The Witcher 3 fans furious after next-gen update kills PC performance cd projekt redSome Witcher 3 players are not too happy after the next-gen patch seemingly botched the game\u2019s performance and removed existing content. Fans of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt waited a long time for the next-gen patch before it finally dropped in December 2022. While the third chapter in Geralt\u2019s adventure is universally adored, the prospect of playing it optimized for next-gen systems was a tantalizing prospect, and an excellent excuse to dive back into the game. However, some fans are reporting that since installing the patch, the game\u2019s performance has taken a nosedive. There are also reports of some classic content that, rather than being optimized, has simply been cut from the new version. Even those with high-spec PCs are reporting bugs and performance slowdowns, with one Reddit user saying: \u201cIndeed. A damned shame. This game deserves better\u2026and frankly, after CP2077 and a 2-year wait for this, we did too?\u201d After an entire Reddit thread reported that their game had been crashing since installing the update, one user said: \u201cThis is the exact same behavior I am seeing, got to White Orchard then it started crashing, when I go to load the save it crashes when fully loaded.\u201d They were also not the only player who experienced this bug. Others experienced issues when speaking to NPCs or when heading into cutscenes: \u201cAs soon as any NPC gets in screen FPS drops massively for me.\u201d Pre-rendered cutscenes missing However, one of the biggest complaints has been leveled against missing content. For example, a romance scene between Geralt and Yenifer has seemingly vanished from the game. The scene was one of many pre-rendered cutscenes in The Witcher 3 that fans were hoping would be remastered and optimized for their newer, more powerful systems. This has led to some fans speculating that other pre-rendered cutscenes may also now be missing from the game. Although, this remains to be seen. Talking about the issue, one Reddit user said: \u201cIf cutscenes are missing, I\u2019m not touching this game with a ten-foot pole until they fix their s**t. Some free update\u2026 game worked fine before.\u201d Another complained: \u201cIt\u2019s not that they\u2019re missing, it\u2019s that they\u2019ve been removed. The special story scenes were prerendered, so I guess CDPR couldn\u2019t be bothered to render the ones the mod doesn\u2019t fix in real-time, but were too embarrassed to include prerendered cutscenes in a 2022 release, so axed them.\u201d Some players were less impacted and were more positive about the update, even those who experienced some of the performance problems: \u201cAlso getting some weird graphical bugs even on ultra+. Shadows flickering and object popping. Kinda expected this stuff to be ironed out in the update unless it\u2019s an engine issue that they couldn\u2019t fix. So far everything else looks incredible. Very impressed\u201d So far it\u2019s only PC players reporting the issues with The Witcher 3 next-gen update. Those playing on Xbox Series X|S and PS5 appear to be unaffected. CD Projekt Red is yet to respond to the community\u2019s criticism. We\u2019ll continue to monitor the situation and report any potential fixes to the problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Witcher 3 fans furious after next-gen update kills PC performance cd projekt redSome Witcher 3 players are not too happy after the next-gen patch seemingly botched the game\u2019s performance and removed existing content. Fans of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt waited a long time for the next-gen patch before it finally dropped in December […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}