Terrain Quality: There's no direct mention of tessellation or deformation of terrain elements, but terrain quality does impact the detail of hills and other terrain elements. We'll validate this in our next test run, but our current hypothesis is that this setting impacts non-character actors as well, like some unessential wildlife.

This slider defines a limit on non-essential actors rendered to the screen. Number of Background Characters: Pretty simple. HairWorks enacts one of the largest hits to performance out of all game settings, even on nVidia hardware. We discuss this more in an older article about the technology, found here.

HairWorks draws additional strands of hair and adds a fluidity of motion that assists in realism. We disabled this completely for all testing to eliminate test variance, regardless of which manufacturers was presently on the bench. HairWorks is entirely built for nVidia devices and should be disabled for all AMD devices. NVidia HairWorks: Part of nVidia's GameWorks SDK that's provided to game developers. NOTE: We just got our Witcher 3 texture quality comparison article online, complete with VRAM & FPS measurements against quality settings. We'll skip the obvious ones and keep this at a top-level for now, but check back shortly for more information on the game's settings. Graphics contains the core, familiar game settings post-processing contains filtration FX that are applied to the output or additionally rendered. The options are split into two tabs: Graphics and post-processing. The Witcher 3's settings feel relatively tame in the face of other recent releases, but still require demystification. Note: Our Witcher 3 Graphics Optimization guide is now out!įirst, note that this article makes no intent to comment on gameplay value or worthiness of the game beyond its raw performance output. ganeshts: The NAND part of the quoted tweet is factually wrong.Briefly Explaining The Witcher 3's Settings.RyanSmithAT: While I don't think there will be any surprises here, as AMD's pre-release data has been very fair, it's nice to co….RyanSmithAT: It would be weirder if it hadn't.But before I go, I had a chance to see Sapphire Rapids liv…

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This gives NVIDIA’s latest flagship a 3.2x advantage over its 4 year old predecessor. Similarly, the gap between the two Pascal cards is pretty typical at 24% in favor of the GTX 1080.įinally, checking in on poor Kepler, we find GTX 680 at 31.3fps at 1080p, as compared to GTX 1080’s 100.3fps. GTX 1080 leads GTX 980 by an average of 66%, and GTX 1070 leads GTX 970 by 58%. Looking at the generational comparisons, the Pascal cards are about average under The Witcher 3. Meanwhile the GTX 1070, although capable of better than 30fps at 4K, is more at home at 1440p, where the card just cracks 60fps. However to get 60fps you’ll still have to back off on the quality settings or resolution. At 44fps for 4K, it’s three-quarters of the way to 60fps, with gives us a reasonably playable framerate even at these high quality settings. The GTX 1080 never doesn’t lead in our benchmarks, but The Witcher 3 is another strong showing for the card. Our benchmark is based on an action-heavy in-engine cutscene early in the game, and Hairworks is disabled. Utilizing the company’s in-house engine, REDengine 3, The Witcher makes use of an array of DirectX 11 features, all of which combine to make the game both stunning and surprisingly GPU-intensive. The third game in CD Projekt RED’s expansive RPG series, The Witcher 3 is our RPG benchmark of choice.

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