The Witcher 3 Remastered: PC Performance Review + Optimised Settings

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Note on texture quality/VRAM: The on-screen VRAM figures are from RTX 5090 testing at 4K DLAA with RT disabled. The recommendation of High textures for 8GB GPUs is based on separate RTX 4060 testing, also with RT disabled, where VRAM usage remained below 7GB.

Having already delivered the Complete Edition, CD Projekt RED still has plans for The Witcher 3, hence the arrival of the controversial Remastered release - and while it has some key improvements, there are still some issues. In our PC performance review, we present the top-line changes to the game then compare the hotfix 5.00C version to the latest patch 5.01 before we dive head-first into those all-important optimised settings.

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00:00 Introduction
00:57 Sponsored by Alienware
02:34 The Complete Edition vs The Remaster Visual Comparison: Raster
02:52 The Complete Edition vs The Remaster Visual Comparison: Ray Tracing
03:16 Hotfix 5.00C vs The Latest Patch 5.01 Visual Comparison
04:11 The Complete Edition vs The Remaster Performance Comparisons
04:43 Optimised Settings: HairWorks
05:43 Optimised Settings: SSR
06:33 Optimised Settings: Grass Density
07:08 Optimised Settings: Foliage Visibility Range
07:50 Optimised Settings: Number of Background Characters
08:22 Optimised Settings: Ambient Occlusion
08:53 Optimised Settings: Shadow Quality & Screen-Space Shadows
09:39 Optimised Settings: Water Quality
10:03 Optimised Settings: Texture Quality
10:43 Optimised Settings RT: Path Tracing
12:43 Optimised Settings RT: Ray-Traced Global Illumination
13:08 Optimised Settings RT: Ray-Traced Reflections
13:32 Optimised Settings RT: Ray-Traced Shadows
14:45 Optimised Settings RT: Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion
15:17 The Final Optimised Settings
15:24 Raster Optimised Perf Gains: RTX 4060
16:25 RT Optimised Perf Gains: RX 9070 XT
17:19 Input Latency Test
18:06 The Witcher: Wild Hunt - Remastered Summary
19:51 And Now, The Conclusion