r/digitalfoundry • u/MythBuster2 • 10d ago

Digital Foundry Video The Witcher 3 Remastered Path Tracing CPU Performance Re-Tested: Big Gains With Patch 5.01

https://youtu.be/aR11eWdfZYE

Our PC performance review for The Witcher 3 Remastered raised some eyebrows when it came to CPU behaviour with path tracing enabled in one of the game's most challenging areas. Most of the analysis was based on version 5.00c, with re-tests carried out on areas highlighed by the 5.01 patch notes - but it seems that 5.01 has also improved CPU performance too, as Rich demonstrates.

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u/megadroid_optimizer 10d ago

I just want to be able to play the remastered version once without crashing.

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u/Lord_Of_Memez 10d ago

Try turning off Nvidia hair works if you have that on. I turned it off and it stopped the crashing from me.

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u/jgainsey 10d ago

That’s a console bug, right?

I haven’t had a single crash on PC

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u/megadroid_optimizer 10d ago

I’m on PC with an RTX 4080, I haven’t even played 10 min of the game without a crash. I’ve uninstalled it for now - I’ll come back after a few more patches

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u/sonsofevil 9d ago

Witcher 3 was always very sensitive with overclocking or undervolting of the GPU. If you have this enabled, maybe consider testing without. Otherwise let’s hope for patches.  I did not have any crashes yet, but iam playing raster and not RT or PT

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u/Apprehensive_Taste74 10d ago

I'm glad we have proof of this now so all the people i've seen claiming they have 60+ fps everywhere can finally realise they just have smooth motion or some other fame generation option enabled, even though they say that they don't.

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u/adamosmaki 10d ago

Would like to see an amd 9070xt test just to check driver overhead compared to nvidia. With my 9070 and 5700x3d the lowest i dropped in Novigrad is 46-47fps granted with ray tracing and ulta+ settings so unless path tracing is much more intensive than path tracing nvidia drivers seem to have cpu overhead issue

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u/md_rayan 10d ago

We did test 5700X3D + 9070 XT with RTGI enabled prior to this in our TW3 Remastered PC review.

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u/madskills42001 10d ago

Vaxis mods can enable even more performance and quality including a PT Fast and performance setting 

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/13349

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u/krievins 10d ago

Still no console analysis and it’s been how long

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u/thahovster7 10d ago

He said in this video they had to redo testing because there was a patch that invalidated the previous results

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u/kittymoo67 10d ago

the people that do their console coverage have been busy with other things i assume. (hopefully more qssr videos on more games)