What Graphics Do You Play On?

"OEII1001;c-15933991" wrote:

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Ultra. Game is very well optimized. My card's fan never spins up, even with other applications running.

It's probably more a case of using quite simple graphics compared to other dx9 titles:

Or a case of being better optimized than its predecessor.

The reason it performs better than TS3 is the relatively small (let's face it, tiny) size of its "zones", where the data that needs to be loaded into RAM/VRAM and requires processing by the CPU/GPU is a fraction of what it was in TS3's open neighborhoods.

They made concessions because the engine couldn't handle what they were throwing at it.

Open world games certainly have a lot of problems.

They can, but not all of them do. GTAV and The Witcher 3, for instance, perform very well even on mid-range systems.

If one is willing to overlook things like save file bloating and scripting errors, yes. There's a lot to be said for loading screens.

Well Bethesda's Creation Engine, which is obviously notorious for both issues, is over a decade old and pretty much straight trash at this point.

But both games I mentioned have no such issues that I've experienced. It can be done and it can be done well.

Anyway, I'll stop hijacking the thread now.

https://forums.cdprojektred.com/forum/en/the-witcher-series/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/tech-support/pc-aa/47621-save-file-bloating-v1-05

https://forums.2k.com/showthread.php?91792-Save-Game-Bloating

As with Gamebryo and Bethesda's proprietary version of Gamebryo, the problem always comes down to objects in the open world.

That Witcher 3 post amounts to a one-reply thread in which the individual replying saw no such issue. So it's safe to say that's a pretty isolated problem specific to the user who made the post.

In terms of relevant search results for save bloat, Google only returned the link you provided for either game (GTAV or TW3)--at least in the two or three pages I dug through. The point is, if it were a common problem, as it is with Bethesda's games, you wouldn't have to look so hard for a result.

I'll just assume the second link was meant for educational purposes.