Witcher 3 low fps

[Geowulf]

I'm having really low fps for witcher 3, a few months back I got around 60 to 70 fps on full ultra but now it drops to below 15 fps and the highest it reaches is 30 fps whether it is ultra or full low. But I have a really good system for 1080p gaming. My laptop and specs are,

Alienware 17
16gb DDR3 ram
Nvidia gtx 780m 4gb DDR5
Intel core i7 4800 MQ quad core
6 mb cache

 

[Kevin Enrique]

Well, I do know that patch v1.31 pretty much destroyed the performance of the game for a lot of people, including me. Patch v1.10 was constant 40 fps locked to me, v1.11 made the game unplayable, literally, and v1.31 introduced major stuttering anywhere on the game, I tried all tweaks I could, but nothing. I barely hit 30 fps, with drops to 25 fps, often and with stutter.

But here are a few things you can do: Go to My Documents/Witcher 3 and delete user.settings and user.settings.bak, then adjust your settings again from scratch, every update, for some reason, breakes your settings, so you have to do this step each time a new game patch comes out.

Set V-Sync to Adaptive on nVidia control panel, then force it on, disable it in game. Set fps to unlimited, download MSI Afterburner+RivaTuner, they come together. Hope you are familar with this program, if not, tell me and I will explain it to you. Anyway, open up RivaTuner, hit the "+" icon below all executables, find Witcher 3 .exe location on your computer, click it, then search on the executables of RivaTuner, set a desired frame rate limit, in your case, 60 fps, then click "Vector3D" and then "Framebuffer". With this program you can control the fps limit of any game on the fly and the best thing is that often it eliminates the micro stutter in many games.

Here is how to use it even further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yeROJQR_qE&t=262s (Watch the full video).

Finally, go to Witcher 3/bin/config/base/resources.ini (backup this file first so if you run into any issue, you can revert them quickly). Change the following:

FileQueueSizeGame = 100
FileQueueSizeLoading = 500

MaxRequests = 32
MaxCompressedBudget = 30
MaxUncmpressedBudget = 70

Change them to:

FileQueueSizeGame = 250
FileQueueSizeLoading = 700

MaxRequests = 45
MaxCompressedBudget = 10
MaxUncmpressedBudget = 240

That is said to help but then you can increase the values to this: (Try with the earlier value chance tweak first, if the stutter or the fps drops persist, try these then)

FileQueueSizeGame = 400
FileQueueSizeLoading = 850

MaxUncmpressedBudget = 500

 

[Kevin Enrique]

Keep in mind your laptop could be overheating too, update your graphics chip driver, also, look that you are not using the Intel Integrated graphics chip, there is an option on the nVidia control panel for laptops, dont recall which one, try searching for it, it has something to do with "nvidia performance graphics" or something like that.

Dont feel bad if the game never gets fixed or if you cant fix it, on my end its unplayable (at least for me, finished it struggling and then I unistalled it) and to think I used to had much more fps and due to the patch, the game got much worse...

A more drastic measure is to format everything and see how the game goes, but I myself wont do that for a single game, not worth it, CD Projekt screwed their game, not my job to fix it. Maybe the will, maybe they will not. See if the tweaks I mentioned help you any. Peace out.