What do you think the Witcher 3 will take to run ?

[I/O]

Just wondering what you guys think. I think it will take more than whats avaiable today for GPUs to run the game smoothly maxed out.

 

[Maximilian]

I think it will take a card somewhere between an 8800GTX and a 780Ti to run smoothly. Just a ballpark guess.

 

[I/O]

I think it will take a card somewhere between an 8800GTX and a 780Ti to run smoothly. Just a ballpark guess.

Just not realistic being that the 8800GTX is a DX10 only card and even if it was DX11 it would not run the game close to max settings even. I think the game will make a 780ti choke on Max settings.

 

[escrow4]

A lot of games will choke the 780 Ti even at 1080p at max settings. Its pretty obvious. Even a 780 Ti at 1080p doesn't have the balls for 16x SSAA with 16x AF and shadows/lighting etc all turned up. In terms of max *core* settings at 1080p at around 50-60FPS I'd point to the 780 Ti then. Which I suspect I may upgrade this year if Big Maxwell is released.

 

[nurturedhate]

Another loss was taken today in the battle of sarcasm. That being said it really depends on what you mean by maxed out. Witcher2's ubersampling was an unneeded setting that only served to bring current hardware to its knees. With that one setting turned off the game ran rather well on a lot of hardware.

 

[Spjut]

I guess 780 Ti without PhysX. Sli with PhysX.

 

[I/O]

A lot of games will choke the 780 Ti even at 1080p at max settings. Its pretty obvious. Even a 780 Ti at 1080p doesn't have the balls for 16x SSAA with 16x AF and shadows/lighting etc all turned up. In terms of max *core* settings at 1080p at around 50-60FPS I'd point to the 780 Ti then. Which I suspect I may upgrade this year if Big Maxwell is released.

TW3 is going to be a groundbreaking in terms of graphical fidelity if the videos and past games are anything to go by. I honestly don't think that anything below highly OCed 780ti cards in SLI or 29os in CF will be pushing this game enough to be really smooth.

 

[I/O]

Another loss was taken today in the battle of sarcasm. That being said it really depends on what you mean by maxed out. Witcher2's ubersampling was an unneeded setting that only served to bring current hardware to its knees. With that one setting turned off the game ran rather well on a lot of hardware.

Uneeded sure but my oh my did it really clean the graphics up and max everything look just wonderful.

 

[Deders]

I expect I'll be able to run it fine on an overclocked 780 with moderate AA

 

[I/O]

I expect I'll be able to run it fine on an overclocked 780 with moderate AA

I would say at med settings @ 1080P it will be ok.

 

[Sohaltang]

@1440 I bet even my setup chokes.

 

[I/O]

@1440 I bet even my setup chokes.

I hope this game is the new "Crysis" and forces gamers to upgrade their rigs.

 

[Attic]

For consistent 30fps + at nice combo of med/high settings at 1080P I think GTX770 or HD 7970.

For consistent 40fps + at max settings (not ubersampling) at 1080p I think a 780/290 will be needed.

To keep the thing at/near 60 most the time at max settings (no uber) I think you'll need dual gpu at 1080p. ....and highly OC'd i5 or i7 at 4.0+.

I'm confident CD Projekt will deliver a stunner here. I'm excited, and I just can't hide it.

There's a worthwhile debate about how much more power is needed to max details vs high details. ie) Max requires 50% more GPU horsepower vs %15 fidelity improvement in game looks. I think that 15% (or whatever it is to the gamer) is worth it to me, and worth it a lot. In some cases the game gets to a point of graphcis bliss at max, i'm looking at you Crysis 3. Or at least to me, max on some games gets worthwhile and tangible feel in graphics improvement, sometimes at speed it may look/feel better than in still screenshot.

I don't think we'll see in characters in TW3 match the quality of Psycho in Crysis 3, and I don't think the environment will match quality of Crysis 3 either. I expect TW3 to be more engaging and steady and immersive. Crysis 3 was brilliant in places and fell apart by the end.

 

[I/O]

For consistent 30fps + at nice combo of med/high settings at 1080P I think GTX770 or HD 7970.

For consistent 40fps + at max settings (not ubersampling) at 1080p I think a 780/290 will be needed.

To keep the thing at/near 60 most the time at max settings (no uber) I think you'll need dual gpu at 1080p. ....and highly OC'd i5 or i7 at 4.0+.

I'm confident CD Projekt will deliver a stunner here. I don't think we'll see in characters in TW3 match the quality of Psycho in Crysis 3, and I don't think the environment will match quality of Crysis 3 either. I expect TW3 to be more engaging and steady. Crysis 3 was brillant in places and fell apart by the end.

Thought the graphics in Crysis 3 left allot to be desired.

 

[Attic]

Thought the graphics in Crysis 3 left allot to be desired.

Wow, really? The "blow the damn" level really impressed me and the level where you go through the river in the beginning of the river/stream area. The initiall level in the rain also left me completely jaw dropped. Any part with Pyscho front and center left me with OMG impression.

