Best settings at 4K

[Geralt z Rivii]

Hey Guys,
i want the ideal graphics settings at 4K, with DLSS at quality and Ray tracing at psycho.

what other settings i should bring down to have the ideal experience.

i have RTX 3090Ti and 32GB Ram

[Carlos Spicywiener]

Great advice a la google

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Messaggio originale di Geralt z Rivii:

Hey Guys,
i want the ideal graphics settings at 4K, with DLSS at quality and Ray tracing at psycho.

what other settings i should bring down to have the ideal experience.

i have RTX 3090Ti and 32GB Ram

I'm sorry to tell you but at 4K you pretty much HAVE to play with DLSS set to Performance or Ultra Performance to get a stable performance metric. Else you'll keep dropping below 60fps which obviously isn't ideal. In-fact at Performance you should see AVG FPS of around 144 most of the time, possibly higher with the settings I've listed below, it's pretty much just Digital Foundry's old optimization video. Another thing I would do is install the Optimized Raytracing mod from nexusmods if you want better performance with raytracing turned on, it's compatible with 2.0.

The other thing is having Raytracing on Psycho is counterproductive, you won't see much of a difference in quality past High for lighting quality and shadows can be happily turned off.

You'll want to lower screen space reflections to Low and Ambient Occlusion to Low.

Shadow Cascade Resolution to Medium, Volumetric Clouds to Low, rest can be high / ultra.

Crowd Density depends on your CPU, 4 Cores go Low, 6 Cores go Medium, More than 6 go High.

Slow HDD Mode should always be forced on even if running on an SSD as it prioritizes the loading of world assets above all, which reduces pop in and hitches associated with culling. Most SSD's are also fast enough to outweight the cons of Slow HDD Mode causing longer loading screens. I for example only wait 3 seconds between loads, without it I also only wait 3 seconds.

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Messaggio originale di Carlos Spicywiener:

Great advice a la google

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[industry.zero]

Thank you @LyricalNerd!

I just got a GTX 4070 Ti and was disappointed I couldn't run at 4k, but with your suggestions and turning shadows to medium, I got a benchmark of 62 average FPS.

One problem though: I see screenshots of "Slow HDD Mode" showing below Crowd Density in the Performance section, but it's not appearing for me. I'm using an SSD.

[envirovore]

Messaggio originale di industry.zero:

Thank you @LyricalNerd!

I just got a GTX 4070 Ti and was disappointed I couldn't run at 4k, but with your suggestions and turning shadows to medium, I got a benchmark of 62 average FPS.

One problem though: I see screenshots of "Slow HDD Mode" showing below Crowd Density in the Performance section, but it's not appearing for me. I'm using an SSD.

I'm not able to get to PC to verify, but IIRC the HDD/SDD and Crowd Density settings are under the Gameplay setting.

Leave HDD mode disabled, but setting crowd density to medium can help boost performance.

[FreeFormSage]

I don't know how much faster a TI is than an RTX, but speaking from latter experience, the "ideal settings" with Ray Tracing on for maximum performance amount to "Ray tracing OFF."
With every other detail maxed, at TRUE 4k, Ray Tracing alone is the difference between as high as 100+fps, and an average of 30fps, at best.

4090 RTX isn't much better.

It's insane to imagine, but we really are going to have to wait for the 5090s, and god help us maybe even the TIs, before we just max setting this game. Mind blowing they created software that couldn't be properly run for the lion's share of /THREE/ graphical generations.

Doom 2 lost it to Crysis, and now Crysis officially lost the "Oh, your rig can max settings THAT game?" to 2.1 Cyberpunk 2077.

[industry.zero]

Messaggio originale di envirovore:

Messaggio originale di industry.zero:

Thank you @LyricalNerd!

I just got a GTX 4070 Ti and was disappointed I couldn't run at 4k, but with your suggestions and turning shadows to medium, I got a benchmark of 62 average FPS.

One problem though: I see screenshots of "Slow HDD Mode" showing below Crowd Density in the Performance section, but it's not appearing for me. I'm using an SSD.

I'm not able to get to PC to verify, but IIRC the HDD/SDD and Crowd Density settings are under the Gameplay setting.

Leave HDD mode disabled, but setting crowd density to medium can help boost performance.

Thanks! HDD Mode is indeed under Gameplay settings, while Crowd Density is under Graphics - Performance.