Alright, why are my graphics so bad now?

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I played this a bit back in January of 2022 and the game looked very crisp and clean. (1st Image). https://imgur.com/a/JzFwIjv
Now no matter what I do they look like the 2nd and 3rd image. My eyes are literally hurting.

I've messed with every possible combination of anti-aliasing, sharpening, texture, all quality in general, and it looks like a blurry 360p mess. I don't understand at all, what is this? It really does look like I'm stuck in 1024x768.

Also you can tell in the 2nd/3rd image some black borders that don't show up outside of screenshots, and steam ui keeps popping up at the bottom right. I swapped to full screen thinking it might be a borderless issue but nah, still looks the same. No graphic mods at all installed.

[CupCupBaconBox]

Is DLSS on Ultra Performance?

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Oh I don't have a gpu that supports dlss(1660 ti), it was blackened out by default. Could it be related? If you NEED dlss now that's going to be very disappointing.

[bingbean]

Press alt+F3 in game. It open Nvidia reshade tool. You can set up sharpening , colors and other things there.

[Just Guy 0_0]

Try dx 11 , also try deleting user settings file in documents and verify game files on steam.

Also it might be issue on files, that require clean installation.

To do that unistall, delete witcher 3 folder , and delete witcher 3 in documents and install game again.

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I think you fixed it HIZ, thank you! I was getting ready for bed and decided to try one more time. This was it for my witcher adventures if DX 11 didn't work, but it did. I'll check again later when I'm not literally passing out, but it LOOKED crisp.

There must be something wrong with dx12 and the generation that my card comes from. Because even at ultra+ on everything I was 60 fps no problem, but now on ultra with dx11 i was around 50. So it wasn't even applying any changes properly in dx12, or it straight up couldn't.

[76561198979093502]

dont know why, but switching to DX 11 worked