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The console versions run at what appears to be a mixture of PC high and medium settings. It is a little disappointing, then, that The Witcher 3’s visuals have been toned down to allow the game to run on the Xbox One and PS4. The Witcher 2 eventually received an excellent Xbox 360 port, but it’s important to note that the game had been made keeping the strengths of PC as a platform in mind. Back in 2011, The Witcher 2 pushed the graphics envelope on PC in a way that only Crysis had done before.

PC gamers have always looked up to CD Projekt RED as one of the few remaining PC-centric developers. Note that at Ultra, we additionally enabled HBAO+. To make picking settings a more straightforward process, we also benchmarked The Witcher 3’s preset graphics options.

Outdoor scenes look noticeably more dramatic and there is no significant performance hit. We found that enabling Light Shafts did not incur a performance penalty.īottom Line: You should definitely enable light shafts. Enabling light shafts can make outdoor scenes substantially more dramatic. This setting determines whether or not crepuscular rays (“Godrays”) are displayed. We found that enabling Vignetting does not incur a performance penalty.īottom Line: Enable Vignetting if you like the vignette effect. This technique lends a cinematic atmosphere to the game by darkening the corners of the screen, creating a vignette effect. Enable it if the effect is to your liking. Enabling it can lend a cinematic atmosphere to the game, whether or not to use Chromatic Aberration mostly comes down to personal choice.īottom Line: Chromatic Aberration has a 3 percent impact on performance. We incurred a 2 FPS hit upon enabling this setting. This is a filmic technique that aims to mimic the chromatic aberration effect on cameras, where the edges of objects become slightly colour fringed. If you thought the 290X was going to max this game out and do so at 60fps, you might want try waking up.Bottom Line: Depth of Field does not appear to incur a significant performance penalty. This looks like a game that will rival Skyrim as far as repeated play throughs are concerned.

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And it being CDPR, perhaps we'll get an update later on as more powerful hardware becomes available like we did with Witcher 2.

Don't get me wrong, I love quality graphics, but I can also forgive some graphical shortcomings if game play is fun. There also appears to be evidence that the graphics were downgraded, perhaps they did that so people could actually play the game? I'll get hate for saying that, but imagine what they were getting frame rate wise prior to the alleged downgrade. Fast forward to today, we have the Witcher 3, who's map size is supposedly 3.5 times BIGGER than Skyrim. I had the equivalent of 4 of the higher end gpus at the time and still couldn't break 60fps.

I remember using 2 dual gpu cards (9800GX2) back when Crysis came out and I think I got 54fps once. This isn't the first time a game has been released that gamers have trouble maxing out on the hardware available. Also, the GTX 960 outperforms the 780, which has to hurt for a lot of people. The 290X is nipping at the heals of the $550 GTX980 (which still fails to achieve even 50fps) and beating the 780Ti on a Nvidia Gameworks game? Wow.

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The people that SHOULD be the most upset are the 700 series Nvidia owners. The fact that it is running neck and neck with the GTX970 on a Nvidia Gameworks creation makes me proud to have one. I know its AMD's flagship card, but its also over 2 years old. I'm sure with a decent overclock and little tweaking and removal of certain settings that don't hugely affect graphics you'll get 60 fps with a 290X and maybe around 40 with a 285. Seems to be a lot of discontent over the fact that even a 290X won't get 60 fps and a 285 can't quite touch 30.

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