The Witcher 3 Next Gen Update | OPTIMIZATION GUIDE / BEST SETTINGS | Every Setting Benchmarked
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ค. 2024
- ⏰Timestamps :
00:00 Intro
01:01 DX11 Vs DX12
01:37 Ray Tracing (Global Illumination)
02:08 Other Ray Tracing options
03:01 Anti Aliasing
03:18 TAAU vs FSR vs DLSS
03:31 Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
03:46 Screen Space Relfections
04:00 Depth Of Field
04:13 Light Shafts
04:23 Nvidia Hairworks
05:48 Shadow Quality
06:15 Terrain Quality
06:35 Water Quality
07:00 Foliage Visibility Range
07:32 Grass Density
08:02 Texture Quality
08:31 Detail Level
08:54 Optimized Settings
09:06 Optimized Vs Ultra+
09:28 Conclusion
10:08 Outro
►Songs used in the video :
►The Witcher 3- Wild Hunt - Kaer Morhen
►The Witcher 3- Wild Hunt OST (Unreleased Tracks) - Ard Skellig Village
(Music by: Mikolai Stroinski, Marcin Przybyłowicz, Percival)
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In the Optimized Settings section I made a mistake in Grass Quality , it should be " Medium or High " instead of " Medium or Medium "
Sorry .
Edit : Patch 4.01 fixed Screen Space Reflection and this setting now shows a difference between Low and High but on the performance side it's so demanding now (going from Low to High can cost up to 34%) , so keep an eye on SSR and turn it off if you're having Low FPS.
Same with DX12 vs DX12
you've done an amazing job
Dx12 and dx11
you have mistake in yt bar dx 12 vs dx 12 while is dx 11 vs dx 12
Aspiring audio engineer here:
First of all, I see you are an up and coming channel, and I like to support people that start off with high quality videos. So here is my tip: I don't know what program for audio you are using, but it doesen't matter which one it is as long as its a DAW (look it up). I would recommend using a plugin called "De Esser" for the sybilants which are through the roof in this video. It will reduce the puncturing effect that happens when you pronounce the sybilants (letters s, t). Anyways good video man keep it up 👍
This update makes me feel so nostalgic, back in the day I couldnt run the game on high above 40fps with my 970 and now I cant run it without stutters on my 3070ti
Lol a 3070ti isn't high end you need a 4090 to run this with RT
@@religionlol7323 Neither was my 970 back then so your point?
@@religionlol7323 he didn’t say about high end nor Ray tracing and even then you aren’t correct a 4090 is absolutely not necessary to “run” RT on the next gen update. Assuming by run you don’t mean under some absurd conditions.
@@jaydenhogan507 I ran the next gen update find with my old 2080ti maxed out I said if you want to run it at max with RT on and have an enjoyable experience you will need it.
@@religionlol7323 I suppose that makes more sense but still, isn’t an “enjoyable experience”completely subjective? I’d understand if every other gpu other than the 4090 delivered flip book performance but the truth is they don’t.
I was looking for a deep comparison like this for so long, thank you mate
You put a ton of work into this video and the settings comparisons are very clear and useful. TYVM and great job.
This is exactly what I was looking for, concise, explains the settings well with great examples, even had a recommendation summary at the end. Great job, and thank you!
This is one of the best optimization guides I have ever seen! No bullshit! Straight to the point with detailed pictures and comparisons. With categories for each setting and a summary at the end. Amazing video! Thank you so much.
Thank you for taking the time to make this for us.
Will be using your tips to stream this tonight 😃
Follow up…I streamed this the other day and it was absolutely gorgeous with your recommendations! Thanks again
I was randomly recommended this video and I'm sure glad I clicked on it! You explain things very nicely while also showcasing the differences in a format that isn't confusing. Thank you and happy holidays.
I am really happy that channel like you exists. I know only you and one another person who makes such detailed settings videos. Thx
Amazing work as always bro. Keep the optimizations going, you`re the best channel for it. Even better than Digital Foundry
So to make Geralt's hair look better I have to spend 1600+ Doller. Even my human hair doesn't cost that much.
