As far as I'm concerned this game isn't heavily busted.Few bugs here or there,some that are actually funny(soilders horse getting stuck between your horse and a stable.What was he doing over there?)...and afew annoying crashes here or there that make me want to save after every fight (or miniboss if your on higher than normal,know what I mean? ;P)

-Time to fix bugs?Facts is sometimes post release version looks perfect.Not everyone is good at finding bugs and this is a cold fact.I only found 1 bug and thats people riding horses into my horse when I get off it like its a horse magnet.The game is great so far and feels very well polished for what it is.I welcome bug fixes to those unforntunate enough to run into bugs and I'm happy that they kept a clean eye out and got to work immediately after release to fix bugs and expliots.

-Guys worried about optimization: Looks like they are just adding a higher graphic setting and not a high base setting.I hope they don't do what Dying Light did and basically boot old/med rigs to the curve by taking away the ability to lower/turn off some settings.This is my first game on PC from this company so I don't know what to expect.I'll just have to wait and see.So far I like them.

I'm running hardware cursor, lowered mouse sensitivity to .15 and I turned off motion blur. I find myself being unable to smoothly approach a doorway or face a looting location properly.

4 hrs ago I had to install a 2.6gb patch.
Have W3 on Origin

Have no idea if that was the patch or something else oO

Just wanted to say thanks for the heads up on the article and the patch being 5-7 days out. Much appreciated.

Interesting article/interview.

600 changes?! That is great! I can't wait to try it, hopefully by then I might have a new GPU to test it with too.

I think a lot of people on Reddit are blowing this way out of proportion (on Reddit?! That never happens! /s)

But as far as I can tell the game looks great and runs pretty well. I've noticed that even with hairworks turned off there's still a ton of PhysX cloth running in the engine. This easily explains the difficulty in running the game, since a lot of systems don't seem happy when running PhysX at all. From what I've seen it seems like anything less than 700 series is not adequate, and better yet you'll want a 700 series or better with something to offload the PhysX to (dedicated card or SLI) which seems to solve most of the issues. I'm using SLI 780's OC'd and I can run hairworks at 1440p, but it's not really playable. As long as I turn hairworks off it runs great. If they can get hairworks to run better on anything less than Titan X's I'll be so freakin' happy! It looks incredible! And even better, if these upcoming patches accomplish what they hope to do then this will likely be the best looking game of all time.

Now how about gameplay? Lets not forget that part! Aside from the occasional crashes and strange issues the game is extremely immersive and fun to play. What more could I really ask for? The soundtrack gives me chills, the visuals are plenty good enough to keep me in the game, combat is complex and challenging(which is a must for me), story is absolutely engrossing. I think I'm going to love playing the rest of the game and I'm looking forward to when it looks even better than it does now!

Anybody else have 780's? How are they handling it? I seem to be able to stay between 45fps and 60fps at ultra/max settings as long as hairworks is off.

yepp... I think Origin User already got the patch. Could be wrong but the "standard" bolts for the crossbow had 400 Silverdamage. Now it's 4.

Well I'm mainly looking for a solution to the crashes. I did not have them in the beginning, but now it crashed for me several times within few minutes and its annoying as hell.

doing these things helped a ton for me in menu.

At the main menu what version does it say?

I'm playing with 780 Ti and getting somthing about 50 fps with mainly max, and some ultra, disabled hairworks and with SSAO.
But today I will install Arctic Cooling cooler (lol) instead of stock turbine and try to overclock everything i got - bet i'll get at least 5 more fps out of my rig.

still 1.2

Current version is 1.02 so it must be something else. The last part of the installer is 2.4gb, maybe it re-downloaded that for some reason.

Sry, 1.02...

But why?

I see an awful lot of people with 900 series nvidia cards complaining about CTD's or outright freezes on different forums. Which is ironic since Nvidia has been bundling the game with a few cards. At this point it's hard to say who is to blame but I figure it's not so black and white. But most of my ire is directed at Nvidia these days. I'm not too happy with their whole marketing snafu in regards to the 970. Most people down play it but not everyone uses their GPU's just for gaming. Anyways... That said I can't play Witcher 3 at all on my machine, but my brother (who happens to have the AMD card I replaced with an 970) has been playing without a single crash the last couple days. So all these problems seem to be very much a YMMV situation. Though admittedly it might be better AMD support due to this console gen.

On topic - this patch certification.. is this the testing by CDPR or one of the storefronts (Steam/GoG)? I shouldn't be impatient. A buggy patch is worse than not patch at all imo.