Meaning: one that will universally apply to all players.

The post-processing effects were left on high for all three quality tests.įrom what I'm gathering, you seem to be trying to figure out a 'reliable' method of benchmarking a game. The medium setting disables Nvidia's HairWorks, high only applies it to Geralt and ultra uses HairWorks on everything with hair. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was tested at three resolutions: 1920x1080, 2560x14x2160 using medium, high and ultra quality presets. The test ends when the Griffin flies away with the villager's horse. Using FRAPS we recorded 120 seconds of gameplay starting from the first time Geralt mounts Roach (his trusty steed) and rides toward a Griffin attacking a villager. Our test rig was outfitted with an Intel Core i7-5960X to remove CPU bottlenecks that could influence high-end GPU scores. Using the latest AMD and Nvidia drivers, we tested nineteen DirectX 11 graphics cards covering most price ranges. We are expecting stunning visuals as CDPR recommends an Intel Core i7 and Radeon R9 290. We've been preparing this article for days and just as we were ready to go live, CD Projekt Red released a new patch that optimizes and improves graphics settings in the PC platform. In fact, results may show that faster hardware, like GTX 1080 Ti is actually SLOWER than GTX 1080 if those tests were truly non-repeatable because, as I stated earlier, a single degree of viewing difference could make FPS jump or plummet by +/-10-15fps. Those numbers are literally made up, benchmarks never even ran, because a non-repeatable benchmark result would vary oh-so-drastically. Those are 100% repeatable benchmark toolsĢ. A single degree turn of a difference could change FPS value drastically, which means that only one of the following can be true:ġ.

I also bet CDPR has benchmarking tools and I think big sites like Guru3D acquired those tools or re-created them, but saying that they just load a savegame, run around to record FPS is utter crap. Otherwise it would be bogus and all the numbers would be literally made up, not representative of anything what-so-ever, rendering nearly 100% of credible hardware test/review sites' numbers as simple lies where some Joe decided '41fps' without even running the not-a-real-benchmark benchmark, just pulled it out of his butt. You mean 100% repeatable pre-recorded playthroughs then.

Witcher 3 performance mods