Welp, those who wants to use the DS4, you're in luck - http://gamingbolt.com/witcher-3-ps4-wont-r...-support-for-pc

If you absolutely want hairworks, please change the hairworksmsaa to 0, at least then you should have 40+ fps.

Big patch in coming, should be here before the end of next week -
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-05-...e-issue-head-on

Better late than never. AMD needs to hurry up with their Witcher 3 game ready driver and Nvidia needs to come out with a new beta to further improve HairWorks performance.... as well as ungimping Kepler cards, but that's off topic.

Also, CDPR has finally admitted on their mistakes. As long as they roll out the updates and keep improving the game like they did before, they're forgiven.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 21 2015, 06:54 PM

Patch 1.03 changelog

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

http://thewitcher.com/news/view/1038


I bolded the important ones.

*EDIT*
One important note, for those who are using custom tweaks to the user.settings ini and other files in the bin section, MAKE SURE you uncheck read-only for the files that you've edited. The patch makes changes in the bin files location, so as an extra meassure, you should just replace them to their default states (this is why it is important to make a backup!).

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 21 2015, 09:05 PM

Well, they are optimizing to make the game look better AND perform better.

Played 3 hours this morning with 1.03 patch, stability wise the game is pretty much similar to 1.02. I have seen that the inventory crash has not been fixed yet.

Hairworks performs marginally better, not enough to make it entirely playable yet, unless you want to lock to 30fps. They did not change the AA for hairworks though, it's still the same.

Cutscenes are definitely a lot less stuttery though, it's still not fixed completely yet. Disabling ubersampling for Cutscenes is still recommended.

Remove it or disable sweetfx, it's just a toggle.

Currently I think the best preset is K-putt or SS, they do not desaturate the colors too much and still keep the tone of the game. However neither of these presets are 100% stable yet, they can crash the game and in some instances make enemies have a wrong color palette. It's quite uncommon, but I've seen several screenies on reddit and neogaf about it.

The cineFX mod is nice, but does have a performance hit whereas kputt and SS doesn't. Also patch 1.03 has broken the cineFX preset as well, wait for an update.

I don't think I'm so into the whole sweetfx thing this time though, at least not right now. Probably after the first major patch, only then I will go into one of them.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 22 2015, 03:36 PM

Try to set TextureBudgetMemory value to 1024 at the very least in the user.settings.bak in Documents > Witcher 3. The default 800 (which is the game's Ultra value) is silly low.

I have it at 2048 and there is significantly less slow texture streaming, but it can still crop up. Thinking to raise it further, although it seems to cap out beyond 1800.


Yeah, coming from Bloodborne, Witcher 3 is a cake walk. Bloodborne kind of spoiled gaming's difficulty, more than Dark Souls did.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 22 2015, 04:18 PM

Yours is actually looking pretty damn good!
Like it better than K-putt's! Are you releasing your preset soon?

Probably increase gamma just a tad bit, that's all I can think of. Otherwise I think you're set!

Alright nice. I'll try it out later in the weekend. I think the darkness of your shadow isn't too bad, it just needs a little bit more balance. I don't think you should make it too dark though, because like for example 1000's time better (rainguyen right?) is pretty much unplayable in some of the darker dungeons later on in the game! It's just too damn dark!

It's also an issue with CineFX. I think K-putt and SS are equal in very dark areas for now.


Yes, disable steam overlay if you are going to use sweetFX.

Well... it's an exploit, but it's easy:




This WILL break the game though, you will not enjoy it as it was intended to be anymore. You're a witcher, not a noble. Suppose to be poor.

The only thing about the investigation thing is that, I feel it can start to get tedious eventhough it makes absolute sense. I'm still fine with it currently though.

This is as close as it gets to the 2014 gameplay reveal - http://translate.google.com/translate?dept...3706243%26N%3D1

SweetFX.

Yup. For the sake of convenience.

But on the other hand, the amount of people who used alchemy in W1 and W2 were an extreme minority. Most people went hack and slash, forgeting the fact that the Witcher isn't a DMC game. They needed a way where potions will be easy to use, whenever and wherever.

Hmm a little too much sharpening IMO. Skin is obviously too processed, not natural.

Quen is your best friend, trust me.

How did you even miss the QM at the Nilfgaardian garrison? He's like... right there lol.

I would take the preset and tone down the blue-hue a few more steps. It's really not bad though.

I'm still using K-putt's preset with a little less gamma and a higher level of SMAA though.

Yes there is a significant difference.
From gameplay alone, the input lag going from 30fps to 60fps is instantly noticeable. Everything is more fluid, everything is more responsive. Those who want to disagree with this is just trolling.

Now as for seeing, there is still a debate on this as people seem to believe that our eyes can't see past 30fps (lol our eyes aren't measured in frames). But I do clearly understand that not everyone can comprehend and track motion the same exact way. It's just like how there are people who can see objects moving at a high speed but yet some people can't.

Another way to put it is if you take a look at those hyper slow motion videos from sports or even channels like The Slow Mo guys on YT, if they were to shoot a scene at 30fps and play it back at half speed at 15fps to achieve slow motion, all you will see is choppiness and stutter. Shooting a scene at 60fps and putting it down to 30fps and things are different! So yeah, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. Obviously they shoot at insane speeds to achieve that glorious 'bullet time' effect.

In games, we play and interact with the controls. You don't watch a game, you play it hence 24fps games are stupid. 60fps isn't making a game twice faster than a 30fps game, but 60fps makes the game more responsive, more fluid, and overall just more engrossing.


No, you need to find the diagrams first for which specific witcher school you want to use as your set. Then the blacksmith level needs to be high enough to upgrade your witcher gears.


The only gear you should keep are the Witcher gear. Never ever dismantle/sell them, otherwise you need to get the materials to craft them again (though it isn't that difficult to so).

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 25 2015, 05:57 PM

Oh wow, this is an extremely useful tool to mod the ini config files for those who don't want to go through wall of texts and numbers.

http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/12/?