Witcher 3-Performance on mobile GPUs

[uthvag]

@uthvag

my framerate at high settings is at 20-24 fps
so i changed most into medium to raise the fps and find that medium settings are the lowest setting i can accept without sacrificing the view of the beautiful countryside.(fps 27-30)

although i cant truly notice the difference in gameplay between medium and high. it feels the same to me. i must be easy to please.
someday though, i'd convince my husband to build me a pc that can "stand the test of time". I've only played pc games on laptop since forever.


---edit---

well, this topic actually made me try to find the best option for me. normally my husband does it...but today he said NO. reasoning that i have to learn on my own.

anyway, this the setting i'll be using all throughout, great to look at and a little bit smoother.

Graphics
Resolution: 1600x900/Full screen
Hairworks off
Shadow Quality/Water Quality: low (these arent too important to me, not spending too much time in water)
Terrain Quality/Grass Density/Foliage Visibility: Medium
Detail Level/Texture Detail: Ultra (ultimately, Geralt is the most important thing in this game, he needs the details. i can actually see the details of his chainmail, amazing!)
Num of Background Char: Ultrra (might change when I get to novigrad)

Post Processing
Sharpening and Light shaft ON.
The rest are OFF.

FPS is now at 30 more or less.

i recommend turining textures and details to high (no difference in quality). num of background characters to low (low is 75 ppl and ultra is 150)

 

[portcullis_sk]

It should perform better then my 7730M.
Not too much better, but maybe enough for 30fps on 1366x768 and low/medium settings?

I knew I was in for a tweak, but no idea where to start.

 

[uthvag]

Im getting pretty terrible performance on my Lenovo y510p. Cant get a steady 30 fps with everything turned down to the bear minimum. It has a 755m sli, i5-4200, 6gb Ram

sli profile on? 775sli is as good as the 860m

---------- Updated at 12:35 PM ----------

I knew I was in for a tweak, but no idea where to start.

look at the fist post , i have linked it

 

[MomoSinX]

Just confirming that I get 20-25 fps with the first low ini tweak at 1024-768 (GT555M). 30 fps was with the second one in 640x480 but since the mouse is not locked in custom resolutions it's unplayable because of it that's why I went back to 1024 and the first ini. The extra 5 average fps wasn't worth the resolution downgrade. Also, every Nvidia user should kill the streamer service of Gforce Expreience because it eats performance in EVERY game, unless you have a SHIELD to stream to it's 100000% pointless.

 

[Philby]

a friend just took the plunge with his laptop:

"Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600, and my Intel Core i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.4GHz"

he is reporting the game runs nice on medium settings, presumably at a pretty low resolution.

So hope that helps, if that's the kind of thing you were after?

 

[papnaruto]

a friend just took the plunge with his laptop:

"Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600, and my Intel Core i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.4GHz"

he is reporting the game runs nice on medium settings, presumably at a pretty low resolution.

So hope that helps, if that's the kind of thing you were after?

There is no freaking way TW3 is running nice on a HD 4600, regardless of the resolution.

 

[portcullis_sk]

There is no freaking way TW3 is running nice on a HD 4600, regardless of the resolution.

GT740M is working fine for this little black duck.

a friend just took the plunge with his laptop:

"Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600, and my Intel Core i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.4GHz"

he is reporting the game runs nice on medium settings, presumably at a pretty low resolution.

So hope that helps, if that's the kind of thing you were after?

yeah dialed it back to medium: 1440x900 + 30fps. Shedloads better, still not perfect but a million percent better.
Spending that extra couple of hundred at scorptec was worth it.

 

[Philby]

There is no freaking way TW3 is running nice on a HD 4600, regardless of the resolution.

i'm running it on a radeon 7750 which is below minimum spec and it goes pretty good. discreet desktop card is different situation but shows what could be possible. i trust him enough that he wouldn't make it up after our chat but who knows

 

[vladgiurgiubv]

MSI GT60 0ND
i7 3630QM
GTX 675mx 4GB overclocked +135Mhz(GPU) +500Mhz (Memory)
8GB Ram
on SSD
latest drivers etc. (tried older aswell: same results...I tried one from feb. 2014 and it runs exactly the same....I can´t figure out how or why?)

