Our dear friends over at PCGamesHardware have released two video comparisons for CD Projekt RED’s upcoming RPG title. The first video compares that game’s Max and Low settings, while the second video compares the PC and the PS4 versions. Here is hoping that CD Projekt RED will provide us with a review copy sooner than later (in order to inform you about the performance of the PC version). Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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betrayed by CDPR….. 🙁 let’s hope now the game will be good as W2
Go on 2:04 2nd video you will see how PS4 beats TITAN X and i7 5960x
SHAME ON YOU CDPR!!!
This is how I feel after watching that video. http://treasure.diylol.com/uploads/post/image/352642/resized_obi-wan-the-chosen-one-meme-generator-you-were-the-chosen-one-i-trusted-you-4d4e12.jpg
Oh dear
PS4 looks better at 2:04 how much money paid Sony to CDPR
This makes me worry about No Man’s Sky.
http://www.play.tm/news/988749007/no-mans-sky-is-getting-the-first-party-treatment-from-sony/
neogaf says gtx 770 is sufficent for ultra
Nvidia’s site says a 970 is the minimum for ultra at 1080p without any Gameworks features enabled.
ohh jeez.
for 40+ fps in most demanding scenes
gtx 770 sufficent for ultra with 30fps
indeed 770 and i7 downclocked at 2 ghz are enough.
Source: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcgameshardware.de%2FThe-Witcher-3-PC-237266%2FSpecials%2FTechnik-Test-1158845%2F&edit-text=&act=url
Well after watching this side by side ps4/pc and PC min/max. This game is only slightly better then the PS4 version. And given the hardware in the PS4 and the fact that they say you need a 980 for Uber/gameworks well that’s a huge gap in GPU power.
It’s heartbreaking. My thoughts are at a loss.
stop crying about graphics. no one saw the PC version yet, it will be huge and there wil be no downgrade at all and it’s going to be 10x times better than PS4. your words, not mine, then don’t eat them like you did in ACU
true!
oh piss off now you are just trolling.
Unlike you I spent $800 on GPU’s for this game. And this is from PCgameshardware and they would not show the PC version if it was not on Ultra.
So anything from them I account as credible. This clearly shows that CDPR slapped everyone who believed in them in the faces.
btw don’t put words in my mouth you punk. “going to be 10x times better than PS4” Never said anything of the sort.
of course it was a troll, as i said in that comment they are your words not mine.
unlike me ? i bought a 970 just for witcher 3 also they were showing PC version on ultra since last month event in poland.
so what we get now ? parity, same visuals as PS4 but a 970 is not enough for 60fps, it runs the game 50fps without day1 patch and without hairworks, but same visuals as PS4. again, i pre ordered W3 around 8 months ago, do you think i’m loving it that they downgrade the game ? why should i ? i paid for it because i trusted them but instead of defending them all the time i called them out
Ether way they clearly took a dump on PC gamer’s faces. And btw I never said it would be 10X better then the PS4 version. But that’s besides the point.
And good job calling them out. Made a big difference. Seems we can all complain to them but I highly doubt they will do anything unless they see massive pre orders cancelled.
yeah you didn’t said that but you know some exaggeration makes it fun.
“Made a big difference”
yeah it didn’t changed a thing but that made them react to comments and made them to look bad, thats enough for now but next time they will know what they did and they will come clean or they might loose more of their reputation. even ubisoft made some changes and spoke about it. they could do this trick only a few times, not to mention CDPR is not as big or as popular as ubisoft, they will crush more easily.
“some exaggeration makes it fun.” And yet you call me a shill. Wow your moral values are a bit off.
And now they are going to get console money. They might as well have ID Software status and Ubisoft status now for PC gamers.
i don’t have moral values.
yes, thats what we are saying in past days
a 770/280x is said to run the game in ultra(no hairworks) aswell as weaker 4 core cpus @ 2ghz were fine at ultra too
but no fps given. on geforce site it says:
1080p on ultra without hairworks
980 60fps and above
970 50fps and above
960 25 to 30fps
which is awful
i donot turst gforce site man , those guys are always trying to push their cards.
i personally would like what PCGH site quoted , but i will wait till the release and wait for proper benchies
anyway day1patch+drivers ought to improve it
yeah, geforce always do that.
they better improve it
Well, at least I hope you’ve learn a thing or two about trust and hype.
