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About what I expected tbh. Combat is mostly solid, cutscenes are all over the place and towns are a mess.
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VGTech: The Witcher 3 Framerate PS4 vs Switch
- Thread starter MauroNL
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Framerate Stats
Honestly, I'm surprised it's not running with RTX mode fully enabled. Sad.
I'm looking at my Switch Lite and still can't believe that this thing runs Witcher 3.
I guess that's quite what you would expect from a TW3 Switch port. Worse in every regard but still an achievement.
All things considered it seems acceptable. Nothing terrible
If you don't like performance threads you can just not enter.
It's pretty dope. I've got hopes that a Switch Pro comes out in the near future.
Witcher lower bound for resolution in handheld is quite a bit higher, though
Yeah but compression is really bad, right? Think that out will look worse than it is in real
Seems a lot smoother in on-foot gameplay compared to the cutscenes. Stutters during traversal on the horse are very much something I expected. The worst areas on Switch also seem to be imperfect areas on ps4.
Yeah, as others are saying it's amazing they got it running on the system. But yikes. Mostly sub-hd when docked and still regularly hangs around 20-25fps in cutscenes.
Yeah. Nothing beats the heavily TAA 368p of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Not conclusive, but seems mainly in cutscenes. Shame it looks so blurry, but long as the gameplay isn't dipping as low as some of those cutscenes, should be more than playable.
I think the wow factor is higher if you've never used remote play on Vita / Phone.
Obviously the kicker here is full portability without needing internet to stream, and you exchange some of the visual fidelity to achieve that.
I think the wow factor is higher if you've never used remote play on Vita / Phone.
Obviously the kicker here is full portability without needing internet to stream, and you exchange some of the visual fidelity to achieve that.
I know it's not the reaction the OP wanted but this is one of the best technical achievements of the generation.
It mostly runs very well from the long running videos I've seen.
It mostly runs very well from the long running videos I've seen.
It was 14 years ago that I was blown away by getting a version of Grand Theft Auto in my hands on PSP, followed up by being able to have my favourite PSone games emulated. Then I was blown away by the full fat experience of Gravity Rush and Final Fantasy X on Vita. This really is another level.
With the exception of Novigrad and some cutscenes, it really holds the 30 fps target
I think that there's a chance that we are not playing the final code, due to the omission of motion blur and blur in the current version of the game. They are not active, despite offering the option to turn it on and off in the settings.
Cdpr posted a video of them playing the game weeks ago where motion blur was present.
So maybe there's a chance that it's not the final code (for some reason) and framerate will be improved with patches
I think that there's a chance that we are not playing the final code, due to the omission of motion blur and blur in the current version of the game. They are not active, despite offering the option to turn it on and off in the settings.
Cdpr posted a video of them playing the game weeks ago where motion blur was present.
So maybe there's a chance that it's not the final code (for some reason) and framerate will be improved with patches
Could happen. A bunch of previous pace-setting games got post-release performance upgrades. I'm not going to be getting to this for a good while, but hopefully that will benefit me.
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You are right the PS4 version does look like shit compared to the real version on PC.
And vanilla PC version looks like shit compared to one decked out in the right mods.
The gulf in image quality is massive, holy crap. Expected, but still. Frame rate (outside of cutscenes) isn't as bad as I thought I'd be but I guess that's why.
This. It's a technical achievement, but it's rough. Looks like it's smeared with vasoline and hits the low 20's a lot.
It's a handheld device. It'd be unreasonable to expect much more out of this than what they got.
it does beg the question though: What's the point? Is it worth porting a game like this over to the Switch when there's so many compromises? I'll be very interested to see how sales pan out for this one.
it does beg the question though: What's the point? Is it worth porting a game like this over to the Switch when there's so many compromises? I'll be very interested to see how sales pan out for this one.
This is a base PS4, right? How is performance on Pro nowadays? I still have to play the two addons which I wanted to do soon.
That's about what I expected. Blurry. Somewhat inconsistent frame rate. Still, if this gets more people to experience TW3, that's great! The story and characters are the meat of this game anyway.
Meta talk: with all these Switch ports, I've come to realize that I don't care that much about visual bells and whistles as long as the game presents a clean image (i.e. minimal aliasing) and can manage a solid frame rate with consistent frame pacing. I thought I'd end up getting more of these third party games on the system, but outside of last-gen ports it's been rather slim pickings. I got Rocket League and that wasn't too bad, but I just couldn't get myself to play (more of) Snake Pass because of the blurry sub-native visuals. It was actually giving me a headache. I must've also become more picky with age, because I don't recall spending as much time with any other system looking up performance information prior to settling on a purchase.
Meta talk: with all these Switch ports, I've come to realize that I don't care that much about visual bells and whistles as long as the game presents a clean image (i.e. minimal aliasing) and can manage a solid frame rate with consistent frame pacing. I thought I'd end up getting more of these third party games on the system, but outside of last-gen ports it's been rather slim pickings. I got Rocket League and that wasn't too bad, but I just couldn't get myself to play (more of) Snake Pass because of the blurry sub-native visuals. It was actually giving me a headache. I must've also become more picky with age, because I don't recall spending as much time with any other system looking up performance information prior to settling on a purchase.
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I've used remote play before. The visual fidelity + the pixel density make it nice, but one knows it's running a video streaming from the original device. I'm more-so impressed by the fact that the tiny chip is rendering this game at a playable framerate at all. Especially considering the PS4 outputs nearly 13-14 times the wattage of the new Switch.
Makes me rather excited for how ports will look on the next generation of the Switch, assuming the same form factor.
Yeah... cool. No it doesn't, it actually looks good.
And before I get the totally surprising peasant comment, I played on base PS4, XB1X and PC (1080p, Very High, 60fps). All look good enough.
Switch version looks like shit but it's portable so it's still impressive. But saying otherwise is fanboy territory.