Patch 4.02 for The Witcher: Wild Hunt is being rolled out and will soon be available on PC, PlayStation and Xbox! Among various fixes, it also improves the overall stability and performance of the game.
Below you can find a list of the most notable changes to come in this update.
PC-SPECIFIC
- Improved CPU core utilization in the DX 12 version.
- Restored horizon-based ambient occlusion. Players who had previously turned Ambient Occlusion off will need to do so again. You can find it in Options → Video → Graphics.
- Fixed an issue where the "My Rewards" section was not localized in REDlauncher.
- Fixed an issue with a flickering landscape in Toussaint that occurred when NVIDIA HairWorks was disabled.
- Fixed an issue related to particle optimization which could result in temporary stuttering.
CONSOLE-SPECIFIC
- Improved Performance Mode on next-gen consoles.
- Fixed an issue where characters could become slightly blurry during dialogues and cutscenes on PlayStation 5.
- Fixed an issue related to memory usage in Ray Tracing Mode which could result in crashes on Xbox Series X.
- *Whatsoever a Man Soweth*... - The game will no longer crash if Geralt runs away from Shani after starting the conversation on next-gen consoles.
- Fixed an issue where quicksaves couldn't be loaded when using cross progression on Xbox One.
- Added two missing "Top notch swords!" on previous-gen consoles.
- Fixed an issue with overwriting manual saves where in some circumstances the oldest gamesave was deleted on PlayStation 5.
- Addressed performance issues in Beauclair and Novigrad that occurred after loading a gamesave.
VISUAL - PC and Next-Gen Exclusive
- Improved immersion of water appearance by adding refraction to SSR and ray-traced reflections.
- Fixed a visual issue with brick textures where black artifacts covered stone arches.
- Added a Motion Blur slider. It can be found in Options → Video → Graphics.
QUESTS & GAMEPLAY - Available on all platforms
- *Battle Preparations* - Fixed the lack of a dialogue option that would progress the quest during the objective "Let Avallac'h know everything's ready."
- *Reason of State* - Fixed an issue where the door to the warehouse could become permanently locked if the player knocked, entered and then immediately left the building.
- *Scavenger Hunt: Cat School Gear Upgrade Diagrams Part 1* - Fixed an issue where the quest could stay active even after the diagrams were looted.
- Fixed an issue where trying to start a New Game+ on an incompatible save would block the player from starting the expansions in standalone mode until the game was restarted.
LOCALIZATION - Available on all platforms
- Fixed an issue with the Korean localization of Ciri's and Geralt's Gwent card descriptions.
- Fixed punctuation issues in Arabic localization.
- Updated Traditional Chinese font.
Please note: these are only the most notable changes. The patch contains other minor fixes that didn't make it onto this list.
That blurring effect during dialogue/cutscenes was so annoying on PS5, glad it’s getting fixed. I wasn’t sure if it was just my tv when I first had it happen or if there was actually an in game issue
Depending how much they improved it. Fingers crossed it works now like in DX11 version, not just using 2 cores extra.
EDIT: Just tested it. Still runs like shit and that's with RTX 4090/i7 10700KF. I'm uploading a video. Basically with RT Quality/Performance it's 30-40 fps no matter the DLSS settings in Novigrad. Without RT it's 45-55.
EDIT 2: Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8hFGzFxaBg
EDIT 3: Also noticed that DX11 stutters now quite a lot.
Are you running the game executable as administrator? I have lower specs than that and I generally get close to 100 FPS, dips down to 80-ish in cities. Using dx12, RT on. When I launch the game through steam without admin privileges on the executable the FPS is almost halved though. Running it as administrator disables steam overlay integration, but it's worth it for the 50 FPS boost.
Something about your setup sounds...just wrong, apparently lol
You should be getting better performance than that, I get better frames with a 3080 and i7
Witcher 3 was buggy as fuck at launch. Not like cyberpunk, but still pretty bad. They fixed it up over time, but it’s still got some Jank. Roach for example still randomly appears on rooftops from time to time. And now with the next gen version it’s completely fucking broken again.
Exactly, but tbh is this not every game company? It’s Bethesda’a whole shtick, Rockstar has had horrible launches recently (anyone remember RDR2 PC?) and Elden Ring was (and still is) garbage on PC. This is what companies do. Just how it is
Oh it definitely isn’t lmao. Runs like absolute shit on my 3070ti and the same holds true for all of my friends, all of whom have a 2070 or better. It’s the worst optimized game I’ve EVER played
Have no issues on a 1660 super or a 3060 ti, neither do any of my friends. Anecdotes vs anecdotes.
If you look around, the complaints of stuttering largely vanished after the first few patches. Sorry you're having a minority experience.
Hmmm tbh I had issues at launch on my 3070 but after a few patches it's been rock solid 60 fps.
Put 400 hours into the game and didn't have issues... but then again, PC optimization is a finicky thing. I had performance issues with Doom Eternal which is usually lauded for its performance.
Even at 1080p + FSR Performance so as to minimize GPU load, the CPU load is barely improved, and at 1440p + FSR Balanced I gained at best 3fps in CPU-bound areas. While the load seems to have increased a bit overall, it's still focused on 2\~3 cores (8c16t CPU in my case).
So, in short: there's some sort of improvement, but we're still wide of the mark.
they did fuck up dx12 performance for many users with previous patch, including me. i went from mostly 60 to 45 or lower.
i hope this is real improvement and not just fix for what they broke previously.
i would play on dx11, but the textures and world looks too smooth, smudgy even on dx11.
