The Witcher 3 First Screenshots Showing Nvidia HairWorks and HBAO+

Nvidia has released a press release yesterday announcing that both Batman Arkham Knight and The Witcher iii: Wild Chase volition be included in their GPU bundle with the GTX 980 and GTX 970 GPUs.

Both these games serve every bit great examples of Nvidia's graphics technologies. Nvidia has shared the first The Witcher 3 screenshots showcasing Nvidia HairWorks and HBAO+ effects.

Many of the monsters encountered in the Witcher 3 will be enhanced with Nvidia HairWorks, adding hundreds of thousands of dynamic DirectX 11 tessellated hair strands for a more than realistic appearance of real hair and fur.

Geralt'southward pilus also receives the HairWorks treatment as does Geralt's horse, Roach.
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The employ of HBAO+ also enhances the Witcher 3 experience greatly, increasing the quality of Ambient Occlusion (AO) shadows on every grapheme, object, surface, and slice of leaf, greatly enhancing prototype quality game-wide.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Chase's earth is enhanced with NVIDIA PhysX effects that enable cloth, ship sails, and equus caballus tails to move realistically, as well as devastation.

HairWorks and HBAO+ won't be featured in the console versions of The Witcher 3, CD Projekt Cerise assures that their own internal solution all the same looks very good.

Nosotros have not seen the Nvidia issue in activeness so far, as the recently released Ultra settings footage had the choice disabled, only it even so looked quite good. The YouTubers did mention however that once enabled it made a huge difference on the visual quality, but had a big hit on functioning. The effect however was mostly due to Shadowplay running as it does not agree very well with the selection. Enabling the HairWorks choice without running Shadowplay should consequence in much meliorate functioning.

The screenshots do not do much to demonstrate the characteristic, and it surely be much more than impressive when seen in motility. It would be nice to see the game in action having the option enabled. Let's hope that some footage is revealed soon.

The reviews for The Witcher 3 volition get alive a week before the release of the game

Nosotros take previously reported that the reviews for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will go live a week before the release of the game, which goes to evidence how defended CD Projekt RED is to their fans and the community.

Yous tin can checkout the last Ultra settings 1080p 60fps footage provided by YouTuber ImAnderZEL, besides equally the previous video here. Annotation that the video is non of the highest quality and information technology from a previous build of The Witcher 3 and not the final. The specs of the organization are - GTX 980, i7 4790, 8GB.

The Witcher iii is just two weeks abroad from release, and as we have previously covered, CD Projekt has already appear that pre-load options are already live, likewise as the unlock times for The Witcher 3.

The Witcher 3 will release on May 19 2022 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Nosotros will bring yous whatsoever new data on The Witcher iii as soon as it becomes bachelor. Exist sure to check out our previous coverage for more information on The Witcher 3, hither and hither.