The Witcher 3 HairWorks on AMD GPUs With Normal Performance

If you have an AMD graphics card and want to run The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with HairWorks enabled, here's a nice tweak originating from our own forums.

It seems that the performance trade-off with HairWorks enabled takes a huge toll specifically on AMD cards. However by decreasing tessellation you can get to very normal numbers.

All you need to do is this:

Create a profile for witcher3.exe in your Catalyst Control Center
Set Tessellation Mode to “Override application settings”
Set the Maximum Tessellation Level to either 2x, 4x, 8x or 16x.

We would recommend against using 2x as it severely reduces quality and looks terrible. Here’s a comparison photo that lets you see the differences between 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x tessellation levels. AMD users have a way of enjoying The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with the Nvidia HairWorks feature enabled and actually getting better performance than GeForce users not using a Maxwell architecture Nvidia GPU. It seems a bit ironic but exciting nonetheless.

Printed from: https://www.guru3d.com/story/the-witcher-3-hairworks-on-amd-gpus-with-normal-performance/