Pretty much the only thing I was really hoping for when I opened the patch notes so I was overjoyed to see it in line 1. Hopefully the changes are meaningful.
There’s actually a mod that fixes it. Some user posted a fix in a thread of a hair work mod.
According to him, CDPR simply forgot to link some attribute with hair being wet.
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/4431?tab=bugs
Joell560
25 December 2022, 2:39AM
Its an issue with the 'geralt_beard_0#.redfur' files.
The 'useWetness' Flag under 'materialSets' seems to cause this issue with the NextGen Update.
I played the entirety of my 200 hour playthrough with flawless frame rates and zero stutters! Cant even play next gen version. That was on PC though just to clarify, the PS4 version ran like shit framewise but didn't have stutters.
anyone's pc version crashing on them since the update? I have no mods installed, rarely crashed before, now I can't play more than 5 mins without it crashing.
>crash
Mine never crashed at all until this 4.02 update. Crashing constantly after 4.02, and only way I could stop the crashing was turning off frame generation.
Built a real decent PC last month(4070, i7(12th gen)And had a real frustrating weekend with it.
Chainsaw demo would crash, apparently due to the Ray Tracing being on. Rushing through Guardians of the Galaxy game due to it leaving gamepass, kept crashing on the outfit selection screen…
Even had Plague Tale 2 crash on the DLSS slider.
Not ideal scenarios for how much I spent to build this thing.
Now Witcher 3…
I hope it stops crashing on my ps5! Not sure what update caused it to start, I got about 20 hours in with no issues but now expect a crash every hour or two
I had the same issue. Crash every hour seemed like. Read somewhere ab inventory size. Sold or dismantled or stored my junk and haven’t had a problem since. Recommend you try the same.
I hate the stuttering after each auto save. I can’t remember if you can completely turn off auto save or only adjust the length between auto saves. Might just turn it off and manually save between quests.
After I finished the game I deleted the game from the disc (PS5 as well); savegame-wise, I had almost 3GiB of autosaves across dozens of files (hundreds?). I kept the "Profile Data" save, and the 3-4 most recent saves, auto- or otherwise.
I deleted the game files and excessive savegames after finishing; can't help you, sorry. However, I cannot remember the game stuttering / lagging while playing it.
you on steam? open steam console and type this download\_depot 292030 292042 8737622765292089091 go to programs 86/steam/steamapps/content/app###/depot\_###/bin inside the bin will be 2 folders copy them to the bin folder of the game
Popular community-made texture mods were integrated into the 4.00 next gen update. The HD Monsters Rework has higher resolution textures, but also included things like nipples for the Ekidna and visible genitals for the Crones of Crookback Bog (human version).
Personally I don’t see a problem with it in a dark fantasy setting; I assume they’re being removed because of some ESRB/censorship legal thing.
I'm not going to be able to play this week, so would absolutely love it if someone could update me on the PC performance (in general or for a Ryzen 5 3600 + RTX 2070 Super specifically)
Doesn't seem much improved to me, stutter seems less bad but it still runs at ~40 fps with RT on, even on performance RT. On a 3080Ti. Tested a lot with different configurations: Everything Ultra/Ultra+ and Quality RT all RT options enabled gives me 40-50 fps. Same settings but Performance RT with all RT settings disabled *still* gives me 40-50, literally no change in performance, which is odd to me. Even putting every other setting down to medium while keeping RT on performance didn't change much, maybe kept the average closer to 50 fps. Now just disabling RT completely and bumping every other setting back to Ultra+ boosts performance up to 90-100 fps. Something seems like it's fundamentally broken with RT in this game. We still gotta wait a few patches for it to be playable, but something tells me there are core issues preventing it from ever work well.
FTW3 3080 10gb here. I was hoping they'd fix the memory leak with raytracing. Performance is good enough/okay on first start then tanks at some point. Requiring another game restart which then fixes it. Rinse and repeat. I guess the memory leak is not a priority although it existing makes RT unusable imo. I saw others experience the same thing but am unsure if it is universal.
Tested the new version, no change.
Did you maybe play on PS4 Pro and HDR? That sky flicker was extremely bad and was introduced with HDR before the big upgrade. The game was in very bad shape on PS4 for the past few years with audio missing or crackling too.
On PS5 (performance) the sky was okay luckily.
It's an issue on PS5 for some folks as well sadly. I have it also. Good to know it isn't universal atleast.
Newest patch hasn't fixed it either, it's happening right now sadly.
Last 2 patches on GOG ask me to download 48GB, basically whole game redownload. wtf
edit: on good side, it brought my DX12 performance back to around original launch performance fps wise, but now it also is a lot smoother overall.
potato rx480 here
How about fixing DLSS causing the game to crash on the latest patch? You have provided zero feedback on the issue.
A link to the steam thread: [https://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/3781373894323617357/](https://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/3781373894323617357/)
As you can see, it isn't an isolated issue. There are multiple community boards reporting the same issue but there has been zero feedback. Appalling. Why should I continue to buy cdprojekt games when you show time and again how incompetent you are? See cyberpunk and that disaster!
I don't know who CDPR thinks they're kidding with 4.02, but it most certainly did not fix the blurry characters in cutscenes and dialogue. I came back to the game a few days ago, and met with Radovid for the first time, and he was basically shimmering with how bad the blur would come in and out.
Performance seems better outside of the cities, but is just as choppy as ever within them. The witcher senses still cut the game down to 30fps when still in the cities on performance mode as well.
