Here's a 4K screenshot. It looks washed out because it was captured while using HDR. I can also now verify that HDR is on.
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So... took a few tries (and reboots), but I eventually got past this issue, and haven't run into it since.
I'm experiencing some odd controller delays as well. I'd swear I'm seeing them just pushing buttons for menus and other responses. I've got a newer(2021-22) BT Xbox controller and I'm used to some lag but this seems more exaggerated than normal. I also noticed that loads are a little longer than expected (considering PCIe 4.0 SSD and everything else on the 5800X3D rig I'd expect them to be quicker), considering they said that was one of the goals with the next-gen build. I do without a doubt have rebar working as well so, on that rig, there's no real reason for slow loading.
Same; went through Brent's instructions from his last article to make sure it was enabled too. Only real slowdown I have in that rig is that I'm using a 2x32GB kit of DDR4-3200 CL16, which I need to swap out for another rig; it'll get a 3800 CL14 kit soon (...as USPS deigns to actually deliver the package).
Yep, I was grinning when I read his write up on that. I've been tracking it since it came out and was so happy when I could turn it on with the 5800X3D. My laptop with the 11800H has it's own version going as well. The only downside I've seen on both is temp spikes on the CPU during those blistering fast loads. I've seen it with Spiderman Remastered and Horizon Zero Dawn but I don't worry as both are mere seconds but its interesting to watch in AB.
This has been a newly-emerging trend - that games with aspirational RT implementations are more CPU-bound than those with more token implementations or similar games that rely solely on rasterization. Still not that much though, as when it comes to compute performance the 5800X3D isn't really a record breaker, as it's slower than its non-X3D part in pure compute, and it's handling the extra load just fine.
I've seen Microcenter giving away 12700K + Z690 TUF DDR4 (ASUS) bundles for US$300 already this year. If I didn't have one already, that'd have gotten me to bite. Still, would be worth waiting, since DDR5 is also going to keep dropping in price, and boards that will support AM5 CPUs are slowly creeping down in price too.
I'm waiting for a second Xbox controller adapter to come in to use on my desktop system, and I'll see how that works. I don't recall it being much of an issue though with the 3080 in that system, but working from memory isn't really going to help much!
I'm more comfortable with a controller for most games, there are a few I prefer with a mouse, but I've always found this game in particular to be very jerky with the camera when I tried a mouse but that could just be me.
My first playthrough was with KBM. That worked pretty well, and the only real problems I'd faced were due to me not knowing.... how to like, play the game after putting it down for a while. Blocking, dodging, rolling, countering are all very important.
It's probably old age and other things that life throws at us but in the last few years, I've finally come to the realization that with the games I'm currently into I have to commit to one at a time because of this. It's what, in a big way, held me off from playing CB2077 for so long (admittedly I was somewhat intimidated after completing the various tutorials early on but in the end was actually pretty easy once I got used to it and not as alien as I feared). However, from Horizon Zero Dawn, Spider-Man Remastered, Metro Exodus, God Of War, Red Dead Redemption 2 to CB 2077, and now this game, these are obviously not in order, the controller schemes are somewhat different and I just can't remember everything all the time anymore. I kind of feel bad that I put RDR2 down once again in favor of this but it's really nice to return to this game for one last hurrah.
To me, it's just slow. Inputs are slow, attacks are slow, and so on, both opponents and Geralt.
I got Horizon: Zero Dawn a while back pretty cheap through a Humble Bundle sale and having some credit there. I didn't get far into the game because I didn't have time to concentrate on it (although I will be doing a playthrough somewhat soon) but I was able to play it will enough at 1080p with a Ryzen 5800x and Radeon RX570. Sure, many of the graphical options were turned down but the game still looked good enough to me and for what I did play through the performance was just fine and I'm sure my RX570 is closer to the minimum specs than the recommended. When I start it up again I'll have the advantage of upgrading to an RX 6750xt so I'll be able to turn up any eye candy I want.
Just a bit of advice for when you do: Although the game is open-world you can miss out on a lot of side-story dialog/character interaction if you go off the deep end with exploring everything and/or killing every monster you come across instead of progressing various points of the main story.