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Kezen · Mar 19, 2015

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-witcher-3-runs-with-60fps-at-ultra-settings-on-intel-i7-4790-with-gtx980-gets-new-screenshot/

As Gamestar reported, an Intel i7-4790 with 16GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GTX980 was able to run the game at 1080p on Ultra settings with almost constant 60fps. This latest build of The Witcher 3 is said to report smoother than the preview build CD Projekt RED showcased back in January, and implements NVIDIAs HairWorks (which Gamestar was also allowed to enable, and managed to sustain almost 60fps continuously).

Interested in seeing what ultra settings look like but I'm not expecting a huge difference between ultra and high.

pottuvoi · Mar 19, 2015

With that machine it should be 60fps @ 1080p..

Jonnax · Mar 19, 2015

If it didn't people would complain so they gotta design their top settings for a system that's currently available.

Kezen · Mar 19, 2015

pottuvoi said:
With that machine it should be 60fps @ 1080p..

Not necessarily, it all depends on what is being rendered.

YuriLowell · Mar 19, 2015

What about 1440p?

D-VoN · Mar 19, 2015

Well that's great. I'll probably have to go medium/high, no AA for 1440/60 on my 770.

I hope

blastprocessor · Mar 19, 2015

You'd hope so.

JordanKZ · Mar 19, 2015

Here's hoping my heavily overclocked 780Ti's are able to do the same at 1440p. Somehow, I seriously doubt it.

hodgy100 · Mar 19, 2015

my r9-290 should be fine then

Napalm_Frank · Mar 19, 2015

How big of a difference is there between 970 and 980 approx. Like would 970 be able to run it 60 fps on high?

Cimarron · Mar 19, 2015

Thats exactly my rig! SWEET! I got sli 980s though. 😎

Qassim · Mar 19, 2015

That's reduced my expectations for the Ultra settings

I was hoping for some card destroying settings, hopefully some still exist but aren't included in the Ultra preset.

pottuvoi · Mar 19, 2015

Kezen said:
Not necessarily, it all depends on what is being rendered.

True, but 1080p isn't really the resolution PC gamers with high end cards aim for.

LilJoka · Mar 19, 2015

Great, my OC'd 970 should do it justice.

Lunar15 · Mar 19, 2015

Sounds good. I'll just OC my 970 and I should be satisfied enough.

D-VoN · Mar 19, 2015

JordanKZ said:
Here's hoping my heavily overclocked 780Ti's are able to do the same at 1440p. Somehow, I seriously doubt it.

I think you've got it. My single 770 does a lot at 1440p on high/ultra. Just have to turn off AA in most cases, or lower it. I assume you'll have to do the same for The Witcher 3

derFeef · Mar 19, 2015

I would not trust Gamestar over anything, heh.

Orayn · Mar 19, 2015

Jonnax said:
If it didn't people would complain so they gotta design their top settings for a system that's currently available.

Haha, yeah, these kinds of announcements can polarize people in funny ways: If the game is extremely difficult to max out on current hardware, it's unoptimized shit and the devs obviously spent all their time on the console versions. If a game is easy to max out, it's obviously under-ambitious and being held back by console limitations.

I still remember people completely losing their shit over the high VRAM requirements for the optional texture pack for Shadow of Mordor.

Kezen · Mar 19, 2015

pottuvoi said:
True, but 1080p isn't really the resolution PC gamers with high end cards aim for.

I don't know, I don't have any data aside from the fact that the 980 is mostly benchmarked at 1440p. But this is a very high resolution and people should keep their expectations in check. There will obviously be well optimized games that even a 980 can't run at max settings even at 1080p, let alone 1440p.

I'll stay at 1080p for the time being (970).

Addnan · Mar 19, 2015

Is that a good thing? Wanted to see a game pushing multi gpus to their knees

martino · Mar 19, 2015

pottuvoi said:
With that machine it should be 60fps @ 1080p..

Without knowing what the game is actually doing :

deeptech · Mar 19, 2015

LilJoka said:
Great, my OC'd 970 should do it justice.

Lunar15 said:
Sounds good. I'll just OC my 970 and I should be satisfied enough.

Yea, me too. Let's just hope 3.5gb will be enough

Addnan said:
Is that a good thing? Wanted to see a game pushing multi gpus to their knees

Downsampling and running on hi-res monitors will surely do it.

batman2million · Mar 19, 2015

my 780 am cry...

Well, I'll run it as best as i can on that card.

Should be able to do 1080/30 on ultra.

Kinthalis · Mar 19, 2015

Napalm_Frank said:
How big of a difference is there between 970 and 980 approx. Like would 970 be able to run it 60 fps on high?

I think it's about 20% performance difference, IIRC.

LilJoka · Mar 19, 2015

deeptech said:
Yea, me too. Let's just hope 3.5gb will be enough

Oh forgot about that LOL

My 970 at 1500mhz core and 7800Mhz memory matches a 980 pretty much.

GillianSeed79 · Mar 19, 2015

Kind of debating whether to get it for PS4 or PCas I only have a dual 750m Sli set up with my Lenovo y510p. Not looking to max out ultra settings but I'd love to get it for PC if I could get good IQ and a solid 30fps but wonder if it will perform better on PS4.

digitalrelic · Mar 19, 2015

This makes me excited as that is my exact spec

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Slackbladder · Mar 19, 2015

Hmmm.....am I good to go I wonder? 980, 8 GB RAM@2133mhz and an OC'd 3770k@4.6ghz. I mean I can't get DA:I to run on max@60fps and 1080p or Far Cry 4 for that matter so I have little hope for Witcher 3. Still 45-50fps isn't so bad.

Barzul · Mar 19, 2015

Isn't 16gb RAM overkill?....I'll have to upgrade to an i7 one of these days.