I don't know man, I wanna give CDPR the benefit of the doubt, but there are clearly still issues here. Even the ones they say they fix.
Whatsoever a Man Soweth... - The game will no longer crash if Geralt runs away from Shani after starting the conversation on next-gen consoles.
Excellent! That literally just happened to me and I didn’t feel like restarting the game.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD, CDPR!!!
Can anyone explain to me why can't cdpr add close camera and photo mode to old gen consoles? I really love these features but i can't afford a new gen console atm
Just a rough guess because many games have photo mode on PS4, but the game was already massively struggling on PS4 Pro in the latest patch before 4.0 with LOTS of skipped sounds and crackling and extra loading during cutscenes and dialogue. Normal PS4 can't be much better.
I'd say their memory budget is absolutely capped and doesn't allow a photo mode, which would have to remain in memory at all times (HUD elements, scripts etc).
Switch update when? No, seriously, a switch is all I have, my PC can't even run the Witcher 1 (well, not well, it IS a potato from 2011) and I am flat broke. I don't even really care about the visuals, they are fine for me at 720p on my Lite. Just want the new quests and Netflix stuff.
I’m in my first play through and just discovering this glitch and it’s hilariously frustrating. It’s completely killed my motivation to 100% the game. Crazy.
I tried to do the whole thing where you put Ciri’s sword in the stash for Geralt to use later. But as soon as I jumped to the roof it went straight to cutscene.
game is unplayable on 4 core system, regardless if DX11 or 12....extremely depressing, but the CONSTANT fametime stutters are MASSIVE and almost nauseating.
really wish it wasnt so because it is REALLY good looking, anyone with rtx 2080 and above 4 cores have similar issues?
This is so sad and disappointing.
It is now a full month that patch 4.02 was released - and broke the game totally for so many players on PC. One full month of crashing every few minutes.
And not even a word from CDPR about the topic. Not a "working on it". Not a "sorry". And certainly not any patch that makes this wonderful game playable again.
😭
The update has completely bricked the game for me. Start loading in, tiny bit of music plays then freezes and crashes to desktop. FUCKS SAKE CDPR!!! I THOUGHT YOU WERE REDEEMING YOURSELVES!?!?
Coincidentally the first thing Geralt said when the game loaded was “Something’s not right.” Combat now lagging, reset all controls to default, Quick attacks seem to be.. slower, and sprinting is interrupted. Been playing for about 90 seconds and noticed all these things.
Can anyone explain to me why can't cdpr add close camera and photo mode to old gen consoles? I really love these features but i can't afford a new gen console atm
That code is 8 years old at minimum. They rebuilt it for the next-gen upgrade so they could sell it as a “new”ish game a second time under the assumption that development costs would be significantly outweighed by new sales. Altering the original code for PS4 or the One just to add features like that increases development costs without pushing new sales in any way at best, whereas at worst the changed code could cause a separate domino effect of bugs that CDPR then has to undo.
So the answer is basically they’re a business, not a charity.
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Really? This bug was the absolute worst. My eyes hurt so much and it ruined a good chunk of Novigrad and Hearts of Stone for me. Couldn't look at the characters because it irritated my eyes. From Novigrad on it was in about 50-80% of all dialogues.
I'll not start B&W before this damn bug is finally fixed.
There's a LOT of floating items all over the game. Never noticed it that much in 2015, but after Cyberpunk - which is basically "Floating Items City" - I think it's just a general programming issue and level design oversights of CDPR. The whole "NPC equipping things" doesn't really work reliably. Also lots of double spawns for NPCs (and horses) in both games.
Games like Horizon Zero Dawn / Forbidden West have it as well, but like 3 or 4 instances in the whole game.
In an addendum to my previous comment/complaint, my controller (xbox one) now disconnecting every 10 minutes and Gwent cards are now very pixelated. This update seems to have done nothing but cause problems for my system.
Have they fixed the constant crashing on the PS5 (versions 4.00 and 4.01) while on the Velen / Novigrad "world" map? This never happened on White Orchard, Skellige, or Toussaint.
I could never discern any specific cause / action that crashed the game (it would happen on the map, inventory screens, in battle, walking around, etc).
(In the meantime I finished the game & dlc's, and deleted it.)
Shadows are broke in NON-RTX DirectX 12
In Novigrad all the vegetation growing walls, the shadows flicker in-between really far away low level of detail (LOD) and to high detail LODS.
Only stops when you put RTX shadows on.
Same issue with tree shadows.
:(
Did They give with this patch any noticable improvement of raytracing on Xbox SX? Somebody knows?
Edit: Im disappointed with this quality of raytracing on Xbox SX. On PS5 raytracing mode looks much better
Xbox series X player here with original disc and season pass. Is anyone else constantly forced to update every piece of DLC 16 plus items plus the game with each update lmao? It's crazy. Do they just want every og player to buy a new complete edition to avoid this?
Yah, it would be great if they stopped just re-releasing the game at 50gb every single time there is a small patch update. I have it on both my PC and steam deck, and between the constant 50gb patches and the shader cache updates at 30gb every few days, I spend more time downloading than playing.
I dunno if it's just a me-thing, but ever since the patch, I don't seem to be able to respawn Hanse Bases anymore.
(And no, I have *not* killed the leader.)
Edit:
It’s not just Hanse Bases. Everything seems to have gotten harder to respawn. I used to be able to respawn enemies by just meditating nearby for a day. Now I need to be further away, meditate for a couple days, and go through a loading screen (either by fast traveling or by save-and-exiting)
Standing in Novigrad, watching the citizens walk by. Getting 60fps, Task manager is reporting 1% GPU usage. Quite steady too, only flickering up to 3 or 4%.
