The Witcher 3 GOTY Edition

[Naraya]

With RTX, DLSS and BBQ:

 

[The Regulator Guy]

I tried it out last night and it was fine. I don't have a fancy ray tracing card, though, just a 1080p monitor and a sturdy old 1080ti that has never been tainted by bitcoin mining. I have a few settings on Ultra, a few turned off entirely (motion blur, chromatic aberration, etc.) and most on High. So far so good.

 

[Perkel]

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Well, at least they kept the original install files as "extras" on GoG. Still better to make a backup though.

 

[racofer]

Well, at least they kept the original install files as "extras" on GoG. Still better to make a backup though.

Except none of the download links for the GOTY Classic files work. All of them throw error 404 and GOG is yet to even acknowledge the issue, despite complaints since yesterday.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Well, at least they kept the original install files as "extras" on GoG. Still better to make a backup though.

Except none of the download links for the GOTY Classic files work. All of them throw error 404 and GOG is yet to even acknowledge the issue, despite complaints since yesterday.

You are right. Didn't actually click on it. Lol, what a dick move. Glad I backed it up 2 days ago.

 

[ferratilis]

They made the nekkers white. Hmm...

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Well, at least they kept the original install files as "extras" on GoG. Still better to make a backup though.

Except none of the download links for the GOTY Classic files work. All of them throw error 404 and GOG is yet to even acknowledge the issue, despite complaints since yesterday.

You are right. Didn't actually click on it. Lol, what a dick move. Glad I backed it up 2 days ago.

If anyone wants to make a backup, you have to replace a typo in the installer links for the old version, then they work (I tested it on one of them):

https://af.gog.com/forum/the_witche..._the_132_links_are_broken/page1?as=1649904300

Hi, I just found the fix and It's super simple actually.

The problem is a typo in the link. All you have to do is remove "_(g)"

In short, change this:

../goty/classic/setup_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_goty_1.31_(a)_(9709)_(g)-1.bin

To this:

../goty/classic/setup_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_goty_1.31_(a)_(9709)-1.bin

 

[racofer]

Well, at least they kept the original install files as "extras" on GoG. Still better to make a backup though.

Except none of the download links for the GOTY Classic files work. All of them throw error 404 and GOG is yet to even acknowledge the issue, despite complaints since yesterday.

You are right. Didn't actually click on it. Lol, what a dick move. Glad I backed it up 2 days ago.

If anyone wants to make a backup, you have to replace a typo in the installer links for the old version, then they work (I tested it on one of them):

https://af.gog.com/forum/the_witche..._the_132_links_are_broken/page1?as=1649904300

Hi, I just found the fix and It's super simple actually.

The problem is a typo in the link. All you have to do is remove "_(g)"

In short, change this:

../goty/classic/setup_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_goty_1.31_(a)_(9709)_(g)-1.bin

To this:

../goty/classic/setup_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_goty_1.31_(a)_(9709)-1.bin

Yea, I saw that. I will still complain on their forums, though, since it's yet another fuck up from GOG

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

They made the nekkers white. Hmm...

White Nekkers? I guess that makes them Wekkers then.

 

[gerey]

You know what really kills me?

Every other developer, from the biggest to the smallest, when they release an enhanced edition of their game they always do so as a separate listing on Steam, so you have easy access to both the old version and the new one, and it usually won't disrupt your current run or whatever mods you have installed, but not the CDPR dangerhairs, oh no.

They went straight past the eurojank and landed square in the "Dark Hear of Africa developer coding in a mudhut on a solar powered laptop" by making you go to properties and having to select the beta branch to play the original version of the game.

And this from a company that at one point used to rival Ubisoft in net worth.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

On steam the Classic is on Beta branch FYI. Not sure if it works or not though

 

[Dhaze]

Every other developer, from the biggest to the smallest, when they release an enhanced edition of their game they always do so as a separate listing on Steam, so you have easy access to both the old version and the new one, and it usually won't disrupt your current run or whatever mods you have installed, but not the CDPR dangerhairs, oh no.

Unfortunately, terrible practice though it is, it's not so rare for a game to be pulled from Steam due to its remaster or remake's arrival.

In a bold, shitty, cash-grabbing move, a few years ago Bandai Namco removed the 'Prepare To Die' edition of Dark Souls 1 from Steam upon release of the remastered edition.

Similar thing happened with Dead Island, if I'm not mistaken.

Crysis 1 was also removed from Steam when its disastrous remaster came; but the original is still available on GoG, probably because they don't sell said remaster. And curiously, the original Crysis 2 and 3 are still available on Steam, alongside their respective remasters.

 

[Gerrard]

Well, at least they kept the original install files as "extras" on GoG. Still better to make a backup though.

On GOG you can just switch between the versions in "Manage installation".

