Nvidia Hairworks Witcher 3 Performance
As the self explanatory names suggest they control whether hairworks is switched off applied only to geralt or applied to geralt his horse and all other hairworks enhanced characters creatures and monsters in the game.
Nvidia hairworks witcher 3 performance. Three hairworks options are on offer in the witcher 3. Go to witcher 3 install. Witcher 3 s latest patch tidies up nvidia hairworks performance out now on pc console soon. Looks like we ll need future hardware to be able to utilise this feature fully.
For the witcher 3. Looks like a 10 15 fps drop even on titan x in sli. A workaround on how to run hairworks on amd gpus without crippling performance has also been made available enabling amd gpu users of enjoying the witcher 3 with hairworks enabled while getting. Wild hunt on the pc a gamefaqs message board topic titled performance hit of hairworks on nvidia cards.
Wild hunt with the nvidia hairworks feature enabled and actually getting better performance than geforce users not using a maxwell. This is a feature that improves the looks of hair and fur in different games. While this does look great it can degrade the performance of the game. News by wesley yin poole deputy editor.
I d guess it would be much much worse for single card in 7xx 9xx series. Hairworks is a titan killer. Including pc gameplay at maximum graphical settings at 1080p hd. Off geralt only and all.
If you want to boost the performance even further on nvidia or amd gpus you can try reducing the anti aliasing for the hairworks by using the method listed below. A side by side comparison from multiple angles with nividia hairworks both on and off. 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.