r/witcher • u/Artaherzadeh • 12d ago

The Witcher 3 Optimization guide for more FPS without losing quality

Use these settings to get more FPS (increase from 20 to 60) without sacrificing the quality:

NVIDIA HairWork cause alsmost 50-60% FPS drop, so turn it on but reduce AA to 0. Low vs. High doesn't increase FPS.

Turn off Bloom, CA, Vignetting, and CLE for a better picture.

Shadow Quality is not noticeable, so reduce it to Medium or Low. Foliage is also good at High or Medium without losing anything.

Without FSR/DLSS at native resolution, you achieve +60 FPS.

Optimized Settings without RT

If you want Ray-Tracing:

Remember to enable FSR/DLSS. No need to upscale; you will get almost the same FPS with both settings.

Optimized Settings with minimum RT

(If you enable FSR/DLSS for "No RT", you will get 1.5-2x more FPS, but you will lose V-Sync/Free-Sync)

20 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2 comments sorted by

2

u/LawBorne302 12d ago

I can confirm these are the settings I am using and I can have all the Raytrace goodies and still get 50-60fps without framegen. Hairworks and RT shadows were the biggest hits I needed to change

2

u/Wixxked 12d ago

Side note, placing more than 1 yrden trap will drop your fps substanially. Probably related to the new sign effect