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The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt: Official Thread

TechSpot ran some performance tests on the remaster and got some interesting results. They ran their tests in Novigrad and noted that performance was a better outside the city.

Looks like there's some sort of bottleneck with ray tracing and path tracing. PT tops out at about 60fps and RT just over 90. Performance is better outside Novigrad, but it's still bottlenecked to the point that 5090, 5080 and 5070Ti have basically the same performance at 1080p with PT on. For RT add the 9070XT to that list.
 
zandor said:
TechSpot ran some performance tests on the remaster and got some interesting results. They ran their tests in Novigrad and noted that performance was a better outside the city.

Looks like there's some sort of bottleneck with ray tracing and path tracing. PT tops out at about 60fps and RT just over 90. Performance is better outside Novigrad, but it's still bottlenecked to the point that 5090, 5080 and 5070Ti have basically the same performance at 1080p with PT on. For RT add the 9070XT to that list.
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I beat you to it.
 
I really wish they remastered the movement. I'd argue that movement is more important than graphics in this case. The remaster provides a nice fresh coat of paint but Geralt remains stiff as a board. If the Tomb Raider I-III remasters can add modern controls and movement, I don't see why this can't.
 
TwistedMetalGear said:
I really wish they remastered the movement. I'd argue that movement is more important than graphics in this case. The remaster provides a nice fresh coat of paint but Geralt remains stiff as a board. If the Tomb Raider I-III remasters can add modern controls and movement, I don't see why this can't.
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You try and compare a free upgrade with games that cost money?
 
littlegreenmenfromhome said:
You try and compare a free upgrade with games that cost money?
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Let's not pretend that they gave us a free update purely out of the kindness of their hearts. Yes, it was a nice gesture. But these updates are being done for Songs of the Past which is very much not free.

Regardless of free or paid, they put in a lot of effort to remaster the game. So why not update both graphics and controls together for the complete package?
 
Played for a couple hours. It's free and it's day one. I feel with some of the issues they will more than likely fix. Yes the movement I was expecting it to have more improvements, but it's still the Witcher, so I can deal with it. My rig can play with PT on, but there must be a bug when you go indoors. It's very dark. So for now not PT, just RT.

Hairworks seems to be a bit of a mess which I think they may fix. I don't really care about that. Looks fine with Hairworks off. I'll give it a bit for some of the initial bugs to be fixed and I'll come back to it.

I do love the fact that they went about this remaster for free. If this was a $39 dollar cost for example, I probably would be a little annoyed......but it's free :)
 
I can't believe anyone actually uses hairworks. It turns my 5700x3d+4080super in to dust immediately. I was all excited to try it after upgrading, it's a total kneecapper.

I killed a few guys on horses and they just t-posed, frozen statues. Pretty funny.
 
Bah, the only way I can tell which version is which in gog galaxy launcher is one is uninstalled and in its extras the dlc is organized differently. The one I have installed is still on 4.04 but wants to update. Its extras options has GOTY classic offline installers for download.

Both icons are labelled as Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Remastered.

Edit: On the current installed version 4.04, via manage installation you can swap via the "beta" channel option between disabled (I assume this means latest remaster version 5.00+) or next-gen or classic. Still no dedicated 4.04 installer though via offline installers.
 
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TwistedMetalGear said:
Let's not pretend that they gave us a free update purely out of the kindness of their hearts. Yes, it was a nice gesture. But these updates are being done for Songs of the Past which is very much not free.

Regardless of free or paid, they put in a lot of effort to remaster the game. So why not update both graphics and controls together for the complete package?
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Lets not pretend it cost you any money, so I will repeat the question:
Did you just compare a free upgrade with "updates" costing money?
 
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Ranulfo said:
Bah, the only way I can tell which version is which in gog galaxy launcher is one is uninstalled and in its extras the dlc is organized differently. The one I have installed is still on 4.04 but wants to update. Its extras options has GOTY classic offline installers for download.

Both icons are labelled as Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Remastered.

Edit: On the current installed version 4.04, via manage installation you can swap via the "beta" channel option between disabled (I assume this means latest remaster version 5.00+) or next-gen or classic. Still no dedicated 4.04 installer though via offline installers.
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The icon is different in Galaxy.

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TwistedMetalGear said:
Let's not pretend that they gave us a free update purely out of the kindness of their hearts. Yes, it was a nice gesture. But these updates are being done for Songs of the Past which is very much not free.

