The Witcher 2 on the G73JH

The system specs for this great-looking game have been out for a while: The Witcher 2's system requirements are reasonable- Destructoid

My G73JH-A2's GPU temps have been getting to 90-97 C while playing Dragon Age 2 lately... BUT, how do y'all project this notebook can run The Witcher 2? I'm thinking somewhere like Medium settings with 2X AA at 1080p, personally.

 

Max settings without AA/AF and 1080p

I do hope!

Indeed a very very awesome game! (I do hope ²)

Q

 

A little high, but not worrysome. I've got stuff in my sig that explains the average repaste condition - generally drops it to about 85.

 

We shouldn't have any troubles at all and a little overclock and you will be comfortably running enough to reach a good FPS on high I expect that from my sig below maybe not ultra but high for a laptop is pleasant enough.

This Should give you an idea about how well it will run on your machine it says mine will run it easily on high im sure yours will give you the same and so far this site is very reliable when I test prior to the games being released.

This game is going to be the greatest and finally after waiting too long for a good RPG and the failure and disgust I had for DA2 this could be the one, along with Fable 3 im sorted for the summer

 

yes I cant wait

 

Oh whoa, i didn't notice yougamers gave you a game settings estimate now, AWESOME.

 

The 5870M won't be running The Witcher 2 with max settings, at 1080p, but it will perform pretty well.

 

5870M hater is here I beg to differ.

It will run the Witcher 2 at high settings at 1080p. Comfortably.

Gothic 4 which is horrendous has the same if not higher requirements and is so poorly made its gobsmacking. I can run that at max at 1080p and still get 30+ fps. The Witcher 2 which will have an much better engine and optimisation but with still the same recommended requirements will do so with ease.

 

I agree that it will run it on High, but not Highest.

But hey, we'll see. If I'm wrong, I'll admit it.

 

It's not a shooter... 30 FPS is decent!

I think I run Dragon Age 2 on highest with AA/AF off... @ 1080p

I do have 30 fps...

Q

Edit; Seems like i'm a fan off the " " smilly xD

 

I hope it doesn't have issues with my drivers or nothing, I tend to get lower FPS than most G73 user for some reason, all things are updated, even Bios... but high settings is already plenty good for me. My philosophy is 30+ or bust.

 

Yeah, Dragon Age 2 runs at highest, 2x AA, 4x AF at 30+ here. And DX11 in that game is a giant pile of buggy mess so I run it on DX9 with 60+FPS. I'm sure The Witcher 2 will probably run similarly. Hopefully with less bugs.

 

VERY hard to believe that you run at those settings with 60+ fps at 1080p in dx9.

 

Check again what he wrote - The highest settings run at 30+ not 60+ DX9 can only go upto medium so that is why he can get +60.

I personally can run it 1080p DX11 High x4 AA AF SSAO and High Textures and get between 41-47FPS with the setup below.

 

Uh... I max out the AA and AF in DX9 with 60+. It doesn't take a lot to do that. And like I said, with a low amount of AA and AF, I'm doing around 30, give or take, with vsync on DX11 (no texture patch). However, I quit running it in DX11 due to all the bugs it was giving me, specifically the non stop freezing mostly in cutscenes. Also note that this is at 1600x900 as I have the Best Buy G73jh model and haven't upgraded my screen yet.

 

A screen with FHD has to drive almost 50% more pixels than one with 1600x900... so keep than in mind when comparing between the two models.

 

"High" settings doesn't mean anything without AA and AF anyway. Nothing is uglier than aliasing and blurry textures.

 

Eh. Don't really need AA with FHD, the resolution is high enough that you don't get the terribly jaggy pixels that you would on a lower res screen. 2x AA is generally enough... to get the same smoothness on a 720p screen, you'd need 4x at least.

 

Dragon Age 2 is uglier than hell, though. Maxing that out means nothing.

Check out some maxed out Witcher 2 screens. The game looks flat out ridiculous.

It will take some heavy firepower, to run that at 1080p.

