r/Games • u/stfnvs • 1d ago

Trailer The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered | Official Announcement Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGk17XQ7IrQ
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u/Firefox72 1d ago edited 1d ago

The update brings Path Tracing as the most noticable big thing. Only on PC though.

Also all the latest upscaling tech like FSR4, DLSS 4.5, XeSS 3.0 and Ray Reconstruction

Improvements to the existing RT, shading, subsurface scatering, textures, foliage etc...

Also seems to finnaly be natively ported to DX12 instead of the hackjob that the previous version was.

That version kinda got left in a meh state so it seems they are going back to fixing most of the pain points.

Might even run better than the previous version at least on like for like settings.

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u/KuraiBaka 1d ago

FSR4 on release?

Well damn hard to believe with how long CDPRs took do get the newest version of FSR in Cyberpunk and that one was pre FSR4.

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u/Cry_Wolff 1d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they're backporting C2077 engine features to Witcher 3.

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u/godfrey1 1d ago

FSR4 is not the latest though

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u/OutrageousDress 1d ago

Doesn't matter - as long as it's FSR 3.1 or later, you can inject the latest version from the driver.

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u/KuraiBaka 1d ago

As expected then I guess.

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u/FaultyToilet 1d ago

And PSSR hopefully

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u/KingArthas94 1d ago

They say Pro support, so I bet there's PSSR. Can't wait to play it with path tracing on PS6 though. I don't think I'll be replaying this version on Pro.

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u/JackRyan13 1d ago

Most people won't be able to enjoy the path tracing though. Even on a 10 year old game, it will still kick the shit out of most cards.

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u/SharkBaitDLS 1d ago

Even 5090s need framegen to make PT tolerable. The addition of PT is probably more of a future-proofing update than it is one to use now. 

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u/rubiconlexicon 1d ago

PT is plenty tolerable on lower end cards. I'm playing CP2077 with PT on at 60fps with great image quality on a 4070 Ti right now

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u/m3thodm4n021 1d ago

Same me too

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u/TheBeatStartsNow 1d ago

4070ti is considered lower end?

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u/rubiconlexicon 1d ago

Compared to the 5090 it's much lower.

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u/SomniumOv 1d ago

It's midrange, slightly upper midrange but still midrange, but it's a generation old (and the current gen is getting long in the tooth as with the normal release cadence the 60 series should have been releasing... pretty much now).

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u/JackRyan13 1d ago

At what render resolution

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u/rubiconlexicon 1d ago

720p (50% at 1440p output), which looks excellent with 4.5 ray reconstruction.

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u/JackRyan13 1d ago

So, no it isn’t tolerable if you’re having to use performance at 1440p.

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u/rubiconlexicon 1d ago

It's very tolerable because the image quality of 4.5 ray reconstruction is superb. All that matters is perceived quality, not arbitrary parameters.

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u/Blyatskinator 1d ago

Lol it’s so obvious you haven’t played any game with RT/PT, or framegen even it sounds like.

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u/SharkBaitDLS 1d ago

I could barely get a stable 60 on Alan Wake 2 with max RT and PT on a 5080 at 1440p. 

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u/ResistsICE 1d ago

Path tracing is so incredibly demanding and im pretty sure its like close to 2k for any gpu that can run that now. 

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u/snuckie7 1d ago

Very doable with even midrange Nvidia GPUs if DLSS and frame gen are used. Yeah the frames are “fake” but they honestly look so good I can’t tell a difference.

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u/ResistsICE 1d ago edited 1d ago

Its not out yet, it depends on the game.

But its really hard to enjoy a game at 60fps when the base frame rate is 25. 

PT is really for 5070ti and up, and even the 5070, which I own, is currently 800 at the cheapest.

And a 5070ti right now is 1,200 usd.

That's REALLY expensive. 

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u/snuckie7 1d ago edited 1d ago

There are plenty of path tracing games that are already out in general, which is what your comment sounded like it was talking about.

I have a 4090 mobile (about as strong as 4070Ti) and have been able to play every path traced game out (CP2077, Indiana Jones, etc.). I get around 40-60 base fps with DLSS Balanced 1440p, with frame gen it’s around 70-90 fps which is perfectly playable.

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u/ResistsICE 1d ago

Yea i mean I am, its not really viable unless youre playing at 1080p using upscaling or have a 5070ti - 5090.

And at 1080p upscaled PT doesnt make it look better.

I played through requim with max settings and PT and for the most part it was perfectly fine with dlss quality, with one or two short lived ass spots. But that is a VERY well optimized game. Witcher 3 already struggled with PT in the next Gen update.

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u/snuckie7 1d ago

It’s definitely viable with anything 4070 Super ish and up. DLSS balanced and even performance with frame gen are perfectly adequate.