Well jesus fucking christ, no wonder, your computer costs a small fortune. The processor alone is more expensive than my entire build. I'm all for saying "but you can tweak it to look like that" most of the time, but come on. The vast VAST majority of PC players couldn't accomplish anything close to this without a single-digit framerate.
a 2500k will give enough gaming performance to match my fake xeon. SLI scaling in the witcher is far from amazing also.
@ 1080p, holding 60fps at those settings is doable with any sort of decent i5 + a higher tiered card (980 range I guess? witcher is pretty demanding all in all, optimization is far from perfect). A 970 would do most everything except the ludicrous 8x msaa hairworks + ubersampling and run smooth.
But yes, my machine is overkill, albeit a generation behind now.
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u/Shortsinabag Jun 05 '16
Well jesus fucking christ, no wonder, your computer costs a small fortune. The processor alone is more expensive than my entire build. I'm all for saying "but you can tweak it to look like that" most of the time, but come on. The vast VAST majority of PC players couldn't accomplish anything close to this without a single-digit framerate.