The Witcher 3 update promises better performance with Nvidia Hairworks

The newly launched The Witcher 3 may well be suitable for nominations as this year’s most anticipated and demanding game, where the latter annoys Nvidia users with older graphics cards from the Geforce GTX 600 and 700 series. This has led Nvidia to promise improvements with new drivers, but before that, the developers behind the game release a patch with, among other things, performance optimizations.

One of the big performance thieves in The Witcher 3 is Nvidia Hairworks, which, unlike AMD’s counterpart TressFX, is used to simulate realistic hair and fur. For this feature, further performance improvements are promised with the new Patch 1.04, and users in need of additional frames can probably continue to experiment with the amount of tessellation in the drivers.

Another change is the textures. Here, improved rendering quality is promised with preset High and Ultra, but whether this also means any changes in performance is not clear.

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Click here to read about the news in Patch 1.04

The patch 1.04 for PC is available for download now. Please find the list of changes below:

Rebinding of all keys is now available after switching on the ‘Unlock Bindings’ option in the OptionsKey Bindings submenu.
Corrects an issue in the dialogue system that might have caused dialogue looping in certain scenes.
Fixes an issue with incorrect behavior of Wild Hunt warriors after they were affected by the Axii Sign.
Corrects a bug that caused spontaneous combustion of gas clouds.
1280 x 720 resolution is now properly displayed as a valid resolution option.
Fixes boat stuttering in cutscenes.
Texture rendering quality for the high and ultra presets has been improved.
Further improvements made in NVIDIA Hairworks performance.
A few additional gwent cards are now available in the Prologue area.
Fixes an issue where users with usernames incorporating non-Latin characters were unable to import saves from The Witcher 2.
Includes a series of overall stability and performance improvements.
Fixes issues related to alt + tabbing and minimizing the game window.
Updates the game icon.
Enlarges the loot pop-up window in the UI.
Fixes an issue where, in certain circumstances, the comparison window could extend beyond the game borders in the UI.
Upgrading items included in gear sets no longer destroys rune sockets on said items.
Introduces small tweaks in the UI for gwent.
Corrects some missing translations in localized versions.