Witcher 2 Performance

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Intel® Core™ i7 2630QM 2.0GHz (2.8GHz Turbo Mode, 6MB Cache)
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz (4DIMMS)
1GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 6870
320GB 7,200RPM HDD
17.3-inch WideHD+ 1600 x 900 60Hz WLED
Wireless 802.11 g/n
Slot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
Internal High-Definition 5.1 Surround Sound Audio

Those are my specs and im getting around 28-35 on average fps. Does this seem right? keep in mind this is a laptop. Also if i lower the specs the fps i get doesnt really change so im kinda puzzled

 

What settings are you using? The 6870M is a capable card, but it cannot run the game on high settings. Try lowering the resolution. It will make a bigger difference. The Witcher 2 is not a well optimized game.

 

im playing it on the games high setting defautls at 30 fps average at 1600x900 resolution.

 

If that is the case, the game performs pretty well on that card. People have problems running it on higher resolutions at those settings. There are some settings you can do manually to the "config" files. You should watch for texture size mostly.

 

So my computer is handling it well then? sweet, hopefully it can play skyrim on high aswell

 

If you can handle The Witcher 2 at high details, then it is very likely that you will be able to max out Skyrim at that resolution.

 

make sure you also download the patch 2.0 (if you haven't already)...it helps with performance

 

What? You're pretty much tripping with that statement.

There's.... only one, maybe two games that look better than this one. The high requirements make sense when you consider that.

It also scales extremely well across a wide range of CPU and GPU hardware and looks better than most games even on a mix of medium/low settings.

 

While I agree with you that the game looks good, Tankor was concerned with the specific "high" settings. Therefore I was refering to performance regarding those settings. In my opinion the game overtaxes system resources for the visual gain. And yes, the game runs better now with the 2.0 patch.

 

i think the Witcher 2 is top 3 in best looking games this year. ya its heavy on system resources, but the game rocks. I run it maxxed at 1080p, but I also spend a fortune on hardware. My next upgrade will be a 7000's AMD vid card when they become available

 

maxed? does that mean you enabled uber-sampling? lol i kid i kid

 

no uber sampling, but everything else on

 

Seconded - this game is gorgeous. But tell me, Slick, do you get microstuttering like I do on my 6990M? FRAPS reports great framerates but here and there I just jump around the screen; it's noticeable and annoying. It doesn't happen enough to affect playability, but still.

 

Just because a game taxes the common systems doesn't mean it's not well optimized. The witcher 2 looks extremely gorgeous even with low settings and visually beats many other games at max graphic settings, I know a friend of mine playing it at 720p with all settings low/off, running at 10-20fps and is impressed by the graphic and still thoroughly enjoys the game.

And it even runs better than the bland dull cartoonish-looking DA2 in dx11 on my 6970M, and compare them graphically, DA2 is an utter joke, now that's what I call a game unoptimized.

 

"Not well optimized" is a common line for whenever hardware expectations fail to meet what a product can deliver in terms of FPS. Still, I understand the frustration, DA2 being a case in point - on my 6990M I still have to turn some settings down. Definitely seems weird, but eh, maybe there's a good reason.

 

I didn't get any micro stuttering with Cats 11.9 wsql. I haven't tried yet with the wsql 11.10 drivers so i don't know smooth it is. I assume that you've also installed all the game patches?

My 6990m is usually marginally overclocked to 800/1150 while playing, plus my CPU is running max turbo via Intel extreme Tuning Utility (XTU). so i don't know if that makes a difference with the stuttering

 

Cap your Witcher 2 framerate at 30, and the stuttering should go away.

 

There's no way you can run it maxed out at 1080p resolution. My overclock 3.6 ghz desktop with a high-end graphics card couldn't handle it maxed at full resolution.

I had to edit advanced features and turn most features off to get a steady 30-40 fps.

If you haven't already, OC your CPU

 

turn off uber-sampling...

 

And your "high-end" GPU is..... what?