1.05 on PC degraded performance for every item they listed as improved

[jeradl]

1.05 on PC degraded performance for every item they listed as improved

Patch 1.05 actually degraded game performance for me rather than improving it for literally every item they listed as being improved in the change log.

1. Camera stutters more now, much jerkier
2. mounting the horse is more difficult and buggy
3. horse's movement is harder to control and seems to want to make big circles around stuff
4. Geralt's movement is more difficult wanting to make big circles around stuff instead of turning to face it directly
5. combat responsiveness is even worse, doesn't always respond to w,a,s,d,q, or rolls
6. often continues to hit a mob when you are pressing to roll away or q for a sign
7. vitality regeneration severely dropped where you have to stay out of combat for 1-2mins with swallow and a food both going just to fill up(so bad i died to a bleed with both swallow and food actively regenning)
8. visibility of tracks and scents is now more difficult (i changed no settings)
9. game is randomly crashing to desktop with no error messages; never had that happen before 1.05
10. cutscenes seem to perform worse now and stutter
11. mouse and keyboard sensitivity options are missing
12. responsiveness to key commands has declined both in and out of combat
13. Geralt randomly puts his sword away in fights now or never pulls it out; never happened before to me

I wish I could roll back to 1.04

One request:
For the love of god, pleeeeeaaaasse make auto face in combat breakable, an option we can turn off

 

[thelostdunmer]

I got mobbed by two puny muggers in the game because my controls don't respond properly too. What gives CDPR. In practice, in alleys controls are flawless but in actual combat specifically boxing it doesn't work.

Well I didn't see the "flaming knuckle" in order to punch. Spam pressed attack button for dear life. Geralt got humiliated and thrown out of the building just because of placards?

 

[GITech]

bump

Yes, please get rid of the AUTO BATTLE STANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with all of your points!!!!!!!!

Even after a full uninstall, PC cleaning, all folders and file deletion, and re-install.

 

[Stormkiller72]

I 100% agree with the OP here. Including the SEVERE graphics artefacting and texture pop-in that appeared after 1.05 was released. I can't play any more, Everything was near perfect during 1.04, but now...

 

[LittleLadyRed]

I have also found a noticeable decrease in performance since patch 1.05. Actually, for me, it has been gradually getting worse and worse with each patch. I'm afraid my game is going to become unplayable at patch 1.06.

 

[Ipsofactor]

Well im having stutters as well. And the pop-in is really bad, but its software intended (CDPR degrade the game to improve performance in each patch; should be resolved as mods when we have the dev tools if they dont change it).

But when you have complaints u should include your specs in your post : the devs need it to test a new patch. If u dont include it its kind of worthless.
Cause thers so many things in a computer (drivers, hardware, etc...) that they wont know nothing about what could cause it.

Im using a msi gtx970. i7 4790k. And the game is on a ssd. I reinstalled win7 cause i thought it was my drivers (or somthg) that was the problem.
Reinstalled the game 5 times or such during the last few days. So please CDPR fix this for us 970 users (im not the only one). I bought this card 4 ur game, preordered, and i want to play this magnficent game without issues.

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[svichupocentru]

been playing 1.05 on mid/high settings, cause perfomance for me tottaly degraded from 1.01, when i played on mostly ultra. then i delete user.settings and user.settings.bak file and once again playing on almost ultra. some parameters dissapered from config, but i didn't make a copy, so i can't tell you witch excactly. try it, maybe it help you too

 

[steveoh9286]

I have an Asus 970 Strx graphics card and a 4790k as well as 32GB RAMl, though I have the game installed on an HDD instead of my SSD (default settings in Steam/GOG) I have noticed some slight performance decreases, and quite a bit more pop ins after 1.05. I should mention however that I can still run everything at Ultra at 2560x1440 and it's still very playable, but definitely doesn't feel as polished as 1.04 did.

 

[flea.]

1.05 was unplayable for me, back on 1.03 now with ultra settings.
please fix the game, don't make it run like crap.

