Possible game settings for my new high end pc

[Pramit]

So I have started playing witcher 2 on my new pc whose specifications are as follows
64gb ram ddr5
Intel core i9 13900K
Nvidia 4070ti 12 gb
Windows 10
Is there anything I need to do to ensure smooth gameplay, currently I am playing in 1440p resolution, so I just wanted to ask is there any popular setting which should be disabled or is there any setting regarding the processor that I need to keep an eye on ?

[Invader Zim]

I use Geforce experience, I let it configure for me.

[Pramit]

Okay, how do you measure the fps when in game

[cheshirm]

alt r if you use geforce

or toggle it on under

steam settings ingame

lots of other third party fps monitors

[Pramit]

Should I run the witcher 2 as admin to get maximum in game performance ?

[cheshirm]

perhaps do a web search on the pros and cons of running games with admin permission.
then decide for yourself. I have not run any steam game in 18 years with admin permission. others do it all the time. something only you can decide.

[awinneriba]

please dont run any game as admin... """if""" a game runs better in admin mode it is probably pushing around / messing with core os processes... programs communicate to physical hardware through a chain of communication: userland top level software -> APIs -> OS -> hw drivers -> hw.
it is "okay" for a game to skip and go straight to the os to driver communications, but then why should a game be given the privilege to hang around / inherently affect/influence hardware that directly?
...
APIs - Application Programming Interface(s)
.eg: directX, vulkan, etc
OS - Operating System
.eg: Windows 7, etc
hw drivers - Hardware / Device drivers
.eg: yh MSI afterburner and Nvidia control panel, theyre userland control interfaces for the user to actually affect the actual hw drivers

[DeerBra]

i realize you might be new to pc gaming but with your setup, you will have nothing to worry about. its a 2011 game, just turn everything to max and play the game. me personally, i had to turn vsync on because unlimited fps made my gpu get hot. i have an ancient setup and get 144 everywhere. you will be fine in this game and just about everything else.

[Ceejay]

The only setting to really worry about is "ubersampling", it is not an optimised feature, I recall many years ago the devs in an article (which I can not find) saying it was added for benchmarking reasons, no gpu at the time of release could run the game with that feature, it actually required a triple sli setup at the time.

However while cards like the 4090 should be able to run this fine (and older ones like 2080, 3090 etc), people can still have issues with this feature.