And you were yelling at me yesterday when i told you about the downgrade…
Dont call people cry babys when we were trying to open people eyes… fan boys sucks.
Welcome to the real world. Where good pc devs fu#$ our faces and aim for system parity
This is sad.
🙁
Seriously, it brings me sadness.
I had huge faith in CD Projekt RED, i didn’t even think they would do this “parity” thing with any of their games.
Seriously? I honestly always expected them to be sell-outs from the minute they were publishing how the next title is coming to all consoles. But to be clear: I don’t nearly care about the graphics being downgraded as much as I do them selling out and lying about there never being one.
next up Star Citizen. If that happens I might as well just sell my hardware and call it good.
it won’t happen to SC, they are not cool with consoles and it will be a PC only title
Star Citizen might not happen at all 😛
we don’t know that… Halo was to be a MAC/PC only title and look what MS did
yeah, that might be true. but judging by it’s first trailer (the message in it), and amount of money 80$million pc gamers gave them i don’t think that happens
We can only hope not. I still remember Master Chief being on the cover of mac world magazine.
Big bucks talk. And I am sure Star Citizen has all the console makers attention.
I think Star Citizen is way beyond the reach of current gen consoles, they would have to butcher so many features it wouldn’t be a comparable game, I think we’re safe on this one.
Yeah at least until Star Citizen 2. eh eh
I remember Cheif being on that cover! Being 3rd person and then MS throwing the cash. At the end of the day, its a business and if I can make it so I make more money taking this one avenue versus another? I will. I don’t think its always about greed in situations such as these.
They’re not cool with consoles YET (in terms of the developer). CD Projekt RED pulled the same crap as the Star Citizen developer stating how consoles did not do this, does not do that…blah blah more ass-kissing.
If consoles offered that dev the money and the market, you bet we would see the same from SC dev
yeah they will but it will be a massacre, not in this scale or WD scale, they will be fire everywhere since more than 80 millions of $ are in rage
well same thing happened to Oc Rift. All those people pumping in money just for it to get sold off to facebook.
thats true, but we should see if M$ or $ony can pay 100 million $ to them for a game or not
Well Halo for xbox was a billion dollar franchise. And that was just the 1st game. So 100 million would be chump change if it sold on consoles.
yeah, also MS owned the IP, again i;m not saying what you are saying is wrong or won’t heppen, it might happen but it’s expensive and has higher risks than that
Well we are running out of real PC developers it seems.
nah, it’s ok, they are more exclusive on PC than any other consoles both handheld or home combined, multiplatform isn’t a bad thing, if they don’t do parity bulls**t, even ubisoft won’t do it anymore. on the other hand we get to play more games that weren’t on PC before, like tons of japanese games these days, MGS V or games like WWE etc…
yeah that’s true
Star Citizen is technically not possible on Consoles. They’ve went way too far with the technology. The business model that they are using is also not possible on Consoles… The best thing that those potatoes are going to get is butchered version of Squadron 42 campaign after one or two years. Nothing more.
if Star Citizen is done right, it is a prime example of how to take advantage of Kickstarter. developers are arleady getting paid to some extent so they don’t have to worry about people not being able to play their game and they have all the time they want. the whole selling ships deal is worrying though.
I only recently read some rumors about a PS4 dev kit, and that now Chris Roberts says that “consoles not totally out of question” anymore.
I don’t really like Star Citizen and its campaign, but this is purely neutral. If he says something like that when he said that console version will never happen, that made me thinking: do you really have some kind of insurance that nothing like this will happen with Star Citizen? I mean a real insurance, not just “they won’t butcher it because they promised so”?
That’s 2 years old news. It’s not coming to PS4. He said, Sony will have to remove QC procedure and end PSN subscription. That’s not going to happen. And game producer said that the game is technically not possible on Consoles last year. It was reported by DSOG as well. Google it.
Don’t think, but let’s wait and see.
Downgrade is real!
i can’t belive how PS4 looks better ……. 😐
So “we are “PCgamer here” “PC its our top platform” BS i told you guys that i felt like something strange ubifeeling …very similar ……*cough* Watch Dogs.
