this?

 

[hoserx]

I did and the download speed in GOG Galaxy is absolutely terrible.

0.1MB/s, anyone know if you can uncap it or something?

Gog Galaxy maxes out my connection. Is it always that slow for you?

 

[JAYSIMPLE]

Yeah, the changelog mentioned performance improvements for hairworks.

Please say this is true omg!

 

[Tc91]

Gog Galaxy maxes out my connection. Is it always that slow for you?

Yeah its awful, this is gonna take a week to update.

Just googled it apparently their is no option to set your bandwidth limit lol, what the fuck GOG?

 

[MaddenNFL64]

I was in your shoes yesterday. Three straight crashes within an hour soured that real quick for me.

I just wish there was a little more vocal outrage, if only because it seems to be the only way to make the developers aware of the issues. If the latest tweet about font size being their current priority is anything to go by, they don't seem to be yet.

Oh, if they sit on their asses and don't deal with this, their goodwill sunshine time will go away quick. Honeymoon period is on right now.

If they deal with the issues swiftly, they are golden. Lets hope they do.

edit: just noticed the patch too, nice.

 

[RVone]

Just in case people in this thread don't know yet... *Ahem*...

Wow, that's really disconcerting. Their own forums are also devoid of any recognition of the crashing/hanging issue.

 

[Dictator93]

Yeah patch 1.03 just came out from what I can see.

Getting a higher download speed than steam btw.

 

[Kvik]

Anyone else just got a new update for the game? 640mb size

This is v1.03, I presume?

What are the chances it'll break v1.02 savegames?

 

[Chesskid1]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Patch 1.03 changelog:

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
Fixes grass and foiliage popping that can occur after density parameters change
Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
Sharpen Postprocess settings extended from Off/On to Off/Normal/High
Improves menu handling
Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
Corrects an issue with stamina regeneration while sprinting
Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occcurs when scrolling the map
Generally improves world map focus
Corrects a bug where player was able to fire bolts at friendly NPCs
Corrects an issue in dialog selections
Corrects some missing translations in the UI
Minor SFX improvements -Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
Rostan Muggs is back

 

[Ruprit]

Please say this is true omg!

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Patch 1.03 changelog:

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
Fixes grass and foiliage popping that can occur after density parameters change
Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
Sharpen Postprocess settings extended from Off/On to Off/Normal/High
Improves menu handling
Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
Corrects an issue with stamina regeneration while sprinting
Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occcurs when scrolling the map
Generally improves world map focus
Corrects a bug where player was able to fire bolts at friendly NPCs
Corrects an issue in dialog selections
Corrects some missing translations in the UI
Minor SFX improvements -Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
Rostan Muggs is back

Hopefully it's significant. It's the only thing keeping me from maintaining a solid 60fps.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Patch 1.03 changelog:

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
Fixes grass and foiliage popping that can occur after density parameters change
Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
Sharpen Postprocess settings extended from Off/On to Off/Normal/High
Improves menu handling
Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
Corrects an issue with stamina regeneration while sprinting
Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occcurs when scrolling the map
Generally improves world map focus
Corrects a bug where player was able to fire bolts at friendly NPCs
Corrects an issue in dialog selections
Corrects some missing translations in the UI
Minor SFX improvements -Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
Rostan Muggs is back

Man, I hope this does the trick.

 

[Awntawn]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Patch 1.03 changelog:

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI

Speak of the devil. Will gladly retract my statements if this does the trick. Gonna give it a shot tomorrow.

 

[mdsfx]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Patch 1.03 changelog:

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay...

Please please please please please be better

 

[roytheone]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Patch 1.03 changelog:

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI

But to be fair, this game actually needs it badly.

 

[GianFrom1987]

i5 3570, 7950 3gb, 8gb ram 30fps locked on ultra, love this game.

 

[aravuus]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Patch 1.03 changelog:

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay

Yoo getting my hopes up

Not out on Steam yet, though? Mine isn't downloading anything and I don't know how to force Steam to check for updates

 

[watchdog]

Played the game yesterday evening and the game crashed twice. Both times I was in my inventory. After the second crash I quit because I lost a tiny bit of progress. I almost don't want to play because I'm not sure when it's going to crash.

 

[RVone]

Yoo getting my hopes up

Not out on Steam yet, though? Mine isn't downloading anything and I don't know how to force Steam to check for updates

Restarting steam did the trick for me.

 

[kinggroin]

Played the game yesterday evening and the game crashed twice. Both times I was in my inventory. After the second crash I quit because I lost a tiny bit of progress. I almost don't want to play because I'm not sure when it's going to crash.

Look above. There's an update addressing performance and stability.

 

[TheGrue]

KB/M. Played the first 5h with a Xbox 360 Controller. Then switched to KB/M. So much better. Just like in Witcher 2 suddenly it's much more direct. Faster turning with the mouse, better riding, better inventory, better everything ... in my opinion there is no other way.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Gbraga]

My 680 2GB really feels outdated now >>. I get like an average of 35-45, sometimes it goes a bit higher and sometimes it dips lower. I have everything on medium except texture's on high and foliage distance an shadows on low, with ssao and aa. It's impossible for me to get even close to a consistent 60 though.

The weird thing is if I lock it to 30 fps it feels really sluggish and awful. More so than other games in 30 fps.

Edit: Playing @1080p btw.

