The Witcher is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game, set in a visually stunning fantasy universe, full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. In The Witcher, you play as Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter tasked with finding a child from an ancient prophecy.
Krovven wrote on May 20, 2015, 18:17:Thanks !!!SpectralMeat wrote on May 20, 2015, 09:37:
One thing I couldn't do however is add this game to my Steam library as a non steam game so I could play it in my living room streaming it from my gaming pc.
Did anyone figured this out yet?
C:\GOG Games\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\bin\x64 is where the witcher3.exe is located.
First thing I did was add it to Steam, no problem. It doesn't show up in the list of selectable exe files though, you have to find it.
Flatline wrote on May 20, 2015, 14:47:
Gotta say the art direction is *gorgeous* at times. The first time I rode into the bog forest and the wind kicked up it made me shiver it looked and sounded so great.
I need to update my drivers but using old drivers I get pretty smooth performance in game and in dialogue i drop frames. It's weird.
I'm not a fan of Geralt's movement out of combat. I suspect a patch will fix that though.
Having lots of fun though.
Krovven wrote on May 21, 2015, 07:11:
C:\GOG Games\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\bin\config\base\rendering.ini
HairWorksAALevel=4
Change it from 8 to 4.
Hmm, my immediate test seemed to show about 5fps boost, but doing some additional tests and changing other settings...it doesn't seem to be working. I even tried moving the file out to get a new one, loaded the game, file wasn't made and the game still loaded.
Krovven wrote on May 20, 2015, 16:21:
Without HairWorks
With HairWorks
With HairWorks I take a 5 to 20fps hit depending on what's going on. Playing normally with the camera at normal distance behind him, it's a 5 to 10fps hit that is barely noticeable (but so is hair quality at this distance). Placing the camera as I did in the screenshots, there was a 20fps hit.
Average though is 45 with HairWorks and 55 with HairWorks off. *Using the Steam fps counter.
As it hasn't been an issue for me thus far and will likely leave it on so hair looks better in conversation cutscenes. As the fps hit there isn't an issue.
Krovven wrote on May 20, 2015, 19:41:
Graphics enhancement patch coming.
Eurogamer link doesn't load on my phone so posted this instead.
SpectralMeat wrote on May 20, 2015, 09:37:
One thing I couldn't do however is add this game to my Steam library as a non steam game so I could play it in my living room streaming it from my gaming pc.
Did anyone figured this out yet?
SpectralMeat wrote on May 20, 2015, 15:58:
Just use shadowplay Krovven
No performance hit what so ever, or you can use fraps too it doesn't effect your performance unless you start recording, it will give you a fps counter.
Shadowplay is the best imo though and you already have it installed probably with the Nvidia driver
Quinn wrote on May 20, 2015, 05:52:Krovven wrote on May 20, 2015, 04:04:Quinn wrote on May 19, 2015, 17:08:Xero wrote on May 19, 2015, 16:53:HoSpanky wrote on May 19, 2015, 16:46:
So, I'm running a pair of 970s, with everything cranked except the hair. Runs great, riiiight up until it locks up. Seems to always happen during a non-interactive scene, right after the camera changes. Done it several times now, and I'm only to the first little village.
I don't doubt it's some issue with SLI. I can stand to wait it out for a couple patches.
So it sounds like your running on equal performance as a single 970gtx but when you go that extra step further, it brings it down. What's the point of having 2 970s again? lol
Not hating on it, just stating what I'm hearing. I own a 970gtx and from what I hear, basically you can max it out minus the hair just as you stated. Does that mean it's even worth it to SLI 2 970s?
Obvious answer is YES, but when it comes to down $$$ vs performance, still worth it? At that point 1 980 gtx? Hmmm???
Hairworks brings the GTX980 down too. I got one. Its a neat looking feature that should only be present in benchmarks. It's not ready/optimized enough yet to be put in a freaking game, obviously.
I have a 970 and have everything maxed, with hair works on @1080. Game is very smooth.
I5-4690K OC'd @ 4.5ghz here. Not sure how much cpu effects it.
Hmm, "game is very smooth" is kinda subjective. If you mean 60fps smooth, I find that hard to believe. If you mean 40/45fps smooth, then that's about the smoothness I'm having with those settings.
If its truly 60fps smooth or close, then fuck me that setting is CPU heavy!?