The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

I was playing a NG+ game about a year ago when I learned about the impending "next gen update," so I stopped playing and decided to wait, all of this time, for said update. I noticed this morning that it was available, so I updated the game and jumped in. I tried to start a new NG+ game but received nothing but compatibility errors when trying to import my Witcher 2 save. This was the beginning of the problems with this "update." My system is a 5900x/6900xt/32GB 3600MHz RAM/Firecuda M.2 SSD. Before the "update," I played the game in 4k with everything cranked up all of the way with a solid and locked 60FPS. However, the "updated" game stutters and chugs along slowly, and it also looks like a hazy and often pixelated mess. The anti-aliasing is clearly broken, and the "update" is clearly unoptimized. Going by the hundreds of comments I have read across multiple websites, it would seem that CDPR didn't learn anything from the CP2077 fiasco and that they didn't thoroughly test the patch on PC, if they even bothered to test it at all. The visuals do not look "next gen" and they certainly do not look like a significant enough upgrade to a 2015 game to bring high-end systems to their knees. I have zero intention of dropping money on a 4090 GPU just to play this "update." We were promised to be able to download and play the original GOTY version but trying to do so simply gives a 404 error, so now I am looking at torrents to play a game I already paid for. I am probably done with CDPR, at this point.

The "Next Gen" upgrade has completely broken performance in the game. Avoid updating to it if at all possible

I used to play the game at 1080p / 60fps on high to medium settings. The new update makes the game crawl at around 30-40 fps on low, and stutters like crazy all over the place, The dx11 version makes it a bit better at around 40-45 fps. They didn't optimize this update, just added random textures, really disappointed in this.

Good job getting rid of two thirds of my FPS with your downgrade

The complete edition update is a complete mess. Constant crashes. Terrible stuttering with ray tracing even on high end hardware. CDPR, you really need to get your house in order.