 

[AwesomeButton]

I installed the next gen version separately, just to try it for the lulz.

First off, they actually allowed RT on my 1080ti. That's the good news. The bad news is it's unplayable on my card I haven't tried deleting that dx11todx12 dll file but I doubt it would help me enough. Oh well.

For the 15 minutes I played in white orchard, the color balance of the game seems changed even though I'm not playing with RT. Maybe the RT made necessary some adjustments to the dynamic light from the sun, its color and intensity. It looks overall better I guess, when it runs as expected. The reason I'm saying this is because I have weird purple-ish artifacts flashing around the screen, around places at the edges of bodies of water. Probably something related to the water reflections?

I run the GOTY 1.32 (non-next gen) at 4K without any anti-aliasing. The next gen when I try to run it with no anti-aliasing, makes Geralt's armor's chain links give off too much of a shine at times. I turned on FSR2, of which I've had a very good impression in Cyberpunk, and suddenly everything began looking smudgy. Disappointing.

The increased draw distance is a noticeable improvement, but I'll stick with the non-next gen version for now

 

[racofer]

 

[racofer]

Decided to give the Demastered version another go, only now I've changed two things:

• Changed the DLSS dll that comes with the game with the latest version which can be found here: https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-dll/
• Removed the d3d11to12.dll that comes with the game

Running on ultra, no RT, 1080p, FPS capped at 75, DLSS, and it actually performs butterly smooth now (9700k + 3060Ti), mostly because of the updated DLSS dll. CPU usage is higher on high-density areas like Novigrad and Beauclair, with some FPS fluctuations and eventual stutter, which doesn't last long (probably due to on-the-fly shader compilation of DX12). These FPS dips are not GPU nor CPU related as both are running ~50% utilization each. This feels much like the engine lag Bethesda games have when running with a bunch of high-poly mods and lots of extra in-game assets that push the engine beyond what it's able to handle, so maybe CDPRekt really had no idea what they were doing. But at least it's playable now instead of a stutter-fest.

 

[racofer]

It's been a while since I last played it. The mods and improved LOD really did wonders for it:

 

[Frozen]

Women must be doing this "update" no wonder its buggy.

Everything blue haired turns to shit.

 

[SunKing]

So basically a so called AAA company used modders to remaster their product and now its fucked? The original witcher 3 staff was worked to death and all quit. Now they cheap out and use modders and release a trash product. On other forums I see tons of complaints about crashing stuttering etc. What a mess.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I still don't know if I like the ultra-saturated Velen. To my mind it should look more grim.

 

[AwesomeButton]

BTW I just found out the game turns on some kind of proprietary HDR mode when it detects you display supports HDR. I hate games' ingame HDR and never enable it because I've set up my HDR through my TV settings.

Of course, CDPR did not include an options setting to turn their HDR mode off. Why would they deprive me of the products of their genius?

 

[Ezekiel]

Wish there was a mute music button. There doesn't need to be music in the open world all the time. Would like to toggle it easily, like the HUD with the Home button (which I'm using to spare my OLED).

Really, don't sweat it. You watch a lot of movies, regular content cycling will avoid any burn-in whatsoever, along with the panel's built-in features, including pixel shift, smart logo brightness reduction, panel refresh every X hours on power cycle, etc. My own OLED (LG CX) has seen very heavy use since I got it a couple years ago (6681 hours according to the menu) as my single home display (heavy computer use mostly, a lot of games - mostly old ones through emulation - but lots of films too). I used to take greater care like running my browser fullscreen to hide the tabs, etc. but I haven't bothered with that shit for a long time.

Zero burn-in issues. Literally zero. For someone who used to have a plasma panel, all this hysteria about burn-in on OLEDs is completely incomprehensible now. It's a non-issue.

Probably a lot of people also quicken burn-in by cranking their SDR brightness way up or (as one guy in the OLED thread likes to do because OLEDs don't get bright enough) forcing everything to HDR. My SDR brightness on the HDMI channel that I use for the PC is at only 24/50 on this Sony. I don't want it super bright. HDR brightness is a different story (maxed out), but most PC content isn't even HDR, so I have it off most of the time (on the PC channel).

 

[AwesomeButton]

I get slight stutters occasionally, but I think that has to do with my CPU or RAM bottlenecking at ulta+ settings.

On another note, the addition of ultra+ foilage rendering distance apparently doesn't change CDPR's mind that lights should only be loaded a few steps before you've walked into the damn campfire This is White Orchard:

This is where you start to see the actual fire:

 

[AwesomeButton]

My verdict is that in my specific case, I'm better off playing the non-next gen with a rendering distance mod. The antialiasing on the next gen looks too smudgy, whereas no AA on non-next gen looks much more clear and no jagged edges are visible because of the 4K native resolution I play at.