Witcher 3 on high graphic settings with GTX 970 4GB

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Does anyone know if a GTX 970 4GB will be able to run The WItcher 3: Wild Hunt on high graphic settings? At least do you think it will?

Im new to PC gaming, thanks.
 
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did he actually prove that he got the 60 fps? that video is from before the release of the game and the recommended specs from cd projekt red were for 30fps on ultra.

I played maybe 30-40 seconds of the game with my gtx 970 so far just to see how many fps I get right in the first section and I was seeing numbers between 42-55ish the odd time it would hop higher but not usually. but maybe its because i'm running an i5 4670k and not an i7?



 
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This.

I'm playing on a i5 4460 with a Galax GTX 970 (overclocked) and I'm getting 45-60fps on Ultra in the opening game scene , with some weird V-Sync issues (little visual glitches, little annoying). Wtf.

Anyone else got some optimised settings for the GTX 970? Are we getting CPU bottleneck?
 
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Just remember to tweak your settings.

This article has a 970 setup w/a not overclocked 2500k and he says he can get mid 40s to 50s:

http://www.pcgamer.com/witcher-3-graphics-options-performance-and-settings/

nvidia also released a detailed analysis on what takes biggest performance hits:

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-graphics-performance-and-tweaking-guide

Witcher 3 has all kinds of settings that can be turned down or up. I don't know the exact setting that that one dude had because of postprocessing. If you have a 1440p + monitor, you don't need AA, which accounts for a big 10-15 fps hit for my sli-970's easy.

Remember guys, at a launch games are about 90% done, the rest has to be optimized/bugfixed according to feedback. some games get 10+patches in less than a year. I wouldn't be surprised if we get more performance patches by summer's end.
 
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I should have come back here and posted after I solved my own problem, but I actually discovered what my problem was. For anyone wondering the best way to optimise Witcher 3 for a 970 (or equivalent) graphics card, I can't stress this enough - TURN OFF HAIRWORKS.

Though Hairworks wasn't directly affecting my framerate in 1080p, I discovered it was creating stuttering that destroyed the game's scripted scenes. I turned it off, and now I get a steady 60fps with no stuttering and just below Ultra settings (one or 2 other things turned down).

Take heeeeeed... :)
 
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Hi there.i have a gtx 970 in sli and I get 77 fps in ultra settings with hairworks on. I play on 1920x1080.at 4k I'm getting 44 fps with same settings. With 1 970 at full HD I get 45 fps.

 
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Edit: I didn't notice that you had SLI

jwdenheijer what other specs do you have with your computer because on day 1 I wasn't getting near 60 fps and I have a GTX 970 and an i5 4670k, 16gb ram, but my witcher installation is not on an SSD
 
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CD Projekt released a 1.03 update the other day, and fixed a lot of the problems Hairworks was causing, so everyone should be getting smoother framerates now. That's about the same as what I get too.
 
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It's easy to get 60FPS on mostly ultra settings 1080p, with a 970 , even with my i52320 CPU, just turn down shadows to high , maybe grass density to high, and crowds and draw distance to high, and hair works off. That leaves ultra textures and everything else like water on ultra, and it runs at 60FPS for me and looks amazing.

I can't even tell the difference turning down those other things to high to be honest, it looks the same as ultra to me, this game is more GPU dependant than CPU I think, so as long as you got a decent CPU, and a 970 with 8GB ram you are good to go. I have a second 970 but I don't have the motherboard or a better PSU to use it in SLI yet, that will be my next project when I get the money.

But so far, more than happy with my 970, it's a beast of a card on 1080p. Can't wait to try it with Batman and Fallout 4.
 
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Actually, benchmarks have since shown that Witcher 3 is one of the few games out at the moment that suffers from mild bottlenecking with an i5 processor. Nothing too dramatic, but worth knowing. Also, I prefer to keep Hairworks on personally. With my overclocked GPU, I only get slight dips below 60FPS, and never lower than 45FPS (which is usually only during scripted scenes, when there's close ups on the hair). Plus, Hairworks is so dang pretty... o.o
 
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Hairworks is nice but I get a decent FPS boost with it off, I don't think it has been optimised very well, a lot of people getting big drops with it on. You probably need something like a 980ti to get rock solid 60FPS with hair works on. I don' think I will overclock my card, already got problems with temperatures on my CPU so I am getting a new tower, cooler and fans in the next few weeks.

I read that the difference between a i5 and i7 isn't really that big in games, if you got something like a i5 4690k it shouldn't be a bottleneck with these maxwell cards. But mine is on games like GTAV, but for a 4 year old cpu it's quite remarkable. Still hitting 60fps on Witcher 3 with a 970 on mostly ultra settings. Can't ask for more than that with my setup.
 
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Im getting loads of stutter with a 970 - even with settings dropped a bit. Not sure if somethings wrong with my system. Its like it freezes for a second. It does it also when I kill an enemy 🙁
 
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that is not near Ultra when you have ~5 settings turned down.
now after 1.04\1.05 you should easily hit Ultra 60fps @ 1080p though.
1440p is an easy 60fps after latest patches. blur effects, sharpening, vignette, and chromatic aberration off just for visual preference. everything else Ultra.
 
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trying to run it on my Windows 10TP install and it was a stuttering nightmare, didn't matter what settings it was at. on my 8.1 setup it's super butter.
if you're not on 10, try a reinstall of game and GPU beta drivers if available.
 
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Tried it all, im on win 8.1 still stuttering - Mostly happens when I decapitate and enemy or in or around NPC settlements 🙁
 
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try to verify the files (both steam and gog are pretty easy to verify) and don't OC on witcher 3. It's really hard to get a stable overclock on that game for some reason and doesn't work well with mods and presets
 
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I re-installed game - verified files, no overclock - still stuttering, its like mini - freezes - where the game goes slo-mo for a moment.

could this be to do with the HDD loading things in the background as stutter subsides after running about a given area for a while...
 
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I have a borrowed PC, MSI Gaming 7, 4x4 Gbyte Gskill @ 2400 mHz, Intel i7 4790k and EVGA GTX 970 FTW, all this running on Samsung 120 Gbytes SSD, at 1080p and The WItcher 3: Wild Hunt, it is impressive 55-60 fps, I have not arrived to the marshy area. Some tests that I have read, said that it is a graphically demanding area.
 
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