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The Witcher 3 Next-Gen PC Patch 4.01 - Ryzen 5 3600 & RTX 3060 Ti | 4.0 vs 4.01 Benchmarks

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Greetings, everybody.

Today we’re checking out that Patch 4.01 for The Witcher 3 “Next-Gen”, on my usual Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 3060 Ti.

My PC specs:

-CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (stock settings) with Coolermaster Hyper 212 Black RGB (w/2 fans, push-pull).
-Mobo: MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC.
-GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC and WHQL driver 528.24.
-RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT (2x8GB) CL16 DDR4@3200 Mhz.
-Storage: PNY XLR8 CS3030 1TB NVMe (O.S. & game), Samsung 750 EVO 500 GB.
-Case: Fractal Design Meshify S2 (Intake: 2x140 Front, 1x120 Lower Front - Exhaust: 1x140 Rear, 1x120 Top/VRM Area).
-PSU: Corsair RMx 650W 80+ Gold.
-O.S: Windows 10 Pro 64bit (v.22H2).
-Monitor: AOC AGON AG251FG 1080p-240Hz.
-ReBAR and HAGS OFF
-DSR uses 33% Smoothing

You can find my initial Next-Gen testing video (game version 4.0) here: https://youtu.be/GTjdSskIMb0

Some timestamps:

00:00 - Intro and 1080p Ultra+ Settings, RT OFF, Quality DLSS, 4.0 vs 4.01 comparison (New Game Intro)
05:09 - [1080p]Ultra Plus, Quality DLSS, RT OFF, High vs Low Screen Space Reflections (Game Intro)
09:45 - Screen Space Reflections visual test, with comparison screenshots too
13:50 - [1620p DLDSR]Ultra+, RT ON (Perf. RTGI), Ultra-Perf. DLSS :P, Game Intro testing
17:11 - [1080p]Ultra+, Quality DLSS, RT ON, Novigrad Run, Quality vs Performance RTGI vs old 4.0
19:25 - [1080p]Ultra+, Quality DLSS, Crookback Bog, Quality vs Performance RTGI testing
21:39 - [1440p DLDSR]Ultra+, Performance DLSS, Performance RTGI, 40 FPS RTSS lock Crookback Bog gameplay
24:15 - [1440p DLDSR]Ultra+, same settings as before, but somewhere in the middle of Toussaint
25:26 - [1620p DLDSR]Ultra+, RT OFF, Performance DLSS, 60 FPS RTSS, more Crookback Bog gameplay

You can read the 4.01 Patch Notes here: https://www.thewitcher.com/en/news/47491/patch-4-01-list-of-changes

As we can see, they mention that the Screen Space Reflections were not working for the “High” setting, in the previous version (4.0), so now they are working indeed, as shown in the video.

DLSS has also been upgraded to the latest .dll version, which is 2.5.1, and now it is possible to use more aggressive upscaling settings, like Performance or even Ultra-Performance, for resolutions such as 1440p or 1620p, especially if those are done via DLDSR Downsampling, it kinda looks great, to be honest.

Ray Traced Global Illumination got a new preset, named “Performance RTGI” so, along with the “Quality RTGI”, now we have two, but the effects of dropping RTGI to Performance are small when we’re CPU limited, and only actually noticeable in GPU bound scenarios, which to be fair…there are many in this game.

All in all, decent small update, there’s some slight performance loss at lower resolutions as seen at the beginning of my testing, but it could be some hidden change to something else, etc., CDPR do love doing these kind of “surprise changes”.

As usual, I hope this can be useful to any of you, and I’ll see you in the next one : )

#TheWitcher3NextGen #RTX3060Ti #Ryzen3600

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Sholva [author] Mar 9, 2023 @ 12:23am

Thanks for the award, to whoever gave it

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