The Witcher 3 Remaster performance is currently negative at the launch of Cyberpunk on PC

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

CDPR

The next-gen update of The Witcher 3 launched last night on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, and while it racked up strong scores with its PS5 review copies, PC gamers are downloading the updated version of the game and many are finding it to be a disaster.

We’re talking borderline unplayable, Cyberpunk 2077’s launch level is bad here, though it’s kind of the other way around, because that game played poorly on consoles and better on PC. Here, something has gone wrong with the PC refresh somehow and gamers with solid machines are reporting massive drops in performance. Among the issues mentioned:

DLSS doesn’t work properly Tracking overlays don’t work with it Ray-tracing absolutely kills performance Anti-aliasing looks bad No matter how high your FPS is, frame-pacing is unstable and the game will seem to stutter Games of some people won’t start at all Many mods are completely broken or cause the game itself to break

Out of everything, the main culprit seems to be the way the game handles ray-tracing above all else, as turning it off completely can fix the biggest performance issues – though of course some remain. I’ve yet to hear CDPR make any sort of statement about PC performance right now, but hopefully this is a high-level priority fix on their part.

This really, really doesn’t help the recent narrative of CDPR shipping failed projects at launch. There was Cyberpunk, of course, but you’ll recall that The Witcher 3 also had its issues at launch. And now this remaster, which should in theory be much less demanding than Cyberpunk 2077, which they spent two years fixing, is launching itself into a borderline unplayable state on PC for many gamers. I’m concerned about what the Cyberpunk DLC will look like when it arrives, at this rate.

Since CDPR no doubt works on a fix, your best bet right now is A) wait and don’t play at all until this is fixed or B) turn off ray tracing which should hopefully fix a good portion of the fixes. current technical issues, although you may be dealing with others. It’s rather disappointing given how many years players have been waiting for an update like this, but I guess now the move is just to wait a little longer.

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