 

[VikingDream]

I rolled back to 1.03 at the weekend after 1.05 didn't fix the bugs in 1.04 and i've logged 25 hours so far and it's been all good apart from 1 necker spawn the neckers didn't spawn but that's ok it's not game breaking.

 

[Black_Iris]

Patch 1.05 actually degraded game performance for me rather than improving it for literally every item they listed as being improved in the change log.

1. Camera stutters more now, much jerkier
2. mounting the horse is more difficult and buggy
3. horse's movement is harder to control and seems to want to make big circles around stuff
4. Geralt's movement is more difficult wanting to make big circles around stuff instead of turning to face it directly
5. combat responsiveness is even worse, doesn't always respond to w,a,s,d,q, or rolls
6. often continues to hit a mob when you are pressing to roll away or q for a sign
7. vitality regeneration severely dropped where you have to stay out of combat for 1-2mins with swallow and a food both going just to fill up(so bad i died to a bleed with both swallow and food actively regenning)
8. visibility of tracks and scents is now more difficult (i changed no settings)
9. game is randomly crashing to desktop with no error messages; never had that happen before 1.05
10. cutscenes seem to perform worse now and stutter
11. mouse and keyboard sensitivity options are missing
12. responsiveness to key commands has declined both in and out of combat
13. Geralt randomly puts his sword away in fights now or never pulls it out; never happened before to me

I wish I could roll back to 1.04

3. Always been this way and it is realistic.
5. Do you have vsync enabled or you play in borderless window?
6. Idem.
7. No change in vitality regeneration that I know of.
11. Yeah. I wonder where that's gone too.

For your problems with stutters etc. have you tried deleting the user.settings altogheter and have the game recreate it anew? When patches change graphical options is a good norm to reset everything so that there are no remnants causing possible problems.

One request:
For the love of god, pleeeeeaaaasse make auto face in combat breakable, an option we can turn of

Yeah. This one I definitely agree too. It will resolve practically all the problems the combat has. A toggle for it is indispensable. You can grow accustomed to the soft lock but it is a burden because many times it is completely random the direction you will face as it totally depends on the enemy that attacks you, so if you, for example, have already initiated a combat move and then the camera switches you will in the best case miss and in the worst go in the middle of an enemy attack with bad consequences.

 

[TheWarBat]

Patch 1.05 actually degraded game performance for me rather than improving it for literally every item they listed as being improved in the change log.

1. Camera stutters more now, much jerkier
2. mounting the horse is more difficult and buggy
3. horse's movement is harder to control and seems to want to make big circles around stuff
4. Geralt's movement is more difficult wanting to make big circles around stuff instead of turning to face it directly
5. combat responsiveness is even worse, doesn't always respond to w,a,s,d,q, or rolls
6. often continues to hit a mob when you are pressing to roll away or q for a sign
7. vitality regeneration severely dropped where you have to stay out of combat for 1-2mins with swallow and a food both going just to fill up(so bad i died to a bleed with both swallow and food actively regenning)
8. visibility of tracks and scents is now more difficult (i changed no settings)
9. game is randomly crashing to desktop with no error messages; never had that happen before 1.05
10. cutscenes seem to perform worse now and stutter
11. mouse and keyboard sensitivity options are missing
12. responsiveness to key commands has declined both in and out of combat
13. Geralt randomly puts his sword away in fights now or never pulls it out; never happened before to me

1. Camera is nice just from the beginning. Any video proof?
2. I have played around 100 hours - it's buggy a bit (4-5 times) and very easy. Video proof again?
3. It's OK, it's called physics.
4. Probably you forgot to use your mouse? No problems for me. Proof?
5-6. One click - one hit, stop spamming your mouse. Responsiveness is OK. Proof?
7. Never happened. Proof?
8. It remains the same. Any comparison? Proof?
9. My game has NEVER crashed since it was released. May be Bandicam/FRAPS for more proof?
10. Cutscenes are now much better - it was the only place where i had framedrops, now it's almost (in ~90%) perfect.
11. Keyboard sensivity? What the hell is that?
12. Just your stupid words, nothing else. It's all OK for me.
13. It's not random.

