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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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zinfamous said:
FWIW, I run a 280x and play this at Ultra except for shaders medium, hardware AA, and Hairworks off (no one runs hairworks) @ 1080 and it runs/looks great. ...no fps to give you because I don't care about tracking that crap. not sure how that compares to your 7970, but take that for what it is.
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The exact same card, your card might be slightly better because of improved yields, different memory, etc., although what specific models each of you have is actually far more important.
 
zinfamous said:
I hear ya. I'm waiting for the 490 or 490x, I think, assuming those come out at the ~$300 target that is *supposed* to top out the Polaris chips, and the current limited details are to be believed.

However, I fully expect Polaris chips to be essentially unavailable for the first 2 or even 3 months....at MSRP, anyway. But I'm in no need to upgrade right now, so I can wait. Plenty of time to make fair comparisons. I'm getting the idea that nVidia has pushed themselves into a 1 year lifespan with their current architecture....at least according to the smartest smartypants people around here.

I like to hang on to hardware for 3-5 years. NVidia has never really fit my profile because of this.
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Apparently AMD is releasing a brand new Vega GPU family later this year, only a few months after the release of the Polaris GPUs.
 
norseamd said:
Apparently AMD is releasing a brand new Vega GPU family later this year, only a few months after the release of the Polaris GPUs.
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Your talking October/November time frame? Or maybe 2017? I hear that's suppose to be very good but don't know if I will be able to wait that long. I also want to swap out my CPU and get some ddr4.
 
sze5003 said:
Your talking October/November time frame? Or maybe 2017? I hear that's suppose to be very good but don't know if I will be able to wait that long. I also want to swap out my CPU and get some ddr4.
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Around October to November if I remember correctly.
 
Last chart I read is that Vega is scheduled to release 2017, but maybe late late 2016. It could be that the 490 cards (unlocked Polaris) will be the November cards, but I dunno.

"Some people are saying," that the unlocked Polaris will likely beat out the 1070 at ~70% the cost, and the Vega will likely embarrass the 1080s at the same cost difference, and especially in all DX12 games going forward....but this is all speculation based on the handful of information and single benchmark released about the first 480 the other day.
 
zinfamous said:
It's an entirely new local with an intentionally different climate from the mainland areas of the base game.

It is supposed to be similar to an idyllic Mediterranean-like countryside. I haven't started it yet, but it was advertised as the "vacation destination" of Temeria...or something like that.
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Ahh interesting thanks.

Artorias said:
I just started the first expansion, man I'm going to miss this series. Its been an amazing decade of Witcher games and this is probably the best way to send it off into the sunset.
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Hopefully they can use their tech and talents on new games that might be just as good or better! Witcher 3 showed me they are great at making open world games with great quests and dialogue and characters etc. The engine just about blew my mind too. For me the game loaded in about 10 seconds and then the rest of the game was loading screen free! Hopefully they can use that engine in new games.
 
ritditditdidoo said:
Ahh interesting thanks.


Hopefully they can use their tech and talents on new games that might be just as good or better! Witcher 3 showed me they are great at making open world games with great quests and dialogue and characters etc. The engine just about blew my mind too. For me the game loaded in about 10 seconds and then the rest of the game was loading screen free! Hopefully they can use that engine in new games.
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Their next big game is some futuristic cyber punk epic based on some other comic series, I think.

no real details about the play or timeframe (prolly 2018 at earliest), but I'm stoked.
 
Can't wait! 🙂 For me it is a double whammy because I am sure it will be a great game, but I also think the industry desperately needed some good competition in this area. Without games like Witcher 3, I had my doubts that companies like Bethesda would ever bother to improve! But there are a fair few companies making these big scope action/rpg's now, none of them can afford to slack off.
 
So when you install the expansion what happens do you just get quests and have to travel to the location? Right now I'm on the way to skellige. If I buy the expansions and install them will I have missed stuff that was suppose to take place earlier on with the expansions?
 
sze5003 said:
So when you install the expansion what happens do you just get quests and have to travel to the location? Right now I'm on the way to skellige. If I buy the expansions and install them will I have missed stuff that was suppose to take place earlier on with the expansions?
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no, they are designed for endgame. H&S is 34/62 iirc (standard game vs New Game+). Not sure about Blood and Wine because that quest didn't appear in my log--I think you have to finish H&S to get it? not sure.

anyway, it just appears in your quest log or wherever in the world it is supposed to appear (like on a notice board as those free DLC quests/contracts)

You don't miss out on anything unique, save for some new random type skins and items that otherwise might have been in your game for random POIs and loot drops? not sure about that, but it makes sense to me. Unique Witcher Gear and stuff like that should have fixed locations, so you can't really miss that. You just have to find it.
 
sze5003 said:
So when you install the expansion what happens do you just get quests and have to travel to the location? Right now I'm on the way to skellige. If I buy the expansions and install them will I have missed stuff that was suppose to take place earlier on with the expansions?
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Quests will just show up in your quest log and you'll have to eventually travel to do most of the quests, but the first expansion added some new quests to Velen as well.
 
With blood and whine you have the option to start with the quest unlocked and your character level set to 32 and a set of gear appropriate for that level. Basically starting a new game. Though I am level 75 on my character with a silver sword that does ~950 base damage so I didn't try that option.

Normally you just have to complete a certain portion of the main quest line and the quest will appear.

On the subject of gpu upgrades I want to see a single gpu handle ultra settings at 4K 60fps. I may have to hold onto my 970s for another year or so and see what happens.
 
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Looked awful stock imo, used a SweetFX preset called B&W PISS remover.

Before
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After
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norseamd said:
Does this work with the base Witcher 3?
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If it's an nvidia setting through the nvidia card properties then I don't see why not. Or maybe it's not related at all to nvidia, I'm thinking of physix ha.. Unless they just added new settings for the expansions or maybe it could be a mod?
 
Pinastri's hermitage.

You have to play the quest. Includes a Bowie and a 4th wall reference. NE of Dun Tynne crossroads is where you start.
 
norseamd said:
Looks like it is for Blood & Wine, although it might still work with the base Witcher 3.

https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/5685/
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There are lots of presets for the main game to try. Tried them out long ago, but overall was happy with stock.

B&W the piss shade was immediately intolerable to me, so changed it first thing.

Fairly easy to swap out to try different ones.

Dl this: https://sfx.thelazy.net/static/media/downloads/ReShade_1.1.0_with_SweetFX_2.0.7z

Use the .exe and direct it to Witcher3.exe.

Go to your Witcher 3 install folder bin/x64. Delete d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll

Then extract whatever preset you want into the x64 folder, overwriting anything it prompts. Should just be able to do that with different presets to switch.

Delete the SweetFX and Reshade folders, sweet.fx and reshade.fx files and do a verify files to easily return to stock. Or there is a toggle to switch between the SweetFX filter and stock, the PISS remover it is the Ins key.
 
Fire&Blood said:
Pinastri's hermitage.



You have to play the quest. Includes a Bowie and a 4th wall reference. NE of Dun Tynne crossroads is where you start.
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That was an awesome quest
when roach talks to you and tells you suck at riding and Geralt responds like maybe you should follow my commands. And something about how come you cross the ocean when I call you but get stuck on a little fence?

Was so unexpected.
 
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I am flipping flipping pissed off more maddening than a mad hatter.

What the $$$$ is with this new patch?

What did they do to the menu UI? Did they change the videos?

And worst of all, WHAT THE $$$$ HAPPENED TO MY PERFORMANCE?

I used to be able to run this game on high just like a month ago, and now now matter what settings I mess with, its laggy and stuttering as all $$$$.
 
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