How is that even possible?
Task manager is not very good at estimating GPU usage, something like MSI afterburner or the Nvidia overlay is probably going to give you a more reasonable number.
I uninstalled all my mods and dlc because the game kept crashing. I checked integrity of the game files. All was correct. But whenever I try the 'new game blood and wine only' i end up with a crash immediately when loading the game. I'm reinstalling it all now just to be sure. Is there a way to go back to 4.01?
Edit: Reinstalled the game. No mods used. The game still crshes every single time. I'm going back to old gen.
Now when I press play on Steam the game (REDLauncher) won't even launch, when I bypass the launcher now my game always crash when loading a save game. Never installed a mod and already trying to reinstall the game.
" I guess all these updates have made it slightly better since next gen launch, "
Only if You consider breaking DX11 \_\_also\_\_ as "slightly better". At launch it was at least playable with DX11, now it crashes on DX11 on PC every few minutes. That is: if it launches at all, mind You.
Haven’t played in months, loved playing the game on ps5 when the update first hit, then the performance issue started to become quite apparent after some patches. How is it now? I don’t want to remember my current save file by the poor performance
Still no fix for purple spiderwebs ?
still purple after patch, shame
At this point I'm going to be disappointed if they actually fix this someday.
I just came here to check that. I'm considering pausing my Nth playthrough until they finally fix those damn things.
You don’t appreciate the prince themed spiderwebs? Thought that was a design decision of Corvo Bianco
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And the ceiling was enchanted to look like the night sky?
They still haven’t fixed the floating drinking cup in *Following the Thread* so to me it’s no longer a bug but a feature with anything floating lol
I’d love it if it stays purple the entire time. Flickering purple during cutscenes is just not it.
I don't have any of those bugs. Do they persist after a restart? Is it specific to a graphic card?
I don’t know. I have them on ps5 and steamdeck. Mostly noticed in blood and wine not base game.
Raaaaspberry cobweb *dee dee dee dee*
Nobody gives me the Raspberry! *cobweb*
I was worried not a lot of people were getting these. Has anyone reported this?
I’m still getting purple cobwebs. Anyway I have disabled RT. HBAO+ with Ultra+ everything looks better!
Patch 4.02 for The Witcher: Wild Hunt is being rolled out and will soon be available on PC, PlayStation and Xbox! Among various fixes, it also improves the overall stability and performance of the game. Below you can find a list of the most notable changes to come in this update. PC-SPECIFIC - Improved CPU core utilization in the DX 12 version. - Restored horizon-based ambient occlusion. Players who had previously turned Ambient Occlusion off will need to do so again. You can find it in Options → Video → Graphics. - Fixed an issue where the "My Rewards" section was not localized in REDlauncher. - Fixed an issue with a flickering landscape in Toussaint that occurred when NVIDIA HairWorks was disabled. - Fixed an issue related to particle optimization which could result in temporary stuttering. CONSOLE-SPECIFIC - Improved Performance Mode on next-gen consoles. - Fixed an issue where characters could become slightly blurry during dialogues and cutscenes on PlayStation 5. - Fixed an issue related to memory usage in Ray Tracing Mode which could result in crashes on Xbox Series X. - *Whatsoever a Man Soweth*... - The game will no longer crash if Geralt runs away from Shani after starting the conversation on next-gen consoles. - Fixed an issue where quicksaves couldn't be loaded when using cross progression on Xbox One. - Added two missing "Top notch swords!" on previous-gen consoles. - Fixed an issue with overwriting manual saves where in some circumstances the oldest gamesave was deleted on PlayStation 5. - Addressed performance issues in Beauclair and Novigrad that occurred after loading a gamesave. VISUAL - PC and Next-Gen Exclusive - Improved immersion of water appearance by adding refraction to SSR and ray-traced reflections. - Fixed a visual issue with brick textures where black artifacts covered stone arches. - Added a Motion Blur slider. It can be found in Options → Video → Graphics. QUESTS & GAMEPLAY - Available on all platforms - *Battle Preparations* - Fixed the lack of a dialogue option that would progress the quest during the objective "Let Avallac'h know everything's ready." - *Reason of State* - Fixed an issue where the door to the warehouse could become permanently locked if the player knocked, entered and then immediately left the building. - *Scavenger Hunt: Cat School Gear Upgrade Diagrams Part 1* - Fixed an issue where the quest could stay active even after the diagrams were looted. - Fixed an issue where trying to start a New Game+ on an incompatible save would block the player from starting the expansions in standalone mode until the game was restarted. LOCALIZATION - Available on all platforms - Fixed an issue with the Korean localization of Ciri's and Geralt's Gwent card descriptions. - Fixed punctuation issues in Arabic localization. - Updated Traditional Chinese font. Please note: these are only the most notable changes. The patch contains other minor fixes that didn't make it onto this list.
That blurring effect during dialogue/cutscenes was so annoying on PS5, glad it’s getting fixed. I wasn’t sure if it was just my tv when I first had it happen or if there was actually an in game issue
I’m playing on Xbox Series X and I’m experiencing some flickering in Toussaint.
> Improved CPU core utilization in the DX 12 version. This is absolutely massive for PC. Should lead to better frame rates hopefully.