What?
🤣 lol
Hair works looks like shit don’t worry about it.
Damn u right better get a hair transplant in real life 😂🤝
At 4K looks good
Thank you for putting all this work in! This will definitely help me tune the game for my PC.
Thanks a lot man. Trying to run this with all RT settings on 2k resolution at 60FPS. Your guide helped get the most while losing the least amout of graphical fidelity.
I optimized my settings after watching your video. The base game looks much better. However, the graphics for the cut scenes in Blood and Wine are now spectacular. Especially the details you can see on the NPC costumes. It's truly amazing.
You're truly amazing.
@@aj9777 No you
@@LokifAsgard No you
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Thank you so much for this help.
Was looking for it so long. Finally we got a useful comparison for the optimal settings in Game.
Much love :)
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this kind of video, I really appreciate it, may God bless you for continuing this wonderful work of helping people improve their gaming performance with these tutorials, thank you very much.
I fired up W3 yesterday to see all the sights, and was immediately confronted by the performance hit. Like moving through syrup. I kept dx12 on but turned ray tracing off and movement was much better. But today I found your vid while searching for optimized pc performance and I am applying your suggestions before I log in. Thank you for so much detail and comparison screens.
"Level of Detail" controls the distance at which high-quality object meshes pop-in and pop-out, and you're right that the menu slider is broken; you have to change the MeshLODRenderDistance setting in the settings .INI file, inside the Documents folder. Learned this from watching the NX Gamer video. The setting goes from 1.0 to 1.5, though you can set it lower than 1.0 in the file.
how many increments? .1?
This is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much for the work you put into making this :)
Thanks for this breakdown!! Super informative, may be using some bits for my next video, i'll be sure to tag and mention you if I do!
I’ll admit I underestimated the quality of this channel at first, but you covered everything so well on the video that I don’t even have much to say. But it’s a shame that they messed up ray tracing performance so bad in this game, I waited for this update and it came so broken. It is unacceptable that the performance manages to be much worse than Cyberpunk and it makes me really angry.
Check the Digital Foundry video about witcher. Its DX12 causing FPS drops in locations. It's a wrapped DX12 implementation so its bottlenecked by CPU lots of times. Country side I get like 70-80fps 1440p with my 3080 but only 40fps in novigrad for example or 50-55fps in small villages.
It's not unacceptable because it's free and if you don't like it then don't use it
It's mostly a CPU bottleneck due to the implementation of DX12 using just 1 CPU thread for some reason. Hopefully it's fixable down the line.
Also this shits free dude. Chill with the "unacceptable" BS
Cry more, it's free, just dont play it. Lmao
Yeah, since is free i think is ok to deliver a shitty update, we should just forcibly smile while playing at 30 fps or just don't play it.. although what would be the point of the update if most ppl won't play it, lol.
Performance wise, stepping back to DX11 was the best decision to me. Was a huge boost and with the right settings the game still looks amazing. Thanks a lot for this video. Was a great help, working through the options.
Try to disable CFG specifically for games.
Here are the steps to disable for a specific game:
1.Search and Open Exploit Protection
2. Click On the Program Settings Tab
3. Click On The + Add Programs To Customise
4. Click On Choose Exact File Path
5. Find Game Which You would Like To Try To Remove Stutter. Click Open
6. Programs Settings For Game Opened, Scroll Down To Control Flow Guard (Never Use For Global Setting)
7. Put Check Mark In Override System Settings And Turn From On To Off And Apply 8. Restart May Be Needed
Doing that helped a lot.
Dx11 is visually inferior to Dx12. Dx11 lacks shadowing and ambient occlusion in the visuals
It's not that much compared to the performance loss.@@ashank9856
Great and informative video, Mr. BenchmarKing. Straight and to the point, while keeping things simply described and highlighted. Thank you so much for this.
Was looking for a guide like this. Thank you.