Regardless of free or paid, they put in a lot of effort to remaster the game. So why not update both graphics and controls together for the complete package?
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Regardless that they are prepping for the new expansion it still a free substantial update. Pretty much every other company would have charged $50-60 for a remaster and put in less effort. Also the complete edition os always going on sale for under $15.
 
Ranulfo said:
From my galaxy launcher owned games list

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Also, I've found if under the configure option for the game, under beta channel options if you put the version to "next gen" it will download a 13mb file and then stay at version 4.04 and stop wanting to update to 5.00.
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I will have to check later tonight, but my GOTY copy still had the far left icon in your image last night.
 
Same 2 icons, but the title changes when I hover my cursor over them... in either case, thank you to all of you for beta testing the new release! I'll be sure to jump in when they patch it all the way up to 5.05 at least and make it stable :cigar: (y)

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nvidia has new drivers now mentioning the new version of the witcher.
CAD4466HK said:
Ye old horse armor.
Who has time to watch Twitch that long?

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Sick find, I never would have seen this, and there are streams on twitch designed for farming the time(and trying to dupe users in to subbing for an "extra item" that is just some stupid channel-specific chat badge) so it was nothing at all to get and the gear looks sick AF.


also, nvidia too has new drivers now mentioning the new version of the witcher. who knows what was actually changed though.
 
littlegreenmenfromhome said:
Lets not pretend it cost you any money, so I will repeat the question:
Did you just compare a free upgrade with "updates" costing money?
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To answer you more directly, yes, yes I did. A remaster is a remaster regardless of whether it's free or paid. I was simply throwing a critique out there that I'd prefer to have seen the movement remastered over all of these new graphics options.
 
TwistedMetalGear said:
To answer you more directly, yes, yes I did. A remaster is a remaster regardless of whether it's free or paid. I was simply throwing a critique out there that I'd prefer to have seen the movement remastered over all of these new graphics options.
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I think the movement option they added in the "next gen" update was fine. What is still wrong with it?
 
Apparently I have the installer for 4.04a saved, but I guess there were some additional smaller patches released. For those who were wondering, I see this in my account:
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So that is 4.04a --> 4.04a_Launcher --> 4.04a_REDkit --> 4.04b
No full installer for 4.04a or 4.03 though.
 
GOG isn't showing a separate entry for the prior version anymore.

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The download for 4.04b is gone, too, but "Classic" is still there.

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They moved "Next Gen" to the Goodies section with Classic.

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TwistedMetalGear said:
To answer you more directly, yes, yes I did. A remaster is a remaster regardless of whether it's free or paid. I was simply throwing a critique out there that I'd prefer to have seen the movement remastered over all of these new graphics options.
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So comparing pears to banansabout you own bias.
Make apoll, se if players want the updated graphics or new momvements and I think you will realize you are a minority.
 
Huh...

Downloaded 4.04 and now there is a 522.6MB download that popped up this morning. Downloading now.
 
Highwind said:
Apparently I have the installer for 4.04a saved, but I guess there were some additional smaller patches released. For those who were wondering, I see this in my account:
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So that is 4.04a --> 4.04a_Launcher --> 4.04a_REDkit --> 4.04b
No full installer for 4.04a or 4.03 though.
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Update 5.000.200 Released today

– Fixed an issue where DLSS was unavailable in the Xbox Play Anywhere version of the game on PC
– Made various lighting adjustments, including fixing some interiors that appeared too dark
– Made various other adjustments to ensure parity with the PC version
 
polonyc2 said:
Update 5.000.200 Released today

– Fixed an issue where DLSS was unavailable in the Xbox Play Anywhere version of the game on PC
– Made various lighting adjustments, including fixing some interiors that appeared too dark
– Made various other adjustments to ensure parity with the PC version
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Guh. I downloaded the entire 5.00 installer last night. Guess I'll need to keep watch for all the hotfix installers.
 
AceGoober said:
Huh...

Downloaded 4.04 and now there is a 522.6MB download that popped up this morning. Downloading now.
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Alright. Game updated to 5.00c. The indoor environment with RT looks absolutely gorgeous on my Mobile RTX 4070. I know I'll be impressed when I run it on my main rig. Outside seems way too bright for the time of day.
 
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