The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt revealed

I've seen better visual HairWorks implementations in demos so not really sure if TW3 developers in-house AA techniques are having a negative impact, but comparing the demos to the TW3 implementation you can easily see the visual difference. Regarding performance, not sure if you are still using DSR but that will definitely cause performance dips during closeups.

The Skellige Isles ... think large.

 

Here's a good read:

Thirty Hours In, The Witcher 3 Keeps Surprising Me

http://kotaku.com/thirty-hours-in-the-witcher-3-keeps-surprising-me-1708290939

 

witcher 3 is a pc destroyer...
lots of complains about its too sensitive with overclock, or their PC suddently turning off by itself, etc.

now my PC making weird whizzing (like the sound of night) and whirring (like when you put a paper on a fan blade) sound.

i suspect this is not due to Witcher 3 is a PC killer, but simply because before Witcher 3, people did not use their PC (as heavily).

 

Any "high level" characters? 51 hours in and I'm only 15...

 

Double

 

Id really like to know how a piece of software is supposed to make your fans sound strange... If people would just use their common sense they'd know it's too high of a overclock or a bad psu that is causing their issues.

 

@tongue_of_colicab
yeah thats my suspicion too. But people blames Witcher 3 and flooded the support forum, rather than looking their own past behavior before W3.

 

I'm 51h in and only lvl14, but I'm taking my time doing main storyline quests. Lately got to Novigrad and what a city it is! I'm really admiring how varied all the buildings are and the landscape it is build on, not to mention all the caves/severs/dungeons I still have to visit/explore!

@orangpelupa
@tongue_of_colicab
It's funny when people are complaining about game instability caused by their own system instabilities they didn't know about!
TW3 is really pushing GPU's and CPU's quite hard thanks to well threaded engine utilizing every last cycle of your GPU power! This is one of the only 2 games which can push my custom air cooled R9 290X to 80C during gameplay! Other games like BF4 or Titanfall are content with 68-72C temps, but for Witcher not working your GPU hard is not an option.
On the coil whine topic, TW3 has quite a distinctive pattern on mine card, which is different to the usual noise generated by other games

 

If it's crashing only on overclocked computers I'd say that's the sign of a well engineered game.

 

early on theres a quest to get some armour cat I think
it located in a building on a hill but I cant find a way up

 

There is a place of power near the tower, from there just walk up very steep hill and then climb a wall if I remember correctly.

Took me good 20 minutes to figure that one out as I was looking for underwater entrance first

 

Well, despite all the f-ups on the PC side of things, it's nice to see there's been a steady stream of free DLC. Nothing groundbreaking or anything, but still nice to see.

Regards,
SB

 

and it killed my 4 year olds PSU (seasonic 520watt). now on RMA because it have 5 yrs warranty. now i use 10 years old psu (gigabyte 400watt) i took from unused PC. Too afraid to play with 4 cores so now im back with 2 cores lol. the performance horrible, even on windows is horrible.

 

I'm lucky there because of BitCoin craze I've had 3 R9 290 in my system and to drive them I bought 1000W (1150 Peak) beQuiet! Now with only one R9 290X it's easy for my PSU, even in TW3!

 

btw how do you calculate PSU wattage required? Im willing to try to make my CPU 4 cores again but want to do some calculation 1st. even if the calculatio are ok but my PSU blow.... i still have 15 years old PSU (only 250watt lol).

about coil whine. i wonder what my PS4 will sounds like if playing W3. It sounds irritating when opening web browser blank page.

EDIT:
according to
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine and http://powersupplycalculator.net/
i need 375-385 watt PSU. I guess my 10 years old 400 watt PSU is still enough

 

It all depends on how strong 12V rail is on your PSU. I would recommend PSU with at least 400W on 12V rail alone, especially if you overclock a bit. That is 34A for 12V combined. If your PSU has split rails then make sure GPU one has 28A and motherboard and the rest is feed from another 18A rail.

Luckily PSU is the one component you get to keep for a long time so just get the right one from the start. For example I've purchased Hiper 880W PSU in Radeon 2900Pro era to drive CrossFire. Spent £100 back then in 2007 and it lasted me good few years ... I don't know exactly how long as it's still in use in my sons PC and was abused with CF and BitCoin mining for months almost every second year I had it!! It's 8 years now and runs perfectly fine powering Kaveri based PC and just 10 months ago was still running around 850W load (socket reading) 24/7 loaded with 3 Radeons mining LTE. In my opinion my best PC related buy ever as even monitors don't last me this long

Now back to Witcher 3! I need more GPU power for this game because when I dropped details to get 60FPS everything looks and moves so much better! Problem is I can't compromise on details so I'm forced to upgrade! Fury X can't come sooner!

 

Nice to know I wasn't the only one walking past that path up to it.

 

Nope! My brother wasted 90 minutes before he found it

 

I caved and bought this last night. Suddenly had a strong urge for some RPG. Since it didn't finish downloading till this morning I bought Final Fantasy 4 and installed that (only 650MB) to pass the time. Now I'm into it and probably won't hit The Witcher till I finish it

 

Sorry it was viper armour does your answer still apply ?