1600x900 everything on low:
30-35 fps outside village
24-28 fps inside village

1600x900 everything on medium (hairworks off etc):
30-33 fps outside village
23-26 fps inside village

huh??... details don´t impact performance
and really.... under 30 fps with this?

1920x1080 everything on low:
25-28 fps outside village
20-22 fps inside village

Verdict: NOT playable

any advice?
How come a gtx680m does MUCH better? (i know it is supposed to do better but come on...)
Very sad!

 

[ssjchiel]

I hope someone can help me, becaus I`m going insane. I van`t seem to get my game above 20-25 fps, it doesn`t seem to matter what I do.
Can someone please tell me which of the following stats are my problem, and how I may solve it.

My laptop is a asus n750JK

Processor
Intel Core i7-4700HQ 2.4 GHz (Intel Core i7)
Graphics adapter
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M - 2048 MB, DDR3, 332.35
Memory
8192 MB
, PC3-12800 DDR3

Thank in advance, hope somebody can help me out here

 

[uthvag]

I hope someone can help me, becaus I`m going insane. I van`t seem to get my game above 20-25 fps, it doesn`t seem to matter what I do.
Can someone please tell me which of the following stats are my problem, and how I may solve it.

My laptop is a asus n750JK

Processor
Intel Core i7-4700HQ 2.4 GHz (Intel Core i7)
Graphics adapter
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M - 2048 MB, DDR3, 332.35
Memory
8192 MB
, PC3-12800 DDR3

Thank in advance, hope somebody can help me out here

mate if your driver is really 332.35 update it...... long overdue

Also , searh in this thread , there was someone who got 30fps in medium or something similar

 

[yatin]

any advice?
How come a gtx680m does MUCH better? (i know it is supposed to do better but come on...)
Very sad!

Its possible your hitting thermal throttling. I was having an issue a while back with DA:I, the card was hitting upwards of 95C. So I disassembled the laptop and cleaned the innards, mainly the heat sink and fan. Also I put in new thermal paste to both CPU and GPU. Now I make sure the fan exhaust are is not blocked and I raised the laptop using a box.

 

[vladgiurgiubv]

Its possible your hitting thermal throttling. I was having an issue a while back with DA:I, the card was hitting upwards of 95C. So I disassembled the laptop and cleaned the innards, mainly the heat sink and fan. Also I put in new thermal paste to both CPU and GPU. Now I make sure the fan exhaust are is not blocked and I raised the laptop using a box.

that is another weird.... gpu is 99% but stays at 80C...(with turbo fan at maximum)...in DA:I gpu was 95% and temp was 87C
I don´t know why...but it doesn´t get hot enought??? huh???

EDIT: low fps even when gpu is at 50C ...when I start the game...so I´m pretty sure it´s not thermal throttling

 

[uthvag]

that is another weird.... gpu is 99% but stays at 80C...(with turbo fan at maximum)...in DA:I gpu was 95% and temp was 87C
I don´t know why...but it doesn´t get hot enought??? huh???

EDIT: low fps even when gpu is at 50C ...when I start the game...so I´m pretty sure it´s not thermal throttling

30 fps is playable man .... can you give me the equivalent of your gpu wit that oc?

 

[vladgiurgiubv]

30 fps is playable man .... can you give me the equivalent of your gpu wit that oc?

It´s not really playable because it dosen´t hold 30 fps...not even 720p gives me stable 30fps... which is very bad

And it´s only playable with vsync on because if off-> stuttering etc....but even with 720p when it drops to 27 fps you get input lag....and adaptive vsync is not working on mobile gpu at 1/2 refresh rate

So there is nothing I can do

But the strange thing is...900p vs 720p almost the same fps....low detail vs medium almost the same fps....How come???
Another strange thing is... tried a driver from feb 2014 and the performance was EXACTLY the same How come???

