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

Grimlakin said:
What I dont get is running over budget.
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The conspiracy theorist inside me says that is by design. GPU dead? RMA will be rejected. You repair at your own expense. But would you want to keep running the repaired GPU? Most will not want that because that will make them feel poor. So they sell it off and get an expensive 900W model. Who profits? Nvidia of course. Also sets the stage for Rubin which will most likely need two 12V-2x6 connectors or an entirely new connector because they will raise the power usage even more.
 
igor_kavinski said:
The tensor cores are eating up all the power.
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Definitely on the right track. Turns out it's a combination of DLSS and MFG. Frame limits were actually detrimental and often inaccurate for what they were supposed to be: 75 FPS showed at 60 via MS AB, and 60 could be 50, and anything less than 144 introduced stuttering. Never really seen a game behave this way before, in terms of added stuttering while not affecting power usage along with these lower-than-FPS limits. Just plain weird, so ultimately I just left them uncapped.

Oh well, the good news is that I just toggled a few things and eventually managed to lower power usage to comfortable levels. Here's another oddity: MFG above 1x instantly spiked power usage. DLSS above balanced: the same.

Here's a breakdown (these are based on running through Beuclair and off the top of my head after some quick experimenting, so should be considered more of a ballpark approximation):

DLSS Balanced +MFGx1 + Path Tracing on = 275-330W / 75-130FPS
DLSS Balanced +MFGx1 + Path Tracing off = 225-300W / 90-150FPS
DLSS Quality +MFGx1 + Path Tacing on = 320-350W / 50-90 FPS
DLSS Quality +MFGx1 + Path Tracing off = didn't try, but based on the above we could make a good guess on what to expect

The short end of it is that anything above MFGx1, or trying DLAA, will result in insane power usage. My recommendation is DLSS Balanced + MFGx1, and to each their own regarding path tracing. These settings, combined with power limits on a 5090, can once again tame it to around 250-350W levels while maxing all other game settings.

As far as image quality goes DLAA or DLSS Quality are very close to each other. DLSS Balanced is a noticeable decrease but still looks great imho, while performance doesn't look awful but is more of a compromise.

I've already got the better of 1000 Hrs with this game, and have used Halk Hogan's packs since around 2017, and they worked with CDPR for this remaster as well as the previous next-gen, so I'm not doing another playthrough now but will when the DLC launches next year.
 
Yea this would be a great deep dive across 50 billion titles for someone like hardware unboxed. It seems to be their jam.
 
I figure sooner or later CDPR will get a patch out, but still the weirdest thing I've seen yet.

I fired this up on the laptop (rtx 5090 mobile which I know is a custom 5080 die) last night and used the same DLSS Balanced/Path on/MFGx1 and it averaged around 100 FPS at 4K but here's the funny part, I think the laptop profile settings are keeping the game in check because I have that set for silent mode and GPU usage topped in the 70's vs the hard 98% I'm seeing with the desktop 5090, which happens pretty much no matter what at 3440x1440. In a sense, the laptop is performing better than the desktop in that temps/power are where they should be but I'm fairly certain that's due to its built-in power profile. Ironic right?
 
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