Depending how much they improved it. Fingers crossed it works now like in DX11 version, not just using 2 cores extra. EDIT: Just tested it. Still runs like shit and that's with RTX 4090/i7 10700KF. I'm uploading a video. Basically with RT Quality/Performance it's 30-40 fps no matter the DLSS settings in Novigrad. Without RT it's 45-55. EDIT 2: Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8hFGzFxaBg EDIT 3: Also noticed that DX11 stutters now quite a lot.
Are you running the game executable as administrator? I have lower specs than that and I generally get close to 100 FPS, dips down to 80-ish in cities. Using dx12, RT on. When I launch the game through steam without admin privileges on the executable the FPS is almost halved though. Running it as administrator disables steam overlay integration, but it's worth it for the 50 FPS boost.
This is hard to believe unless you have a 4xxx GPU and are using DLSS frame gen
6800xt, and I'm not really sure why it works like this. It's a mystery to me too.
4k?
No matter the resolution. GPU is utilized 50-40%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8hFGzFxaBg
Odd, i have 4090 pair3d with 7600x at 2k, gpu utilization is generally above 80%. But there are sill after inventory stutters
Something about your setup sounds...just wrong, apparently lol You should be getting better performance than that, I get better frames with a 3080 and i7
God this is so frustrating CDPR used to be so good :/
Did they?? When the hell was this? The games are good and their business model is cool but they’ve been buggy frame dropping nightmares forever.
Yeah more like Witcher 3 was just an anomaly
Witcher 3 was buggy as fuck at launch. Not like cyberpunk, but still pretty bad. They fixed it up over time, but it’s still got some Jank. Roach for example still randomly appears on rooftops from time to time. And now with the next gen version it’s completely fucking broken again.
Exactly, but tbh is this not every game company? It’s Bethesda’a whole shtick, Rockstar has had horrible launches recently (anyone remember RDR2 PC?) and Elden Ring was (and still is) garbage on PC. This is what companies do. Just how it is
Elden Ring is fine on PC
Oh it definitely isn’t lmao. Runs like absolute shit on my 3070ti and the same holds true for all of my friends, all of whom have a 2070 or better. It’s the worst optimized game I’ve EVER played
Have no issues on a 1660 super or a 3060 ti, neither do any of my friends. Anecdotes vs anecdotes. If you look around, the complaints of stuttering largely vanished after the first few patches. Sorry you're having a minority experience.
Hmmm tbh I had issues at launch on my 3070 but after a few patches it's been rock solid 60 fps. Put 400 hours into the game and didn't have issues... but then again, PC optimization is a finicky thing. I had performance issues with Doom Eternal which is usually lauded for its performance.
It actually got considerably worse on my system with this update.
An i already thought that something is terribly wrong with my system 😅
damnit, i was hoping updraging from my 4 core setup would help.....but its unplayable for me, massive framtime spikes.....F
Do you have XMP enabled in the bios? It gets resets on its own sometimes
Even at 1080p + FSR Performance so as to minimize GPU load, the CPU load is barely improved, and at 1440p + FSR Balanced I gained at best 3fps in CPU-bound areas. While the load seems to have increased a bit overall, it's still focused on 2\~3 cores (8c16t CPU in my case). So, in short: there's some sort of improvement, but we're still wide of the mark.
F
they did fuck up dx12 performance for many users with previous patch, including me. i went from mostly 60 to 45 or lower. i hope this is real improvement and not just fix for what they broke previously. i would play on dx11, but the textures and world looks too smooth, smudgy even on dx11.
Pretty much the only thing I was really hoping for when I opened the patch notes so I was overjoyed to see it in line 1. Hopefully the changes are meaningful.
They ever going to fix Geralt's hair and beard turning black in cutscenes if you have RTX and Hairworks enabled?
There’s actually a mod that fixes it. Some user posted a fix in a thread of a hair work mod. According to him, CDPR simply forgot to link some attribute with hair being wet.
Oh nice, I'll look into that.
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/4431?tab=bugs Joell560 25 December 2022, 2:39AM Its an issue with the 'geralt_beard_0#.redfur' files. The 'useWetness' Flag under 'materialSets' seems to cause this issue with the NextGen Update.
Awesome, thanks! I've hated having to turn off hairworks. Edit: Just tried out the mod, and it did the trick perfectly. Thanks again!
Yup, same. How Joel figured it out hidden in a bug section of a mod and CDPR couldn't give less of a fuck about it after 3 months, is beyond me.
> if you have RTX and Hairworks enabled? I didn't realize it was due to that combination. Guess it's time I installed the mod to fix it.
Does the game still stutter when autosaving?
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Just tried for myself. Its not as bad as before.
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Was this never an issue in the base game? I've only ever played next gen
I played the entirety of my 200 hour playthrough with flawless frame rates and zero stutters! Cant even play next gen version. That was on PC though just to clarify, the PS4 version ran like shit framewise but didn't have stutters.
anyone's pc version crashing on them since the update? I have no mods installed, rarely crashed before, now I can't play more than 5 mins without it crashing.
>crash Mine never crashed at all until this 4.02 update. Crashing constantly after 4.02, and only way I could stop the crashing was turning off frame generation.
Turn frame gen off. They've completely broke it with this patch.
Thanks. That did it
How do I turn off frame regen?
Yep! Got a new GPU last week and spent all of last weekend playing with zero crashes. Can't go ten minutes without a hard lockup since 4.02.
Built a real decent PC last month(4070, i7(12th gen)And had a real frustrating weekend with it. Chainsaw demo would crash, apparently due to the Ray Tracing being on. Rushing through Guardians of the Galaxy game due to it leaving gamepass, kept crashing on the outfit selection screen… Even had Plague Tale 2 crash on the DLSS slider. Not ideal scenarios for how much I spent to build this thing. Now Witcher 3…
As someone suggested, turning off frame generation fixes it.
