Patch 1.03 for PC now available!

[Marcin Momot]

Patch 1.03 for PC now available!

The patch 1.03 has just been released and is now available for all PC version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The update introduces a range of stability and performances ehancements as well as allows users to take advantage of some additional graphics settings. Please find the detailed list of fixes below:

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI

Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay

Fixes grass and foliage popping that could occur after density parameters were changed

Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance

Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset

Sharpen Post-process settings extended from Off/On to Off/Low/High

Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water

Corrects a bug where player was able to shoot bolts at friendly NPCs

Improves menu handling

Corrects an issue with Stamina regeneration while sprinting

Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occcured when scrolling the map

Generally improves world map focus

Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard

Corrects some missing translations in the UI

Corrects an issue in dialogue selections

Rostan Muggs is back

Minor SFX improvements

The console version of the patch is coming and will be available very soon.

 

[mxYELLOW]

Please give us quick cast soon

 

[eskiMoe]

Do old save games still work after the update?

 

[Marcin Momot]

Do old save games still work after the update?

Yes.

 

[M4xw0lf]

Any comment on how exactly Hairworks performance is improved?
(Is it similar to the tweaks going round the net, with limiting the tesselation factor and turning down the hair antialiasing?)

 

[youssif94]

will it be up on http://play.thewitcher.com/ ? or only steam/gog?

 

[AutumnalWanderer]

And downloading . Thanks for the update!

 

[gorbatschov]

Game freeze on inventory screen is fixed?

 

[Athonementh]

Still waiting for the patch on Origins

 

[sidspyker]

Any comment on how exactly Hairworks performance is improved?
(Is it similar to the tweaks going round the net, with limiting the tesselation factor and turning down the hair antialiasing?)

I turned down HairAA on the very first day on a hunch and it really doesn't affect performance too much. The tessellation factor would probably also affect water so I wouldn't do that.

 

[erxv]

with 100mbit/s internet.... downloading at 0,1mbit/s from GOG and keep getting "Server Problem" errors... have to restart gog, run game, close game for it to start downloading again

 

[Enclose]

Can someone explain me why the Patch is so big on gog galaxy with 649 mb and on gog.com only 241 mb ?

 

[M4xw0lf]

I turned down HairAA on the very first day on a hunch and it really doesn't affect performance too much. The tessellation factor would probably also affect water so I wouldn't do that.

It does when you force it in the driver, but it wouldn't if it were specified differently by Hairworks itself. Not that I think that will happen, being closed Nvidia magic and all.

 

[erxv]

is there a seperate download link somewhere? the in-gog thingy keeps getting server errors for me

 

[MemoryKill]

Getting poor download speed 0.1mbps and "server error" when updating on GOG Galaxy, update keeps on failing :\

 

[Dalkamyr]

Thank you guys for your hard work and for the quick release of this patch. There's been lots of talk about the graphics downgrade and to be honest, it is dissapointing yes, but I haven't forgotten about how I enjoyed The Witcher 2. I'm looking forward to seeing how you guys are gonna make the PC version of the game honor the trailer you released back in 2013. Because I'm sure there's a way you guys can help us PC gamers to use our 3000$+ gear to it's full potential.

Thanks again

 

[GuyNwah]

Can someone explain me why the Patch is so big on gog galaxy with 649 mb and on gog.com only 241 mb ?

Correct size appears to be 272MB. I think there's a bug in the way Galaxy figures download size, or they counted both patches or updates to the downloadable swag. Took me 8 minutes.

GOG uses Edgecast CDN, at least for regular downloads; I haven't tried Galaxy. Edgecast's servers are well provisioned, at least in North America and Europe; problems are more likely between your local loop, ISP, and Edgecast than with GOG.

 

[ch3sterrush]

God bless you! No more freezes. Finally i can enjoy the game.

 

[Frontovika]

Thank you CDPR and keep up the great work! I hope that you'll consider adding an option to sort out the quests by difficulty as well. Right now, they're all over the place in the quest journal, and it would be easier to go down the list if they're organised.

Thanks for your consideration!

 

[The_Viti]

Can you release the Playstation 4 Patch notes already? ;-)