The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Dungeoncrawler]

so, kepler does have issues with the game.

ManuelG
We discovered a couple of issues in regards to Kepler GPUs and are working on driver updates.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/833016/geforce-700-600-series/gtx-780-possible-fail-as-performance-in-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-/post/4537394/#4537394

[Nunz]

I dunno what issues people are having. The game is super smooth maxed out on OG TITANs and I'm not even OC'd heavily .. running them at 1050/3300 stock voltage .. i could hit 1150 with voltage bump.

[jimjobob]

Any of you ever come out of a cut scene and suddenly the DoF is way to aggressive? It has been so mild the only way you can tell it's on is because the grass and the trees in the distance don't flicker and crawl at all as opposed to off but I came out of a cut scene earlier and suddenly every thing was blurry as hell starting about 15-20' from where I was standing. Turning it off and back on did nothing to make it go away, I had to save and reload to get it to go back to normal.

[Dungeoncrawler]

I dunno what issues people are having. The game is super smooth maxed out on OG TITANs and I'm not even OC'd heavily .. running them at 1050/3300 stock voltage .. i could hit 1150 with voltage bump.

if nvidia is releasing an updated driver for kepler this soon i would assume something is seriously wrong.

[jimjobob]

if nvidia is releasing an updated driver for kepler this soon i would assume something is seriously wrong.

It might just be to set the render frames ahead setting to 1 by default in the game profile. That seems to fix the issues people are having.

[Nunz]

if nvidia is releasing an updated driver for kepler this soon i would assume something is seriously wrong.

I guess so. Can't see how performance could get any better for me :shrug:

[Dungeoncrawler]

It might just be to set the render frames ahead setting to 1 by default in the game profile. That seems to fix the issues people are having.

i highly doubt it. people with sli/3-way sli titans only getting 30fps. and its just not the witcher 3. its gtav and project cars. something stinks imo.

[Meteor_of_War]

I am running kepler cards and yes I could definitely use some better performance. GTX 670 SLI and I have resorted to most settings on medium and low just to maintain 60 fps. Still dips into the high 40's occasionally too. I am running at 1440p though.

I really want to be able to turn up the foliage distance setting some more. Its way too noticeable when all the grass, plants, and rocks pop into the picture 10 feet in front of you.

[jimjobob]

i highly doubt it. people with sli/3-way sli titans only getting 30fps. and its just not the witcher 3. its gtav and project cars. something stinks imo.

oh, kepler. I guess I haven't seen the complaints about GTA 5. My daughters boyfriend has my old 780 though and he never complained about GTA 5 performance either.

[eNforcer]

My daughters boyfriend has my old 780 though and he never complained about GTA 5 performance either.

Yeah but can he even tell 5fps from 120? kids.

[Nunz]

i highly doubt it. people with sli/3-way sli titans only getting 30fps. and its just not the witcher 3. its gtav and project cars. something stinks imo.

GTAV runs great on my rig too?

What FPS are you getting in Witcher? Post me your settings and a screenshot of your FPS and I'll replicate and show you mine. The game is butter smooth. So is GTAV.

I don't understand how I could be getting great performance and tons of others aren't. That doesn't make sense to me.

[ThirdEye]

I never want this game to end. 35 hours, level 11, only seen Novigrad from a distance atop a mountain at night.

[|MaguS|]

I'm locked at 1080p@60 with ultra settings but with AA (injecting SMAA) and Hairworks off.

[Exposed]

It might just be to set the render frames ahead setting to 1 by default in the game profile. That seems to fix the issues people are having.

I already have that set and my 780 performance at 1080p is abysmal.

[Flyordie]

Now I am scared about running it on my HD5770s crossfired. :-(

[bill dennison]

Now I am scared about running it on my HD5770s crossfired. :-(

well one 290x at 1600p is barely playable on ultra and hairball & aa off 35 to 45 fps

cfx doesn't work yet

[Flyordie]

hmm.. I was at my friends house who has 2x HD5870s in CF and they show both GPUs getting usage in it...?