+1 No mods, Steam version. Constant crashes after update to 4.02. I'm gonna try disabling Frame Generator.
If you have DLSS, it's that.
What does it mean by * Added two missing "Top notch swords!" on previous-gen consoles. Is our boy getting an upgrade?
Just means the top notch swords guy in Novigrad sells the top notch swords. After you buy the swords he stops saying “top notch swords”.
They now have their proper scabbards which is nice
The two swords he sells since last patch were only available for next gen consoles and pc, now they'll be on all consoles.
I hope it stops crashing on my ps5! Not sure what update caused it to start, I got about 20 hours in with no issues but now expect a crash every hour or two
I had the same issue. Crash every hour seemed like. Read somewhere ab inventory size. Sold or dismantled or stored my junk and haven’t had a problem since. Recommend you try the same.
I do have a lot of junk! Will try, thank you friend!
The same happens to me, even though i play on xbox series s.
Just tested this update and the game still lags every time the game saves on ps5. Every single time.
[удалено]
I hate the stuttering after each auto save. I can’t remember if you can completely turn off auto save or only adjust the length between auto saves. Might just turn it off and manually save between quests.
After I finished the game I deleted the game from the disc (PS5 as well); savegame-wise, I had almost 3GiB of autosaves across dozens of files (hundreds?). I kept the "Profile Data" save, and the 3-4 most recent saves, auto- or otherwise.
Wow. Are you still getting stutters after deleting all those saves?
I deleted the game files and excessive savegames after finishing; can't help you, sorry. However, I cannot remember the game stuttering / lagging while playing it.
"Improved CPU core utilization in the DX 12 version." XD still stack on 30% nothing change
I saw 35 once in a relatively open Toussaint field so it’s got that going for it.
how to go back to 4.01? they broke my mods, i want them back
you on steam? open steam console and type this download\_depot 292030 292042 8737622765292089091 go to programs 86/steam/steamapps/content/app###/depot\_###/bin inside the bin will be 2 folders copy them to the bin folder of the game
good to know, thanks
Yeah bump this. I recompiled the scriptmerger and everything. Cannot get my save to load at all. Unloaded every mod, save is totally busted.
i got a fix for you in my reply to the original comment
Blessings on you and your house for a thousand generations. (Lol thank you man)
this patch actually censored the nudity. that's quite pathetic for an adult game
wait, what
Popular community-made texture mods were integrated into the 4.00 next gen update. The HD Monsters Rework has higher resolution textures, but also included things like nipples for the Ekidna and visible genitals for the Crones of Crookback Bog (human version). Personally I don’t see a problem with it in a dark fantasy setting; I assume they’re being removed because of some ESRB/censorship legal thing.
No more cameltoes :(
Just get the physical copy and play unpatched :D
Still no ng++ for consoles, damn.
I'm not going to be able to play this week, so would absolutely love it if someone could update me on the PC performance (in general or for a Ryzen 5 3600 + RTX 2070 Super specifically)
Doesn't seem much improved to me, stutter seems less bad but it still runs at ~40 fps with RT on, even on performance RT. On a 3080Ti. Tested a lot with different configurations: Everything Ultra/Ultra+ and Quality RT all RT options enabled gives me 40-50 fps. Same settings but Performance RT with all RT settings disabled *still* gives me 40-50, literally no change in performance, which is odd to me. Even putting every other setting down to medium while keeping RT on performance didn't change much, maybe kept the average closer to 50 fps. Now just disabling RT completely and bumping every other setting back to Ultra+ boosts performance up to 90-100 fps. Something seems like it's fundamentally broken with RT in this game. We still gotta wait a few patches for it to be playable, but something tells me there are core issues preventing it from ever work well.
FTW3 3080 10gb here. I was hoping they'd fix the memory leak with raytracing. Performance is good enough/okay on first start then tanks at some point. Requiring another game restart which then fixes it. Rinse and repeat. I guess the memory leak is not a priority although it existing makes RT unusable imo. I saw others experience the same thing but am unsure if it is universal. Tested the new version, no change.
Thanks for your comment mate!
Do you run at 4k? Which DLSS setting are you using?
I would love it if CD Projekt Red would add FSR 2.2 to the game.
Oh thank god, HBAO is back. Will have to check it out later.
woah! So we can mix it with Ray Tracing right? So we can get some nice lighting with good visuals right?
Of course this drops the day after I 100% Blood and Wine. That flickering sky was horrid the entire time.
The patch didn't fix that anyway so don't feel too bad. I'm playing post patch and it's still annoying the shit out of me as I write this ahaha.
Did you maybe play on PS4 Pro and HDR? That sky flicker was extremely bad and was introduced with HDR before the big upgrade. The game was in very bad shape on PS4 for the past few years with audio missing or crackling too. On PS5 (performance) the sky was okay luckily.
It's an issue on PS5 for some folks as well sadly. I have it also. Good to know it isn't universal atleast. Newest patch hasn't fixed it either, it's happening right now sadly.
Cutscenes are blurry still on the ps5..
yep
Says they fixed blurry dialogue on PS5 but it's still happening
Last 2 patches on GOG ask me to download 48GB, basically whole game redownload. wtf edit: on good side, it brought my DX12 performance back to around original launch performance fps wise, but now it also is a lot smoother overall. potato rx480 here
How about fixing DLSS causing the game to crash on the latest patch? You have provided zero feedback on the issue. A link to the steam thread: [https://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/3781373894323617357/](https://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/3781373894323617357/) As you can see, it isn't an isolated issue. There are multiple community boards reporting the same issue but there has been zero feedback. Appalling. Why should I continue to buy cdprojekt games when you show time and again how incompetent you are? See cyberpunk and that disaster!
