rate my desktop for witcher 3

[Bellamy Tan Jun Sheng]

Based on the title,
My desktop is running on
Window 7 i5 baseline i7
8gb internal ram (alienware)
Gtx960 asus graphic card
800 power watt supply
Water cooling system.
Am i able to run the witcher 3 in full ultra setting?

Not planning to doing sli or overclock

 

[Darkbreeze]

No, you're not. You might get medium or a low high with some things turned off, but you'll never get Ultra at 1080p. Probably not even at 768. Witcher 3 is just about the most demanding game ever made and the GTX 960 is a budget card, as high end cards go, with only 2GB of VRAM and considering the Titan X is having a hard time with ultra at 1080p, it's not going to happen.

http://wccftech.com/witcher-3-initial-benchmarks/

 

[Supernova1138]

Ultra is indeed quite punishing, and isn't something you're going to pull off with a midrange graphics card. The advanced hair physics option alone is tanking performance on every GPU out there and it isn't advisable to turn it on without a GTX 980 at the very least. Depending on what sort of framerate is acceptable to you can do high settings with hairworks turned off, that should get you into the 40s most of the time with the framerate, though in some towns you will likely dip into the 30s. If you want 60 FPS solid everywhere, you're probably going to have to play on low to medium settings to get that.

You actually should be okay on the VRAM front, on high settings at least, Witcher 3 isn't a huge VRAM hog unlike say GTA V, so you can do high or ultra textures on a 2GB card no problem. Running on ultra for all settings might just push it over the 2GB mark, but that is pretty much irrelevant as no graphics card with only 2GB of memory is even fast enough to do ultra settings and maintain a playable framerate.

 

[Lordmizchief]

I've turned HairWorks off on my GTX 980, as it's not worth it, and quite frankly the card just couldn't handle it without a major dip in performance. I even dropped shadows down from ultra to high, to get things silky smooth.
A gtx 960 will struggle with this game I'm afraid. But like the person above said, not impossible to run. You will need to play around with the settings and see what works for you. Just don't expect ultra or even high settings.

 

[mr91]

Witcher 3 will be unplayable on ultra settings with hair works with a GTX 960 however medium settings should be okay...

I'm getting 50-60 fps with with ultra and hair works @ 1440p with occasional dips below 50 fps with a Titan X running @ 1382 mhz.

" usually getting 55-60 fps in battles and regular game play"


" Most of the dips are usually in the cut scenes"

 

[Darkbreeze]

Glad to see you all agree. That might be a first on Tom's. Heh.

 

[mr91]

Glad to see you all agree. That might be a first on Tom's. Heh.

Lol

 

[nikoli707]

according to the benchmarks im seeing, currently the gtx960 is matching the gtx780 in TW3 performance. there is a known issue with kepler cards in the nvidia drivers and they are working on a new round of drivers to address this. that said, i see no reason why the gtx960 cannot run the game at medium settings without much issue at 1080p. the game is stunningly beautiful and in no way does it need to be ran at ultra, or even high for that matter, for one to fully enjoy it. you can read up on nvidias breakdown of the graphical settings and likely run a mixture of high to medium settings with hairworks off.

 

[Darkbreeze]

i see no reason why the gtx960 cannot run the game at medium settings without much issue at 1080p. a mixture of high to medium settings with hairworks off.

Nobody in this thread has said otherwise. In fact, that's EXACTLY what I said. A low-high would be the same as a mixture of medium and high settings. So it would seem there is still agreement, regardless that you might think your version was contrary. I guess that settles it. Call NVidia and tell them there's been a verdict. Heh.

 

[17seconds]

Quote:
"Evereything is set to Ultra, AA is enabled, Nvidia Harworks is disabled and we use SSAO."

Screenshots of the in-game settings are here:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/the_witcher_3_graphics_performance_review,3.html

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/the_witcher_3_graphics_performance_review,5.html

 

[bembene]

foliage distance or what its called putting it to high from ultra gives me a 10fps boost on gtx970...