D-VoN · Mar 19, 2015

GillianSeed79 said:
Kind of debating whether to get it for PS4 or PCas I only have a dual 750m Sli set up with my Lenovo y510p. Not looking to max out ultra settings but I'd love to get it for PC if I could get good IQ and a solid 30fps but wonder if it will perform better on PS4.

I'd say you're better off on PS4. It's confirmed for 1080p/30fps.

OnionPowder · Mar 19, 2015

Hopefully with FX-8350, 8GB of RAM and a 970 I can somehow make this 60FPS.

Felspawn · Mar 19, 2015

good my 970 will handle it just fine then

LilJoka · Mar 19, 2015

GTX 970 at 1455Mhz Core, 7800Mhz Memory.

Dargor · Mar 19, 2015

How does an I7 3770k compare to an I7 4790?

Wanna know what I can expect from my rig. Hoping I can at least keep the I7.

Just waiting for a 980 with a bigger ram pool to grab one.

Gbraga · Mar 19, 2015

Holy shit, I was expecting medium at 30fps (assuming there's only High and Ultra above it) on my 680, but I have some hope for medium at 60fps now, or maybe mixing high and medium at 30fps if medium at 60fps is still too much.

LilJoka · Mar 19, 2015

Dargor said:
How does an I7 3770k compare to an I7 4790?

Wanna know what I can expect from my rig. Hoping I can at least keep the I7.

Just waiting for a 980 with a bigger ram pool to grab one.

Little bit slower, maybe 10%, just overclock it. I have my i7 3770 @ 4.2Ghz at less than stock voltage.

This game will be GPU bottlenecked though. So CPUs will make little difference at the i7 range.

Jessie.Bristol · Mar 19, 2015

GillianSeed79 said:
Kind of debating whether to get it for PS4 or PCas I only have a dual 750m Sli set up with my Lenovo y510p. Not looking to max out ultra settings but I'd love to get it for PC if I could get good IQ and a solid 30fps but wonder if it will perform better on PS4.

You're better off with the PS4 version as you're not going to be running it at the same quality. Your GPU's specs: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2224/geforce-gt-750m.html

Edit: Apparently your model has a GT 755m not a 750m, so these are your GPU specs (still should go with the PS4 version): http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2420/geforce-gt-755m.html

Portugeezer · Mar 19, 2015

hodgy100 said:
my r9-290 should be fine then

This. I am just happy to get 30fps+ with some high/ultra settings, anything more is a bonus.

MR ARCADE FOREVER · Mar 19, 2015

That's all I need. 4k is too dam expensive and I am happy with 1080p resolutions it looks great to me.
I was going to get it on ps4 but will definitely go pc now

Cyborg · Mar 19, 2015

So for this beast Intel i7-4790 with 16GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GTX980 You pay more than $/ 1.000. Right? Even at that pricepoint you arent able to play it on locked 60fps!

Price vs. Quality is completly out of proportion.

rambis · Mar 19, 2015

1080p is fine, I game on a TV. I imagine most people do.

Nabbis · Mar 19, 2015

That performance on ultra seems to indicate that the graphical fidelity we saw in some of the trailers will not be attainable.

Though i suppose it's good that i will be able to run this on ultra 1080p with a 780GTX. If the news is true.

MR ARCADE FOREVER · Mar 19, 2015

Jessie.Bristol said:
You're better off with the PS4 version as you're not going to be running it at the same quality. Your GPU's specs: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2224/geforce-gt-750m.html

Is the PS4 version running on high settings?

Oneself · Mar 19, 2015

Does that mean we can get something close to ultra @ 30fps on PS4... On paper?

Kezen · Mar 19, 2015

Dargor said:
How does an I7 3770k compare to an I7 4790?

Wanna know what I can expect from my rig. Hoping I can at least keep the I7.

Just waiting for a 980 with a bigger ram pool to grab one.

A 4790k is quite a bit faster due to the Haswell arch and higher clocks. Don't expect a locked 60fps but an Ivy should do reasonably well.

I can't help but ponder over what dx12 could bring to the Witcher 3. Surely it would help immensely considering it will be a very cpu bound game.

Inuhanyou · Mar 19, 2015

So 1080p, high/medium graphical settings, high setting textures and 30fps on PS4 is doable. Hopefully its solid with minimum dips

Dargor · Mar 19, 2015

LilJoka said:
Little bit slower, maybe 10%, just overclock it. I have my i7 3770 @ 4.2Ghz at less than stock voltage.

This game will be GPU bottlenecked though. So CPUs will make little difference at the i7 range.

Great to know. Thanks for the speedy reponse too lol.

Edit:

Kezen said:
A 4790k is quite a bit faster due to the Haswell arch and higher clocks. Don't expect a locked 60fps but an Ivy should do reasonably well.

I can't help but ponder over what dx12 could bring to the Witcher 3. Surely it would help immensely considering it will be a very cpu bound game.

One more imput. Thanks.

Yeah, I think I'll keep the 3770k. I don't think it justifies an upgrade just yet, if it isn't a huge difference.

Smokey · Mar 19, 2015

That's good news. High fidelity graphics at 60fps is a pretty great thing to look at.

Orayn · Mar 19, 2015

Oneself said:
Does that mean we can get something close yo ultra @ 30fps on PS4... On paper?

THEBONDIGTY said:
Is the PS4 version running on high settings?

IIRC the PS4 version is something like high settings at 1080p30 yeah. Probably closer to medium in some specific things, maybe higher in others.

Jessie.Bristol · Mar 19, 2015

THEBONDIGTY said:
Is the PS4 version running on high settings?

Yes, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions had previously been confirmed to run at the PC equivalent of High. Though that remains to be seen when the game comes out.

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