It changed my life, it can do it for you.

Plus game looks better without it, didnt like the Head&Shoulders look it gives to everything that has hair. definitibelibily not worth the lost frames.

Hairworks is awesome, but it's not worth it if you don't have a really good setup.

idk if u need one or not but if u have a dedicated physx card its not a problem ive found

Actually, they said at nvidia's site that all the PhysX in this game is run off the cpu :)

thats what i thought but too its not true, i have a GPU dedicated to physx and its getting use + nvidia indicator shows physx is being handled by GPU.

i posted about this in the forum since nvidia ppl could find it useful (if you have any old card laying around and arent using it for example), i thought it was weird it didnt get replies, especially if the official line was that its all CPU.

Oh, well then, it's good to know. Thanks!

I dont have one, i have a nvidia card somewhere, might give it a try just for the cloths and particles, but after seeing the hair in game, aesthetically, didnt like it, and the performance hit was too big.

You have to think that a lot of people dont have a nvidia card, dont have a extra card to use for physx, my computer is old, i7860, hd 7970, i can max everything and still get over 30fps, except for hairworks.

Someone mentioned here or at Witcher forums that HairWorks is actually FX Tessellation so a PhysX card won't help but SLI/CrossFire surely will (provided scaling works as intended).

I find the fur effect incredible but I'm not sure I like Geralt's hair.

ofc, i would recommend turning hairworks off for most, its not worth the performance hit at all. my point was just that for nvidia users it does seem to take advantage of GPU physX, contrary to what ive read. so if you do have a physx card or an old card laying around, its worth trying hairworks on them. well something is being run thru the GPU & it says my physx card is being utilized, i also run hairworks full @ 60, adaptive vsync & dont notice fps drops (im sure there is still a frame hit but its not reported where its unusable if you have only one card or a card + dedicated physx card)

yeah, and launch the game with the gog galaxy closed... you will notice the difference there!

I have not tryed that, what change that makes?

to me? everything, frames are better,no stutter and no crashes. I think the game have problems with overlay programs in the background.. try to belive!