MSI GT73 6RF and ''The Witcher'' series

I had a good deal of an internal debate whether to post this as a new thread or as a post in the Witcher III thread -- the fact that I am asking about a mobile CPU weighed this very heavily in the favour of this option.

I am not a rich man, and a kind gentleman has let me have an MSI laptop he no longer needs at a knock-down price, which is very good of him. It has been held up in the post by Ophelia.

The GPU is a GTX 1080, which I believe is very good. It was being used for VR work. However, the CPU is an i7 6700HQ, rather than a 6700K -- I believe the K-series is faster.

Will I be able to play TW3, on what settings, (with mods?) and what sort of FPS ought I to expect?

If not, then I am fairly sure it will manage TW2.

 

I was able to play Witcher 3 on this machine (In my signature) at very high settings without a problem. Staying at 40-60 FPS with G-Sync.

I'm sure it's more than enough to handle it.

 

Many thanks

 

You'll be fine. My AW17 with a 1070 handles it very well on high settings at 1440p.

 

You'll be fine outside of Novigrad, which will be CPU-limited with a 6700HQ.

 

Sorry to trouble you -- do you mean that ''high'' is all right outside Novigrad and medium or low is required in the city?

 

No, just that you might experience some drops in GPU usage and FPS inside Novigrad due to being bottlenecked by the CPU, which isn't affected by graphics settings except maybe Number of Background Characters.

 

All of you have been a fount of help -- one thing I would ask is numerical fps?

 

Eh, I doubt you'll drop below 40 FPS in Novigrad even though there are a bunch of NPCs, I was able to play through the game without any stuttering or hiccups. Let me fire up Witcher 3 and fast travel to Novigrad, will edit the post with the FPS.

EDIT: 45-60 FPS, mostly staying around 50.

 

I enable Nvidia Hair physics for Geralt only and FPS is around 40-60 FPS with adaptive FPS.