The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - PC System Requirements are here!

[IrregularJohn]

Already posted this in the Hairy Bear but decided to post it here as well. Might help some people wit their purchase decisions. A small "tech report" regarding Novigrad.

Reached Novigrad and was expecting a noticeable hit on frame rates there (as performance previews have suggested) but it turns out that unlike most areas in the game which are very much GPU bound, in Novigrad you really do benefit from having an overclocked i7. My 8 threads peak at 90+ % usage with steady 60 frames per second. Lesser CPUs will most likely struggle with this area.

Would be interesting to hear what kind of performance people are having with i5s and AMD CPUs. Especially the former to see how well the game is actually utilizing HT.

I have a regular i7-4790, hoping it will take it just fine. At the moment with everything on ultra (except with shadows on high and motion blur+depth of field turned off) I get 42-48 fps on a single 970 with a slight overclock on 1920x1080.

By the way do you guys think a draw distance could be even bigger?

 

[eskiMoe]

I have a regular i7-4790, hoping it will take it just fine. At the moment with everything on ultra (except with shadows on high and motion blur+depth of field turned off) I get 42-48 fps on a single 970 with a slight overclock on 1920x1080.

I doubt you run into issues with a 4790.

By the way do you guys think a draw distance could be even bigger?

You can (among other things) tweak the draw distance in the game.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...ormance-and-tweaking-guide#config-file-tweaks

 

[IrregularJohn]

You can (among other things) tweak the draw distance in the game.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...ormance-and-tweaking-guide#config-file-tweaks

Is it the DecalsHideDistance in the [LevelOfDetail] section?

 

[eskiMoe]

Is it the DecalsHideDistance in the [LevelOfDetail]section?

If you're having trouble ask here for help.

 

[justin19977]

Guys can i run this game on low or medium with this? :
AMD A10-5800K APU with Radeon HD grapics 3,80 Ghz
AMD Radeon HD 7660D
8GB RAM
Directx11
64-bit windows 7

 

[Skolia]

Below Minimum Specs and Running Fine

Just wanted to post my specs which are partially below minimum and I'm running the game fine.
I'll include my specs and my settings in case someone with a similar setup wants to give it a go.

I get (measured with fraps) 30 fps more or less all the time (and I have 30 set to be max).
I get the occasional pop up or slowdown but I think the latter is more my HDD.


My system:
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
GeForce GTX 580
8GB RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1

Witcher 3 Settings:

Postprocessing:

Motion Blur: OFF (dislike it)
Blur: ON
Anti-aliasing: ON (usually dislike but CDPR's implementation is good)
Bloom: ON
Sharpening: LOW
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+
Depth of Field: ON
Chromatic Aberration: ON
Vignetting: ON
Light Shafts: ON


Graphics:

VSync: ON
Max FPS: 30
Resolution: 1920x1200 (full screen)
NVIDIA HairWorks: OFF
Number of Background Characters: MEDIUM
Shadow Quality: HIGH
Terrain Quality: MEDIUM
Water Quality: HIGH
Grass Density: MEDIUM
Texture Quality: MEDIUM
Foliage Visibility Range: MEDIUM
Detail Level: MEDIUM
Hardware Cursor: ON

 

[Atalon]

The System-requirements are given to play in FULL high resolution. The suggested requirements are to play in HIGHEST resolution.
It is possible to play the game with lower equipment. E.g. I'm playing it on a core 2 duo E6750 with 2.67 GHz + 6 GB RAM and it works fine on middle to high resolution.

There are some lags within the game, but the loading times are still acceptable.

 

[URJoking]

Thanx Lieste, sorry for the late response, still getting the hang of these forum notifications!
Fortunately I'm able to run W3 just fine on most Ultra settings with a few hungry settings on high, med & low. I always had confidence in my rig & it's come up trumps again, tho it is running both the CPU & GPU at 100% some of the time. Fortunately I've got good cooling!

 

[GuyNwah]

Just wanted to post my specs which are partially below minimum and I'm running the game fine.
I'll include my specs and my settings in case someone with a similar setup wants to give it a go.

I get (measured with fraps) 30 fps more or less all the time (and I have 30 set to be max).
I get the occasional pop up or slowdown but I think the latter is more my HDD.


My system:
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
GeForce GTX 580
8GB RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1

(snip)

Good result, thanks for posting it. I might quibble that a GTX 580 isn't really below minimum spec, and on the right load it can blow the magic smoke off the minimum 660, but it's another good indication that Fermi cards are not really handicapped in this game.

 

[johnduca]

I am planning to buy this

I want to buy this game in the coming weeks but I saw it's exagerrated system specs(bad optimization?). Did the graphics downgrade changed that?
My rig : i5 4690k 3.5 ghz , gtx 660 2 gb , 8 gb ram is enough to play this at good looking settings? I dont want to play on low settings as i play games just as beautiful as this one on max.

 

[BarikMorloc]

Yah your computer will be able to run it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM0IcpvgFV4

With the settings that player uses you will be able to play around 45 fps on a 1600x900 resolution.

---------- Updated at 04:31 PM ----------

Most of his textures are set on ultra with these changes to improve FPS

Disable the crap option known as Nvidia hairworks 10+ fps


put Shadow on medium 6+ fps


Disable AA 10+ fps


put on High instead of ultra (WITH THE CUSTOM SETTINGS ABOVE) 5+ fps


Finally Turn off Vsync.....10+ fps

 

[avham82]

I want to buy this game in the coming weeks but I saw it's exagerrated system specs(bad optimization?). Did the graphics downgrade changed that?
My rig : i5 4690k 3.5 ghz , gtx 660 2 gb , 8 gb ram is enough to play this at good looking settings? I dont want to play on low settings as i play games just as beautiful as this one on max.

Hi

I have 3570K 3.4 Ghz, GTX 670, 8Gb ram. Game looks good and runs without a hitch. Resolution 1920x1080.

I used settings provided by this guide: http://www.tentonhammer.com/guides/witcher-iii-wild-hunt/witcher-iii-videographics-tweak-guide

Hope this helps!

 

[johnduca]

Thank you for the answers guys