The official Witcher 3 thread

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Originally Posted by diabolus

Yea, i also get alot of frustration of the can't-find-the-icon variety ...and OMG when this happens under water while you are busy running out of breath with a bunch drowners on your arse, and you have like 5 seconds to loot that chest....../bluemurder

If i can have one gripe, i guess it's a pro and a con. The larger zones takes forever to load that first time on XB1 , and if you die for whatever reason it seems to load the entire zone again (which again takes forever). So pro is, no loading screens anywhere while in the zone (and the zones gets very large) , the con is dying is seriously painful , resulting in me be alot more careful and less explorative as i wanted to be due to the loading times.

Also any cutscene situation (i.e jumping between Geralt/Ciri storylines) takes equally long to load .

Anyway, so far i'm spending alot more time than i anticipated, i was actually -trying- to just explore and mess around and do some quick and easy side quests (to build my character so i don't struggle with boss fights) .... and then i find myself stuck in a lengthy dungeon crawl with 2 mini-bosses and a main boss without any oils and no way to turn around (and all the quest said was something like "go check out this elf in this cave" )..... So i guess it is kinda cool that the story quests really are serious business and not just the "fedex" variety with some voiced dialog. I certainly don't recall Skyrim or even DA:I having this almost movie-like story going to the extend that you can't tell if you are doing a side-mission or a main-mission at times.

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This is what's blowing my mind atm. Simply stellar!

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Originally Posted by blaaislaai

I'll start playing this game this evening on PC :) Cannot wait, hoping it's something I will like

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Blaaislaai, I hope it doesn't disappoint you as much as it did to me.

Firstly this game is REALLY unoptimized, and pretty much runs like shit. I have an i7 running at 4.2GHz, a GTX780 and plenty of RAM and I have to put almost everything on medium settings otherwise it just becomes utterly unplayable.

The controls are clunky as fuck as well. I can't remember how many times I died to peasant deserters and wild dogs just because Geralt runs around like a marionette being controlled by a drunken disabled person. Fuckin' 'ell! And the horse...don't even get me started on the horse!!

Furthermore, the graphical looks of the game do not at all warrant the massive requirements. I cannot for the life of me understand the huge system requirements as it's just not that impressive looking for what it requires. Apparently CDPR also pulled a dick-move similar to what Ubisoft did with Assdogs and had to lower the graphical settings before release because the looks they were going for initially were "too ambitious", according to them. But yet the game beats the kak out of even a decent PC. Oh, and don't even try to enable the hair-FX if you don't have a R100 000 PC. Unless you like playing games at 1 FPS, of course.

The game is also buggy like a mother-effer. Many times after I've died, I had to quit the game entirely as I "respawn", looking through the "deathcam". I just gets stuck in this loop-state where you watch the monsters molest your corpse with no way of quitting to the menu. No keyboard input gets registered and you have to literally kill the game through the Windows Task Manager. Most of the times this happened, I actually just quit and stopped playing, leaving me frustrated and pissed off.

And then there's NVIDIA. Bunch of royal c**ts. I spoke to Joker and apparently, if you have a GTX 780, you don't get to use drivers that are optimized for some of the advanced graphical features of the game. Just because, fuck you. Basically they want you to buy a GTX 980 for no fucking reason. So yes, even with your R 8000 card, the game will run like shite.

Anyway.. That's my ranty 2c.

Good luck!

It's funny to see people complaining about how unoptimised the game is, not just here, when I can run it perfectly fine on my shitty PC. I don't get 60FPS, tweaked some stuff and I get a rather smooth constant 30FPS, but technically the game isn't even supposed to work on my PC due to not meeting the minumun requirements.

This is the smoothest I have been able to play any of the Witcher games on launch. Witcher 1 and 2 both destroyed my PC when they came out and I had to wait for an upgrade before I could enjoy them fully. I still played them both at launch, but with an average of about 17 - 22 FPS. So IMO W3 is the most well optimised out of all the games at launch.

I lowered my detail settings all to medium; cannot say I notice a big difference in framerate or visuals. Enabled Hairworks using the AMD Catalyst tessellation tweak, my framerate is half - literally - jumping from 50FPS to 25/26FPS.

Since I'm still in the very early stages of the game...

Spoiler: show

I fought the griffin, on the first island.

The game told me to click MMB to shoot a bolt, I shot... wait! No.
I pressed MMB and found myself swimming... in an endless supply of water. Needless to say, a reload was in order.

Horseback riding is honestly as nice as it is in Assassin's Creed 3 (it sucks in AC3 btw), only do it when I really have to (fast traveling).
No one can make horseback riding as good as it is in RDR. No complaints about combat so far. Pity there isn't really a counter, it's more like side-strafe/back dodge or roll.

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Originally Posted by to0kenZA

Blaaislaai, I hope it doesn't disappoint you as much as it did to me.

Firstly this game is REALLY unoptimized, and pretty much runs like shit. I have an i7 running at 4.2GHz, a GTX780 and plenty of RAM and I have to put almost everything on medium settings otherwise it just becomes utterly unplayable.

The controls are clunky as fuck as well. I can't remember how many times I died to peasant deserters and wild dogs just because Geralt runs around like a marionette being controlled by a drunken disabled person. Fuckin' 'ell! And the horse...don't even get me started on the horse!!

Furthermore, the graphical looks of the game do not at all warrant the massive requirements. I cannot for the life of me understand the huge system requirements as it's just not that impressive looking for what it requires. Apparently CDPR also pulled a dick-move similar to what Ubisoft did with Assdogs and had to lower the graphical settings before release because the looks they were going for initially were "too ambitious", according to them. But yet the game beats the kak out of even a decent PC. Oh, and don't even try to enable the hair-FX if you don't have a R100 000 PC. Unless you like playing games at 1 FPS, of course.

