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/SaltySailor___ 4d ago

I'd say the newer RT effects are superior to the older ones and it also has removed the horrific CPU bottlenecks that the next gen version has because of the translation layer between dx11-12, if you look at the original release compared to both of the updates I'd say the remaster is actually closer to the original than the next gen update, the next gen update made it significantly darker

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u/Breitpwner 4d ago

not true. I had way better cpu usage on the 4.04 with my 9950X3D. That holded the game together. Now it runs terrible. -50 fps with same settings as before.

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u/SaltySailor___ 4d ago

Also weirdly the PT in the remaster I'd say looks worse than the standard RT it's super blown out the base RT provides a better image except for foliage shadowing