The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

would buy again

Played it for 2 weeks almost every day prior to next-gen (4.0) release. Have Ryzen 9 5900x and 3070, no overclocks and other stuff. On max graphics settings it run really, really well, easy 144+@1080. Capped it off at 144 after some time. As expected of 2015. game on this hardware. After update landed, max settings from before are now somewhere in the middle. Max settings without RTX on, that is. And DLSS/FSR2 being off as well. Still "High" in settings but there are now Ultra+ settings. And game looks a lot (to me) better at those. Dropped FPS from stable 144+ to 75+ (no 72fps cap unfortunately, I have 144Hz monitor and if I can't have 144, 72 is next stop) but honestly, gameplay-wise, same stuff. It's not the type of game where this is too noticable. With RTX enabled for all 4 thingies, it looks even better. I didn't think it'll make that much of a difference but I'm glad I was wrong. FPS drops to 20s-30s. Turning DLSS on and setting it to any setting, it boosts it to some 60fps at best (in the village for example) and 40s in the forest. It looks like shit on Performance and Ultra performance modes and there is minute difference in fps for Quality and Balanced modes so I kept Quality mode on. After a dozen hours of playing like that (RTX max, other gfx settings max and DLSS in Quality mode), Afterburner graph show relatively stable 40fps. Entering dense(r) forests during the day will drop fps to high 20s and being wherever there is no shitton of leaves and grass will bump it to 60s. Playable, imo. Focused on technical aspects because I saw a lot of different takes on this, after the next-gen update and wanted to add my 2 cents to it. On Steam, it seems to have a Launcher added, which is a really dick move if you ask me and it not being in GOG version makes GOG version twice as good. That Launcher breaks Steam Overlay for the game as well. Really dick move. No crashes so far, had 2 before update, 0 after but I have but a few hours after the update. Game great.

The hame is probably one of the best action rpg of all times. Nothing to add on this review that not already said. One BIG complaint is that since i play it on steam deck ( i bought it from gog, like almost all my games to support directly the devs ) i would like a separate classic version to download. I can (?) Reverted on 1.32 version ( using heroic app for the gog Linux support so i have some restrictions ) but also the extra installed gigs for not reason just bothers me. Please for the love of god, add a separate store front with the classic version that we can directly download.

fd

overhyped