The second hotfix fixed most of the stutters for me even with RT enabled. My specs: 3070ti/5800x/16gb 3600/pciex ssd/3440x1440. Thx for such a detailed performance guide, it helped me to make best choice between grafical fidelity and performance.
What is the second hotfix?
I have the same specs, how much fps do you get around white orchard? I hover around 60ish
Using DX11 with these settings and game runs and looks beautiful 👍
Insane work, straight to the point, reasonable decisions, great comparisons, as someone with an older PC I really appreciate what you have done, I wish I could buy you a beer for that
exactly what i was looking for, great work!
This is so helpful. Hopefully they patch RT performance because it does make a huge difference, but I think I will leave it off until then because frames matter.
did they patch it?
@@LaMartiniquee no. They have not patched the PC version in over a month.
@@Seanbbn thank you for the Update. That sucks 🫠
Thanks for the video very informative, you should also mention that using DX12 shows correct HDR(in my eyes) where dx11 tries to use autoHDR which looks washed out and bad.
true
Thank you, Witcher 3 has been my favourite game for sometime. The update gives it new life, and your research and video gives me a guide to replaying it without too much grief, thanks.
probably the best in depth explanation for each setting given. Exactly what I was looking for. TYVM
you love in depth explanations, don't you
This was very helpful actually. Each setting has a small fps cost but it adds up. My game now runs between 50 and 70 fps when out in the wilderness (RTX 3080, 1440p). I have GI on. Big cities are a shitshow though. But that's to be expected.
By shitshow, are you still getting 50fps+? What do you have dlss set at? I’m going to finish up some other games first but plan to replay this with the new update to bounce between my PC, Steam Deck and maybe console if their cloud save system works as well as 2077’s. Hopefully some performance updates by then.
@@FireMrshlBill 50 fps would be amazing in Novigrad. But no, it's more like 30s. Anywhere near npcs will cause fps drops. Even in small villages in Skellige.
Dlss in my experience makes little difference. I keep bouncing between quality, balanced, performance.
Cloud save works. I'm playing on PS5 too. But sometimes it takes a while to download the save from the cloud.
@@hahahah9527 Thanks! Good to know, will probably bounce between the ps5, pc (3080fe + 5800x3d, 1440p) and the Deck. Would be fine if I could use RT and keep it above 48fps for my monitor's freesync range, but guess that won't happen. Oh well, guess I can just deal with the drops in those areas or just turn off RT. Original play through was on GOG and the Switch version just came out when I finished the last DLC, so I was planning to bounce between them on a NG+ playthrough. Guess I will be transferring that save over to Steam for the update and try to jump into NG+ from there.
Thank you for this. BTW you sound just fine. Also you talk about DX11 and DX 12, but don't mention which one to use. I assume you mean DX12 with RT off, as DLSS is not available with DX11. Also "Fullscreen" vs. "Windowed Fullscreen" can maybe make a difference I think for the stuttering. I play at 1080P BTW.
Best video out there, short, straight forward, informative, hats off to you good sir!
Thank you so much for these optimised settings guide. Digital Foundry used to do this but stopped in recent years. I'm glad I have another channel to check on this.
cant remember if I commented here, but thank you for these - I managed to get this running nicely with your recommendations and with raytracing GI & AO on on my 3080 in 2k. anything else turns it into a bit of a slideshow nightmare.
Even with the performance hit DX12 is the superior option for me (3060ti) as you get DLSS, Reflex (drops render latency from to 90ms to 40ms) and HDR support.
I have a 3060ti too and was getting a render latency of 90-150ms, Reflex really helped with latency, sometimes I see the latency almost at 90 but it immediately drops to 40-50ms. I really wanted to use RT, even if it was only RTGI, but it drops the fps to 35-40 :/
You can turn on reflex (low latency mode) for any game in nvidia control panel
@@Averageenjoyer-br1zm thanks wasn't aware of that
Great video! Well explained and detailed, thanks a lot!
