The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s May 18th release is tantalizingly close. On PC, the experience will be enhanced with higher-resolution textures, higher-quality effects, higher levels of detail, uncapped framerates, and many other enhancements. And like the latest and greatest PC games, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is further enhanced with NVIDIA technologies and GameWorks effects that increase immersion and image quality throughout the 100-hour action RPG.
Working hand-in-hand with developer CD Projekt RED, we’ve transformed the protagonist’s hair and beard, the mane of his trusty steed (and the manes of other horses), and the fur of over three dozen monsters into dynamic, highly detailed, fully formed hair and fur that reacts realistically to movement, external forces, dynamic lighting, and shadows. Using a technology called NVIDIA HairWorks, the addition of this DirectX 11 tessellated hair to the majority of Geralt's animal and supernatural assailants creates immersive scenes and encounters for the duration of the anticipated title.
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Rendering tens of thousands of hairs simultaneously requires significant computational power, a task best suited to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 Series GPUs, which crunch tessellation tasks up to three times faster than previous-generation graphics cards. This tessellation prowess also proves useful out on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s dangerous seas, whose waves and ripples are rendered solely through tessellation.
The other major addition to the PC edition is the inclusion of NVIDIA HBAO+, a high-quality Ambient Occlusion (AO) technique that greatly improves the quality of shadowing around objects and characters game-wide. Powered by DirectX 11 and NVIDIA secret sauce, HBAO+ is the AO solution of choice for developers seeking ultimate image quality.
Though not a selectable or configurable setting, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt also features NVIDIA PhysX, which adds realistic cloth and destruction effects throughout the game. Powered by the CPU and available on all platforms, these effects make the world feel more alive and dynamic, with cloth blowing the in the wind and objects exploding realistically. On PC, these effects run at a higher detail level and with additional particles that further increase their fidelity and realism.
Gamers seeking to maximize their graphical fidelity should invest spare performance to crank up The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s rendering resolution with NVIDIA Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR). An easy to use GeForce Experience and NVIDIA Control Panel feature, Dynamic Super Resolution delivers 4K-quality graphics to any monitor with just a few clicks. It is by far the most effective way to massively increase graphical fidelity once other settings are maxed out, and it’s how enthusiasts produce jaw-dropping screenshots.
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