This DX9 game has the reputation of being one of the most demanding and stressful games on modern video cards. The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition released way back in 2011, 9 YEARS ago. The Enhanced Edition offers a new zone, more quests, more cinematics, and several bug fixes. "The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings just underwent a major update. People are pushing their machines unnecessarily, taking framerate hits, on a feature that unoptimises the whole game. You can argue that a DX9 game lacks many of the optimizations of DX10 and 11 which help the performance of these cards but it would seem that as far as testing the raw graphics power of a card, The point of uber sampling is graphics cards in two years time will be able to render each frame of Witcher 2 four times, and not suffer a performance hit, staying at 60fps. Also, ubersampling is disabled and cannot be enabled and the text is red instead of black. When it was enabled saw frame rates reduced to 20fps or lower, something that the old standby Crysis just cannot do. I can play the Witcher 2 at the Ultra Setting but it crashes when entering a cutscene. The most demanding feature of the game is UberSampling, which incorporates Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering and can bring even these powerful graphics cards to their knees. I can run the game with it on at 45fps average. The Radeon HD 7970 and GeForce GTX 680 both struggled equally at 2560×1600 on this game, which is quite impressive for a year old game. Uber-sampling in Witcher 2 doesnt really offer an acceptable performance to visuals ratio to bother with. Ard|OCP overheard that The Witcher 2 underwent a large update, to the tune of 10GB or so, which gave them an opportunity to pit the newest GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD against a game which has a reputation for being hard on graphics card.
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