The Witcher 3 - May 19th, 2015 | Complete Edition - August 30, 2016

[Adajer]

Really? a 970 cant handle 1080p maxed out? ( well, with gameworks)

I saw something in a video that looked like nvidia will have some version of tressfx for hair like AMD did in Tomb raider.

Maybe that is gameworks.

[Krandor]

Yes Gameworks is mostly referring to the hair effects.

[Prothescar]

hopefully i'll be able to at least hit high on 1440p with dual 780s

[Adajer]

sli 780s should be able to handle 4k. At 1440p you should be fine. I am worried about my single 970 at 1440p. I think Nvidia is just bkowing smoke to get people buying new cards for the game to go bigger.

According to NVidia, the 900 series handles tessellation better than others. That remains to be seen.

[Cichy]

[Krandor]

Little more performance wise for the PC version from PCGamer, specifically in regards to a GTX970 - http://www.pcgamer.com/witcher-3-gra...-and-settings/

The meat of the article

GTX 970 GPU, i5-2500K CPU (4x3.3GHz), 16GB RAM.
Ultra: 40 - 50 FPS, dropping to near 30 in some conversations. Disabling HairWorks immediately adds 5-10 FPS, dropping shadows down to from ultra to high in addition gives smooth close-to-60 performance.
Medium: 70-100 FPS
Low: 100-120 FPS

Little over an hour to go!

[Tyrath]

Game is ready to launch on steam.

[Cichy]

the fuck wont launch

nvm, another download happening

[Tyrath]

Baww, did the update and now it claims to be missing an executable.

[Cichy]

had same, working now

[Tyrath]

Another update and it worked.

I don't always brag about the PC Master Race because I grew up console gaming...but when I get a game 6 hours before midnight and for cheaper....

[Krandor]

I think ps4 gets it at 7 EST.

Also, holy shit that horse in the opening cinematic, RIP


Edit yeah fuck Hairworks, if hair is onscreen it's a 10 fps drop minimum

[Tyrath]

Yeah I keep noticing that FPS drop lol

FML, I don't remember which of my Witcher 2 saves had which patch on it. Gonna YOLO it I guess.

[Krandor]

10 minutes in I can tell why Andrzej Sapkowski is kind of pissed off about this game and the use of Ciri, OH WELL

[Cichy]

Yennefers ass in 1st 5 min, so far so good

[Deejay]

Hairworks that crazy? I feel like just keeping it off forever so I never know what I'm missing. Being used to fighting games makes me an FPS whore and I hate slow down

[Krandor]

Hair looks good without it, I didn't see a huge improvement in the opening scene with it on or off.

Based off the PCGAMER article I linked I put everything on max except for Shadows (one tick down), SSAO instead of HBAO, and Hairworks off, 50-60fps easily on [email protected] and an OCed 970

Probably going to mess with sweetfx later and see if I can get anything going.

[Krandor]

OMG a card game with collectable cards

[Tyrath]

What's the complaint about Ciri?

[Fairy-Killer]

Anyone get a code from GreenManGaming? Said we would be able to preload, but I've yet to get my damn key...

EDIT: Literally just popped up.