I'm only can start playing The Witcher 3 after these few days because of the slow download speed.

Anyone using same graphic card as mine? how's your gameplay? Can MSI GTX 970 4G run 60FPS with ultra settings?

My system specs as follows:

Intel 4790k
8gb 2133Mhz Ram
MSI GTX 970 4G

With Nvidia hairworks off and everything else on ultra at 1080p i get an average of 55-60 fps.

I'm able to play almost max and get a good frame rate. It's not 60 although its not chopping. What some users suggested is lowering the locked FPS for 30 and use vsync if you aren't reaching full 60 or you'll get screen tearing.

Also try turning off anti aliasing on your card and use FXAA instead. It will use a filter for AA that will save you some strain on the card and give you a few more frames. Also shadows are heavy on the rendering side so you can try lowering those. Shouldnt be much of a problem to keep texture quality high. I have hairworks on and everything. Although I use FXAA instead of traditional AA.


( I should mention i'm on a GTX 770 )

You could look up the minimum specs and recommended, also, check out this site;
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri Might not work on google chrome though.
I'm currently downloading the game myself, here's my specs;
Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz
GeForce GTX 970 "Twin Frozr"
8GB DDR3 Ram
I doubt I'll have any problem running it, and I doubt you would either.

Best of luck.

Thanks much appreciated. :D

what i did to get a stable 60 fps with 970 was hairworks off and set foilage distance to high. Butter smooth then.

hmm...I really like the hairworks feature when I saw it in NVIDIA website, it is so cool. Last 2 months I though GTX970 can turn everything on and MAX settings...sigh

Now I just hope that NVIDIA will release a new driver or game's patch for improving performance of The Witcher 3 .

Nvidia guide

Check that for references, they will show some screenshot comparisons and show a meter to say how much of a performance difference some options take.

If you want an easy list:

Demanding options: HairWorks, Anti-Aliasing, HBAO+/SSAO, Foliage Visibility Range,

Non-demanding: Bloom, Blur/Motion Blur*, Chromatic Aberration, Depth of Field*, Detail Level*, Grass Density, Light Shafts, Shadow Quality*, Sharpen, Terrain Quality**, Texture Quality*, Vignette, Water Quality

* These can be more or less demanding depending on situation but in most cases less so.
** Terrain Quality according to the Nvidia Guide is supposed to utilize tessellation on geometrical textures but apparently it either doesn't work or it's not implemented because they didn't notice any drops (or heavily optimized given their test system runs 2 Titans in SLI).

You really need a titan z or 980 in sli to have everything maxed (hair included ofc.) at 60 without getting drops. Given the performance on my own 970 (and this is only in 1680*1050), I highly doubt a single 980 would be enough... maby if REALLY OC'd...

Ya, everything max it require titan or 2 sli 980, sorry i didn't mentioned just now, actually I'm only using 1080p screen..

Nirth, Thanks a alot,.there are several settings it doesn't do much different for me if I turn off or lower, Thanks! :D

this is kind of related but not really(same card, different manufacturer). In the game, I have gotten 2 black screens which indicate a driver restart. HOWEVER, the GPU temps in the HW monitor software are saying it didn't even hit 80 celsius. The second black screen I had the EVGA precision software open running at aggressive and fans capped out at 4088 RPM. I am running with everything maxed in a window and IDK about fps drops unless it's unplayable. Could my i7 920 (which is very similar to the min req CPU) be a culprit in this case (temp reading for the cores say they didn't go above 75 degrees but clock speeds say they were at lease double the stock clock)?