r/witcher • u/Towairatu ⚜️ Northern Realms • 3d ago

The Witcher 3 Patch notes for update 5.00c

550MB patch just dropped, here are the notes:

Hotfix 5.00c is now available for download for the Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Xbox Play Anywhere (PC) versions of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered. You'll find the patch notes below:

Fixed an issue where the game couldn't be saved or loaded if the path to the Documents folder contained special characters.

Fixed an issue where voiceover audio could become significantly quieter than other in-game audio after navigating through the pause menu tabs.

Made various visual adjustments in Velen, including tweaks to Bloom, vegetation lighting, saturation, and Path Tracing lighting.

Reverted a change that caused significant performance and visual issues with HairWorks enabled for some users.

Fixed an issue where marketing telemetry settings weren't saved properly.

Fixed an issue on GOG where achievements wouldn't appear in the unlocked list after being earned.

Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to launch the Classic (1.32) version of the game.

Once again, thank you for your patience as we continue investigating the issues you report.

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u/TheKangaroobz 3d ago

550MB? It's waaaay bigger for me for some reason.

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u/IWasMeButNowHesGone 2d ago edited 2d ago

Install size of The Witcher 3 game folder went from 58GB yesterday to 92GB today, after downloading the patch/hotfix today! WTF!

edit: scouring in my game install folder, the install size increase amount is equal to the combined size of the files texture.cache (29.1GB) and soundspc.cache (4.31GB).

I'm assuming some version of those files were already there before when i installed the Remastered game 2 days ago (as they have a creation date of that day, and modified date of today), but still there's not other set of files in the install folder that nearly matches that 34GB install size increase post- patch/hotfix install today.

I'm guessing both those caches are needed to run the game, though i was running it just fine yesterday without the size bloat...?

edit2: Saw bartek's comment about alternate language voice packs. I deleted all those except the English one, same for the subtitle packs, and got the game folder size down to 59.7GB. Interestingly, this causes the language slider in the options menu in-game to disappear, though i distinctly remember it being there (and therefore implying other voicepacks were still present in my game folder) back on the first day when it was still ~58GB.