You might need to dial down some graphical settings, or ensure that RAM-hogging programs like Chrome are closed, but they should work well other than that.

However, you may encounter slight performance drops when in intense combat situations.īottom Line: You can comfortably set Detail Level to ultra on most systems.As long as you aren’t planning on running loads of background applications, you can game just fine with 4GB of RAM. We didn’t notice any performance hit with setting this to ultra. Instead, Detail Level affects the fidelity of decals like blood and how far out and for how long they are rendered. Oddly enough, this setting isn’t a level of detail option as the name might suggest. If you are not using Nvidia Hairworks, Foliage Visibility Range can be set to Ultra for a solid 30 FPS experience. We don’t recommend low as the sparse foliage at this setting can take away from the atmosphere. If the framerate hit is too great, try reducing this to Medium. We recommend setting Foliage Visibility Range to High. At High, this became a 16 FPS drop, and at ultra, a crippling 35 FPS drop.īottom Line: Foliage Visibility Range has a 12-39 percent impact on performance. Setting Foliage Visibility Range to medium resulted in an 11 FPS drop compared to the baseline of 89. We benchmarked Foliage Visibility Range with 15-second runs through a heavily wooded and grassy area outside White Orchard. The Foliage Visibility Range setting gave us the biggest performance hit after Nvidia Hairworks. At higher settings, foliage cover is substantially thicker, leading to immersive woody environments.

The Foliage Visibility Range setting controls how far out The Witcher 3’s lush grass, trees, and other flora are drawn. Ultra textures may also work on 2 GB cards, but you will run into some stuttering and ungainly texture streaming. Thanks to the optimized texture streaming CDPR has implemented in The Witcher 3, this isn’t so much of an issue.īottom Line: Set texture quality to High if you’re on a 2 GB card, and to ultra if you have 3 GB or more of VRAM. In many newer games, high and ultra textures are out of reach for those with 2 GB cards like the GTX 770. Texture Quality in and of itself doesn’t impact framerates, but the Texture Quality setting uses up a lot of VRAM. At high and ultra, a number of very sharp 2K textures are used. At the low and medium settings, many textures become blurry and low-res, though some key textures such as for armour, remain reasonably sharp. This determines the resolution of the textures used. The Grass Density setting interacts somewhat with the Foliage Visibility Range setting, such that when Foliage Visibility Range is set to high or ultra, Grass Quality’s performance hit becomes even greater.

Bottom Line: Grass Density has a 1-3 percent impact on performance.

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