OFFICIAL The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Discussion)

[okidna]

1,6 GB day one patch

 

[rtwjunkie]

1,6 GB day one patch

Mine was 302MB. ??? That's weird

 

[okidna]

Mine was 302MB. ??? That's weird

I bought the Steam version, not GOG.

 

[WhiteNoise]

I remoted into my home PC from work, started the game up and watched the start of it. Now I have to wait 1.5 hours to get home. Stupid California traffic. Oh and I'm just positive my wife and kids will need me to perform Dad duties lol. Can't wait to play though!

 

[Xzibit]

I remoted into my home PC from work, started the game up and watched the start of it. Now I have to wait 1.5 hours to get home. Stupid California traffic. Oh and I'm just positive my wife and kids will need me to perform Dad duties lol. Can't wait to play though!

I'm sure you can finish the game in traffic if your taking the 405 to 90.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I'm playing High Graphics settings with my 780 at 60fps settings. It plays like a dream, and definately is much better graphics than Witcher 2, even on High.

 

[Fluffmeister]

I'm playing High Graphics settings with my 780 at 60fps settings. It plays like a dream, and definately is much better graphics than Witcher 2, even on High.

But... but... Kepler!

 

[rtwjunkie]

But... but... Kepler!

They lied? Lol! And i didn't even update my drivers.

 

[dyonoctis]

But... but... Kepler!

The bench on pcgameshardware was made at Ubersettings,and according to nvidia the gtx 960 can handle high settings(and so far it seems nvidia as locked the 780 to the 960 level) when more in depth review will be out we shall see if the game is really broken on kepler gpu.

 

[Xzibit]

Patch notes :

Major changes:
- Support for DLCs
- Multiple stability issues fixed
- Overall performance improvements
Quests and game:
- Variety of cosmetic quest improvements
- Journal objective fixes
- Quest mapping fixes
- Dialogue flag fixes
- Quest balancing issues
- Scene triggering improvements
Gameplay systems:
- Boat behavior
- AI improvements
- NPC spawn strategy improvements
- Combat balancing
- UI optimizations

 

[FreedomEclipse]

downloading

 

[Fluffmeister]

The bench on pcgameshardware was made at Ubersettings,and according to nvidia the gtx 960 can handle high settings(and so far it seems nvidia as locked the 780 to the 960 level) when more in depth review will be out we shall see if the game is really broken on kepler gpu.

You'll just have to take 780's owners word for it then, I for one am happy to see how my gimped 970 is doing.

 

[rtwjunkie]

You'll just have to take 780's owners word for it then, I for one am happy to see how my gimped 970 is doing.

I for one am not moaning about High settings. It looks better than the last Witcher and plays fluidly. I don't even see a reason to try Uber settings in the slightest. Even on high my faces are practically Crysis 3 quality. Totally lovin' my "unoptimized" Kepler.

 

[dyonoctis]

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...-hunt-graphics-performance-and-tweaking-guide
sigh....damn it....why does gamesworks looks so pretty ? why it isn't possible to get both hairworks and tressfx ? In Tomb it wasn't that convincing, but here things really do look more stiff

 

[dyonoctis]

To be fair nvidia really made huge improvement toward geometry/tesselation, even the 290x don't look so migthy now, but something still look wrong...

 

[Xzibit]

To be fair nvidia really made huge improvement toward geometry/tesselation, even the 290x don't look so migthy now, but something still look wrong...

Yup.

If you go by the pre-release benchmarks

970 = 290X
One can say this is okay

Titan = 780 = 285 = 960
This is totally F'd up

Maybe the patch improves things.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I don't see that a 960 is equal to a 780 anywhere on that chart. Knowing that a 780 is between a 770 and a 780Ti, that puts it far ahead of the 960.

Quitting for the night. I am very satisfied with the game. It is well optimized, and haven't encountered any bugs. I love being able to go anywhere.

Seeing as I've not even finished taking side quests in and around the first town for 4 hours, and knowing how large this world is, I see this literally taking a couple hundred hours, since I like to suck the marrow out of the story.

I have found the menu/UI to be much changed from The Witcher 2. I haven't decided if that is a good or bad thing yet.

As I said earlier, I chose high settings for my 780, as well as setting it to 60 fps in the menu. I turned motion blur off, since it bugs the hell out of me and looks unrealistic. I also set Shadows to medium, which hasn't hurt immersion at all. I see no reason to try Uber setting, since High looks so damned good and plays beautifully.

 

[RCoon]

Went to bed before it unlocked, now heading to the office. I hate my life. If I have time and can be super bothered I might share some benchmarks, though the review is due next week anyway.

 

[DinaAngel]

game unplayable, just crashes every 15 min. nvidia driver stopped working. only game this happens to

 

[RCoon]

Wait, so apparently NVidia now have HairWorks? Latest driver allows you to turn on magical hair processing in The Witcher 3. It's like TressFX, only equally pointless yay

 

[Ferrum Master]

Wait, so apparently NVidia now have HairWorks? Latest driver allows you to turn on magical hair processing in The Witcher 3. It's like TressFX, only equally pointless yay

I bet it has something to do with boob physx too , so it might have a point .

So okay... anyone from AMD camp? The size is still 25GB? Are the 20GB reserved for the EE edition already .

 

[MakeDeluxe]

Runs like poo on my computer. Even on low settings struggling to get 60 fps. Will need a GPU upgrade before I can even think about playing this game.

 

[okidna]

Hairworks is very demanding for my old 660 Ti. Had to turn it off to get 50-60 FPS (1600x900) at Medium-High setting on my PC.

I bet it has something to do with boob physx too , so it might have a point .

So okay... anyone from AMD camp? The size is still 25GB? Are the 20GB reserved for the EE edition already .

Size after installation is 26,1 GB.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Size after installation is 26,1 GB.

Thanks. Rtwjunkie lost his bet , but still it puzzles me why the difference, it is still like that at steam page.

System Requirements

• 
  MINIMUM:
  • OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
  • Processor: Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
  • Hard Drive: 40 GB available space

• 
  RECOMMENDED:
  • OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
  • Processor: Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3.4 GHz / AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770 / AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
  • Hard Drive: 40 GB available space

 

[RCoon]

Thanks. Rtwjunkie lost his bet , but still it puzzles me why the difference, it is still like that at steam page.

System Requirements

• 
  MINIMUM:
  • OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
  • Processor: Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
  • Hard Drive: 40 GB available space

• 
  RECOMMENDED:
  • OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
  • Processor: Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3.4 GHz / AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770 / AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
  • Hard Drive: 40 GB available space

Perhaps future DLC will add substantial data. I know a lot of games advertise space usage based on future DLC size.