I figure it (+overclock) should be around the GTX 680m...so maybe around GTX 660...I think this is a good estimate

 

[sfinx]

So far I just tried this game on laptop.
NVidia 820M 4GB ; i5-4210U;
8GB ram; Win 8.

I didn't try that edited config file yet (I need permission to download it) and now I have just up to 14 FPS.

 

[uthvag]

It´s not really playable because it dosen´t hold 30 fps...not even 720p gives me stable 30fps... which is very bad

And it´s only playable with vsync on because if off-> stuttering etc....but even with 720p when it drops to 27 fps you get input lag....and adaptive vsync is not working on mobile gpu at 1/2 refresh rate

So there is nothing I can do

But the strange thing is...900p vs 720p almost the same fps....low detail vs medium almost the same fps....How come???
Another strange thing is... tried a driver from feb 2014 and the performance was EXACTLY the same How come???

I figure it should be around the GTX 680m...so maybe around GTX 660...I think this is a good estimate

mate check your CPU temps....sounds like cpu bottlencek due to its thermal throttling

little changes in fps while changing graphical settings almost always means cpu bottleneck (you have a decent one ,so throttling might be it)

use msi afterburners graphs, always better

---------- Updated at 04:06 PM ----------

So far I just tried this game on laptop.
NVidia 820M 4GB ; i5-4210U;
8GB ram; Win 8.

I didn't try that edited config file yet (I need permission to download it) and now I have just up to 14 FPS.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1crdHqYGJGYbEt6aXBzcGE4MEE/view

v 0.2

 

[vladgiurgiubv]

mate check your CPU temps....sounds like cpu bottlencek due to its thermal throttling

little changes in fps while changing graphical settings almost always means cpu bottleneck (you have a decent one ,so throttling might be it)

use msi afterburners graphs, always better

what temp is the CPU throttling? (CPU stays around 40% so I think it should not be a problem...but I´m going to test in now)
can the CPU temp get in 3 seconds that high?...because I get low fps the moment I am in-game....
btw. heatsink is the same for CPU and GPU

Moreover, I disabled 4 CPUs in the task manager and the game ran with the same FPS only more load on the 4 remaining CPUs

So I guess CPU thermal throttling is also improbable...but i´m going to check

 

[MomoSinX]

It´s not really playable because it dosen´t hold 30 fps...not even 720p gives me stable 30fps... which is very bad

And it´s only playable with vsync on because if off-> stuttering etc....but even with 720p when it drops to 27 fps you get input lag....and adaptive vsync is not working on mobile gpu at 1/2 refresh rate

So there is nothing I can do

But the strange thing is...900p vs 720p almost the same fps....low detail vs medium almost the same fps....How come???
Another strange thing is... tried a driver from feb 2014 and the performance was EXACTLY the same How come???

I figure it (+overclock) should be around the GTX 680m...so maybe around GTX 660...I think this is a good estimate

What's your CPU? Every mobile processor has its own throttle set at a certain degree. Mine starts at 100 celsius (i5) but luckily I never hit that... When I had an i3 now that was pure hell because the throttle there was 85 and I did hit that quite often. Also, try putting two bottle cups under your laptop, it will have more space for air. I found this better than a cooling pad. EVERY laptop is set ridiculously low, no wonder most of them overheat.. The problem is often not shitty cooling but shitty air flow.

 

[uthvag]

what temp is the CPU throttling? (CPU stays around 40% so I think it should not be a problem...but I´m going to test in now)
can the CPU temp get in 3 seconds that high?...because I get low fps the moment I am in-game....
btw. heatsink is the same for CPU and GPU

Moreover, I disabled 4 CPUs in the task manager and the game ran with the same FPS only more load on the 4 remaining CPUs

So I guess CPU thermal throttling is also improbable...but i´m going to check

around 90 C (noticable ones occour over 95)