The Witcher 3 Complete Edition Gets Raytracing

Will be interested to try this out when I have a GPU that supports it (hopefully later this year). Also glad to see it's a free update for existing owners.

 

I haven't even finished it, so it will be a great time to get back to the game. Great stuff, looking forward to this!

 

hoping for earliest prerelease marketed graphics ~2014.

 

DX-R has very few opportunities to break reflections in game which does have very few shiny surfaces. So if they focus on water shader (which does not need DX-R) and improve on it, reflections are basically done. Then GI/shadows... call it complete and release.

Funny thing is that Witcher 3 is basically GPU bound even with potato CPU. So, no changes there and game may become benchmark as result.

 

With this and the halkhogan texture mods, you might be there.

 

Pretty cool to get such an update to an old game, let alone for free.

 

"old game". I still play Mass Effect, which to me feels like it came out around 5-6 years ago.

 

With better in-house graphics than most of "new" games. And I am not talking about mods.

 

So maybe we get towards the graphics that were shown before the downgrade?

j/k, but I wonder if they had so much time to spend on this so that CCP2077 must already be done and finished in terms of RTX implementation.

 

crap I guess wish I had logged into EGS to get it free since my Steam copy is just the normal version ;/

 

Witcher 3 is actually 5 years old.
Meanwhile, the newest AAA title I own, excluding games with many DLC releases, is the 2013 Tomb Raider.
So, I think I'm within my right to define W3 as old. It's still current, but old by a technology standpoint.

 

JHH said hundreds of games with RTX support are coming. TW3 with RTX would be a welcome addition to that library. In-fact, when we look at that library of games that do support RTX we see that most of them are big franchises. However, for me until FIFA gets it, then, it's not mainstream. I believe once FIFA gets it, then, every major title will also get RTX support.

 

I was thinking about replaying the game, guess I'll wait for the update and finish the others.
Cool to see developers still supporting their old games and of course many new people who watched the series will want to try this on their brand new consoles!

 

Wow, this is some big news!

 

I would take what Jens said with a grain of salt.

If you go back and look at the launch lists for RT/DLSS with the 2080Ti, more than half of those games still don't have either technology. They sold cards with the idea all those games getting support.

I think there will obviously be more supported games with the inclusion of RT in both RDNA2, Xe and consoles - but I doubt we will see hundreds of titles within 2 to 3 years.

 

I actually just finish the triology again this week, having ALOT and ALOV mods on the game, do wonders to it. The games really do not feel as old as they are!

Only issue is I keep going paragon! I find it so hard to go renegade! But maybe that is just me haha, promised myself next time ill go femshep and be evil

 

If you are 100% gpubound, then the game is gpubound

If you have a good enough gpu, you will be cpubound. You can see this in all the 1080p benchmarks. SLI in this game works great, so you will be cpubound in 4k with 2080ti in SLI.

You will see the difference in min fps, if you are cpubound. But hey, noone wants to play in 1080p in this game. 3440x1440 or 4k is the way to play in this game. Everything on Ultrasettings Can't wait to test the raytracing in this game!

 

This... this is how it's done CD Projekt. I will definitely play through the Witcher 3 again with RTX, I loved the atmosphere, I might get lost for a couple of weeks, don't look for me...

*drools*