The Witcher 3

[jasku]

The package arrived just now. Now it sits at home while I sit in office :/

Time to put in that LET email I guess

Yes, yesterday I was in the Witcher world, today back to reality, sitting in office thinking how the story will progress.

 

[somebodysme]

Yes, yesterday I was in the Witcher world, today back to reality, sitting in office thinking how the story will progress.

We all should take a week or two off

 

[aniketdawn.89]

We all should take a week or two off

Sure. Then we won't be able to afford the witcher expansion pack. Cz we wud be jobless.

 

[jasku]

Sure. Then we won't be able to afford the witcher expansion pack. Cz we wud be jobless.

Lulz, I did see the the $24.99 expansion pack, any idea what is included?

 

[somebodysme]

Sure. Then we won't be able to afford the witcher expansion pack. Cz we wud be jobless.

Better to pre-order it then, and play witcher 3. We will manage with crowns

 

[aniketdawn.89]

Better to pre-order it then, and play witcher 3. We will manage with crowns

I actually preferred Orens :/ so much cooler than crowns... Now Orens and florens are like inr while crowns like USD :/

 

[nomad47]

Been fiddling with the graphics settings this morning to find the sweet spot. Apparently, the only things that really cost fps are Hairworks, Shadows and Foliage visibility range. Keeping Shadows and Foliage visibility range to "Medium" and Hairworks off and everything else at Ultra 1080p, I'm getting around 28-38 fps (measured with FRAPS). Visually, I'm not really seeing a huge difference between Low and Ultra settings. Makes sense since the low settings are probably what the console versions look like and they don't want to upset the console users. Hope AMD is working hard on their drivers. You're not getting my money so easily NVidia.

How is the game performing with AMD? I see you have an Xeon. How much is the CPU usage? Any idea if i5 can max it?

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Stupid Bluedart send it to Delhi instead of sending it to Kota. Else I would have got it today. Now I will have to wait till tomorrow or the day after for this game.

 

[iittopper]

Did anybody got Witcher 3 t-shirt with the game. I got XL one and I am too skinny for it

Same here . They are only shipping XL shirt .

 

[somebodysme]

Same here . They are only shipping XL shirt .

Guess I have serious weight to put on then BTW, what are you gonna do with the t-shirt.

 

[aniketdawn.89]

Guess I have serious weight to put on then BTW, what are you gonna do with the t-shirt.

Ummm lemme take a wild guess, wear it?

 

[bikramjitkar]

How is the game performing with AMD? I see you have an Xeon. How much is the CPU usage? Any idea if i5 can max it?

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Stupid Bluedart send it to Delhi instead of sending it to Kota. Else I would have got it today. Now I will have to wait till tomorrow or the day after for this game.

CPU usage is just around 15-18%. I'm sure your i5 will be more than enough. With your R9 290, you should be able to get above 40 fps consistently at the settings I mentioned. I get the feeling that NVidia is playing dirty here and have paid the devs to throttle performance on all non-Maxwell cards. Benchmarks are showing GTX 960 performing the same or better than a freaking GTX 780 and R9 290x! In all other games, that card would be destroyed by those two beasts.

 

[aniketdawn.89]

CPU usage is just around 15-18%. I'm sure your i5 will be more than enough. With your R9 290, you should be able to get above 40 fps consistently at the settings I mentioned. I get the feeling that NVidia is playing dirty here and have paid the devs to throttle performance on all non-Maxwell cards. Benchmarks are showing GTX 960 performing the same or better than a freaking GTX 780 and R9 290x!

Well if that's the case. Then its partly a good news for my weak 860m cz its maxwell

 

[nomad47]

CPU usage is just around 15-18%. I'm sure your i5 will be more than enough. With your R9 290, you should be able to get above 40 fps consistently at the settings I mentioned. I get the feeling that NVidia is playing dirty here and have paid the devs to throttle performance on all non-Maxwell cards. Benchmarks are showing GTX 960 performing the same or better than a freaking GTX 780 and R9 290x!

