The Witcher 3 Official thread

Witcher 3 looks amazing even on medium Graphics, I've had to play on medium to main a solid 60fps, some people can handle it fluctuating from 40-60fps but i prefer to maintain it at 60. Even though i have the recommended Card GTX 770

Wondering if anybody else is thinking that this game needs a beast to be playable on high and ultra.

i7 2600 3.4ghz
8gb ddr3 1600mhz
GTX 770 2gb.
Win 8.1 64 bit
 
As far as the weather is concerned, I love it. The complaint about hurricane Katrina is a thin one I think.

The first time the weather really kicked up for me, I was heading to do the quest, "Demon of the Well". One of the first side quests from White Orchard. It is a small one person foot path between white orchard and the quest location, this footpath snakes a little, so not dead straight.
The sky was darkening as dusk was beginning to settle on the land, I was riding Roach at a gallop to get there quicker. The wind started howling from left to right, grass was swaying, Deer were scattering in my wake. The trees split an opening 50 paces from the abandoned Village's open gate, And a Noonwraith stared at me from the well and screamed.

I genuinely stopped, got off my horse and thought to myself, "Hmmm, this looks foreboding, perhaps I shouldn't just charge into battle like I usually do."
For a game to get the atmosphere of a battle, combined with the weather, so impactfull; That I literally gulp down the knot of cowardice that crawled up from my gutt; I would say the weather is just perfect as it is.
 
I am running an i5 2500k with a GT 560Ti and the game runs just fine for me on medium graphics. I did need to take my card out and blow the dustbunnies out of it to give the heatsinks the best chance at keeping the card cool. Overall, not many playability issues to report on a rig that is below what they suggest.
 
SoulTax said:
I am running an i5 2500k with a GT 560Ti and the game runs just fine for me on medium graphics. I did need to take my card out and blow the dustbunnies out of it to give the heatsinks the best chance at keeping the card cool. Overall, not many playability issues to report on a rig that is below what they suggest.
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hmm then my 770 should perform a lot better. What FPS are you getting?
I saw my card peaking between 60-70 Degrees, i should probably also clean my out.
 
DarkSpectre said:
Damn, these pics look so beautiful. Settings? Average FPS? GPU?
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Screenshots are off the net, not my own. From what people have been saying the game looks fantastic even on medium. I'm running ultra with a 980 OC, fps is ~60 a few dips when a lot is going on.

SoulTax said:
As far as the weather is concerned, I love it. The complaint about hurricane Katrina is a thin one I think.

The first time the weather really kicked up for me, I was heading to do the quest, "Demon of the Well". One of the first side quests from White Orchard. It is a small one person foot path between white orchard and the quest location, this footpath snakes a little, so not dead straight.
The sky was darkening as dusk was beginning to settle on the land, I was riding Roach at a gallop to get there quicker. The wind started howling from left to right, grass was swaying, Deer were scattering in my wake. The trees split an opening 50 paces from the abandoned Village's open gate, And a Noonwraith stared at me from the well and screamed.

I genuinely stopped, got off my horse and thought to myself, "Hmmm, this looks foreboding, perhaps I shouldn't just charge into battle like I usually do."
For a game to get the atmosphere of a battle, combined with the weather, so impactfull; That I literally gulp down the knot of cowardice that crawled up from my gutt; I would say the weather is just perfect as it is.
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You described it perfectly, the atmosphere and immersion is really captivating. It's been a long time since I've felt part of the world in an rpg to this extent.
 
I must say, not sure if the entire game is like this, but since we are comparing Skyrim vs. Witcher here.

Skyrim i felt had alot of "wasted space" , as in sure the landscapes looks great, but alot of it was just well, large open space with a dragon flying around and maybe a cave entrance (which is a loading screen mind you). I even recall every little house you entered had a load screen, right? In fact every sizable city/town had a load screen, so much so, that you felt compelled to "fast travel" into it to avoid doing a double loading screen....

Witcher 3, so far, no load screens (unless you fast travel). I haven't entered any caves yet, but none of the houses or towns have loading screens anywhere. I assume there will be a lengthy loading screen between "provinces", which is much better than little loading screens behind every door...

But the main thing so far, is the -detail- , Skyrim didn't have this much detail. Even the first little village had more detail than the equivalent village in skyrim. I'm now talking what the NPCs are doing, hearing them , seeing them working in the fields , alot of the areas i traveled looked unique in terms of it being a "set piece" as opposed to "just another hill with a cave entrance" .

I think this is why some people might compare it to GTA V , that is exactly what they did with GTA V. Every area in GTA V actually feels unique, right down to having different cars driving in the area (i.e. out in the sticks you will see trucks/tractors, in the upper class city neighborhood you'll notice porches/ferrari type cars).
 
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This helps a lot if you're experience jerkiness, forgot to post it earlier. If you have a newer card disbale mfaa as well.

[video]https://youtu.be/rAGIT6m0L_0?t=2m[/video]
 
PhreeMe said:
So after trying not to play until the weekend, I fired this puppy up for 30 mins or so, just to see what it was like.
My specs are in my signature, but I have a R9280X and an i5 4570. Running in 2560x1440, with most settings on high, AA on SSAO, water, world detail and one other I forget on Ultra, with hairworks on everything that has them, not just Geralt.

I definitely get noticable FPS drops in the in-game cutscenes, but gameplay seems perfect for now. I have only gotten as far as the Tavern section (did the tutorials to familiarise myself again)... I'll post more once I've ventured further out, but hope it stays the same as it is now.
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ponder said:
Well when you try it start off with Ultra settings, v-sync off, hairworks off, shadows lowest, all blurring off, SSAO, DOF off and see how it performs.

Also look at that nvidia tweak guide I posted earlier.
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Posted my current settings in that earlier post. When you start, there are some pretty large draw-distance shots, which ran perfectly for me. Is there a command to turn on an FPS monitor ingame? It runs 'smoothly', but I'd like to see how often I'm under the magical 60fps.
 
PhreeMe said:
Posted my current settings in that earlier post. When you start, there are some pretty large draw-distance shots, which ran perfectly for me. Is there a command to turn on an FPS monitor ingame? It runs 'smoothly', but I'd like to see how often I'm under the magical 60fps.
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Dunno if it has an ingame fps counter, I Use MSI Afterburner to show my clocks, mem use, temps for my GPU & CPU. Also use it to OC my GPU.

I've found this game to be smooth above 40fps.
 
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ponder said:
Dunno if it has a ingame fps counter, I Use MSI Afterburner to show my clocks, mem use, temps for my GPU & CPU. Also use it to OC my GPU.

I've found this game to be smooth above 40fps.
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I use Nvidia Shadowplay as it has a fps counter.

Hmm i can see a difference from 40fps to 60fps. movement is not nearly as smooth as 60fps.
I will play around and tweak to see if i can play higher than medium on my GTX 770
 
Bryn said:
It's running perfectly on my rig. i5-3570K, 8GB RAM, SSD and HD7970. All settings on ultra at 1080p with Nvidia Hairworks turned off. I don't know what the framerate is but I'd be surprised if it dropped below 30 often. It's smooth enough that it doesn't concern me.
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Would still be interesting to know. Game is pretty smooth above 40fps.
 
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