The Witcher 3 Remastered Launches Today Bringing Updated Visuals and Game Mechanics to the Game Originally Released in 2015

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CD PROJEKT RED has released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered, a new version of the 2015 game that has been overhauled with updated visuals and many other changes. Rather than just doing some touch-ups to its graphics, CDPR worked with legendary modder Halk Hogan once again to update many of the game’s visuals, […]

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Looks like this directly upgrades the complete edition copy I have in Steam instead of creating a new entry. I hope that whatever remastering has been done can be deactivated and players can play the game in either of it's prior states (the rerelease with DX12/RT we got a few years ago, or even the OG DX11 version).

So long as everything can be reverted, I say play ball.
 
I wasn't gonna bother to mess around with this until the new expansion comes out next year, but after reading the full update notes, I gotta say I'm kinda curious: https://www.thewitcher.com/au/en/news/52041/see-whats-new-in-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-remastered
For someone like me who went through the original game and both expansions long before the game even got the next-gen update (the previous major overhaul), reading about the changes in the remaster makes it seems like almost a whole new game. I'd have to start a new file and play everything all over again just to see and really appreciate all the changes. Good gawd man, CDPR never f*ck around, do they?

GodisanAtheist said:
I hope that whatever remastering has been done can be deactivated and players can play the game in either of it's prior states (the rerelease with DX12/RT we got a few years ago, or even the OG DX11 version).

So long as everything can be reverted, I say play ball.
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igor_kavinski said:
They could easily charge for this update since it looks non-trivial and must've taken considerable man hours. A sign that the company isn't inherently evil.
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Huge fan of CDPR and I've easily put in around 1000 hours, combined for all 3 games but mostly this one plus another 100-200 for CP2077. However, still concerned over the stories regarding working conditions for CP2077 but don't know enough for sure to draw a real conclusion. Otherwise they've impressed time and again since my first introduction to them with the 2nd game which also happened to be my last store-bought physical game.

Ranulfo said:
They could also be smart enough to not make it annoying to figure out what version is what in the game launcher.
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Agreed but at least the option is there in Steam. I still have to check GOG and see if the same is true. Maybe we'll get luckly and it'll arrive in an update after enough folks ask for it.
 
DrezKill said:
I wasn't gonna bother to mess around with this until the new expansion comes out next year, but after reading the full update notes, I gotta say I'm kinda curious: https://www.thewitcher.com/au/en/news/52041/see-whats-new-in-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-remastered
For someone like me who went through the original game and both expansions long before the game even got the next-gen update (the previous major overhaul), reading about the changes in the remaster makes it seems like almost a whole new game. I'd have to start a new file and play everything all over again just to see and really appreciate all the changes. Good gawd man, CDPR never f*ck around, do they?


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- While I would have preferred this remaster showing up as a completely separate entry in my Steam library (like many other remasters that have launched over the years), I appreciate that at least Steam provides a method to "roll back" to other versions.

Folks on console or other launchers might not be so lucky though.
 
Pretty sure they'll have to roll out an update for this. I tested it for a few minutes on my 5800X3D/5090 rig, cranked everything except post processing crap and even at 3440x1440 it was trying to hammer the 5090 for full power usage. I had MFG set to dynamic and things looked great, game maxes at 144 FPS which is where it reached no problem but even with my power limits it was using 400W and I'm sure would've gone much higher if not the power custom curve and 70% limit.

That being said, I tried limiting FPS to 70 as well and zero change in power draw. Now one thing to note, I haven't updated to the latest NV driver for this and that might make a difference and it's something I'll check on again later.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
That being said, I tried limiting FPS to 70 as well and zero change in power draw.
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Ah. It makes perfect sense now. Nvidia is trying to kill 5090 cards in the field as much as it can so it can drive up their prices even more and then say, oops, we are pulling out of the consumer market coz consumers can't afford this shiny polished turd anymore!
 
So updated driver and no change except that I mistakenly said I lowered FPS to 70 (this is what I do manually in a lot of other games), this one has 75 as one of the options and oddly enough, according to MSI AB, strangely limited to 60 FPS. It doesn't matter though since GPU still pegged at 98%+ and power still hitting 400W.

Well, hopefully they'll address this because neither of those metrics should exactly match when the game is rendering at 144 FPS and they do. I also for kicks tried it without my power limits and confirmed it instantly using over 575W, saw a spike to 592W and then I turned it off.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
I also for kicks tried it without my power limits and confirmed it instantly using over 575W, saw a spike to 592W and then I turned it off.
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Gooood gaaawd. That's still a scary number whenever I see it. Especially for a card using a 12VHPWR/12V-2x6 connector. Man, with an RTX 5090 it's basically required that you undervolt that shiznit.
 
DrezKill said:
So that's in the Galaxy launcher? I saw someone on [H] posted what it looks like on the website: https://hardforum.com/threads/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-official-thread.1766275/post-1046385785
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Yeah, it is weird. For me, both on the GoG website under my account it shows two remastered icons. The same in the GoG Galaxy launcher. At least you can as shown above switch to Remaster, Next-Gen or Classic mode.

Under the one Remastered icon that I have installed it now shows the NExt-gen version as available for download in 4 parts under extras along with the classic. Checking the other icon in galaxy it has the next-gen offline installers too.
 
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