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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition: Yennefer? I barely knew her!
 
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Brownie
Jul 21, 2007
The Croatian Sensation
Is anyone else experiencing worse performance with the EE? Even with everything on low or off I'm getting microstutters during cutscenes and my FPS never goes above 29. I remember being able to get 40 fps and such during regular gameplay on higher settings! I've no idea why either :(

My specs are as follows:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66GHz
4 GB of RAM
Vista x64
XFX ATI Radeon 4870HD 1GB

I'm running it at 1920x1080, with the following settings:
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Brownie
Jul 21, 2007
The Croatian Sensation

Lycus posted:

Yeah, your computer looks similar to what I had last year when I first bought the game, and 1920x1080 was definitely not playable for me. I'm surprised that you were able to do it before.

I was able to do it with zero problems too. And 1920x1080 is my monitor's native res so lowering produces something which can only be described as "poo poo."

I'm just so confused my performance being so much worse than before when everyone reports that they've optimized it.

I'll try lowering the resolution to see what effect it has on framerate and stuttering just for shits though.

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Brownie
Jul 21, 2007
The Croatian Sensation

wellwhoopdedooo posted:

Turn vsync on. It won't increase your FPS, but if you don't have an FPS counter you'll think it did.

It was really counter-intuitive to me, and I only turned it on in desperation because AFAIK they don't implement swap-tear (google "swap-tear extension") and I don't get 60 FPS except in especially uncomplicated scenes, but it makes a world of difference. If I have it off, even in places where it goes up to 70 FPS and more, I get weird hitching, and it ends up about as playable as if I was getting 20 FPS.

It's especially weird because vsync by definition lowers FPS, or in an absolutely perfect implementation would at best not lower it, but give it a shot.

FPS is also terrible in the prologue and arena. Much more complex scenes in the real game do a lot better.

V-sync actually made the stuttering even more apparent, unfortunately. My framerate display seems to randomly refuse to work and instead shows me my CPU temperatures, but yeah still pretty frustrating.

I tried lowering the resolution, and performance really increased, even with all the other settings turned back up, so it's definitely the resolution that's destroying me. Too bad, considering it really looks a lot worse (not as bad as I remember it though, and still better than 720p) and that I was able to run it at 1080p previously, but whatever at least I can play in peace. Thanks for the help guys.

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Brownie
Jul 21, 2007
The Croatian Sensation

Fuzz posted:

CDProjekt officially goes creeper:

http://impulsegamer.com/interviewtrissmerigold.html

The playboy thing was a thing that actually happened back when the game first came out, actually, so they went creeper a long time ago.

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