why you are sorry?there is nothing to be sorry in what i said,i just stated that i tried already thatOo ..anyway, as soon as i read of the above 512 shadowmaps glitch i didn't dare to touch those settings. What i was speaking about, happens without messing with those settings. In interior i had no issues so far with shadows. At least i had no crashes so far. I'm in velenAh, okay, sorry if I missed something. Other than that, I'd wonder if you changed any of the ShadowMap values to higher than 512. But I've mainly seen that glitching interior lighting. It glitches close shadows so when you walk from one to the other it flicks out... no fading. I know it's been posted on this thread and even page, so sorry if you've tried this. I'm just lurking the forums because I'm not able to play the game properly, so figured I'd try to help out.
If it's just a weird bug, I feel for you. I still haven't been able to run down why I crash randomly in Velen and White Orchard only. I've tried everything I can do myself. I've even swapped hardware and put in a brand new GPU. Nothing. Nada. And no word from the devs if they're planning a fix for the driver reset crashes. If I put in an older series GPU, problems disappear... put my 970s back in... crash.
Unfortunately they are, main storyline bugs, like missing npcs and soOh dear, I had heard of progression-breaking bugs, but I didn't investigate further for fear of spoilers. Are the bugs really that bad?
First of all, thank you so much @Verrenus , this post has already been useful so many times for me,I can't even show enough gratitude!...hmm... I actually can... just gave you a REDpoint
Now , one particular issue I had, was getting 5.1 audio to work over SPDIF using an Asus Xonar DSX sound card. However, thanks the following tweak in your compendium I was (almost) able to fix it.
Hope this can help some people and thanks again for creating this awesome thread!
I heard 1.05 fix a specific issue that happens to some. That is to say, losing skillpoints previously assigned to a skill,terrible bug!!!I was saying I was sorry because my wish is to see everyone playing The Witcher 3 without issue. I know that is a lofty goal, but it's the reason this thread was created in the first place. With all of your collective contributions, I am sure we can tweak/fix this game for good in the (hopefully not too distant) future!
progression-halting bugs are the worst, but CD Projekt RED will hopefully address all of them in patch 1.05, which is due to come in only a few days now!
in your user_settings file in the witcher 3 documents folder,search for RENDERING and under that UBERSAMPLING
That's because it's not actually sharpening, nor "ubersampling" that's causing your framerate issues!
What patch 1.04 introduced is TextureMipBias tweaks when changing the Texture Quality setting (i.e. "High" now sets TextureMipBias to "-0.4" and "Ultra" sets it to "-1", like you have it now). Sharpening is a mere post-processing effect with an insignificant 0.5 FPS impact, but TextureMipBias makes you lose about 5 FPS!
Just enable "Ultra" textures in-game, then manually edit your TextureMipBias to "0". Then simply save your user.settings file changes and don't touch the Texture Quality in-game settings any more, as it will revert your tweaks! Just turn up Sharpening however high you want in the in-game options menu and you will have sharp textures once again at no cost to performance!
mm, could be a hidden settings than, bacause int he tool showsOoThat's because it's not actually sharpening, nor "ubersampling" that's causing your framerate issues!
What patch 1.04 introduced is TextureMipBias tweaks when changing the in-game Texture Quality setting (i.e. Texture Quality on "High" now sets TextureMipBias to "-0.4", while "Ultra" sets it to "-1", like you have it now). Sharpening is a mere post-processing effect with an insignificant 0.5 FPS impact, but TextureMipBias actually makes you lose about 5 FPS!
To bring back things to what they were before, enable "Ultra" textures in-game, then manually edit your TextureMipBias in your user.settings file to "0". Simply save your changes and then start the game as normal, but don't touch the Texture Quality in-game settings any more, as it will revert your tweaks! Don't worry if Texture Quality is shown as "Low", the game will keep using "Ultra" quality textures. Just turn up Sharpening however high you want in the in-game options menu and you will have sharp textures once again at no cost to performance!