 

I am interested in Witcher 2, shall I get the Witcher one before or can I play the second chapter only?

 

The Witcher 1 was a great game for its time however you might notice that even with a powerful machine it runs a little laggy. The extended edition at least but that is the best one.

Highly recommend playing it first though I thoroughly enjoyed it, just hurry up because its not a small game and the Witcher 2 is not far off

 

Absolutely !!!! You should play The Witcher 1 ( enchanted edition)

 

Watch your saved game folder. Quick saving does NOT replace older saves. I just went back and started playing it again last night and found out that I had 3GB worth of saves in it, lol.

 

Hahahahaha ) same thing happened on me, while playing Dragon Age II with fraps, everytime I press F9 for quick save Fraps is recording the game then one time I saw my /drive C: missing 20gb!!!!!! Wth!?

 

I just noticed this: YouTube - W??czamy gr? Wied?min 2 - jest sza? w redakcji

It's recording Witcher 2 on a G73, they have other videos of the game as well, but I don't think any actual gameplay videos show the settings or if they're on the G73, since they're recorded with fraps or something. But if they are recorded on the G73, the game is looking GOOD.

 

I have good news and bad news
The witcher 2 preview code does not show the true performance requirement for max settings which many websites are reporting, the preview version which was sent to websites only have low-medium-high settings as options, only FINAL RETAIL version will have "SUPER ULTRA" settings (seems like that they did that in case the preview game was leaked pirates can't enjoy the ultra settings) The game look like this at ultra http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=426506

So freaking unbelievable ! the developers said the Super ULTRA settings will require a beast to play think Desktop GTX580 lol

Playing it on high 1080p should be fine with G74 just don't expect 60Frames or so, 1080p high 30frames will be doable according to the previews

I do have 6970m which is a stronger card but i don't expect to this game at ultra settings settings even though i been waiting for this game forever

 

Very interesting link thank you. Really good to see a game with such high requirements which will in effect allow me to replay this at a later date on a higher spec machine which is what a real RPG should be like. Not too fond of the wording above the characters heads hopefully can turn that off.

I hope my system will be able to push the limits especially as there should be lots of options to tweak. Mostly good to see the amount of tesselation they have put into this game showing on the buildings and brickwork. Outstanding. Cant wait.

 

It's DX9 game, so no tessellation.
Something about performance:

Link:
The Final Preview: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings- Destructoid
and bonus (for adults only):
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/4/9518/z9518584O.jpg

 

CD Projekt Interview:

''TW2 will be XP-compatible meaning the engine will be based on a new DirectX 9 Engine, but will also contain some DirectX 11 enhancements showing detailed lighting and tessellation effects.''

 

Isn't Nvidia cards better than ati at tessellation? if it's then i might take performance hit playing with maxed settings since i use ati card i wish if there was a DEMO so we can try !

 

Dunno where you heard that from but I would like to see some proof behind that claim? I do not think so

Also my card 'sig' has beaten all results of tessellation testing results using Heaven 2.5 when comparing against a GTX 460 1.5GB and then some.

Also I notice you have a 6970M. You have nothing to worry about your card will easily smash Witcher 2.

 

That's an old statement. Driver improvements have improved tessellation on both nvidia and AMD

 

So, the launch of Witcher 2 is upon us and I've become worried about performance. This guy in Singapore's gotten his hands on it, and it seems that he didn't get very good performance on high with his rig, which if I'm correct, is better than the g73's: Witcher 2 just owned my rig - The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Message Board for PC - GameFAQs

I'd really like to know what settings would be optimal for my G73, has anyone here gotten it early and able to tinker with the settings? I really don't want to spend forever finding optimal settings when I get it...

 

That's part of the Windows PC experience!

 

Im pretty sure he was pushing it out on a high resolution if it was a desktop setup and im on 1600x900 so I expect a good medium to high with my setup and the 5 series is newer than the 4 series even if the desktop version is more powerful I have faith in my mobile GPU. It will probably be one of those extra settings that causes the issues like blur on DA2 destroyed my frames and SSAO and AA are extras when it comes to good frames at High. Even so being able to play it at all is what is important.

