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Thanks for the heads up Flipswitch on the Target pricing. I tell ya, a fair bit of kit for $69 bucks, I am mightily impressed. Got a game soundtrack cd, a detailed world map, a universe compendium and some stickers for that price point I thought was pretty sweet considering these days most games I don't even get instructions with anymore. Just now waiting whilst it is patching and installing.. ah the fun of next gen.
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Shit, I paid $99 for the digital download and got the game and nothing else. And that was the discounted price for pre-ordering!
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Top bloke that Cloud.
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SDF needs number tomby!
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Didn't you ridicule the idea of playing this on consoles?
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That sounds more like lestat ;).
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cloud wrote:People are buying Wicther 3 for consoles?!
Got it! xbox720p thread.
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This game runs amazingly well on PC, I have all settings at ultra except for shadows and vegetation distance set to high, plus HBAO+ enabled. It's been locked 60fps, no hitches, silky smooth. Find the game is running around 70% gpu util with these settings with peaks around 80 in really dense areas. PCDR did an amazing job here.
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Took down dat Griffen.

The game is amazing, big improvement in combat over witcher 2.
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Few other screens I just took.

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Yeah.....fuck Pillars of Eternity, it can wait.

This game is fucking AWESOME. The movement controls could be better, feels a little too loose when you're trying to run.

I've had one CTD so far, other than that no issues.

Feels like a fantasy Red Dead Redemption with some Game of Thrones grounding in reality and brutality.

Feel sorry for people having to play this on consoles....
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Madmya wrote:Didn't you ridicule the idea of playing this on consoles?
I'm not playing on console, mate of mine has my ps4. I got it on PC.
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Candy Arse wrote: I've had one CTD so far, other than that no issues.
I noticed the game defaults to borderless fullscreen and that the gpu temps were really high, switched to fullscreen mode and temps came down on the GPU.

So I wonder if some of the crashes people have are related to a bug in borderless fullscreen overheating GPUs it's weird. My GPU got up to 75 degrees which I've never ever seen before in all the other games I've played, with fullscreen they came down to under 70 which is normal.
Candy Arse wrote: Feel sorry for people having to play this on consoles....
I saw the DF analysis, both consoles have stuttering and framerate issues, PC is the way it's meant to be played, I hate quoting nvidia here but it's true.

Maybe hold off playing it Candy for a bit, I need to finish off 2...
Before I get into the nitty-gritty, know that a big patch with 600 changes - including improvements to graphics and graphical settings - was sent to certification today (Wednesday 20th May), and will take between five and seven days to clear.
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I think given the size of this game there's no need to hold off even with that patch coming.

I also think it's time to consider upgrading my CPU and GPU. Currently on an i5 with a 780Ti....
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cloud wrote:
Madmya wrote:Didn't you ridicule the idea of playing this on consoles?
I'm not playing on console, mate of mine has my ps4. I got it on PC.
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Candy Arse wrote: Feel sorry for people having to play this on consoles....
Why's that? Does the game play differently on consoles or are your muscular hands too big for the controllers? ;)
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Madmya wrote:Didn't you ridicule the idea of playing this on consoles?
I'm not playing on console, mate of mine has my ps4. I got it on PC.
A "mate", ok. :lol:
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You need powerful hands to handle all that PC power t0mby. :shock:
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I've put 7 hrs 30 mins into the console version and have had zero issues with the framerate ( no massive drops) thought it was going to be all over the place.
Only in one cutscene the framerate dropped at the beginning. I'm only in white orchard though, still doing the many quests. Game is brilliant though. First witcher game. Highly recommend this. You can pick it up cheap at target with all the extras.

I have to fight the griffin, but I'm still going around finding quests to be done and trying to upgrade my gear. I have very little money though. Combat is a little tricky, mainly due to the controls I think. I also failed one quest. Text is tiny to read, I have to squint at times to read descriptions of things.
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tomby is just pissed cause he went 55 seconds slower against me in Dirt :D
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t0mby wrote:
Candy Arse wrote: Feel sorry for people having to play this on consoles....
Why's that? Does the game play differently on consoles or are your muscular hands too big for the controllers? ;)
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The end effect is the same: neither console version feels as smooth as it should, and each is prone to big dips during gameplay.
Yep, certainly does play differently. 60fps here :up:

Let me know what settings you adjust to get 60fps on PS4.
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lestat wrote:You need powerful hands to handle all that PC power t0mby. :shock:
He'll never know - neither tomby or his PS4 are very powerful :wink:
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Just received a 30% voucher through green man gaming, bringing the price down to $42. Went to enter code into the gog website and it says code invalid?!? I'm pretty damn pissed. Email has been sent to gmg and I eagerly await their response.
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Natively HairWorks actually operates at an extremely intensive tessellation factor of 64x which is why the game setting is so demanding even on Nvidia GPUs. Lowering it to 16x and 8x would yield a very marginal reduction in quality and a massive boost to performance. In fact we reckon that while playing The Witcher 3 you will be hard pressed to notice any differences between Tessellation x64, x16 or x8.
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So nvidia being sneaky again using very high tessellation levels to cripple performance on older cards and competitors. Maxwell cards provide a 3x boost in tessellation performance over kepler, which explains why a 960 can beat 780/titan cards and AMD cards have always been weak at tessellation above 32x.
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"If the consoles are not involved there is no Witcher 3 as it is," answers Marcin Iwinski, definitively. "We can lay it out that simply. We just cannot afford it, because consoles allow us to go higher in terms of the possible or achievable sales; have a higher budget for the game, and invest it all into developing this huge, gigantic world.

"Developing only for the PC: yes, probably we could get more [in terms of graphics] as there would be nothing else - they would be so focused, like if we would develop only on Xbox One or PlayStation 4.
As expected built for console specs. I hope they give PC users a decent bump in the visuals with the new patch. I think it's also coming to console, but I'd rather they lock down the framerate. I've read that in some sections it can tank. So far it's been solid for me but I'm still stuck in the first section of the game.
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Yeah I reckon it's all to do with marketing. People are less likely to buy something if they think it's an inferior product so they try to make them all as even as possible.
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