Low Performance with the Witcher 2 on good System.

[LordBelakor]

Low Performance with the Witcher 2 on good System.

Hello dear CD Project RED!

I own a good Laptop with an Nvidia GTX660M. It is not the best but it can run Crysis and Battlefield on it on Full HD.
However with TW2 I am experiencing a Problem.No matter how low I set the graphic options I dont get more than 25 fps in the tutorial area. And the weird thing is that changing the graphic options has close to no impact, meaning that with high options I also have arount 25 fps there. My graphics drivers are updated, except for the PhysiX driver which always fail. However this game does not use PhysiX so that souldnt be an issue. Also I am using the Combat Rebalance 2 Mod, the dynamic HUD Mod and Better Texture Environment Mod. I simply dont know what the problem might be as I also have every sort of antivirus turned off, so I would really appreciate your help, as I really loved TW1 and I would not want to miss out on TW2 but in its current state it is unplayable for me.

 

[GuyNwah]

This game demands a lot from the GPU, more so than just about any other game on the market. The Crysis and Battlefield games are much less demanding. The 660M isn't enough GPU to handle the game at full 1920x1080 resolution. It's equivalent to a desktop 650, but slower, and that won't do high frame rate at full resolution either. Game performance depends more on resolution than settings, except for some expensive options like Ubersampling and Cinematic DOF. So you have to trade resolution for frame rate, not low-medium-high settings.

Also, play the game without mods until you have established workable settings. Mods like FCR2 make the game even more demanding and cut into your frame rate even more.

 

[yandownie]

check you dont have verticle sync enabled in both the witcher graphics options and in the nvidia control panel.AS a benchmark my gtx460 gives around 30-50fps @ 1400x900.
do you play with the mains plug in, that can slow the card down if your on battery only, check your power options for the laptop, somethings most likely set to throttle the card back?

 

[LordBelakor]

This game demands a lot from the GPU, more so than just about any other game on the market. The Crysis and Battlefield games are much less demanding. The 660M isn't enough GPU to handle the game at full 1920x1080 resolution. It's equivalent to a desktop 650, but slower, and that won't do high frame rate at full resolution either. Game performance depends more on resolution than settings, except for some expensive options like Ubersampling and Cinematic DOF. So you have to trade resolution for frame rate, not low-medium-high settings.

Also, play the game without mods until you have established workable settings. Mods like FCR2 make the game even more demanding and cut into your frame rate even more.

Thank you for the advice! I havent come around to it till today so I apologize for the late answer. I reinstalled the game without any mods and set the Resolution on 1366x768. On the area I had 25 fps previously at the very start of the Tutorial I have 40-45 now and the lowest it drops down to is 29 at the mini-forest right ahead.However when talking to the man that is wounded there it drops down to 20 fps when it Geralt is speaking. All in all I would say it is barely playable now but I still think it demands a bit too much, there should be more possible. The game looks beatifull indeed but I think it demands a bit too much for its beauty. Might still be something wrong with my Laptop that needs to be fixed...

 

[Dprelate]

First of all make sure that your 660M is set to default for all programs. (some laptops have integrated GPU) and then check Nvidia control panel to see if all 3D settings are set to "application settings".

Then you can try one or some these things:
- set texture downscaling to low.
- disable "Depth of Field - Gameplay"
- if your 660M memory is good then set "texture memory size" to very large.
- you should be fine with "Shadow Quality" & "Number of Shadowed Lights" set to high, but if not decrease them.
- if you're having problem during talks or something like that, disable "Cinematic Depth of Field"

 

[LordBelakor]

First of all make sure that your 660M is set to default for all programs. (some laptops have integrated GPU) and then check Nvidia control panel to see if all 3D settings are set to "application settings".

Then you can try one or some these things:
- set texture downscaling to low.
- disable "Depth of Field - Gameplay"
- if your 660M memory is good then set "texture memory size" to very large.
- you should be fine with "Shadow Quality" & "Number of Shadowed Lights" set to high, but if not decrease them.
- if you're having problem during talks or something like that, disable "Cinematic Depth of Field"

I had this options all already set. Btw which options takes the flickering produced by the anti-aliasing away? You know when everything is flickering weirdly when you move...

 

[Dprelate]

which options takes the flickering produced by the anti-aliasing away? You know when everything is flickering weirdly when you move...

Not sure I'm following you but sounds more like a driver problem.

 

[LordBelakor]

Not sure I'm following you but sounds more like a driver problem.

Its not a driver problem, I dont know how to call it it is a small shimmer, glimmer you can see it most on geralts hair as he is constantly in motion even when standing still. And the his hair kind of shimmers in a way. Many games have it and I think I solved that problem in Skyrim by enabling Transparency AA in the Nvidia Panel.

 

[GuyNwah]

Its not a driver problem, I dont know how to call it it is a small shimmer, glimmer you can see it most on geralts hair as he is constantly in motion even when standing still. And the his hair kind of shimmers in a way. Many games have it and I think I solved that problem in Skyrim by enabling Transparency AA in the Nvidia Panel.

If it's what I think you mean, you can see it especially strongly early in the Prologue, on the floorboards of the castle defenses. I have found no cure for it, not even antialiasing or ubersampling, so I suspect a shader problem underlies it, but that's just a wild guess. It's definitely to do with the game, not a driver defect.