Actually this is due to poor tessellation performance of AMD. I read an interview yesterday and I think AMD and CDPR is to blame. If CDPR wanted they could have optimised it with help of AMD engineers. I will play with those hair off

 

[nomad47]

Read this

NVIDIA Under Attack Again for GameWorks in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | PC Perspective

 

[bikramjitkar]

Actually this is due to poor tessellation performance of AMD. I read an interview yesterday and I think AMD and CDPR is to blame. If CDPR wanted they could have optimised it with help of AMD engineers. I will play with those hair off

Those benchmarks are with the Hair effects off. And actually the performance is worse on Kepler series cards than AMD cards. This is an NVidia sponsored title and they have been known to pull this crap earlier. I hope AMD releases some new drivers soon to improve the performance.

 

[aniketdawn.89]

How long did it take you guys to install this from disc?

BTW the physical disc contents are really premium

And the T-shirt is a perfect fit fr me

 

[sam_738844]

Those benchmarks are with the Hair effects off. And actually the performance is worse on Kepler series cards than AMD cards. This is an NVidia sponsored title and they have been known to pull this crap earlier. I hope AMD releases some new drivers soon to improve the performance.

Keplar is old tech, in-fact too old. If the same had happened to rebranded AMD cards from Last GCN before hawaii, AMD loyalists would have told, that its a commonplace event that demanding games would run terribly in older hardware, because? industry..of course, if the older gen was so powerful in the first place, why give birth to newer techs?

But since it happened with Nvidia, their stance with gameworks now is totally on the aggresive where it was debated and settled number of times in past that GW from nvidia is not an obstruction for AMD owners between their card and the game. In-fact, Watch-dogs, AC unity, Far Cry 4 has been proved to be performing equally well, sometimes even better in AMD cards such as 290X, 290 than 780s and titans.. only the AMD GPU's did not have access to propertiery featuers like PCSS, Phyx and all...


AMD should keep up fast...perhaps releasing "new" and "powerful" tech sooner...no one is stopping AMD to take rights and instigate optimization under a platform where they have something as good as gameworks in terms of features...where is mantle now?

What can be said about below then?

"Another similar controversy surrounded the recent release of Project Cars. AMD GPU performance was significantly lower than comparable NVIDIA GPUs, even though this game does not implement any GameWorks technologies. In that case, the game's developer directly blamed AMD's drivers, saying that it was a lack of reaching out from AMD that caused the issues. AMD has since recanted its stance that the performance delta was "deliberate" and says a pending driver update will address gamers performance issues."

 

[nomad47]

How long did it take you guys to install this from disc?

BTW the physical disc contents are really premium

And the T-shirt is a perfect fit fr me

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Keplar is old tech, in-fact too old. If the same had happened to rebranded AMD cards from Last GCN before hawaii, AMD loyalists would have told, that its a commonplace event that demanding games would run terribly in older hardware, because? industry..of course, if the older gen was so powerful in the first place, why give birth to newer techs?

But since it happened with Nvidia, their stance with gameworks now is totally on the aggresive where it was debated and settled number of times in past that GW from nvidia is not an obstruction for AMD owners between their card and the game. In-fact, Watch-dogs, AC unity, Far Cry 4 has been proved to be performing equally well, sometimes even better in AMD cards such as 290X, 290 than 780s and titans.. only the AMD GPU's did not have access to propertiery featuers like PCSS, Phyx and all...


AMD should keep up fast...perhaps releasing "new" and "powerful" tech sooner...no one is stopping AMD to take rights and instigate optimization under a platform where they have something as good as gameworks in terms of features...where is mantle now?

What can be said about below then?

Nvidia acknowledged that they had send engineers to CDPR for optimization..and their contract does not debar CDPR from calling AMD also. I guess the guilty party here is CDPR for not inviting AMD for the optimization and somewhat of AMD for not pursuing such a hi profile game. I do hope AMD soon releases an optimized driver.

 

[aniketdawn.89]

If its any consolation, the box does say use an nvidia card for best performance. So I guess this is pure marketing. Amd just decided to stay out of it.

 

[aniketdawn.89]

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Nvidia acknowledged that they had send engineers to CDPR for optimization..and their contract does not debar CDPR from calling AMD also. I guess the guilty party here is CDPR for not inviting AMD for the optimization and somewhat of AMD for not pursuing such a hi profile game. I do hope AMD soon releases an optimized driver.

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