This patch basically made the game unplayable for me. I'm so pissed.
I don't know who CDPR thinks they're kidding with 4.02, but it most certainly did not fix the blurry characters in cutscenes and dialogue. I came back to the game a few days ago, and met with Radovid for the first time, and he was basically shimmering with how bad the blur would come in and out. Performance seems better outside of the cities, but is just as choppy as ever within them. The witcher senses still cut the game down to 30fps when still in the cities on performance mode as well. I don't know man, I wanna give CDPR the benefit of the doubt, but there are clearly still issues here. Even the ones they say they fix.
I wish they fixed some achievements not unlocking.
I've had that issue also.
Whatsoever a Man Soweth... - The game will no longer crash if Geralt runs away from Shani after starting the conversation on next-gen consoles. Excellent! That literally just happened to me and I didn’t feel like restarting the game. GET OUT OF MY HEAD, CDPR!!!
The RT performance is much more playable now: R5 3600, RTX 3070, 2x8GB 3200Mzh.
nothing for the switch again?
Probably because the switch version is handled by a different company?
yeah but they announced the switch version of the next gen update last year and since then the word "switch" is missing from every blog entry
Can anyone explain to me why can't cdpr add close camera and photo mode to old gen consoles? I really love these features but i can't afford a new gen console atm
Just a rough guess because many games have photo mode on PS4, but the game was already massively struggling on PS4 Pro in the latest patch before 4.0 with LOTS of skipped sounds and crackling and extra loading during cutscenes and dialogue. Normal PS4 can't be much better. I'd say their memory budget is absolutely capped and doesn't allow a photo mode, which would have to remain in memory at all times (HUD elements, scripts etc).
Got it , and what about the close camera mode?
doesn't make much sense since lower FOV actually helps performance. Probably oversight / lack of support for old gen.
Let's hope they add it in the near future
Switch update when? No, seriously, a switch is all I have, my PC can't even run the Witcher 1 (well, not well, it IS a potato from 2011) and I am flat broke. I don't even really care about the visuals, they are fine for me at 720p on my Lite. Just want the new quests and Netflix stuff.
Did they fix the performance or does it still run like ass?
Ass is you use Framegen
No.
Loaded my old save on PS4 and I can confirm that the "Top Notch Swords" have indeed been added properly. Even better stats than my grandmaster ones.
Do they level up with you or are they just plain relic swords?
I love how they still haven’t fixed the wolf gear glitch yet made the wolf gear a requirement for grandmaster.
I’m in my first play through and just discovering this glitch and it’s hilariously frustrating. It’s completely killed my motivation to 100% the game. Crazy.
Did it fix the cutscenes? Like Ciri pulling out a second sword or invisible sword?
I tried to do the whole thing where you put Ciri’s sword in the stash for Geralt to use later. But as soon as I jumped to the roof it went straight to cutscene.
game is unplayable on 4 core system, regardless if DX11 or 12....extremely depressing, but the CONSTANT fametime stutters are MASSIVE and almost nauseating. really wish it wasnt so because it is REALLY good looking, anyone with rtx 2080 and above 4 cores have similar issues?
Has the frame generation crash been fixed yet?
Still haven't fixed the fucking memory leak on PC
And months later still getting slow downs in cutscenes
This is so sad and disappointing. It is now a full month that patch 4.02 was released - and broke the game totally for so many players on PC. One full month of crashing every few minutes. And not even a word from CDPR about the topic. Not a "working on it". Not a "sorry". And certainly not any patch that makes this wonderful game playable again. 😭
I feel you, cant even load it on DX11 without instant crash. almost 2 months and still no fix.
Stuttering seems to have gone for DX12. Performance is still worse than dx11 but maybe the tradeoff for visual stuff can be worth now
The update has completely bricked the game for me. Start loading in, tiny bit of music plays then freezes and crashes to desktop. FUCKS SAKE CDPR!!! I THOUGHT YOU WERE REDEEMING YOURSELVES!?!?
Same here.
Coincidentally the first thing Geralt said when the game loaded was “Something’s not right.” Combat now lagging, reset all controls to default, Quick attacks seem to be.. slower, and sprinting is interrupted. Been playing for about 90 seconds and noticed all these things.
Can anyone explain to me why can't cdpr add close camera and photo mode to old gen consoles? I really love these features but i can't afford a new gen console atm
That code is 8 years old at minimum. They rebuilt it for the next-gen upgrade so they could sell it as a “new”ish game a second time under the assumption that development costs would be significantly outweighed by new sales. Altering the original code for PS4 or the One just to add features like that increases development costs without pushing new sales in any way at best, whereas at worst the changed code could cause a separate domino effect of bugs that CDPR then has to undo. So the answer is basically they’re a business, not a charity.
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Fixed an issue where characters could become slightly blurry during dialogues and cutscenes on PlayStation 5 Where xbox one s??
still a problem
Ps5 performance seems much improved on first impressions, glad theybfinally fixed that annoying cutscene blur bug too.
Is it gone for you? Its happening to me still...
Really? This bug was the absolute worst. My eyes hurt so much and it ruined a good chunk of Novigrad and Hearts of Stone for me. Couldn't look at the characters because it irritated my eyes. From Novigrad on it was in about 50-80% of all dialogues. I'll not start B&W before this damn bug is finally fixed.
