CD Projekt RED has released a new hotfix patch for the PC version of The Witcher 3 Next-Gen. According to the team, the March 23rd Update improves DLSS 3 stability on the RTX 40 series GPUs.
And that’s it. This hotfix is solely for this DLSS 3 stability issue. In other words, it doesn’t pack any additional tweaks, changes or bug fixes. It won’t also change your game’s version.
Earlier this month, CDPR released a performance patch for The Witcher 3 Next-Gen. That patch supposedly improved CPU core utilization in the DX 12 version. However, mid/low-tier PC configurations won’t see any performance gains with that patch. Instead, those that will benefit, are owners of high-end PC systems. Furthermore, the game still heavily relies on one CPU core/thread.
At this point, I don’t expect CDPR to bring any meaningful performance improvements to the game. And no, contrary to Halo Wars 2 or Forza Horizon 3, The Witcher 3: Next-Gen won’t be getting proper multi-threading CPU support.
Speaking of The Witcher 3 Next-Gen, we also suggest taking a look at the following mods. PC gamers can download a cool first-person mod that will let you play the game in FP. Furthermore, Halk Hogan is working on a new version of The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project. And then we have the Characters Reworked Project which improves over 100 characters.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Excellent work by the team!
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So witcher 3 (classic) runs better than witcher 3 (next gen) ?
Sure, on the same hardware with the same settings, classic should output more FPS than next-gen. That really isn’t surprising. The quality of the frames on next-gen looks a lot better than classic. When you have the right hardware and a version of the next-gen that doesn’t crash, it’s a much better experience.
Raw frame output isn’t everything, especially in a story-based, single-player game.
It was crashing every 15 min with dlss 3. I hope it is resolved with this patch.
CDPR will eventually fix the threading issue but not until CP 2077 gets it’s final updates. All their best game engine devs are tied up right now working on the ground breaking SER and RTX Overdrive update as well as the DLC. It may be a few more months but eventually it will happen