The game is also buggy like a mother-effer. Many times after I've died, I had to quit the game entirely as I "respawn", looking through the "deathcam". I just gets stuck in this loop-state where you watch the monsters molest your corpse with no way of quitting to the menu. No keyboard input gets registered and you have to literally kill the game through the Windows Task Manager. Most of the times this happened, I actually just quit and stopped playing, leaving me frustrated and pissed off.

And then there's NVIDIA. Bunch of royal c**ts. I spoke to Joker and apparently, if you have a GTX 780, you don't get to use drivers that are optimized for some of the advanced graphical features of the game. Just because, fuck you. Basically they want you to buy a GTX 980 for no fucking reason. So yes, even with your R 8000 card, the game will run like shite.

Anyway.. That's my ranty 2c.

Good luck!

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Yoh dude, sounds like you're having it rough. It's been the exact opposite for me 50+ fps even with full Hairworks enabled with most settings on high. Agreed that the movement is clunky, but I quickly got used to that (playing on Blood and Broken Bones difficulty and managing just fine). There is a gem of a game hidden under all those issues.

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Originally Posted by Hagan

I lowered my detail settings all to medium; cannot say I notice a big difference in framerate or visuals. Enabled Hairworks using the AMD Catalyst tessellation tweak, my framerate is half - literally - jumping from 50FPS to 25/26FPS.

Since I'm still in the very early stages of the game...

Spoiler: show

I fought the griffin, on the first island.

The game told me to click MMB to shoot a bolt, I shot... wait! No.
I pressed MMB and found myself swimming... in and endless supply of water. Needless to say, a reload was in order.

Horseback riding is honestly as nice as it is in Assassin's Creed 3 (it sucks in AC3 btw), only do it when I really have to (fast traveling).
No one can make horseback riding as good as it is in RDR. No complaints about combat so far. Pity there isn't really a counter, it's more like side-strafe/back dodge or roll.

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Agreed I wish it was as good as RDR, this horse spazzes out so often.

Personally I have had much issues at all. The odd crash now and then but nothing major. Running 55/60 fps , everything ultra except hairworks turned of.

Pretty good considering we are still waiting on the ati driver(yes I know there is a beta but I avoid beta drivers).

My experience with the game has been really good so far. I'm loving the combat system - a more streamlined version of W2 combat and the story and missions are fantastic! The game looks awesome, despite the downgrade and I am amazed that a team the size of CDPR could do so much. I have very high-end GPU, so maybe that's why I'm not suffering as much as some, but my brother has a GTX560, lower than the minimum spec, and the game actually runs. Sure, on low settings, but it runs.

It's unfortunate that not everyone is enjoying it, or that it isn't what some people expected, but so far, I have had an awesome experience as have at least 4 other people that I know (not including MyGaming members).

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Originally Posted by Isengard

Yoh dude, sounds like you're having it rough. It's been the exact opposite for me 50+ fps even with full Hairworks enabled with most settings on high. Agreed that the movement is clunky, but I quickly got used to that (playing on Blood and Broken Bones difficulty and managing just fine). There is a gem of a game hidden under all those issues.

Agreed I wish it was as good as RDR, this horse spazzes out so often.

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Yeah, definitely not ideal..

What are your system specs by the way?

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Originally Posted by StaggerLee

My experience with the game has been really good so far. I'm loving the combat system - a more streamlined version of W2 combat and the story and missions are fantastic! The game looks awesome, despite the downgrade and I am amazed that a team the size of CDPR could do so much. I have very high-end GPU, so maybe that's why I'm not suffering as much as some, but my brother has a GTX560, lower than the minimum spec, and the game actually runs. Sure, on low settings, but it runs.

It's unfortunate that not everyone is enjoying it, or that it isn't what some people expected, but so far, I have had an awesome experience as have at least 4 other people that I know (not including MyGaming members).

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And the worst part for me is that I wasn't even following the hype-train! I had no expectations going into this game besides my love for Witcher 2. I had huge respect for CDPR and Witcher 2 is one of my all-time favourite games. There's a huge patch coming this week though, so I guess I'll hang on 'till then and see what goes.

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Originally Posted by to0kenZA

Yeah, definitely not ideal..

What are your system specs by the way?

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It's an i5 3570k @4.2Ghz, GTX 970, 8GB DDR3 RAM. I rolled back to the GTA V driver last week, new driver doesn't seem very stable.

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Originally Posted by Isengard

Yoh dude, sounds like you're having it rough. It's been the exact opposite for me 50+ fps even with full Hairworks enabled with most settings on high. Agreed that the movement is clunky, but I quickly got used to that (playing on Blood and Broken Bones difficulty and managing just fine). There is a gem of a game hidden under all those issues.

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[MENTION=2804]to0kenZA[/MENTION]
I agree with [MENTION=96]Isengard[/MENTION] here, I have an i5 16GB RAM and GTX970HoF and playing on Ultra/High and getting on avg 70-90fps, enable Hairworks and drops to around 50fps. Still very playable but can definitely feel the drop in fps. Sounds like you're having a realy shit time with it.
Other than the obvious and what has already been pointed out, have a grand ol' time with game. Really worth the 11/10 IGN scores, downgrade shinanigans aside.



I have noticed that Shadow Play does seem to cause shit though, enough so that I have disabled it and haven't had issues since.