I played Crysis 3 on:
5770 i5 2500k 4.4ghz
270 i5 2500k 4.4ghz
280x i3 4330
290x (1040/1300) 4690k 4.4ghz
290 (underclocked to 900/1250) xfire 4690k 4.4ghz

The really interesting part to me is that it looked pretty good on the 5770 at min settings and 30fps (some areas less). The low framerate I could bear, and some areas still had me jaw dropped. By the time I got to 290 xfire which delivered max settings with 4xMSAA 1080p at a mostly locked 60fps with vysnc the graphics felt absolutely brilliant to me.

I'd put 60fps min with vysnc at min graphics settings above max settings at anything under 60fps mins. I've gotten pretty stupid with trying to get 60fps mins, but that's really where graphics feel the best to me with any reasonable amount of graphics fidelity.

I'm hoping TW3, with an open world, is more engaging with art direction and gamplay than Crysis 3. Doubt i'll be disappointed, and TW3 will probably play better at <60fps than crysis 3 did for me.

 

[I/O]

Wow, really? The "blow the damn" level really impressed me and the level where you go through the river in the beginning of the river/stream area. The initiall level in the rain also left me completely jaw dropped. Any part with Pyscho front and center left me with OMG impression.

I played Crysis 3 on:
5770 i5 2500k 4.4ghz
270 i5 2500k 4.4ghz
280x i3 4330
290x (1040/1300) 4690k 4.4ghz
290 (underclocked to 900/1250) xfire 4690k 4.4ghz

The really interesting part to me is that it looked pretty good on the 5770 at min settings and 30fps (some areas less). The low framerate I could bear, and some areas still had me jaw dropped. By the time I got to 290 xfire which delivered max settings with 4xMSAA 1080p at a mostly locked 60fps with vysnc the graphics felt absolutely brilliant to me.

I'd put 60fps min with vysnc at min graphics settings above max settings at anything under 60fps mins. I've gotten pretty stupid with trying to get 60fps mins, but that's really where graphics feel the best to me with any reasonable amount of graphics fidelity.

I'm hoping TW3, with an open world, is more engaging with art direction and gamplay than Crysis 3. Doubt i'll be disappointed, and TW3 will probably play better at <60fps than crysis 3 did for me.

I think TW3 will be much more demanding than Crysis3. I agree 60fps min locked with Vsync or nothing LOL.

 

[Deders]

I would say at med settings @ 1080P it will be ok.

Ha, I've never settled for medium settings and I don't intend to start now. The article I linked to you in the other thread said that a 780TI will get 60fps if you use less than 8xAA which I am happy to do, an overclocked 780 won't be far behind.

 

[alcoholbob]

GoG says a 780Ti will do 35-45 fps at 1080p. So 2x GTX 780Ti SLI at 1080p to reach 60 fps.

4K will probably take 4 Titan Blacks at least.

 

[Ken145]

There were rumors that the game has 8x MSAA and we already now that their engine supports forward+ rendering which should give MSAA a boost. Still it would be nice to have some hybrid mode with temporal smaa and 2x-4x msaa like in crysis 3, but without horrible sharpening filter. I'm a bit worried about their umbra streaming implementation, hope it's not gonna cause objects pop-in when turning camera. Also let's hope for smart tesselation and not just off and on options with horrible performance impact.
PS: Ubersampling in W2 was useless, iirc it was blurry and had only 4x and no 2x mode, so performance drop was something like from 80-90fps straight to 40-45 with no middle spot.

 

[I/O]

PS: Ubersampling in W2 was useless, iirc it was blurry and had only 4x and no 2x mode, so performance drop was something like from 80-90fps straight to 40-45 with no middle spot.

Uber Sampling does not blur the image like FXAA. Problem was most people could not run it as it made the game so much crisper and better looking it would bring the best rigs to their knees.

 

[Deders]

GoG says a 780Ti will do 35-45 fps at 1080p

That is with 8xAA They go on to say that you'll be able to get 60fps with less than 8x.

 

[Grooveriding]

My guess is with current high end cards you'll be able to max it out just fine except for the anti-aliasing settings. Those will probably be what kills your frames.

 

[I/O]

My guess is with current high end cards you'll be able to max it out just fine except for the anti-aliasing settings. Those will probably be what kills your frames.

Oh the glorious Uber Sample AA I hope they bring that one back.

 

[tollingalong]

There was quite a bit of discussion about this already including some info from the developers.

Most of the engine changes were for graphics. Odds are the game will run on fine on a GTX 460 without eye candy, 660 Ti if you want eye candy and a 880 Ti SLI setup for uber quality.

As Astrallite pointed out a 780 Ti at max settings gets 35-45 fps at max settings at 1080p. No one is going to play at max settings especially with fur killing performance.

Optimizations are still underway for Nvidia hardware. Looks like Nvidia is putting up barriers for AMD per the developers but I don't think that'll matter in the grand scheme of things.

 

[escrow4]

I would say at med settings @ 1080P it will be ok.

You seem to be overstating that a lot. If a 780 Ti can't max most of the settings out pfffft. Crysis 3 is a really bad example. Rendering all that pretty grass on a CPU is ultra retarded. And the consoles are running the equivalent of High anyway.