Yes, because Sharpening is just adding fake detail. TextureMipBias is adding real detail by loading higher resolution mips at further distances. It also dramatically improves the quality of distant foliage. I would go as far to say that foliage almost looks cartoony without a negative mip bias, but I would call it "chunky" or "billboardy" if I were to try to describe it to someone else.
Yes, also at the cost of it worsening aliasing. Since it's a post process it catches all edges. And again, it's a fake sharpness... Running a sharpening filter on a blurry mip level is a lot different than just sampling a higher resolution mip.Finally, just turn up Sharpening however high you want through the post-processing in-game options menu and you will have sharp textures once again at no cost to your performance!
Yes, because Sharpening is just adding fake detail. TextureMipBias is adding real detail by loading higher resolution mips at further distances. It also dramatically improves the quality of distant foliage. I would go as far to say that foliage almost looks cartoony without a negative mip bias, but I would call it "chunky" or "billboardy" if I were to try to describe it to someone else.
(I suggest opening the images at full size in new tabs)
TextureMipBias=0
TextureMipBias=-1
I believe I have Sharpening set to Low, but if you want to avoid the moire patterns / shimmering on certain ground textures, it will be greatly reduced if you just turn Sharpening completely off.
Anyway, trees just look very... impressionistic without a negative mip bias. I can't stand it and it's definitely worth the couple FPS to fix. I want to make sure people understand they're also worsening the quality of all their foliage.
Yes, also at the cost of it worsening aliasing. Since it's a post process it catches all edges. And again, it's a fake sharpness... Running a sharpening filter on a blurry mip level is a lot different than just sampling a higher resolution mip.
Also, -1 and 0 aren't the only options. If you want higher performance and less ground shimmering, you can always try -0.7 or -0.4.
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I've started using UseMipRefiner=true because it improves textures that even TextureMipBias=-1 does not. For example:
UseMipRefiner=false, TextureMipBias=-1
UseMipRefiner=true, TextureMipBias=-1
The parts with the white thread are improved immensely with UseMipRefiner=true. I believe I already have Sharpening set to Low in both images.
Yes, because Sharpening is just adding fake detail. TextureMipBias is adding real detail by loading higher resolution mips at further distances. It also dramatically improves the quality of distant foliage. I would go as far to say that foliage almost looks cartoony without a negative mip bias, but I would call it "chunky" or "billboardy" if I were to try to describe it to someone else.
(I suggest opening the images at full size in new tabs)
TextureMipBias=0
TextureMipBias=-1
I believe I have Sharpening set to Low, but if you want to avoid the moire patterns / shimmering on certain ground textures, it will be greatly reduced if you just turn Sharpening completely off.
Anyway, trees just look very... impressionistic without a negative mip bias. I can't stand it and it's definitely worth the couple FPS to fix. I want to make sure people understand they're also worsening the quality of all their foliage.
Yes, also at the cost of it worsening aliasing. Since it's a post process it catches all edges. And again, it's a fake sharpness... Running a sharpening filter on a blurry mip level is a lot different than just sampling a higher resolution mip.
Also, -1 and 0 aren't the only options. If you want higher performance and less ground shimmering, you can always try -0.7 or -0.4.
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I've started using UseMipRefiner=true because it improves textures that even TextureMipBias=-1 does not. For example:
UseMipRefiner=false, TextureMipBias=-1
UseMipRefiner=true, TextureMipBias=-1
The parts with the white thread are improved immensely with UseMipRefiner=true. I believe I already have Sharpening set to Low in both images.
The actual tree branches are identical in both, as far as their geometric outlines go. Branches are not anti-aliased at all, or if they are it's temporal and so doesn't show in screenshots. The "branches" that are actually 2D textures, yes they are going to get thinner, but I think you're missing the million leaves that look like giant cartoony pieces of construction paper in the TextureMipBias=0 image.
