STEAM Witcher 3

[TdC]

OK, I tried two things:
thing one - Ran with FXAA on, 2x DSR so game shows 3620x2036 simulated on my 1440p native , nvidia control panel AA set to override game settings, and in game everything ultra except medium shadows, high grass and high foliage view distance, HBAO+, the DSR rez, no AA, and no friggin hair I get a fairly constant 50-55FPS and the game looks quite pretty. DSR is Maxwell cards only though.

thing two: ran at native rez and in game everything ultra except medium shadows, high grass and high foliage view distance, HBAO+, ingame AA, and no hair I get 70-80FPS and the game looks really awesome.

I found that faffing about with Blur, DOF, SSAO vs HBAO+ etc makes no real difference to my FPS. Hair on/off is instant 12ish FPS hit or gain. Didn't really look at other things chums; just turned in my thesis concept and I am dead to the world

 

[fettoken]

What framerate were you getting. Sounds like a similar setup to mine.

Will have to check that out. Running an i5 3570k @ 4 ghz. 8 gb 1600 mhz ram with opted timings.

 

[Raven]

Getting around 55fps with everything on Ultra with my 290 and no hairworks.

Going to have a fiddle tonight to get it to the steady magical 60fps

Edit, that's at 1080.

 

[Ormorof]

Bought it this morning, final exam in two hours then its witcher time baby woo

 

[Poag]

Tried to load up witcher 2 on my Win8.1 device to see if i fancied W3. Damn thing wont start.

Has anyone gone into W3 with no previosu Witcher games played? What are your thoughts on combat and gameplay from that perspective?

 

[Raven]

Will let you know tonight, played Witcher 1 quite a lot (2 play throughs) but didn't really like Witcher 2, not sure why, just didn't.

From reading the reviews it seems quite different to the previous games anyway.

 

[leggy]

Getting around 55fps with everything on Ultra with my 290 and no hairworks.

Going to have a fiddle tonight to get it to the steady magical 60fps

Edit, that's at 1080.

So that website was reporting actual bollocks then?

Seems like it'll run well on my rig at 1080p. Although I would have liked to have nice hair.

 

[Raven]

I dunno, this was last night so after a bunch of patches.

 

[Zarjazz]

So that website was reporting actual bollocks then?

Seems like it'll run well on my rig at 1080p. Although I would have liked to have nice hair.

Seems those benchmarks were on the pre-release version. The day 1 patch improved a LOT of things including performance.

 

[TdC]

I would have liked to have nice hair.

with the patch you can set Hairworks to "Geralt Only", so you can now mince around all #gotuplikethis #nomakeup if you want, Leglarington and only take a 10FPS hit or so

 

[Zarjazz]

with the patch you can set Hairworks to "Geralt Only", so you can now mince around all #gotuplikethis #nomakeup if you want, Leglarington and only take a 10FPS hit or so

While it may be nice to see his flowing locks blowing in the wind, the best hair effects are on the monsters and you'd miss out on those with Geralt Only.

It does make me laugh though. Only a gamer could justify spending £600 on a new SLI setup just so the barmaid had a nicer ponytail

 

[TdC]

true that. I'll see if I can swing it and maybe get some vids up. been a while since I recorded gameplay. think Skyrim was the last time.

 

[leggy]

with the patch you can set Hairworks to "Geralt Only", so you can now mince around all #gotuplikethis #nomakeup if you want, Leglarington and only take a 10FPS hit or so

10 fps for hair? Jesus I think I'll stick with a shit do.

 

[TdC]

I'm getting good results with turning off AA in-game and overriding it with the Nvidia Control-Panel settings. In the game everything is maxed out except shadows and foliage distance both on high, AA turned off. Nvidia cp settings like so:



getting well over 70FPS constantly, except towns where things drop to around 60FPS. Game looks great so far. Tried to take some screens for you guys but neither prtsc or F12 did anything for me :-(

 

[Raven]

Use a camera!

 

[caLLous]

I'm getting good results with turning off AA in-game and overriding it with the Nvidia Control-Panel settings. In the game everything is maxed out except shadows and foliage distance both on high, AA turned off. Nvidia cp settings like so:

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getting well over 70FPS constantly, except towns where things drop to around 60FPS. Game looks great so far. Tried to take some screens for you guys but neither prtsc or F12 did anything for me :-(

Fraps for screens.

 

[Moriath]

I'm getting good results with turning off AA in-game and overriding it with the Nvidia Control-Panel settings. In the game everything is maxed out except shadows and foliage distance both on high, AA turned off. Nvidia cp settings like so:

View attachment 25134

getting well over 70FPS constantly, except towns where things drop to around 60FPS. Game looks great so far. Tried to take some screens for you guys but neither prtsc or F12 did anything for me :-(

F12 is default for screenies on steam.

 

[leggy]

F12 is default for screenies on steam.

F10

 

[Moriath]

F10

Oki. I got it on f12. Hehe

 

[ECA]

After playing some more, I'm really impressed.
It sets a really high standard in everything except it's combat systems

 

[Moriath]

Combat is ok. Nothing new but not bad. Just completed the orchard area got to the next place. Had some good fights nice puzzels. Lvl 4 . Better than the last two witchers imo

 

[TdC]

F10

I've tried them all and nothing happens :-(

 

[Raven]

on amd cards hairworks seems to have a massive effect on fps. Getting a reasonably steady 60fps with it off and all on ultra except water and shadows that are set to high. Hairworks on and it drops to 40ish.

 

[leggy]

on amd cards hairworks seems to have a massive effect on fps. Getting a reasonably steady 60fps with it off and all on ultra except water and shadows that are set to high. Hairworks on and it drops to 40ish.

I think I might be ok with the card I have then. Will purchase as soon as I have completed 2.

 

[fettoken]

Good game. Love the childrens cardgame "Gwen".

Although, every goddamn quest is so looooooooong and tedious. Quests are feeling more and more like an obstacle put there on purpose by the devs to buy some time in between the main story.

I had to put up a fucking theatrical play.. What the fuck. Inventory will be littered with items very quick, so you need to manage your inventory at all times and throw away old notes. Level-system is not the best either.

Conclusions: Remove any gameplay-related mechanic except the Gwen-cardgame bit, and make that particular thingy advance the main story.

 

[Raven]

The horse regularly pisses me off. And it has a shit name!

 

[fettoken]

Indeed, riding through a small village or town and getting stuck on every little fence, stairs or w/e.

 

[TdC]

L2RIDE NOOBS

 

[Raven]

The horse should be called Danger or Superhoof. To me, Superhoof! Sounds better than Roach

 

[TdC]

I'm stuck in my Skyrim ways and never use the horse anyway.