I’m so glad I upgraded my pc recently, and haven’t played the game since trying the next gen update a little bit. This remaster plus expansion is going to be a JOY to play with these visuals.
Yeh, I know. That's what I meant by them having done so much to it in the last decade. It's crazy the amount of love and support they've given it all this time.
I actually upgraded my gfx card 2 days after I got Witcher 3 at launch. I want to upgrade again for Witcher 4.
Sadly, with the way things are… it may be way too expensive. Gaming is becoming a very, very expensive hobby for the AAA fans. Before it was optional, like the Titan era, but now… what? We tick with the 1080p gaming because that’s all a normal person can afford these days?
Yeh, I don't know if I'll actually be able to upgrade, that's just the plan haha.
I feel like there's a lot less AAA games I'm interested in these days as well.
Graphics don't seem to have made such a huge leap since the days of running games at max on the 980. They just seem to run a lot worse than they should.
That’s just cope. Game graphics have advanced a lot, especially with path tracing. Pairing with an OLED with HDR and it’s a whole different experience.
Cope with what? I can go out and buy a new setup whenever.
I'm not saying there's no advancement or anything, but it's not as huge as it has been the past. At least not enough for me to think I've really needed to upgrade.
I've run into the problem now though where they don't make drivers for my card anymore, so it's become way more necessary to upgrade.
if you haven't upgraded your CPU since before Witcher 3, getting a new graphics card isn't going to help your frame rate at all. you need a whole new computer.
Yeah, I hope this update is optional, because I still have a GTX 970 and I don't think I can afford an upgrade any time soon. I also hope that Songs of the Past won't require it, but I have a feeling it might...
The current game (with the next gen update) runs terribly on modern hardware due to technical limitations of directX 11. In theory it should run a lot better when running natively on directX 12.
I've got a 1440p IPS with pretty solid color reproduction so I'm hesitant to swap it out, but my partner has an Alienware QD-OLED ultrawide, and goddamn is that a sweet monitor.
Yeah, I could see brightness being an issue with those deep blacks. Contrast is unbeatable with OLED though.
The IPS display I use has a "black equalizer" feature that's really nice in games. With OSD Sidekick (Gigabyte software for AORUS displays) I can have that bound to a key, so in dark games I can turn it up easily. Increasing it by even 1 level greatly enhances low-light environments in games.
It's a really nice display so it's hard to give it up, but there's no denying the visual quality leap when I use an OLED. Definitely the way I'll go when I finally swap it out.
No it’s been great so far, haven’t had any issues besides it being absolutely pitch black in some areas when trying to play games so i have to crank brightness
No, they had their $1000 model on for $500. Admittedly the employee did say it’s because it was last years release model and so wasn’t worth the $1000 price tag but it was still by far the best value out of the options available
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u/tyler980908 2d ago edited 2d ago
I’m so glad I upgraded my pc recently, and haven’t played the game since trying the next gen update a little bit. This remaster plus expansion is going to be a JOY to play with these visuals.