#5825758

Maddness

2020-09-04 14:19

Will be interested to try this out when I have a GPU that supports it (hopefully later this year). Also glad to see it's a free update for existing owners.

#5825760

cryohellinc

2020-09-04 14:22

I haven't even finished it, so it will be a great time to get back to the game. Great stuff, looking forward to this!

#5825763

labidas

2020-09-04 14:27

hoping for earliest prerelease marketed graphics ~2014.

#5825764

Fox2232

2020-09-04 14:30

DX-R has very few opportunities to break reflections in game which does have very few shiny surfaces. So if they focus on water shader (which does not need DX-R) and improve on it, reflections are basically done. Then GI/shadows... call it complete and release. Funny thing is that Witcher 3 is basically GPU bound even with potato CPU. So, no changes there and game may become benchmark as result.

#5825768

scoter man1

2020-09-04 14:34

labidas:

hoping for earliest prerelease marketed graphics ~2014.

With this and the halkhogan texture mods, you might be there.

#5825772

schmidtbag

2020-09-04 14:41

Pretty cool to get such an update to an old game, let alone for free.

#5825775

cryohellinc

2020-09-04 14:43

schmidtbag:

Pretty cool to get such an update to an old game, let alone for free.

"old game". I still play Mass Effect, which to me feels like it came out around 5-6 years ago.

#5825776

Alessio1989

2020-09-04 14:45

schmidtbag:

Pretty cool to get such an update to an old game, let alone for free.

With better in-house graphics than most of "new" games. And I am not talking about mods.

#5825779

fantaskarsef

2020-09-04 14:49

So maybe we get towards the graphics that were shown before the downgrade? 😀 j/k, but I wonder if they had so much time to spend on this so that CCP2077 must already be done and finished in terms of RTX implementation.

#5825782

Kool64

2020-09-04 14:55

crap I guess wish I had logged into EGS to get it free since my Steam copy is just the normal version ;/

#5825783

schmidtbag

2020-09-04 14:57

cryohellinc:

"old game". I still play Mass Effect, which to me feels like it came out around 5-6 years ago.

Witcher 3 is actually 5 years old. Meanwhile, the newest AAA title I own, excluding games with many DLC releases, is the 2013 Tomb Raider. So, I think I'm within my right to define W3 as old. It's still current, but old by a technology standpoint.

#5825798

Stormyandcold

2020-09-04 15:49

JHH said hundreds of games with RTX support are coming. TW3 with RTX would be a welcome addition to that library. In-fact, when we look at that library of games that do support RTX we see that most of them are big franchises. However, for me until FIFA gets it, then, it's not mainstream. I believe once FIFA gets it, then, every major title will also get RTX support.

#5825799

Silva

2020-09-04 15:49

I was thinking about replaying the game, guess I'll wait for the update and finish the others. Cool to see developers still supporting their old games and of course many new people who watched the series will want to try this on their brand new consoles!

#5825800

jbscotchman

2020-09-04 15:51

Wow, this is some big news!

#5825801

Denial

2020-09-04 15:52

Stormyandcold:

JHH said hundreds of games with RTX support are coming. TW3 with RTX would be a welcome addition to that library. In-fact, when we look at that library of games that do support RTX we see that most of them are big franchises. However, for me until FIFA gets it, then, it's not mainstream. I believe once FIFA gets it, then, every major title will also get RTX support.

I would take what Jens said with a grain of salt. If you go back and look at the launch lists for RT/DLSS with the 2080Ti, more than half of those games still don't have either technology. They sold cards with the idea all those games getting support. I think there will obviously be more supported games with the inclusion of RT in both RDNA2, Xe and consoles - but I doubt we will see hundreds of titles within 2 to 3 years.

#5825819

Ricepudding

2020-09-04 16:32

cryohellinc:

"old game". I still play Mass Effect, which to me feels like it came out around 5-6 years ago.

I actually just finish the triology again this week, having ALOT and ALOV mods on the game, do wonders to it. The games really do not feel as old as they are! Only issue is I keep going paragon! I find it so hard to go renegade! But maybe that is just me haha, promised myself next time ill go femshep and be evil

#5825831

nizzen

2020-09-04 17:05

Fox2232:

DX-R has very few opportunities to break reflections in game which does have very few shiny surfaces. So if they focus on water shader (which does not need DX-R) and improve on it, reflections are basically done. Then GI/shadows... call it complete and release. Funny thing is that Witcher 3 is basically GPU bound even with potato CPU. So, no changes there and game may become benchmark as result.

If you are 100% gpubound, then the game is gpubound 😉 If you have a good enough gpu, you will be cpubound. You can see this in all the 1080p benchmarks. SLI in this game works great, so you will be cpubound in 4k with 2080ti in SLI. You will see the difference in min fps, if you are cpubound. But hey, noone wants to play in 1080p in this game. 3440x1440 or 4k is the way to play in this game. Everything on Ultrasettings 😀 Can't wait to test the raytracing in this game!

#5825845

Solfaur

2020-09-04 17:50

https://media4.giphy.com/media/7eAvzJ0SBBzHy/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47f0hg0ozf0hvew0e1r4ptiy37b7myd0ydq8y82lr6&rid=giphy.gif

#5825846

Legacy-ZA

2020-09-04 17:54

This... this is how it's done CD Projekt. I will definitely play through the Witcher 3 again with RTX, I loved the atmosphere, I might get lost for a couple of weeks, don't look for me... *drools*

#5825847

warezme

2020-09-04 17:56

I'm a big fan this game, finished it twice. I would rather have a Witcher 4 but this is better than nothing. Project Red's prowess at creating realistic worlds and fun AI interaction is the only reason I preordered Cyberpunk