will try to do a summary, if it's necessary (and if I'm not still playing the temtem stress test)
- The Witcher 2 came at a time where consoles have been hitting their peaks and PC was treated as a secondary platform
- minor environmental elements have high geometric detail for the time
- NPCs use the same models when in cutscenes or in gameplay when playing on the highest settings
- NPCs have texture resolutions and polycounts on par with main characters
- Ultra texture settings use 600MB of vram alone
- DX9 game, lacked mult-threading, lots of pop-in in the environment
- deferred rendering, lots of dynamic lights with realtime shadows
- GI faked via point lights
- AI and Quests affected by the realtime time of day
- GTX 480 sucked
- point light shadows are very low res
- 580/1060 can't max the game at 1080p/60 (with ubersampling)
- 580 has higher framerate, 1060 more stable
- 2080Ti gets under 60fps with 4K/Ubersampling (8K)
- cinematic depth of field is "insane" (direct words from the person who made it)
- cdof chokes a 2080Ti like crazy
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