Also, I am only running 1080p.

[ThirdEye]

Messing around with Reshade

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128447

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128448

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128449

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128450

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128451

[bill dennison]

hmm.. I was at my friends house who has 2x HD5870s in CF and they show both GPUs getting usage in it...?

Also, I am only running 1080p.

both mine 290x's show good usage without the " enable amd crossfirex for applications that have no application profile " check box set
but second card stayed at 35c main card was 70c

with check box set I get bad texture flashing and no usage on second card

and both ways I got better fps with one card, this is with win 8.1 64

[Dave]

Too bright imo.

Also: This whole reshade and sweetfx thing - You're messing with the artists and game designers vision on how the game is supposed to look. I always prefer just playing the game with what the game designers chose and not messing with sweetfx and reshade.

IDK, I just feel like its the same as looking at a piece of art and then taking a pencil and shading an area darker than what the artist did in the original drawing.

[bill dennison]

Messing around with Reshade

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128447

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128448

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128449

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128450

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128451

first one I need sunglasses

and did you mean to make the second do as you switch between them

[ThirdEye]

I hear ya, but I like messing around with this stuff mostly for screenshots and just to have a breath of fresh air in the visuals.

[ThirdEye]

first on I need sunglasses

and did you mean to make the second do as you switch between them

Odd, I don't find the first one to be all that bright tbh

[Dave]

If you don't think that first shot is too bright, you need to calibrate your monitor.

[ThirdEye]

Eh, it's calibrated. Anyway it works for me

[bill dennison]

my monitor does not have a scaler only setting it has on the front is brightness and it is turned down all the way

and they all look brighter

[dmanna]

I think this game really could be a 10/10 game, but it's not there yet. There are too many frustrating little issues with the game to make it deserving of a 10/10, unless reviews just assumed those issues would be fixed eventually. I'm sure the inevitable "Enhanced Edition" of this game will actually be deserving of a 10/10 score.

My biggest issues:

• Having two movement speeds is atrocious on analog. They need to make the movement speed proportionate to how far you move the analog.
• Possibly a side effect of having only two movement speeds, if you push your analog all the way to start running, Geralt always starts in the first movement speed for a few steps before changing to the 2nd movement speed. This makes it feel like there is an input delay and frequently causes you to run right past things. If I go from 0 to 100 on my analog then he should start running from the get go, not start with a walk.
• The auto sheathing of the sword is incredibly annoying, because it often does it when you have a guy 15 feet away from you. They need to increase the enemy detection radius for determining when to sheathe the sword or something. This is also incredibly annoying when you're trying to attack from your horse.
• Don't show me the interact button unless I'm in range to actually interact.
• Add a sound indicator for when you try to cast a sign before you have enough energy.

I agree. The game could be a 10/10 and gwent is actually pretty fun once you learn how to play which only takes a few matches. This is the first mini game I have gotten into in any game. Besides Trevors psycho mode in GTA5 but that's not really the same thing.

It needs some updating but I suspected this. I told myself I would wait a month to play it.. but unfortunately I couldn't wait.

[dmanna]

hmm.. I was at my friends house who has 2x HD5870s in CF and they show both GPUs getting usage in it...?

Also, I am only running 1080p.

And they were working without graphical glitches? No blinking or weird terrain bouncing and shadows, and light blinking stuff.

My whole screen turns into a strobe light when I enable CF with a 7970x 280x In fact I never seen anything quite like it before. I wonder if I fried my 280x bit coin mining.. yeah no more bit coin mining that lasted about 4 days and I made .00041001 BTC electric bill probably 12 bucks. So lost like 11.95 cents. 1.2GH/s isn't good anymore 2 years to late.

[ATI FURY-OUS]

on the botchlins

ffs the combat/movement is infuriating! keep facing the wrong bloody way or walking or run into the enemies . ragequit again!

ffs!

[jimjobob]

Too bright imo.

