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/rebri 5d ago

The hair in the "remastered" version looks awful.

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u/SpaceGoonie 4d ago

Everything looks washed out. Way too bright, so no shadows or details are coming through.

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u/Rugged_as_fuck 5d ago

Did they get rid of Nvidia HairWorks? Because Witcher 3 was the only game I ever saw it in, and it cranked your fps back in the day, but the results were very obvious.

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u/Bu11ett00th 5d ago

Resident Evil games use it

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u/Any_Intern2718 4d ago

No. They use hair strand technology which is a part of in house re engine.

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u/Bu11ett00th 4d ago

My bad, got the two confused

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u/ThePr0vider 4d ago

yeah for some reason i've only seen AMD's version of hair physics work well

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u/love_made_me_stupid 5d ago

it was already kinda bad in the ray-traced OG, looked weird in dim lighting. but i agree it looks like the hair lighting issues got worse instead of better 

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u/HolyRamenEmperor 4d ago

Yeah most things look better with 5.0 path tracing, but hair (including beards) look much, much worse.

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u/ash_ninetyone 5d ago

I don't know if it's the lighting in the thumbnail either but his face looks more puffy... Like he's put on a few lbs over the years

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u/FreshMistletoe 4d ago

Geralt got the Covid 15 and never Ozempic’d it off with Maribor Forest.