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Article #720926Re: Anyone playing The Witcher 3
From: DMP
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 10:47
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 10:47
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On 5/20/2015 6:32 AM, Werner Punz wrote: > Hi I was just asking, because I have started to play the game yesterday > and I like it a lot. > > It even plays nicely on my low end rig (NVidia 660). Even on low > settings the game looks really good. (I have to play with the settings > further today, according to a friend of mine with a rather similar rig, > you can raise some of the settings to high without impact, the hair > however needs to be turned off that is a frame rate killer on low to mid > range cards) > > I have played for two hours yesterday and I am still in the starting > village doing sidequests. From what I could notice is that even the > sidequests seem to vary a lot and seem to be hand scripted. > > The game is really huge, btw. > > The only downside so far I noticed is, there are lots of NPCs you cannot > talk to they just mumble 1-2 sentences, however that is to be expected I > guess. And yes the in game fonts could be bigger. > > Werner > > > > I just started the game and didn't have a chance to get any farther than the humorous opening scene. The game does really look good. I've run with the default settings as far as the graphics, but I have a GTX980, so I'm hoping I don't have to fiddle with them too much. Lots of folks complaining about crashing but apparently changing the default screen to play in full screen mode solves that issue. I do like the more polished looking GUI. More to follow as I get into it. D.
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