Also: This whole reshade and sweetfx thing - You're messing with the artists and game designers vision on how the game is supposed to look. I always prefer just playing the game with what the game designers chose and not messing with sweetfx and reshade.

IDK, I just feel like its the same as looking at a piece of art and then taking a pencil and shading an area darker than what the artist did in the original drawing.

looking at the amount of detail in all the many different armor models in this game, I think the artists wanted to make it look as true to life as possible and just missed the mark a bit on the colors. Using SweetFX, this is by far the best looking game I have ever seen. The more I play the more impressed I am. I almost feel guilty only paying $25.

[jimjobob]

Odd, I don't find the first one to be all that bright tbh

first one it looks like all it did was crank the gamma up to max.

Hmm, you sure its calibrated? looked at the rest of them and it looks like you went in the opposite direction of most people. one of them it even looks like you put Geralt in the world of the Legend of Zelda that they have shown previews of.

[ThirdEye]

What about the vanilla shots, do those look off as well?

[Mangler]

Hmm, I guess the red skull next to a quest isn't just a friendly suggestion that you might be too low of a level to do it.

[jimjobob]

What about the vanilla shots, do those look off as well?

no they look like the base game.
The skin tone is really off and pink looking on the close up shot as well.

Hmm, I guess the red skull next to a quest isn't just a friendly suggestion that you might be too low of a level to do it.

If it is a treasure hunt quest you can still do it generally if its a single monster defending it by using the right signs. Other than the witcher school ones so long as your at least close its not really worth it though as it will scale the loot to your level.

I have been checking now and I might try to kill the monster if I stumble across it but if I succeed I look at the quest list before opening the chest and if its too high I leave it to come back later.

Regular barrels, crates, chests, bags and what not are all scaled to your level as well. The higher your level, the better the non junk items get. Also I found better saddle bags on a vendor in a very poor village so I haven't looked to see but I'm guessing they are upgraded at the other vendors that sell them as well.

[Mangler]

It was a level 30-something contract, don't think it's possible to do it while level 5 as I could not even make the hp bar of the monster budge.

[Dungeoncrawler]

looking at the amount of detail in all the many different armor models in this game, I think the artists wanted to make it look as true to life as possible and just missed the mark a bit on the colors. Using SweetFX, this is by far the best looking game I have ever seen. The more I play the more impressed I am. I almost feel guilty only paying $25.

I'm using 1.000 times better 1.4b with preset. removed the candy look from the game entirely.

https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/3712

[SirBaron]

I'm using 1.000 times better 1.4b with preset. removed the candy look from the game entirely.

https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/3712

looks terrible to me, like contrast has been messed up.

[Brainstew]

I don't think there's ever been a game that looked so much better in motion than it does in screenshots. I mean it still looks good in screenshots, but you lose so much.

[|MaguS|]

looks terrible to me, like contrast has been messed up.

Yup like it's all washed out. Why do PC gamers hate color so much? Everyone complained about brown and grey games a few years ago and when developers want a bright fantastical world you all want dreary world's now...

[jimjobob]

I'm using 1.000 times better 1.4b with preset. removed the candy look from the game entirely.

https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/3712

looks terrible to me, like contrast has been messed up.

From the video that had that one compaired with 2 others side by side with the original, I would have to agree with SirBaron on that one. I thought the newer version by the same person as that one looked pretty good in the video but when I went to DL it the screen shots looked like it was still too high. I didn't think much of the middle option from the video but looking at the screen shots I thought it looked pretty good so I went with that one and am very happy with the results.

The person that did the one I use suggested turning off aa and sharpening because MSAA and sharpening are built into it. I thought it was too jaggy and crawly with aa off and turning sharpening off lost a lot of detail so I left those on and set the msaa lvl to 2x in the config to get MFAA working and it looks incredible.

https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/3691/ is the one I am using. for some reason they took out the normal daytime screen shots that are the ones that actually sold me on it. The biggest difference is the sun is a lot less yellow during the day and greens are a little darker. Its not a drastic change from the original just much more natural looking.