Is this really max settings? The ambient occlusion looks the same in both (meaning HBAO+ isn’t turned on) and it looks like Hairworks isn’t turned on.
Lets hope it is on low and not Ultra because that will be pure shame.
People open your eyes.. look at low vs ultra and then pc vs ps4.
It is indeed ultra, not low.
My reaction on this whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee925OTFBCA
lol
i used to love CDPR now i guess its time for a fair well goodbye they were the wh*res of PlayStation.
I wish they made more for US at least in terms of graphics !
I didn’t say it was low. Anyway I wonder how much some of the config file tweaks will improve the visuals.
AO is better on PC. look at the bottom of the stone wall scene.
watch the PS4 vs PC video stop the audio and listen to the video called “Best Cry Ever”
sad but true
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/8b/8ba6729f7ebbe6bc9e6ed2b0e5dbae095e76084ef0e44480ae021e4fdcb4d345.jpg
i’m starting to believe in “witcher 3 enhaced edition”..
Why do people keep bringing up Enhanced Edition? Even the witcher 2 enhanced wasn’t good enough.
i heard somewhere that there will be no EE for W3
They will be busy making DLCs.
since they are releasing expansions/DLCs they will probably release GOTY edition.
Well I just looked into the Free DLC next to the paid expansions. And wow they went from making games to making games like the big AAA dev’s who don’t make games for PC in mind as top pick.
So yes I had my fanboy of PCDR glasses on. And wow I hope they feel the wrath. But I think nothing will come of it and the same outcome will happen with their next game that comes out.
But after watching the footage from pcgameshardware I have to admit that PCDR betrayed everyone who believed in them as a PC gamer dev team.
Welcome to the club buddy – glad to see you here. I have your complimentary pitch fork right here next to mine. Glad we finally agree.
I’m not surprised these guys lied. They also said you would get DLC for free, and that they don’t believe in paid DLC – and then they release a paid expansion pack. They’re real big jerks about that for lying too.
Well it’s the fact that pc games hardware posted it and they are very credible and they would not show the PC version unless it was on Ultra vs the PS4 version.
If you compare it with 4k Witcher 2 screenshots in my gallery https://www.flickr.com/photos/xanvast/sets/72157651311099941 , this is so damn disappointing, it is not even on par with Dragon Age Inquisition…
There are already complaining pc gamers on witcher forums about downgrade.Hopefully cdpr will see how they bullshited us formyears with falsly advertised videos.
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/36117-For-those-PC-gamers-who-are-craving-for-Min-vs-Max-comparison
Sadly nothing will change, From Software did that, Team Ninja did that, Ubi did that.
Wow..this is like saying A Lion is equal to a sheep and they spend money turning the lion in to a sheep and convince people that both are the same..pc is NEVER equal to a console never is and never will be…politiclly correctness of these developers are killing pc gaming and killing the godlike potential that pc 8a capable to produce..what the point buying a 980 980ti or any high end card when in fact we are pleggued by developers who will downgrade games..lies to us and never let us see max potential a pc can bring us…and no this is not hate on console this is about limiting capabilities of pc and bringing to console level…heck even witches 2 looks better.
Wow, I didn’t expect it to be this bad. I just canceled my preorder on steam. If enough people do they same maybe it will make them think twice. Maybe have to play on a GOG version floating around the internet.
No, just don’t buy the game, dammit.
Gog is drm free. Use your head.
Glad I didn’t preorder this, I’d feel ripped off for such a poor looking game on release. How is it my modded Skyrim can look better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDyp8VlR02Q
looks amazing !
f’ these cunts
This is how CDPR rewards 8 years of support from the PC community… this is sad, this is really sad. I don’t even feel angry anymore, just extremely disappointed.
the writing was on the wall when the witcher 2 was announced for the xbux 360
Don’t upvote your own comments – it just ain’t right, man.
kiss my a*s
https://youtu.be/b1n_1RSS19w?t=106 Yep totally looks the same lol.
At the end of the trailer I just imagined the words “OH God Please Pre-Order And Give Us Money Before You See How The Game Really Looks And Plays!”
Just a reminder: More than one million people have pre-ordered this.
