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On Wed, 20 May 2015 19:02:33 +0200, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote:

>Am 20.05.15 um 15:33 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
>> On Wed, 20 May 2015 12:32:02 +0200, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi I was just asking, because I have started to play the game yesterday
>>> and I like it a lot.
>>
>> I installed it on day-of-release and played it through the initial
>> tutorial levels. However, I still have a number of other games pending
>> so that's where I stopped.
>>
>> My initial impressions were not as favorable, but that's not
>> unexpected. While I quite enjoy the world of the Witcher, I never have
>> really warmed up to the games. Performance was more sluggish than I
>> expected, especially given the visual fidelity, which was not really
>> any more impressive than other modern games. Admittedly, I bumped
>> everything up to "ultra" and if I tweak the graphic settings a bit I'm
>> sure I'll get a far better framerate, but even "ultra" didn't look any
>> better than, say, Wolfenstein:New Order, which runs at a smooth 60fps.
>>
>Actually turn off the hair animation, this made a huge difference for 
>me. The rest of the settings are not that much of a framerate killer.

Thanks, I can confirm that is a useful tip. I saw that suggested on a
website and had disabled it last night. It doubled my framerate and I
didn't see a difference in the visuals. Of course, I still don't think
the graphics are all that impressive overall; not bad, but hardly as
earth-shattering as the press-releases made it seem.

>Actually the gameworld interactivity is mostly the same as in Witcher 2, 
>important NPCs (even the sidequest NPCs) have handcrafted dialogs, the 
>rest are bystanders who mumble a few sentences. 

I know, and it annoys me. I didn't like that limitation in the first
two games either. I want to be able to pick up and move everything.
Plus it seems sort of a waste to render all that stuff if it serves no
purpose.

Anyway, I played a bit more last night - long enough to get to the
first village - before I quit. The gritty low-fantasy setting reminded
me so much of my old pen-n-paper D&D campaign that I had to stop and
pull out the dice and rulebooks to reminisce instead :)