Nvidia Hairworks Aa The Witcher 3

Near the end of the witcher 3 development cycle it was discovered that hairworks completely killed performance.

Nvidia hairworks aa the witcher 3. Hair and fur even react to forces and spells for yet another level of immersion. If you go to your game install folder bin config base rendering ini find the line hairworksaalevel 8 change it to 4 2 or 0. Hairworks brings a new level of fidelity to the gameplay experience of the witcher 3. Last week at gamescom the world s largest video game event developer cd projeckt red showed off new footage from the witcher3.

As already revealed nvidia hairworks in the witcher 3. Framerate dropped a moderate amount on nvidia hardware but mysteriously took a massive hit on amd hardware. A side by side comparison from multiple angles with nividia hairworks both on and off. Damn with a 980ti can t you handle 8xaa.

Hairworks does indeed have a huge impact on amd performance in the witcher 3 but with the hair and fur rendering tech disabled the r9 290x is competitive with the gtx 970 exactly as it should be. Wild hunt wowing the crowds. Including pc gameplay at maximum graphical settings at 1080p hd. By david coombes posted aug 16 2014 at 02 43pm.

Right now i m going with 4xaa and low hairworks preset. This is a comparison between nvidia hairworks predetermined high low and nvidia hairworks aa maximum and minimum. Nvidia hairworks side by side comparison would you rather play at 60fps with hairworks off. Turning it off his hair still flows and moves and looks real.

I set my hairworks aa level to 4 which i think is sweet spot per image performance cost as for the low high nvidia preset i haven t noticed much performance difference between the two if i was to take a guess i think its for the tessellation level. By adding hairworksaalevel under rendering you can manually adjust the level of anti aliasing trading image quality for performance. This basically made the feature useless to amd users and made nvidia hardware look amazing in contrast. How it affects to the drop of fps and of course how it looks like.

So i looked around a bit in the ini files to see if we could turn down the aa on hairworks for those of you who don t know it is set to 8x msaa by default on all hairworks hair this is the main reason for the extreme fps cost. Wild hunt with nvidia hairworks shown at gamescom.