The Witcher 3 Graphics Performance Review - The Story Prologue

The prologue (wiki)

The setting is more than "30 times larger" than previous Witcher games, requiring players to sail by boat to some locations and ride by horseback to others. However, fast travelling around the areas of known locations is also possible.The Witcher 3 has been described as "20% bigger than Skyrim".

The Plot

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt concludes the story of the witcher Geralt of Rivia, the series' protagonist, whose story to date has been covered in the previous versions. Continuing from The Witcher 2, the ones who sought to use Geralt are now gone. Geralt seeks to move on with his own life, embarking on a new and personal mission whilst the world order itself is coming to a change. Geralt's new mission comes in dark times as the mysterious and otherworldly army known as the Wild Hunt invades the Northern Kingdoms, leaving only blood soaked earth and fiery ruin in its wake; and it seems the Witcher is the key to stopping their cataclysmic rampage.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will feature the new REDengine 3 game engine, developed by CD Projekt RED and designed specifically for nonlinear role-playing video games set in vast open world environments. It is supposed to help eliminate many of the game development trade-offs previous developers faced, allowing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developers to create "an open environment with a complex, multi-thread story". CD Projekt RED has integrated the Umbra 3 Visibility Solution into its engine to handle occlusion culling. Engineers from Umbra and CDP demonstrated the use of the technology at the Game Developers Conference 2014.[28] As in the previous two Witcher games, players are presented with a complex story featuring multiple choices bearing associated consequences. But REDengine allows for a complex story line without sacrificing the design of the virtual world. Consequently, The Witcher 3 features no loading screens, providing players a vast visual environment that allows players to freely explore and roam.

Can my PC play this game ?

If you’re planning on cranking up your display settings to the maximum, make sure your gaming rig has what it takes.  The game looks pretty nice with your average settings. According to the official specs, PC gamers will need at least 6GB of RAM, a DX11 GPU and 40GB of free HDD space.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - PC Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements

• CPU: Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz or AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
• GPU: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 or AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
• RAM: 6GB
• OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
• DirectX: DirectX 11
• HDD Space: 40 GB

Recommended System Requirements

• CPU: Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3,4 GHz or AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
• GPU: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770 or AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
• RAM: 8GB
• OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
• DirectX: DirectX 11
• HDD Space: 40 GB