Hello, so I got my Witcher 3 game together with my gtx 980 when I have bought new rig. Before the game was released I 've found some info that The Witcher 3 testing version was runin consistent 60 FPS on Ultra in 1080p. So when I logged in to game my dissapointement was big. My specs - Intel i7 4970k (4.7 GHZ) / 16 GB 2400 MHZ memory/ GTX 980 clocked at 1.4 GHZ and memory at 7.9 GHZ . Now with everything on Ultra i get only 50-55 FPS (sometimes it drops to 48). Game looks bad. It looks like slightly enchanced console version, I mean where is even Tesselation !? Dragon Age Age Inquisition looks better and runs 60 FPS with ease, even modded Skyrim looks better than TW3... gameplay is great, setting, characters, combat but TW3 is very big graphic dissappointement for me. I am looking forward to patches/moders to do something about it cause as for now performance is bad and graphics are mediocore.

Are we playing differen games? I find W3 absolutely amazing in regards to the visuals.

The sceneries and hairworks just took my breath away at times. And I have pretty much the same PC specs as you.

this is the result of NVIDIA HairWorks
just disable it and everything will be fine regarding fps

Quite strange. I got old rig with 2gb 660TI, Phenom x6 and 16gb 1600 ram, and i get 40-50 with mix of med\high\ultra. Hm.

thanks guys for replies I will try dissabling hairworks when I will get back home

Hmm, I have a 970gtx and 'old' i5 +8 gb ram. I'm getting around 80fps at 1920x1200 res. quite different to another sandbox game I got recently - Assassins Creed Unity which only returns a fr in the 30s and it doesn't look anywhere near as good as W3. Both games 'optimised' with high and ultra setting using Nvidia Experience. Just a mention - the aspect ratio for AS-U is aweful with characters stretched to meet this not so unusual resolution (16:10)

Once you dissable hairwoks, try on 2560x1440 res.

Hairworks is going to kill your fps. Usually physx features are best done with a secondary card that is dedicated solely on that.

You are right guys, I switched off Hairworks and I get consisitent 60 fps, however I enjoy hairworks too much so I will leave it on still getting nice 48-55 fps . thanks for all your replies.

Wow... I'm running the game on low/medium settings at 45-50 fps and I'm literally amazed with the graphics, and you that can play it on ultra settings are complaining... I'm really laughing my ass off XD