They made the 2nd video private omg
This is to much.
hahahaha no way!!! I hope every single PC gamer to cancel their pre-order and don’t buy this game. They don’t deserve our money! Its time to raise Jolly Roger flag for this one! Oh yes…
Thank you DSOG for backup the 2nd video please everybody re-upload the 2nd video were PS4 version looks better than W3 PC version (i7 5960x and TITAN X) on Ultra…. because CDPR will delete everyone of it :(!
Its not better to be honest from the begining?
also the game has huge req for what graphics it offers hell PS4 looks better and indeed it has 25-30 but its PS4 afterall.
OMG… I’m so very disappointed, at certain moments the vistas is down right ugly… Textures, foliage and colors and what not. What a mess… ;o(
http://i.minus.com/iOjLQvVmb0KLp.gif
People… for those who preordered the game…. you are just in time for a cancelation… and you will be delivering a very good and healthy message to devs around the globe
Its time for change!! let’s stop calling ourselfs “pcmasterrace” we are PCgamers and we want PC games as we always had that in the past we don’t want some XO and PS4 games i rather wait for 4-5 more delays and get a proper PC game more graphics and FPS.
fu***rs are trying to hide such an obvious mess.damn shameful
Epic Fail… They call it Next-Gen. I didn’t see anything Next Gen in all new games. just some insane high requirements for half-ass finished games.
i didn’t even noticed that !
thank you sir 🙂
*sigh* But in that video it was Ultra on TITAN X but anyway….
from the official CDPR forum:
Regarding the comparion video, unfortunately we don’t know how this video was created and what PC settings have been used. It compared an early PC version with a PS4 debug build without the day 1 patch. So it’s quite an uncommon basic setting. Something went wrong here and therefore we spoke to the editorial team behind it – we both agreed something is not quite right and while we’re figuring out what mistake has been made, we have removed the video. We do admit it looked pretty wonky, hence its removal.
It simply made the PC version look pretty bad and YT compression didn’t help either. This was not the final build for PC on which we are working till the last moment.
There will be visible differences between console and PC (we always said so), stuff like:
– draw distance
– framerate
– resolution
-exclusive features such as hairworks
We’re sorry about the confusion. We are just 4 days away from the release and we can’t wait when the PC players will get their hands-on the game.
CDPR should just shut up and stop blaming this mystical YT compression, this “older build” and stop ridiculing itself.
I don’t know what to believe anymore! 🙁 One thing I know for sure I am going to torrent the game as soon as its out watch it with my own eyes and judge if they deserve my money. All these videos, all these builds, all this deceit its driving me crazy!
Not to mention did the youtube compression affect only the pc half of the video????
The scam they’re running is unbelievable.
“exclusive features such as hairworks”
and ? hairworks and ? lol
“There will be visible differences between console and PC”
didn’t they said there will be no differences between console and PC ? lol
It’s sad cause no one give a damn about the gamers but gamers… damn just DAMN. wake tha fack up and don’t support this guys, don’t pre-order don’t buy dlc’s crap.
Skyrim looks better and was released 4 years ago. Which reminds me, they should really re-release Skyrim for newer consoles.
But but it’s not downgraded guys it actually looks better than the 2013 version it has better coloring and you are comparing morning videos with noon not to mention that spell effects are low level are u blind ? stop comparing from videos and play the game omg
/s
*sharp intake of breath*
Ouch.
Congrats @CDPROJEKTRED you have managed to bring the #PC version down to the lowest common denominator.
man this comment section is hilarious. thank god for vocal minorities
Its funny what you find if you google vocal minorities
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=vocal+minority
Vocal Forum Poster : Oh my God, I totally hate all the changes that have been made to this game! You all suck!
Game Developer : Noted. But we’re not going to undo the changes, because only the people that don’t like them would take the time to come complain, the vocal minority of players. Most people are happy with the changes, and wouldn’t stop playing the game to come post on these forums.
Thank DSOG for even giving people a place to talk about this – one of the commenters below was a heavy CDPR Forums poster and said how the mods there censored or deleted posts from those concerned about the alarming drop in quality.
It’s pretty sad when a company does its best to hide consumer concerns over a product. I’m sure you can understand why this upsets people.