The witcher 2 is bound to have updates and driver updates required as well because its going to be one mighty intensive game.

Goodbye Dragon Age 2 your DLC wont pull me back from this bad boy!

 

According to G73Jh owner (from polish Notebookcheck forum) Witcher 2 run between 19-26fps (using Fraps).
Settings 1920x1080, Ultra, no AA or UberSampling (this option makes even 3xGTX580 crawl).
Screens on max settings (3xGTX580):
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/4239/witcher2201105161410249.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9853/witcher2201105161415420.jpg
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6186/witcher2201105161413107.jpg
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/4641/witcher2201105161412119.jpg
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3360/witcher2201105161414018.jpg

 

What, seriously? That's definitely more than I was expecting, did he post and videos that he recorded with fraps, and/or detailed video settings?
Also there's a day 1 patch, but doesn't look like there's any performance fixes with ti: Witcher 2 first patch released - New Game Network

 

Nope, but here's video (first 10-minutes Witcher 2) recorded by reviewer (from Polygamia.pl) on G73Jh, at 1280x720, medium settings:
YouTube - Wied?min 2 - pierwsze 10 minut z wersji polskiej

 

Aaah, 720p, should of known. Well, I guess it will take a until tomorrow to truly see if the baby can take it through the paces. Thanks for sharing, man!

EDIT: Benchmark list: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2011/05/TheWitcher2-GPUs-1920.png

 

Strange, FPS @ 1080p does not exceed 35, hovering in the low 20's. On Medium, High and Extreme.

FPS remains around 18-22 most of the time. Even on 720p medium, 20 or FPS on average.

EDIT: Tried running it again on 1080p @ Medium preset. Averaging 'round 16-17 FPS.

11.4 Cat. No O/C (O/C fails for me no matter how high/low the OC is)

Anyone have any ideas? It seems to run 15-17 FPS at all presets? :S

 

I didn't check with FRAPS actually but it works pretty smooth on 1600x900 (will try full hd later) all HIGH settings on my G73JH when disable setting: "ubersampling" and activate kind of "limit physical objects" (I am out of my laptop now so the names could be a little different) I think it is related to advanced physics from newest havoc which is supported by nvidia physx and missing in ATI cards. I even tried to MAX all excluding resolution, 2 options I mentioned before and it was still playable (a bit laggy when turning, but not much)

edit:
no AA of course, which is not needed anyway

 

Your Laptops optimization pisses on my g73jh-b1 then cos i struggle on all settings. Very choppy on 11.4 drivers.

 

I don't have the game yet, I have to finish the first one (it's about time! And it's so fun) but I just saw somebody playing on ultra with a gtx 580 and getting 20 fps...

Is the game really that epic in terms of visuals or it's just bad coding? Lol I get maybe 100 fps in the first game but can drop near 25 at some places... I was really scared about the second game.

I hope we get new drivers for this game

 

print your settings then I could investigate them... I have g73jh-a1 with 11.4 whql and the game runs really fluent on settings I presented. After work I will run with FRAPS.
If your game copy is original I think it should run similar on your machine.

 

Yareck, could you please print screen your settings? It is pretty much unplayable on my rig, no matter what settings I try.. : /

 

Will do when back home

 

Thanks!! :]

 

At 1600x900, High (Motion Blur and AA off) I'm getting between 25-40fps (sometimes drops to 20).
Advanced settings:

screens:

 

I pre ordered and am waiting for it to arrive.

Once I get it I'll let you all know how it runs on my M17x with 740q and 5870 xfire.

I have been waiting for this game for ages and will most likely have to build a desktop with a 6990 and maybe a LED tv can't wait!!

 

Ifrin, 1600x900 is your native res or you have the 1920x1080 version of G73JH?
I have tried with the same settings you have, but I get as low as 12 FPS sometimes, and maximum 32 in a tent.. I'm using Catalyst 11.5.

Thanks for the pics btw!

p.s.: what app do you use to get the gpu temp besides FPS?