Thank you for the hard work, I'll use these optimized settings.
Loved the vid!
Grass Density: Medium or Medium
Great video nonetheless
Thanks for pointing out the error , I didn't notice it until now
If you aren't using ray tracing or dlss then just use dx 11 and you will get way more performance. Also when rt shadows are on I didn't notice a visual difference with the shadow slider, but there is a performance difference.
But HDR/DLSS/RT are not there, DX12 runs smoother on my System und it perform better on DLSS.
@@MrLOLFRATZE I know that, but I'm talking about for people that don't have or want to use those features
@@anthonyrizzo9043 Can you use FSR on the DX11 version? I also wonder if on the DX11 version if you could get a boost using DXVK?
@@user-lk7cv8vg7r no, but I really don't like how fsr looks to be honest, and if you can run the game at native and dx11 at a higher fps but have to use fsr in dx 12 to match then dx 11 at native is the way to go.
@@anthonyrizzo9043 Well I can say FSR is a bit ugly, especially in the face of DLSS or native. Kind gives a smeary look. I'm more thinking for people with real potato-y setups. Like if you got to use 900p or using cheaper Intel graphics(A380) or something where you might be forced to use both DX11 and FSR.
This video is awesome, concise and clear, with perfect comparisons. Thank you!
Honestly I can't believe you don't have more subscribers. great video mate you earned a sub.
Keep in mind that if like me you have a weak CPU you might want to lower the crowd density. It may make more of a difference than what you can see in this video especially in Novigrad. Great video by the way :)
5600x is a weak cpu lol okay , sure 5600x cant handle a 3060ti -_-
@@Ryzen-gh1en just the nex gen update is optimized with toes
Do you think an i5 12400 bottlenecks a 3079
@@Ryzen-gh1en I think you did not understand what I wrote. I said "if you have a weak CPU like me". I'm talking about my i7 6700HQ (quad core laptop cpu from 2015) which is heavily bottlenecking my GTX 1070.
@@MasoMathiou sorry i misunderstood, bdw you are right lowering amount of npc on the screen and as well foliage distance improve fps because your cpu dnt have to calculate so many stuff on the screen, simply math, lowering crowd density helps in CP2077 too
3:31 They removed HBAO+, with only SSAO the game without ray tracing looks worse than the original.
Great content, underrated channel. hope you keep going, looking forward to more optimisation videos and curious if you'll go back to some older games with recent updates and do optimisation vids on those (cyberpunk for example)
This is really very helpful! Thank you for your work!
Does anyone find that in dx12, at random, the game will up gpu usage to 100% and drop like 30 frames and just stay like that till you reload a save or the game? This is only when RT is enabled though.
For me, Vram usage slowly creeps up until it maxes out my 10gb card and causes the frame rate to drop dramatically. Remedied by reloading/ restarting. Frustrating.
@@Adam-hn2iw It's so broken. Should be fine on a 3080. Should also use a whole cpu not just 2 cores
Yup, it's got a memory leak, I'm sure of it now. I'll start playing with around 5.5gb vram usage and it keeps creeping up to 7.8 and then suddenly I'm from 42-55 fps to 5-15 and have to restart. Annoying as hell, at least the game boots fast af.
@@wayneh6356 its disappointing because it does look incredible while it is running well for the first 10 minutes or so. Crossed fingers for a patch soon.
@@Adam-hn2iw right? And running it without rt doesn't feel like a substantial enough improvement.
Then there is no point in a new version. It's easier to download the old one and install mods.
Very well covered mate, thanks for the efforts
This is the exact kind video I was looking for, thank you
The original game also had HBAO+, which looks WAY better on its own than the default "RTX-Off" lighting in the Next Gen version.
I wish they'd have kept that in for "RTX-Off" mode. Seems like a silly decision to remove it.
Its still there in the DirectX 11 version i guess
While I'm not experiencing any problems with this update, it still makes me very happy to know that future CDPR-Games will run Unreal 5. It just shows again how difficult the red engine is to handle.
