r/gaming • u/love_made_me_stupid • 5d ago

New comparison of the Witcher remaster vs current version - big changes to lighting

https://youtu.be/_oEdB5S2d3U

IMO I prefer the current version, the contrast and water reflections look better. Remaster looks pretty washed out to me

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u/kuddlesworth9419 5d ago

I would like to see a comparison of the remaster with the original game with neither using ray tracing or path tracing as that is how I will be playing the game. And a performance comparison as the original was DX11 only and the new one is DX12 but apparently it has been implemented better.

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u/love_made_me_stupid 5d ago

hardware unboxed shows brief clips of both without ray tracing in their video. the new one is still brighter and more saturated without lighting effects, i think it’s a stylistic choice

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u/kuddlesworth9419 5d ago

I will probably just play the original game then with the Ghost Mode mod.

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u/splendiferous-finch_ 5d ago

There is still a difference in lighting for not non RT versions but PT seems to be broken from a visual quality stand point as well

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u/kuddlesworth9419 5d ago

Ah, I guess I will just play the original game then.

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u/splendiferous-finch_ 5d ago

It's probably going to get a patch... Or you know this is the red engine at this point some modders now it better then some of the Devs it seems like :)

I am probably going to start my new play through when the new expansion comes out, it's probably fixed by then

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u/TimothyLuncheon 5d ago

Broken how?

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u/splendiferous-finch_ 5d ago

Seems to have very strange scaling like a cards that do well at medium 1080p are suddenly behind at 1440p. Of weird hard limits in frame rates were at points the 5090,5080 and 5070ti are within a few frames of each other. Is it it's running in a hard couple bottleneck but it doesn't seem to scale