Witcher 3 PC gets a Graphics and Stability patch

[WYP]

The Witcher 3 has just gotten a Graphics and stability patch, increasing the performance of the game when running HairWorks and fixing many game bugs.

Read more on the Witcher 3's PC patch here.

 

[Wraith]

Most of these issues are solved by simply rolling back the NVIDIA driver.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Most of these issues are solved by simply rolling back the NVIDIA driver.

Now you don't need to roll back drivers

edit: Now with this patch I crash after a certain amount of time due to "No memory" even though I have 1.2GB of Vram still available and about 2GB of system memory left. Now it's just annoying me. It's random too. Can't predict it, it just happens after a I get the low memory warning prompt from Windows.

 

[Valeriant]

how to fight pirates

Could be a thing now. I think this is one of the less expensive way to fight piracy for game developers. Just cripple the first release game and patch it gradually. Hundreds of changes and upgrades in several patches, phew. But they need to balance what is important to not anger or annoy buying-gamers, before the "fixes" are then released. The paralyzing things shouldn't ruin the game fantastically; could have been a quest that is broken, unvisitable places, throttled performance, disabled settings, etc.

 

[Warchild]

Could be a thing now. I think this is one of the less expensive way to fight piracy for game developers. Just cripple the first release game and patch it gradually. Hundreds of changes and upgrades in several patches, phew. But they need to balance what is important to not anger or annoy buying-gamers, before the "fixes" are then released. The paralyzing things shouldn't ruin the game fantastically; could have been a quest that is broken, unvisitable places, throttled performance, disabled settings, etc.

There have been other pirated games like this, and it made no impact on deterance at all. in fact the community came closer together to fix the broken parts of said pirated games. And no, I will not give examples for obvious reasons

 

[Dicehunter]

Now you don't need to roll back drivers

edit: Now with this patch I crash after a certain amount of time due to "No memory" even though I have 1.2GB of Vram available and about 2GB of system memory. Now it's just annoying me. It's random too. Can't predict it, it just happens after a I get the low memory warning prompt from Windows.

2GB of system memory ? dude it's 2015 not 2004 ^_^

Time for an upgrade !

 

[NeverBackDown]

Could be a thing now. I think this is one of the less expensive way to fight piracy for game developers. Just cripple the first release game and patch it gradually. Hundreds of changes and upgrades in several patches, phew. But they need to balance what is important to not anger or annoy buying-gamers, before the "fixes" are then released. The paralyzing things shouldn't ruin the game fantastically; could have been a quest that is broken, unvisitable places, throttled performance, disabled settings, etc.

They didn't cripple anything. How is the game different than it was a month ago? It's not like they removed features we didn't already know about. All this patch did was add more graphic options and therefore increases stability; along with other technical improvements too.

2GB of system memory ? dude it's 2015 not 2004 ^_^

Time for an upgrade !

No I have 2GB left that's unused. Edited the previous post to get across what my point was- was a little confusing I can see

 

[Valeriant]

I agree that Witcher 3 runs awesome! The fact that the patch add more graphic options and other many improvements on performance issue raises my suspicion.
Simple questions like, was the "Sharpen" at max before patch? Why add a slider? Keplers are doing better now with HairWorks, why not before? Or questions like, are they trying to give bad gaming performances to those who are not within minimum requirement because they are more likely to pirate the game (or trial before commit they say)? Would releasing updates after updates and DLCs (the small ones are free) on some intervals would deter piracy on the premise of confusions, irritating inconveniences and time-consuming with low guarantee of success?

All I'm saying, big patch or update that addresses a lot within days after release is susceptible to a deliberation of certain elements not intended in the initial release.

Cheers, mate.

 

[Dicehunter]

No I have 2GB left that's unused. Edited the previous post to get across what my point was- was a little confusing I can see

Ahh ok, What are your system specs BTW ?

 

[NeverBackDown]

Ahh ok, What are your system specs BTW ?

i5 3570k- Clocked to 3.6ghz 24/7 with 1.0v in the bios. In windows CPU-Z reports it jumping from 0.972-0.984-0.994, no matter what it's one of those 3 depending on the load. It's kinda funny to watch lol. The clocks would be higher but think my new h100i pump is a little crap so i'm waiting on Grey_beard to get back to me on that.. Doesn't perform as it should with higher volts I feel like.
8GB ram in a MSI z77 GD55 board. The blue's on each closely match so it helped my white and blue theme out.
7950 clocked 1000/1250 with only 1006mv on the core and 1530mv on the memory.. I got each down by like 70mv from stock and still 100% stable ever since day 1.
Had 4 ssd's at one point, now just two.
All in a Fractal R4 w/Window. Case has been awesome but losts it's appeal to me over time... i want a new one but honestly just not worth the expense and effort to then sell the r4. Shipping would be insane since it's so heavy on it's own lol