The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

I'll start off by saying: when using the classic edition of the game (pre-next gen update) I had the settings at their max with the HD rework and HD monsters mods installed and working on an ultra-wide 3440x2440 monitor running at a locked 75 fps. Without v-sync it easily exceeded 150 fps! Now, with the new update everything is bonked. There appears to be no visual fidelity increase other than tesselation and obviously higher resolution textures when compared to vanilla. However from my understanding CDPR used the HD Rework and HD monsters mods for the vanilla version to upgrade the visuals of the "next-gen update", so to me I can't see that much difference as I used these previously. I have been running this new version at 3440x2440 with all settings on Ultra WITHOUT raytracing but WITH DLSS on. I have an RTX 2080TI so you would assume these would be reasonable settings right? No. Average fps is 45 to 50 but averaged 58 to 60 in undense, unpopulated regions. Unacceptable! Using the supposed textures CDPR have implimented I previously had 100+ fps, so this is downright pathetic. I really feel for the pre-2000 series gpu holders because I know that even a 970 could have handled the HD rework mod on the classic edition. So what on earth has gone wrong here? How did the very well optimised game become this? The textures haven't been upgraded that much. I can't believe I'm saying this, and I seriously backed cyberpunk (I enjoyed it at release), but after seeing what happened to that game and now with this, I don't reccomend you support CDPR until they get their act together. These rushed projects provide no promising prospects for future releases. THE ONLY SAVING GRACE AND ONLY REASON THIS REVIEW IS NOT ONE STAR IS BECAUSE YOU CAN REVERT THE GAME VERSION BACK TO 1.32. Other than that, it's bonked.

It's been 2 years since I last played this, but I'm still baffled about how ridiculously fantastic this game is. It's one of the best games I've ever played, and it deserves every hype, every attention, every award, every penny, and every minute of your life. Just buy it, and you'll see. Come on, what are you waiting for? BUY IT already!

With 500 games on Steam and 20 years of gaming under my belt, I can easily say this is the single finest game, by a large margin. It's finely crafted story, gameplay, visuals, and overall experience are truly breathtaking. While you don't need to read the books first, I can't help but recommend it. For me, it's (sort of) equivalent to the finale to Game of Thrones being a masterpiece game. This conclusion to an epic fantasy universe is all one could hope for and more. My only complaint is that all other games pale in comparison.

Gamers that don't have an RTX card got screwed, basically. The game looks terrible without RTX now, since they removed HBAO+. Bring it back CDPR, please.

with rtx enabled I cant even play this game. i was so excited for this update to as I just upgraded my pc.