Here's what I did with a 680 (with Durante and SalsaShark's help):

Post-proccess everything on except Chromatic Aberration, also using HBAO+

Graphics I have hairworks off, Shadows on Medium, Textures, Detail and Terrain Quality on Ultra, everything else on high.

Unlimited Framerate, Vsync off, Borderless Window mode, and use RTSS to limit the framerate to 30.

It's not possible (as far as I know) to get solid 60fps on a 680, even on the lowest settings, so might as well make it as pretty as you can at 30.

 

[aravuus]

Restarting steam did the trick for me.

Yup, downloading now. Thanks bunches.

Hopefully this fixes my shit

 

[Dictator93]

Well, for all those who love sharpened images, you can have your in game wish now:

Also, hairworks runs much better during close ups and is visually the same at first glance (less framrate crawl when close up).
1.02

1.03 hairworks

 

[CybernatonEvolution]

The new PC patch is 240 MB.

I can't even get stable 60fps with my GTX 780 even after turning down shadows and foliage; there is something wrong with towns specifically.

 

[Froli]

Anyone read this yet? Sorry if old
NVIDIA tanking Witcher 3 performance on 600/700 series cards in favor of 900

Reverting to 347.88 seems to be an alternative solution.

 

[ussjtrunks]

Well, for all those who love sharpened images, you can have your in game wish now:

Also, hairworks runs much better during close ups and is visually the same at first glance (less framrate crawl when close up).
1.02

1.03 hairworks

what fps where you getting with hairworks before the patch? doesnt show on the image

 

[CybernatonEvolution]

Anyone read this yet? Sorry if old
NVIDIA tanking Witcher 3 performance on 600/700 series cards in favor of 900

It is very obvious for Kepler card owners; I noticed it immediately and started suspecting it after I saw the optimized settings in Geforce experience; it is the absolute worst settings that you can have for a GTX 780. Textures to fucking high? There are no Vram issues no whatsoever--as if they are trying to portray the 780 as a mid-high card now.

One of the mods in the Nvidia forums responded; they are apparently investigating it (preparing for damage control). We are still waiting for a response or a new driver.

 

[Gbraga]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Patch 1.03 changelog:

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
Fixes grass and foiliage popping that can occur after density parameters change
Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
Sharpen Postprocess settings extended from Off/On to Off/Normal/High
Improves menu handling
Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
Corrects an issue with stamina regeneration while sprinting
Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occcurs when scrolling the map
Generally improves world map focus
Corrects a bug where player was able to fire bolts at friendly NPCs
Corrects an issue in dialog selections
Corrects some missing translations in the UI
Minor SFX improvements -Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
Rostan Muggs is back

No font fix? TT_TT

Also, still unable to use Steam Overlay when playing this game, but it seems I'm the only one with this issue.

 

[Dictator93]

what fps where you getting with hairworks before the patch? doesnt show on the image

Like 57 or so. When Geralt was focused on sometimes less.

 

[SAiLO]

Can't believe how well this game runs on gtx 980m on ultra settings! So smooooooth!

 

[IronRinn]

I hope this patch fixes my problem. Would really like to be able to play this fucking game already.

 

[Static Jak]

Not getting any update from GOG Galaxy. Yet.

Can't wait, I'll just get it directly from them.

 

[GHG]

Anyone read this yet? Sorry if old
NVIDIA tanking Witcher 3 performance on 600/700 series cards in favor of 900

Reverting to 347.88 seems to be an alternative solution.

What the actual fuck?

So is there a way for me to get the SLI profile without updating the to the witcher 3 drivers?

 

[pahamrick]

Installed the patch from gog.com because gog galaxy is locked at 0.1MB/s download.

Galaxy still insists on downloading a 676MB patch.

 

[Evo X]

Man, this patch is downloading SUPER fucking slow for me on gog. Like .1mb/s

 

[wiggleb0t]

Man, this patch is downloading SUPER fucking slow for me on gog. Like .1mb/s

Servers downgraded!!!

Seriously though, probably 50-100k+ gog clients trying to automatically update simultaneously.

 

[spuckthew]

No font fix? TT_TT

Also, still unable to use Steam Overlay when playing this game, but it seems I'm the only one with this issue.

If you're using RTSS make sure you create a profile for witcher3.exe and enable 'Custom Direct3D Support'.

 

[Cannon Goose]

Could this patch make the Hairworks dream a reality!? I'm looking forward to trying it tomorrow

 

[Gbraga]

If you're using RTSS make sure you create a profile for witcher3.exe and enable 'Custom Direct3D Support'.

Ooooooooooh, that's probably it then!

Thank you so much!

 

[iNvid02]

Man, this patch is downloading SUPER fucking slow for me on gog. Like .1mb/s

download the installer from the GOG website, it took like 20 seconds

 

[Chesskid1]

Man, this patch is downloading SUPER fucking slow for me on gog. Like .1mb/s

same here

i manually downloaded it from gog.com but i dont want to f up my witcher 3 so i'm just waiting

 

[CybernatonEvolution]

Downloaded the PC 240 mb patch. I am not noticing any difference in performance (without hairworks), and there seems to be some animation canceling glitch or teleporting; it might be related to spamming dodge instead of waiting for an attack.

As for hairworks, it still tanks FPS by 10-15 frames; sometimes even more.

 

[EatChildren]

Wrong thread.

 

[fastmower]

Wrong thread.

The exact same thing happened to me last night. I honestly feel heartbroken. I don't know what to do because I can't go all the way back as I don't have a save from before the tree.