Nvidia Hairworks With Amd

Amd believes that the implementation of an nvidia developed graphics feature called hairworks part of the company s gameworks library in the witcher 3 is deliberately crippling.

Nvidia hairworks with amd. 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. Even on nvidia cards there is a performance hit for hairworks but it s no where near as severe as amd cards. This trick was discovered by reddit user friedbongwater and here. But here s the thing.

One of these features is nvidia hairworks and it seems like there is a trick to run it on amd gpus without major performance drops. Nvidia s geforce gtx 980 also suffered tremendously with hairworks enabled albeit at a far lesser scale than amd s hardware dropping to 41 to 43fps in the above. Nvidia hairworks enables advanced simulation and rendering techniques for richer visual appeal and provides a deeply immersive experience. The comparison above includes the r9 290 which i m getting soon and that can t even manage 30fps with hairworks enabled.

Click here to join gameworks access team on github. Amd users have a way of enjoying the witcher 3. It appears that amd users have a way of enjoying the witcher 3. Including pc gameplay at maximum graphical settings at 1080p hd.

The story so far. Wild hunt with the nvidia hairworks feature enabled and actually getting better performance than geforce users not using a maxwell architecture.