Nvidia Hairworks Performance Hit

Reddit user friedbongwater has posted a very interesting tip enabling amd cards to run the witcher 3.

Nvidia hairworks performance hit. My game is getting a solid 50 60fps in combat exploration etc. The witcher 3 nvidia hairworks performance hit comparison. 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. This is a feature that improves the looks of hair and fur in different games.

Nvidia hairworks side by side comparison would you rather play at 60fps with hairworks off or 40fps with hairworks on. The performance hit is still quite steep and that s just to do ray traced global illumination. You can view his post. Tomb raider only applies tressfx to lara croft the witcher 3 applies hairworks to the protagonist s and animals.

Msi gtx 970 1080p with hairworks set to 4x msaa. This is a pc exclusive feature. How do lower end nvidia cards perform with said option on. This adds tessellated hair strands to the character which improves the visual quality of the hair and fur.

I have everything on post processing maxed out or on and everything graphically on ultra shadows on high including hbao and aa on. Turn it completely off it honestly doesn t change the hair too much. Yeah just turn it off. If you wondering why your not getting the performance you expected then you may want to consider if the nvidia hairworks implementation.

Even on nvidia cards there is a performance hit for hairworks but it s no where near as severe as amd cards. We soon discovered as did the many gamers that jumped into the witcher 3 at launch the sole cause for this huge performance hit was nvidia s hairworks. I got fluctuations from 35 fps to 50 fps which caused tearing. The performance hit is dumb.

Also that voice sort of creeps me out p. Is there any performance hit with full hairworks enabled with a 980 ti. I got a gtx 780 8gb 1600 ram fx8320 cpu running on a ssd and win 8 1 64bit. I was getting 30 40 fps with hairworks on.

Geralt looks dumb with silky smooth hair as well. Wild hunt with hairworks enabled without a substantial performance hit. If so how much. In the end i locked fps to 30 and put on vsync.