The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Gamescom 2014 Trailer is From PC Build, Uncompressed Video Released | DSOGaming

A couple of hours ago, CD Projekt RED revealed a new gameplay trailer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Naturally, a lot of gamers wondered from which build this gameplay footage is coming from and we are happy to say that it’s undoubtedly coming from the PC version.

First and foremost, we strongly suggest downloading the uncompressed video from Gamersyde. This video is around 1.3GB and shows the full graphical quality of CD Projekt RED’s latest gameplay footage.

The main difference between the PC and the console versions is unquestionably Nvidia’s hardware accelerated Fur effects. In The Witcher 3, wolves and other creatures will receive some special ‘fur’ treatment. Thankfully, this new gameplay trailer packs wolves and at the end of it we get to see Nvidia’s Fur tech in action.

However, we do have to note that the game’s framerate felt sluggish (or at least not as smooth as we’d hoped). While the video itself was running at 60fps, the game seemed to be running at fixed 30fps. This phenomenon can be witnessed on both the YouTube video and the uncompressed 60fps video, suggesting that The Witcher 3 was not running with fluid 60fps. That or CD Projekt RED’s video encoder has messed things up. Moreover, there is noticeable pop-in of distant objects, even on the PC build. Oh, and there is hair clipping.

Apart from these nitpicks, we can clearly see that The Witcher 3 is a really beautiful game. Water effects are simply jaw-dropping. There is bendable vegetation, wind effects can be noticed and the game comes with amazing and highly detailed textures.

Another indicator of the game’s PC nature is its resolution and the amount of AA that has been used. Contrary to the Xbox One E3 footage, there are hardly any jaggies on this new gameplay video.

And if you are still doubting us, CD Projekt RED’s community manager has confirmed to us that it was PC footage.

CD Projekt RED has not unveiled the game’s PC specs, and we don’t know what PC system was used to capture this PC footage.

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Unless we know what hardware it was running on, it’s hard to say much about the framerate. Also, at this point they’re probably focusing on optimization, so hopefully we’ll see a better finished product. I hope so, anyway, as this time I can’t afford to upgrade my video card just for one game lol
- Psionicinversion
  
  wont be for one game alot of the newer games will be killers
juanme555

Where can i download the uncompressed video?
- Ville N
  
  http://www.gamersyde.com/download_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_gc_downwarren_gameplay-32758_en.html
Dracula ™ © ®

THE FRAME-RATE IS FINE, THE PROBLEM IS THE ”RENDER AHEAD LIMIT’, THE WITCHER 2 HAD THE SAME PROBLEM AND YOU HAD TO CHANGE IT IN THE CONFIG.
Beatwolf

Have there been any hints about system requirements? I fear for my single 780 @ 1440p 😛
- Ville N
  
  No ultra at 60fps but if you put on some FXAA and maybe use partly high settings so that it almost looks identical and you still get good fps.
- Jay
  
  Really? You paid all that money for a cutting-edge product and you’re still worrying about performance? Man, some people are never happy 🙁
  - Beatwolf
    
    I’m quite happy with the card, don’t get me wrong. But if The Witcher 2 is anything to go by, performance on the higher settings @1440P will be an absolute killer. Also just wanted to hear if anyone had heard anything about requirements.
    - Jay
      
      I doubt you’ll have a problem. That’s a nice card – you should be more than fine. I hope you have an i7, though – this game looks like it’s going to kill lesser CPU’s 😉
      - Beatwolf
        
        Sounds good 🙂 Yes, I do. Just upgraded to a 4790K. And no, I’m not floating in money, just lucky that I can buy stuff cheaper through my job. Uncompressed video looks great btw!
      - Psionicinversion
        
        a 780@ 1440p wont be good enough. The developer said a 780Ti max details 8x MSAA @ 1080p only nets ya like 40 fps, although that may change closer to release with optimisations but 1440p youll defo need a Ti for all the high end upcoming games
      - Beatwolf
        
        Yeah well.. not upgrading from a 780 to a ti though.. If i had to upgrade I would wait for the next round of graphics cards.
      - Psionicinversion
        
        yeah it is pointless haha, your best off waiting for the 980’s cus the 880 may only be 10-15% faster than 780Ti which isnt enough of a difference to warrant an upgrade for ya
      - Ville N
        
        Just 2xMSAA will take like 20fps, with todays FXAA and SMAA there is no reason to use MSAA unless you are getting steady 60fps. FXAA 1080p will get you probably 80fps.
Umair Khan

It looked impressive . Small improvements are yet to be made here and there before the release of the game but I’m already happy by the way it looks . Despite being an open world game , it puts lot of other linear games to shame .

Not to mention day night cycle , huge landscapes , No of NPCs , Dynamic weather and so on . Conversation system , is also hugely improved and looks like fully animated cutscene now .
Umair Khan

They should’ve played it with mouse and keyboard . They know game controls on M&K was the single biggest issue with The Witcher 2 for lot of people , right .?

They should have addressed that issue a long time ago .
Jay

That video was all kinds of screwed up. I’m guessing it’s something to do with how they recorded it, because if the game is as bad as the video it would have been unplayable, yet the person playing didn’t seem to have any problem controlling.

Okay, figured out the problem. I’m playing the downloaded video – VLC was a mess of arifacts, Quicktime was was a stuttering mess – the only thing that played it well was Windows Media Player. Go figure.
Lara Croft

I want to see how my 780Ti handles this game 🙂
- Psionicinversion
  
  answer just about, apparently youll get bout 40fps max details 8x MSAA @ 1080p
  - Lara Croft
    
    Wasn’t that on a very early build? plus 8x MSAA will kill just about any game 😛
    - Psionicinversion
      
      maybe depends on how hard there pushing the gfx though
  - Ville N
    
    Who uses 8xMSAA seriously? Maybe in some Source game where you would get 200fps with any hardware anyway.
Yeltnerb1

I really hope that the graphics are massively improved…for the PC.
pterois

Regardless of the specs of the system used, the demo was not on Ultra settings. It was likely using medium to high settings to mirror more or less the console versions. Ultra settings was confirmed since E3 that it will offer great improvement in visual quality.

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