Witcher 3 Patch 1.07 includes hairworks sliders

[Pseudoics]

Gave this game a break for a week or so till this patch for various reasons. It definitely runs better for me now (maxed, -HW and motion blur), but I'm noticing way more LOD swaps and streaming going on around me than I remember. Shadows are changing detail, disappearing before my eyes, sometimes even a few feet in front of me. I could be wrong having not played back to back, but it's something I noticed immediately.

 

[railven]

Gave this game a break for a week or so till this patch for various reasons. It definitely runs better for me now (maxed, -HW and motion blur), but I'm noticing way more LOD swaps and streaming going on around me than I remember. Shadows are changing detail, disappearing before my eyes, sometimes even a few feet in front of me. I could be wrong having not played back to back, but it's something I noticed immediately.

I remember ArcheAge running worse but looking better before the recent patch. I spent a good 1hour trying different settings only to finally end up feeling like something changed. I could never put my finger on it, but it definitely changed. Of course, now I get better FPS, but there is clearly an IQ difference.

Like you, it was shadows and LoD issues.

 

[tential]

Sounds like the Dying Light performance "Patch" where they toned down the sliders and people were happy they got a performance "Boost" when they just lowered the maximum slider numbers lol.

 

[railven]

Sounds like the Dying Light performance "Patch" where they toned down the sliders and people were happy they got a performance "Boost" when they just lowered the maximum slider numbers lol.

I've come to accept this trade-offs as "optimizations."

As a long time consoler, I see it all the time :/. But if it's the dev's intentions, then who am I to argue with them?

 

[monstercameron]

Reminds me of gta4 shadows.

 

[ocre]

Yes

 

[Genx87]

Curious to see at what what factor low runs. I'd guess 16x and 64x for high.

 

[Stuka87]

Witcher 3 on release was great, ran really well (once you tweak it), I encountered no bugs, very polished. Certainly nothing like other AAA titles, especially Ubisoft ones or Batman: AK..

A game that was very well received still getting major patches months later is a good sign RS. It means the devs care.

You were lucky, a lot of us ran into quite a few bugs, some were game breaking. I actually stopped playing until they released the first big patch after launch (not the day one patch, the one after that a week or so later).