Shows how garbage the engine is 🤣
@@christophervanzetta Well it still gave me two of the best games i've ever played, so there's that. I'm eager to see what they can do without being hold back by the engine.
Thanks for the vídeo as always! I Will try this settings tomorrow
Thank you for your contributions to the community, very useful video, you did a lot of hard work testing all that options, I really appreciate it, seriously, thank you very much.
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
great video, I was having optimization problems, and it helped me a lot
Can’t wait to use these settings once I get back home! You got a new subscriber, thank you so much
very detailed and helpful comparison, thank you
Thank you so much for this guide! I'm running a 6700 XT and went from 60 FPS on Ultra+ to 90 with your settings. It left enough room to play the game with RT on at 60 FPS!
Can you specify the resolution?
I subscribed cause I like that you give optimized settings and explaining them
Pretty well done, good video.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you so much for this, greatly appreciated!
Was waiting for a video like this
holysh** this is probably the most underrated channel on YT, thanks YT for recommending. Thank you for your great works, subbed.
Amazing stuff bro, easy and fast to understand
Damn , didnt even know i needed this. Thank you!
Appreciate it a lot! such detailed comparison is so helpfull!
Hi thanks for taking the time for this .I went full ultra +with no rt .
Huge fps no doubt. After the Dec hot fixes I went back to your optimized settings and then switched on rt .I'm now getting 40/48 fps with no stutter adding in your settings.I'm totally okay with this now .I have 3090ti and 13 gen card ,I should be getting more I know but since I've played it already I'm only interested in re playing it with rt on as I have a bunch of other games that are seriously performing now , cyberpunk, GTA,Doom,rdr2 are all very impressive.The Witcher will get more hot fixes also. Thanks 👍
I was shocked when my 3080 was giving me very low fps with Ultra + RT on. Didn't know it had so much perf impact. This game needs RT optimization
very good and decent explanation I play everything on ultra+ but I like watching videos about Witcher 3 the next gen update and this is a good video, keep up the good work. 👏🏻
very good presentation, exactly what i was looking for :)
Great video must have taken a long time to edit. Thank you! 🙂
You just earned a sub mate. Even I want to start something like this as I also like to play my games with the best bang for buck visuals and performance
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks bro.
Great video!! Definitely deserved a sub. My 7900 xtx is crashing this game on full ultra+ with no RT because it's bugged or not good at all. However, I will still use your settings because they just make sense.
Pretty cool video, analyzing systematically. Thanks!
Thx for your detailled work. This is great.
Thank you for the comparison, that help a lot for me.
Thanks a lot, will try it
What a gold mine channel!!!! Love your work ❤️❤️❤️
you truly are the benchmark king!
your channel has helped me optimize nearly every game in my library and i can’t thank you enough for it. You’re the king of graphics optimization on youtube ❤
Great video! This is one of those channels that I can easily see going above 500K+ subscribers with consistency!
Excellent guide as always, good sir.
Great video man, i was just looking for these after having nightmares with the poor performance, hoping they keep working on it
You are the really the benchmark king 👏
Thank you for the guide, i had hard time understanding the settings
Thank you so much sir. I was using TAUU without knowing DLSS looked just as good and got almost 2x the frames 🙌🏻
This is my go to channel for looking at optimization videos, thanks for another great video
Holy what a good ass video, actually really informative and precise
Thanks for covering everything! Now I can tweak other ganes as well. You saved me 1 hour of research
Time consuming setting optimisations and experimentation done so we don't have to. Much appreciated👍
it differs each machine though
Thank you for this! Amazing video. Helped me get way more fps without sacrificing visual quality!
Amazing video quality, if you keep this up for future games you'll blow up trust me!
This Is what i call a tutorial. Clean, detailed, straight ti the point. Thanks a lot
You got a new subscriber man. Keep em coming. Thanks alot fellow brother
Awesome video!!
Genuinely helpful video. Thank you
Great job as always. 👌