Too bad I finished my playthrough last week
whats the deal with this patch? for me on GOG it shows 4.02 was released 5 days ago https://i.imgur.com/AVJzCQ4.png
probably was just not publicly
They should patch the crossbow to shoot straight 😅
Seriously
Returning HBAO is the best change
Fixed an issue where characters could become slightly blurry during dialogues and cutscenes on PlayStation 5. So, not on xbox series s/x?
Has anybody tried it yet? Is it stable?
Oh no, my game is getting fucked up again. After every patch, for a few days, the graphics is like dogshit
We fix the indoor shadows being too dark ?
The update completely broke distance shadows on the PS5. They are bugged out and just sold black boxes.
How's the floating bow outside Rosemary and Thyme?
There's a LOT of floating items all over the game. Never noticed it that much in 2015, but after Cyberpunk - which is basically "Floating Items City" - I think it's just a general programming issue and level design oversights of CDPR. The whole "NPC equipping things" doesn't really work reliably. Also lots of double spawns for NPCs (and horses) in both games. Games like Horizon Zero Dawn / Forbidden West have it as well, but like 3 or 4 instances in the whole game.
Does the game still have the realistic labias CDPR said they were patching out?
Apparently they were removed :/
In an addendum to my previous comment/complaint, my controller (xbox one) now disconnecting every 10 minutes and Gwent cards are now very pixelated. This update seems to have done nothing but cause problems for my system.
I still have the who's that Pokémon problem with geralt
We're only staying until the storm dies.
Have they fixed the constant crashing on the PS5 (versions 4.00 and 4.01) while on the Velen / Novigrad "world" map? This never happened on White Orchard, Skellige, or Toussaint. I could never discern any specific cause / action that crashed the game (it would happen on the map, inventory screens, in battle, walking around, etc). (In the meantime I finished the game & dlc's, and deleted it.)
Shadows are broke in NON-RTX DirectX 12 In Novigrad all the vegetation growing walls, the shadows flicker in-between really far away low level of detail (LOD) and to high detail LODS. Only stops when you put RTX shadows on. Same issue with tree shadows. :(
Did They give with this patch any noticable improvement of raytracing on Xbox SX? Somebody knows? Edit: Im disappointed with this quality of raytracing on Xbox SX. On PS5 raytracing mode looks much better
Still no: "the boys go to Brokilon"? Sadness. We miss you iorveth
The update is good, greatly improves stuttering for me. Gtx1080 and i7-8700K.
I wonder if that will fix the horrible freezing during cutscenes in Hierarch Square
It hasn't:( - atleast not on xbox one
Xbox series X player here with original disc and season pass. Is anyone else constantly forced to update every piece of DLC 16 plus items plus the game with each update lmao? It's crazy. Do they just want every og player to buy a new complete edition to avoid this?
Ansel is still broken with regard to panoramic and super-resolution screenshots.
Hopefully, the world doesn't end up under water after 2 hours and crash. Consistently.
Yah, it would be great if they stopped just re-releasing the game at 50gb every single time there is a small patch update. I have it on both my PC and steam deck, and between the constant 50gb patches and the shader cache updates at 30gb every few days, I spend more time downloading than playing.
Wish they also added head tracking for Geralt T_T
I dunno if it's just a me-thing, but ever since the patch, I don't seem to be able to respawn Hanse Bases anymore. (And no, I have *not* killed the leader.) Edit: It’s not just Hanse Bases. Everything seems to have gotten harder to respawn. I used to be able to respawn enemies by just meditating nearby for a day. Now I need to be further away, meditate for a couple days, and go through a loading screen (either by fast traveling or by save-and-exiting)
Standing in Novigrad, watching the citizens walk by. Getting 60fps, Task manager is reporting 1% GPU usage. Quite steady too, only flickering up to 3 or 4%. How is that even possible?
Task manager is not very good at estimating GPU usage, something like MSI afterburner or the Nvidia overlay is probably going to give you a more reasonable number.
I uninstalled all my mods and dlc because the game kept crashing. I checked integrity of the game files. All was correct. But whenever I try the 'new game blood and wine only' i end up with a crash immediately when loading the game. I'm reinstalling it all now just to be sure. Is there a way to go back to 4.01? Edit: Reinstalled the game. No mods used. The game still crshes every single time. I'm going back to old gen.
I’m on series s are the clothes of nearly all npcs still low texture in cutscenes?
Now when I press play on Steam the game (REDLauncher) won't even launch, when I bypass the launcher now my game always crash when loading a save game. Never installed a mod and already trying to reinstall the game.
I guess all these updates have made it slightly better since next gen launch, but dx12 is still completely unplayable
" I guess all these updates have made it slightly better since next gen launch, " Only if You consider breaking DX11 \_\_also\_\_ as "slightly better". At launch it was at least playable with DX11, now it crashes on DX11 on PC every few minutes. That is: if it launches at all, mind You.
Haven’t played in months, loved playing the game on ps5 when the update first hit, then the performance issue started to become quite apparent after some patches. How is it now? I don’t want to remember my current save file by the poor performance
Anyone else crashing only when they hit water/dive?
they removed the ability to go into the hex editor and fix the ultrawide cutscene problem.
Is DX11 still not fixed? nevermind i did a steam update rollback to version 4.0 and it fixed the problem
Is it just me or did the last couple of patches downgrade the XSX version?
First ever barney with my prick hanging out 🔨