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Ray Tracing and general performance comparison between #TheWitcher3Remastered and the Next-gen version (4.04). There’s a noticeable improvement in RT effects, especially RTGI, which now looks more accurate and has better coverage. RT Reflections and Shadows have also been extended (they’ve added RT Shadows for local lights). All of these...

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Icenfyre 🇵🇹's profile picture
Icenfyre 🇵🇹2 days ago

5090 max settings without MFG is unplayable

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D71Gaming2 days ago

Have they patched the watched out colors?

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BenchmarKing2 days ago

Nope, not yet.

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D71Gaming2 days ago

Thats a hard No for now.

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Frost Wolf2 days ago

@BMKing23 disable bloom and you will be surprised

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D71Gaming2 days ago

@BMKing23 For what I've seen, it does not completely fix the issue, so no ty.

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Jean2 days ago

we gonna need that video uncle BenchmarKing

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Juliano Fernandes2 days ago

wtf is wrong with the colors?

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BenchmarKing2 days ago

They've updated the tone mapping and it’s not working right.

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Guilherme US2 days ago

Was trying here in my 5070 and RT or PT performance seems just like the same, that's crazy.

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MrPostMan2 days ago

can't wait for your video

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Speed God2 days ago

Honestly I don’t know if the remastered version is worth the performance cost at this point

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BenchmarKing2 days ago

I think it's worth it, even more so for those who play without RT or at lower quality presets. The biggest problem right now, and what's causing most of the divisive opinions, is the broken tone mapping and washed out colors. They really need to fix this ASAP.

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Speed God2 days ago

I agree. In some scenes, the vegetation seems out of place, like it’s flotting or something. Yeah they need to fix this

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M0_R4_H42 days ago

The game is Frankenstein as i feared. A DX11 game patched with DX12 and again a newer DX12. They didn't fully overhaul to a new updated fresh engine. Which explains why its free. Its not like Cyberpunk where it used an updated engine with DX12 from.

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DIOR2 days ago

quando seu video completo vai sair ?

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FuPlaayz1 day ago

Pretty impressive improvement!

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Syxcios2 days ago

Est-ce que le path tracing vaut le coup ? Les performances galèrent un peu en ultra, je ne sais pas si le path tracing amène des changements intéressants ou si il faut le désactiver et garder uniquement le RT pour gagner en perf 😅 merci !

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BenchmarKing2 days ago

Path Tracing is a bit weird in this game. Sometimes it looks great, while other times it actually looks worse than RT. But generally, if you can’t run it with good performance, it's not worth using.

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Syxcios2 days ago

Thanks for the answer !! It helps a lot

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Julius🖤💛2 days ago

When are you going to upload a settings video? game runs horrible for me rn 💀

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Baley2 days ago

But is the remaster using RTGI? The next-gen version wasn't RTGI; it was ray tracing using light probes (DDGI), whereas RTGI is ray tracing that uses the scene's geometry/triangles. It might be an enhanced DDGI with more light probes, or Surface Ray Tracing—which is very popular.

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Junaid2 days ago

Optimize setting?

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Senpos2 days ago

Have you noticed pixelation in motion? With FG or without, it looks very distracting. It feels like image in some section breaks into pixels, DLAA/Quality/Balanced, does not matter. I don't remember such issues on 4.04.

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crazyfrog2 days ago

So much for them updating the lighting while theres still distracting pop in, good job cdpr...

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Dedo2 days ago

Maybe at medium it's more CPU bound and the native DX12 helps with performances?

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𝓢𝓣𝓑𝓐𝓝 𝓣𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓮𝓼𝓽2 days ago

Apparently it's the bloom effect that cause washed color

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joaopeedrobr2 days ago

waiting for your video goat

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Geralt of Rivia2 days ago

One thing I've noticed in some screenshot is that the foliage density is better than the next gen ver

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Subjective Reviews1 day ago

Next generation looks better

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Jerry Kats™2 days ago

Was planning to get into the series at some point, would you reccomended starting with the next gen version or remastered even with the problems?

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