GTX 1660 Super + i7 6700. Should I update Witcher 3?

[🐸♰Revy]

The old game ran fine at high/ultra at 1080p 60fps. Is it possible to get the same performance and not lose visual quality from the update?

I'm using appmanifest method to stall the update and heard there's a beta branch of the old game. Is it safer to just go with the beta?

[Websteroni]

Автор сообщения: 🐸Hermitoad

Автор сообщения: TheWebDoc

I have a similar setup - 1660 Super + i5-10600KF
My current settings are Ultra+ on everything except Shadow Quality, Terrain Quality, and Grass Gensity. Shadow and Terrain are set to Medium and Grass is set to Low. Hairworks is disabled along with Motion Blur and my Anti-Aliasing is set to TAAU. I'm getting about 60 FPS on average with these settings. I hope that saves you some time!
Edit - Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm running at 1440p.

Hey thanks. I'm already updating though I hope I won't have to compromise grass density to get to 60 as I've already had that set to ultra no problem before. I'm at 1080p still so I probably won't have to. Lowering shadows always gives me a good performance boost though. If it doesn't work out I'll just downgrade to beta branch I guess

Of course! Hopefully it works out for you. Lowering Shadows and Terrain provided about a 5 FPS improvement for me. The main problem seemed to be grass for some reason. Any setting above Low dropped my FPS from a stable 60 to low 40s without a noticeable improvement in quality.

[Houdini]

Автор сообщения: TheWebDoc

Автор сообщения: silly

this is actually terrible. U got some settings on low, hairworks off and got 60fps avg, this is actually bad. Just download the previous version of the game and put mods. You ll get 100fps with everything maxed out and mods that get you an amazing visual upgrade

No, it's perfectly fine. Grass on Ultra and Low look the same and I dislike the look of Hairworks.

Do u realise that without Ray Tracing u play the same witcher 3 from 2015 with upgraded foliage and textures that cut your fps in half ,thats all. Your, mid range pc can run the vanilla version with 8k textures mods, enormous grass density, 4k faces on every character, lighting upgrades while keeping everything on ultra, including hairdworks?

[Websteroni]

Автор сообщения: Steel

Автор сообщения: TheWebDoc

I'll save you some time - FSR and DLSS are disable in DX11 mode.

Thanks for the info. That's disappointing, especially for high resolution monitor users on older GPUs.

You can always rollback with the beta though.

True! Unfortunately, I have a data cap and 50GB of that was eaten by this update, so I feel a sorta sunk cost fallacy to stick with it. It's fine, though. I'm not too picky