HAHAHAHA PC masters get worse version than peasants!! Throw your pcs out of window! Consoles now set the standard for quality.
lol i’m afraid he might have a point for how the future will go
why? just don’t …….. 😐
I’m not sure you understand who you’re mocking or why.
Awesome satire.
The problem today is that developers show what is called vertical slice on events like E3. They should have notice on the screen when they show a vertical slice that it’s not representing the final product. That way we don’t get people disappointment like now.
That said. The game on ultra at stable 60fps requires Intel i7-4790K,Geforce GTX 980 and DDR3 16GB. Something most PC gamers don’t have. If we are to go by Steam’s hardware survey.
Imagine running the game with the visuals they presented via the vertical slice. It would require a Titan X…or two. It’s not worth producing that kind of visuals as almost no one can experience it anyways.
That said…they could do better. As I posted a few posts down grats on bringing it down to the lowest common denominator…
lower as you can see in that video above.
PC looks worse than the PS4 …i just hope this is just another nightmare and i hope i will wake up soon!
Well, no, a game can look significantly better on a PC – A PC is capable of about 10x more complexity than a console, whether that means more effects, better effects, increased resolution, or better textures, more characters, entities etc..
It’s a bit complex and difficult to explain, but a game maker needs to choose the graphical options they want to include based on the assets they have made. Cranking up the particle count on a volumetric cloud could push a graphics card to its limit, but that doesn’t necessarily enhance the game to any noticeable degree.
“Maxing” out a game with a GTX 980 could mean increasing AA to 32x, but if the game assets are of poor quality then it won’t make a difference to the overall artistic vision for the game.
Make sense?
THE WORST Vegetation EVER.
The sad thing is that the only visual difference on that video between PS4 and PC is the ambient occlusion.
I cry every time i see how great it LOOKED.
Videos are working again. OMG. Both versions look exactly the same (didn’t watch the video before).
Thanks for the link and so many gorgeous screenshots.
OOOHHH my god it looks godly, and now the final product looks like sh#t
I m not buying this garbage (I am a fan of the witcher series) but f##k
this gonna pirate this game they not getting money for something that
looks worse then witcher 2 lol
Don’t pirate it. Just don’t play it at all.
Please follow @sintheticreality2:disqus advice. Do not pirate this game, do not buy this game if you don’t feel it’s worth your money.
By the way, am I the only one who’s hoping that the Enhanced Edition (if there is ever going to be one) will include those beautiful graphics of pre-2014? Would be really cool, because the Enhanced Edition of TW games were always free for the owners of the original games.
I heard somewhere that there won’t be an EE for Witcher 3? I hope there is, though.
I m not buying this garbage (I am a fan of the witcher series) but f’ this gonna pirate this game they not getting money for something that looks worse then witcher 2 lol
This game went from a sure-fire day one purchase for me to “I’ll get it on sale in a few months”. Gross. Witcher 2 was taxing on the new rig I built a few years back and somehow Witcher 3 took several steps backwards.
I’m done supporting this bait-and-switch nonsense of showing game demos that look incredible to delivering actual consumer products that look like hammered sh*t. Are game devs learning from fast food companies on how to advertise their products?
http://i2.wp.com/gearnuke.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/witchergif4.gif
This is not even sad. It’s horrible. I honestly think GTA5 even looks better. From the water to the textures and grass.. every single thing looks better. For shame. There goes the REAL PC first game developer and video game. Now it’s just a console trash.
At least the gameplay will be fun. I just wish they never showed how great the game COULD look. It’s the worst kind of teasing.
I never believed that was going to look like the final product anyway, as good as TW2 looked, it had it’s nasty flaws and rendering bugs that were never fixed.
Honestly f’ this game. I have the latest Mac Pro, 3.5ghz 6 core processor, 16gb of ram, 2 AMD FirePro D500 with 3gb of dedicated each on top of a 1tb solid state drive.
ON THE LOWEST SETTINGS I CANT EVEN PLAY AT 30fps on a 1080P resolution on my 4k monitor.
Windows 8.1 up to date.
Game up to date.
F’ing Yosemite up to date.
Drivers up to date.
Yes I’m using boot camp and not VMware