Patch 1.04 lowered visuals in some areas.

[IronyTaken]

Patch 1.04 lowered visuals in some areas.

Aside from messing with the sharpening and making it way over done I noticed going from 1.03 to 1.04 dropped the visuals in some areas.
Characters in the distance will be rendered in a frozen model pose with arms out.
shadows a short distance away will cast from objects but not models.
And texture pop in on characters is even worse. You have to be within 3-4 feet of the character before it goes from a big smear to a detailed texture.

I took some screenshots to show what I mean.
Even forcing settings to go beyond ultra doesn't fix the issue for me.

 

[jim_uk]

I think I'm going to give this patch a miss, the odd cutscene crash aside the game is working fine for me. The feedback here isn't very positive http://thewitcher.com/news/view/1043

 

[AussieDad075]

Oh no I'm gonna go and burn my copy of W3 now / end sarcasm. You PC graphix Elitists make me sad, go and enjoy the game like 99.9 percent of us are and stop nitpicking and comparing screenshots trying to find faults!

 

[IronyTaken]

I think I'm going to give this patch a miss, the odd cutscene crash aside the game is working fine for me. The feedback here isn't very positive http://thewitcher.com/news/view/1043

Wow it looks like I am going to roll back to 1.02 or 1.03.
Hopefully 1.05 doesn't downgrade it further and make the sharpening even more overexaggerated.

 

[gregski]

Please discuss patch 1.04 in the respective thread in NEWS section. Closing this.