Running with Ubersampling on

[ONE MILLION EXPLODING SUNS]

Is there anything else I can turn off that would hurt performance but isn't needed if uber sampling is enabled?

Currently running on a zotac 780 and an i5 4670k both at stock clock speeds. I get from 60 - 40ish fps. And it constantly spikes.

[ACJCLIGHTNING]

Your asking what you dont need on if your running ubersampling to still have good image quality, correct?

Any form of AA is really all that would apply. Ubersampling is the best, but also most demanding form of AA there is.

Most people would prefer to turn ubersampling off before turning down any other settings though.

[ONE MILLION EXPLODING SUNS]

Originally posted by ACJCLIGHTNING:

Your asking what you dont need on if your running ubersampling to still have good image quality, correct?

Any form of AA is really all that would apply. Ubersampling is the best, but also most demanding form of AA there is.

Most people would prefer to turn ubersampling off before turning down any other settings though.

Is the improvement in quality worth keeping Ubersampling and turning off the other forms of AA? I hear I can get an upwards of 100 frames if I simply turn Ubersampling off.

[Bansheebutt]

I don't consider it worth it.
All it is is supersampling-AA taken to an absurd level that I would consider redundant. (I think its 4xSSaa + some other things?)

You'd be better off forcing a reasonable level of Supersampling in the NVControl Panel if you really don't want to use the Witcher's default aa.

[ACJCLIGHTNING]

Originally posted by Batō the Sleepless Eye:

Is the improvement in quality worth keeping Ubersampling and turning off the other forms of AA? I hear I can get an upwards of 100 frames if I simply turn Ubersampling off.

Ubersampling will almost certainly look better than any other form of AA....its just insanely demanding. If you wan't smooth framerates, its best to turn it off(or like somone said, You can set it to a lower ammount by going through Nvidia control panal to try and find a balance).
Ubersampling is basically just SSAA. Not SSAO as many people confuse it with. Super Sampling Anti Aliasing is very demanding and is basically the equivilent of playing your game at 2x or 4x the resolution of your monitor.

[LeadStarDude]

From what I have read Ubersampling is 2xSSAA + FSAA. 2xSSAA renders each frame at double your screen's native resolution. Then FSAA renders the same frame at that higher res again & blends the two copies of that same image together for a sharper image with less aliasing. It does a great job, but really kicks the crap out of a GPU.

Have you tried increasing the Texture Memory Budget in the config folder? On the highest in game setting it only allows 600MB by default. I increased mine to 2048MB out of my available 4096MB & now Ubersampling doesn't seem to cause any spikes in performance for me anymore. I suggest not using more than half of what your card has available because other parts of the game need some of your VRAM as well (about another 800MB worth). If you have 3072MB available try changing the memory budget to 1536MB. That should help.