Fixing a hairy situation
There have been complaints that enabling Nvidia's proprietary Hairworks technology in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt results in what seems like an unnecessary hit on performance, in particular on AMD Radeon graphics cards. Well, there's good news, both from developer and publisher CD Projeckt Red and AMD.
CD Projeckt Red will release a patch today for the PC version that aims to improve stability and performance in both cutscenes and gameplay, fix a bunch of bugs, and improve Hairworks performance (a patch for consoles is coming soon). Here's a full list of what the patch brings to the table:
- Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
- Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
- Fixes grass and foliage popping that could occur after density parameters were changed
- Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
- Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
- Sharpen Post-process settings extended from Off/On to Off/Low/High
- Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
- Corrects a bug where player was able to shoot bolts at friendly NPCs
- Improves menu handling
- Corrects an issue with Stamina regeneration while sprinting
- Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occurred when scrolling the map
- Generally improves world map focus
- Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
- Corrects some missing translations in the UI
- Corrects an issue in dialogue selections
- Rostan Muggs is back
- Minor SFX improvements
Good stuff, right? Well, we'll have to wait and see how it affects AMD Radeon graphics card owners, and if you're one of them, don't despair. AMD said it's working on a beta driver release that will improve performance in both Witcher 3 and Project CARS. It will be available "soon," though in the meantime, AMD posted some tips on how to deal with performance issues specifically related to Hairworks in Witcher 3.
From maximumpc
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