The Witcher 3 Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Deleted member 7219]

Got confirmation that HD7970 will play TW3 on ultra @ 1080p constantly fairly well from my friend.

What FPS, and what friend?

He says it hovers between 30 and 60 which is a lot considering 7970 is 4 years old GPU playing new 2015 game with all bells and whistles.

Who is this friend and how come he has the game?

 

[Echo Mirage]

I tracked down the origins of the GTX 770-780 for Ultra claim. I believe these were the guys that did the PC/PS4 comparison video that CDPR had removed from Youtube.

I had to run it through google translate but.

Also pleasing: For Ultra-Details and Full HD it takes is a fleet middle-class graphics card as a GTX 770 or R9 280X.

 

[Metro]

Got confirmation that HD7970 will play TW3 on ultra @ 1080p constantly fairly well from my friend.

What FPS, and what friend?

He says it hovers between 30 and 60 which is a lot considering 7970 is 4 years old GPU playing new 2015 game with all bells and whistles.

Who is this friend and how come he has the game?

Stop asking so many questions. Anyway, keep in mind although some of these listed GPU's might be 3-4 years old... so is this game with all the delays. And, if anything, the level of graphical fidelity has taken a hit over the years rather than ratcheted up (as you can see in the recent videos/screenshots).

When they started working on Witcher 3, they didn't design it assuming everyone had a 780 two+ years ago. Bottom line: If you design a game that runs like shit for 70% of gamers then you lose a ton of sales. How many PC gamers today do you think have a 970/780 equivalent or better? I'd be surprised if it was over a third.

 

[CyberWhale]

BTW something for people who don't want to read:
eng audiobook on yt.

The Last Wish

That guy also uploaded the first three books of the saga:

Spoiler

 

[dragonul09]

Got confirmation that HD7970 will play TW3 on ultra @ 1080p constantly fairly well from my friend.

What FPS, and what friend?

He says it hovers between 30 and 60 which is a lot considering 7970 is 4 years old GPU playing new 2015 game with all bells and whistles.

Who is this friend and how come he has the game?

What do you think ? He's some youtube fagg with lots of subs or an editor at some magazine,website etc..

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

That secondary mission about

Spoiler

a ghost and a well

 

[Paul_cz]

Got confirmation that HD7970 will play TW3 on ultra @ 1080p constantly fairly well from my friend.

What FPS, and what friend?

He says it hovers between 30 and 60 which is a lot considering 7970 is 4 years old GPU playing new 2015 game with all bells and whistles.

Hmm, I have 7970 (280X) and 30-60 is kinda shit. Seems like I will have to get 970 anyway if I want 60+.

 

[Cadmus]

Guys I'm looking at about 1,4k EUR components PC, could this run every game ever on ultra or is it still too cheap?

MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G
NOCTUA NH-U12S fan
ASUS Z97-PRO
SEAGATE SSHD 1000GB
Seasonic G Series 650W power supply
case CM STORM TROOPER
8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz Ballistix Sport
processor i7-4790K
SSD drive Crucial BX100 250 GB (that seems kinda small, considering how large the games are today...)

I just took "Outstanding" category from LogicalIncements.com and this seems like the money I could feasibly put into a new PC

Is there a better thread to ask this other than the most PC-hungry aRPG we're getting?

 

[Seari]

Use an HDD for porn and SSD for installations/games/windows.

 

[Cadmus]

Use an HDD for porn and SSD for installations/games/windows.

I get that but it seems all the new games come at around 20-40 GB, no?

 

[PhantasmaNL]

Pop in an intel i5 cpu, save 85 euros.

 

[Seari]

Use an HDD for porn and SSD for installations/games/windows.

I get that but it seems all the new games come at around 20-40 GB, no?

Well I guess it depends on how many of these new games you want to have installed at one time.

 

[MicoSelva]

I may be biased, but I thought this was pretty funny.

 

[Rivmusique]

I'll do one.

1. Witcher 1 soundtrack
2. Witcher 1 card art
3.
4.
5.

 

[Perkel]

Got confirmation that HD7970 will play TW3 on ultra @ 1080p constantly fairly well from my friend.

What FPS, and what friend?

He says it hovers between 30 and 60 which is a lot considering 7970 is 4 years old GPU playing new 2015 game with all bells and whistles.

Who is this friend and how come he has the game?

He is working in one of mags from poland. He is not reviewer himself but has access to it and played it on their desktop that had 7970 in it.

 

[Paul_cz]

He is working in one of mags from poland. He is not reviewer himself but has access to it and played it on their desktop that had 7970 in it.

Ask him what kind of compromises in graphics are needed to get 60fps without drops. Thanks.

 

[Konjad]

Ask him how many moms can you romance in the game because I can't be arsed to wait 2 or 3 more days until reviews and forum comments will pop up and reveal everything, because I have no life but staring at the monitor and waiting for Witcherp 3.

 

[Merlkir]

The Witcher comics are pretty blah, I gotta say. House of Glass is a Hellboy comic, with the main hero swapped. Geralt even calls out (!!) every sign while using them, because the reader is apparently too dumb to recognize what they are. (or the writer watched too much anime)

 

[dragonul09]

The germans did it again,they finaly said that the PC version on ultra is almost on par with PS4 version but has better framerates,Hairybullshit feature(seems to be bugged) and that's all folks.Buy GTX 980 to enjoy what an underclocked HD7870 could deliver.

http://www.gamestar.de/videos/specials,20/witcher-3-grafik-downgrade-analyse,82708.html

PC version is at maxium with 7490k + GTX 980 without day 1 patch

short Summary:

View distance is (way) worse
less/no Tesselation (Pause at 3:11, edge of wall for example)
way worse sky
lower LOD
low res textures in final PC build compared to trailer
Insinde buildings way worse lightning
worse water, again no tesselation
and ofc. way worse fire

The commentator says the final PC-version is a lot closer to the PS4 version.So folks,let's enjoy it as it is and stop the bickering....oh lord

 

[bonescraper]

Spoiler

 

[Sodafish]

That water really looks like shit now.

 

[dragonul09]

That water really looks like shit now.

And the sky,texture,foliage,draw distance,no tesselation,dull lightining.....Can't believe they did so many changes in 7-8 months,it's the most butchered game i have ever seen and to compare Watch Dogs downgrade with this ? Heresy i say..

Let's hope the game does better in the other departments...

 

[bonescraper]

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

Spoiler

foliage on those screenshots is on par with DAI foliage from ps3 version

 

[bonescraper]

foliage on those screenshots is on par with DAI foliage from ps3 version

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

foliage on those screenshots is on par with DAI foliage from ps3 version

yes. next gen on ultra on pc looks slightly better than game running on 8 years old hardware truly masterpiece