Stop blame developers, with every patch game become much more better.
If you have REAL problem - post it with proof like video or screenshot.

 

[jeradl]

War I don't know what game you are playing but every one of your comments is in total contradiction to what everyone else is reporting. People have been reporting responsiveness problems with geralt and the horse since the game came out. The devs have even said themselves in the patch notes Geralt has been randomly putting the sword away and they were trying to fix it so where you get off denying that I don't know. As for all your proof junk try looking at the profile and going to the youtube channel to view over 150 hours of proof. Helps to look before denying everything just because you don't think it happened to you. These ARE real problems you just seem to be in some other world separate from the rest of us. Look at all the posts above. Great game but the last patch was bad.

 

[ketxxx]

I'll step in to this boat too. I haven't had a single crash and I'm playing with everything on ultra except for where I've tweaked grass density manually to 1850 (not quite high setting) and manually changed shadow resolution to 2k instead of 3k. I average about 45FPS with hairworks on (16x tessellation) but performance does feel very unpolished. Patch 1.05 also completely screwed up mutagen creation for me not letting me convert any lesser mutagens in to anything more powerful if I already have a more powerful mutagen in my inventory. I swear, patch 1.05 broke more than it fixed as I didn't have that mutagen problem with 1.04.

For the record;

Installed Witcher 3, started playing patched up to 1.04 (I waited for patches before buying as I heard the game is buggy as hell)

System:

Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
HD7970 @ 1200 \ 6700 & Catalyst 15.5
i5 3570k @ 4.5GHz

So far, given the absolutely terrible UI in the game, all the bugs and other gameplay related stuff ( eg; weapons \ armour requiring a certain level before you can use them, WTF?) I'm extremely glad I only payed £20 for the game. If I had paid the launch price of £40 or so I would of been absolutely furious.

 

[thelostdunmer]

been playing 1.05 on mid/high settings, cause perfomance for me tottaly degraded from 1.01, when i played on mostly ultra. then i delete user.settings and user.settings.bak file and once again playing on almost ultra. some parameters dissapered from config, but i didn't make a copy, so i can't tell you witch excactly. try it, maybe it help you too

That's what I usually do when a new update is installed. Suffered only one CTD after 24 hours of gameplay. Problem is, game's getting weirder and weirder every time a new patch is issued.

 

[svichupocentru]

That's what I usually do when a new update is installed. Suffered only one CTD after 24 hours of gameplay. Problem is, game's getting weirder and weirder every time a new patch is issued.

CTDs are defenitely happens less often now, yes. usually i can play for couple of hours without a single crash, but yesterday i have a driver crash just before loading main menu, lol. so, i guess, it just completly random now. sometimes you lucky, sometimes - not.

 

[Peanuckle]

How do you roll back to an earlier patch? Uninstall the game and only install the specific patch? Or is there an easier way to do it?

 

[makma055]

CTDs are defenitely happens less often now, yes. usually i can play for couple of hours without a single crash, but yesterday i have a driver crash just before loading main menu, lol. so, i guess, it just completly random now. sometimes you lucky, sometimes - not.

(bad english )same here and something i had been though :

- had a BSOD once
- feel more lag than last patch , cut scene too
- hit mobs and no sound just a number popping above they head and stand there just like nothing happend to them no stagger ??
- "focus" had no effected after i save game - remove it - equip it again nothings happend no increase sign or anything . first time i use it , my sign increase to 34% now it just 7% equip or not it just like that :mean:
- mutagens just like before after save it not working and what my green mutagen doesn't add 50 hp to my adreanaline ??

 

[Dude27]

GTX 960, playing on ultra with sweet fx on a 1280x1024
Having stable ~45 FPS.. No stutters, no lags. Zero CTDs, 80 hours in.

Please fix your PC.

LOD glitches and textures flickering aren't perfomance related. That problem is not on your side - it requires patching from devs.