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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Stuttering solution, Crash/Freeze fix and Graphics Optimization Guide

Faheem Haydar

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is finally released for PC. And there are some problems that you might face after the installation. This guide will tell you how to deal with those problems. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an action role playing games that offers you ample of level with challenging missions. The game is set in open world where you can also get a lot of small quest. The game is released for Xbox One and PS4 also and just today it appeared on Windows platform. Those who had played the previous level will surely enjoy this new part, as the story extends directly after the previous series. The game is not entirely different. There are lots of similarities in it. So if you have played the previous edition then it will be easier for you to enjoy the extended story of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. There are also lot of improvements. But still I am targeting the most common problems that gamers will face on PC. First let’s check out the system requirements of this game.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt System Requirements:

Minimum –

Recommended –

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt stuttering issue fix –

If you are facing stuttering issue in this game then you must go in the graphics settings and try to reduce game resolution. Also reducing Game Shadow, Texture Quality, etc; will help. Below is a guide for Nvidia Graphics card optimization. Just go through different options and disable those which are not needed. Game Stuttering will stop.

Start with an audio driver update. This is very important if you are playing games on a HDMI connection. Setting the CPU core affinity will also help. But this will put impact on the game performance. It will work slow. You can disable various graphics option to further enhance the gameing output.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt does not start –

Download and run The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Day-One patch for pc from this link – http://play.thewitcher.com/. The patch size is around 305MB approximately. This patch comes with a lot of stability and performance fixes.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt crashing/freezing fix –

This issue is mostly on Nvidia graphics card. For this a latest driver update is needed. If that does not resolve then it means the game’s graphics settings are set on high and your GPU is not able to handle it. Reduce that. Killing background process through Task Manager will also help. Do check the minimum system requirements before installation.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Save Game Backup –

The Witcher 3 save game location is %SystemDrive%\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\The Witcher 3\gamesaves. Just backup the file from this directory incase of any issues with the save file.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Nvidia Graphics Card Optimization Tips –

Read the full “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Graphics, Performance & Tweaking Guide” by visiting this link.

Short tips from the guide –

Nvidia Hairworks –

The option is available under the graphic setting of Witcher 3. Nvidia Hairworks offers you more realistic characters with dynamic movement of tessellated hair strands. This is not something that you are really looking for if your game is working a bit slower or if you have a performance problem. This is just to boost characters hair graphics adding realistic approach. You can turn it off. This option is available under the Hair Works option. You can turn it off entirely or you can enable it for Geralt only. That means Geralt’s beard and hair will be a bit more realistic. Or you can turn it on for all.  Remember this also put impact on the FPS if it is turned on for all. Only by turning it off you can reach 60FPS.

NVIDIA HBAO+ Ambient Occlusion –

This option offers you to improvise game shadows. There are two choices for players. They are Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO), and NVIDIA HBAO+. HBAO+ adds some enhancement and detailing.

Anti-Aliasing –

We all know about Anti-Aliasing feature. This is by default available for many games. Anti-Aliasing option is available in two techniques. MSAA and TXAA. This one adds more enhancements in the game graphics. For example smooth edges of buildings and less shimmering edges. Performance is best on high resolution.

Bloom –

Bloom is to enhance the bright lights in the game. It makes special effects on the game making it look really great. Also you can enable this feature. It is not very high on the GPU and also does not put much impact on the game fps.

Blur & Motion Blur –

Motion Blur or Blur is only to enhance your aim accuracy when you are attacking any creature in the game. The settings are under Blur and you get two options there. They are Radial and Gaussian Blur. It is best to turn it off.

Chromatic Aberration –

This is a just another enhancement settings. If you had seen old photos that are taken from outdated camera lens which has distorted colors on it, then you will easily understand what this is. This setting is not really needed.

Depth of Field Performance –

When this option is turned on, long distance object will be out of focus. It is ideal for those who are playing games on low resolution.

Detail Level –

This feature will add more detailed scaling in the game. For example if you attack someone the blood on it will be more clearly visible. The same is applicable to other stuff also. It also does not put much impact on the game output. Just a tiny enhancement.

Foliage Visibility Range –

Foliage Visibility Range works for the game elements like grass, forest, weather, etc. It will give more detailed environment depending on the settings. It has four option to choose – Low, Medium, High and Ultra. At ultra you can get very realistic graphic conditions but also this requires high GPU power. So your fps quality will fall.

Grass Density –

The option, as the name itself says, just adds more grass to the scene. It is light weight and has four options to choose from. They are Low, Medium, High and Ultra.

Light Shafts –

Light Shafts will make the light trays or you can say beam clearer when they fall on any object. This does not put any great impact on the game output.

Number of Background Characters –

As the name suggests, you can increase the background characters of the game. The more you increase the more graphic card will be used up if the quality is set to highest. You can choose from pack of 75, 100, 130 or 150.

Shadow Quality –

Under Shadow settings you also get another option to modify the Shadow quality of the game. You can simply adjust 4 levels of shadow visibility. They are Low, Medium, High and Ultra.

Sharpen –

This feature will make image look sharper. You won’t get any blurry output. And it also does not put any impact on the graphic output.

Terrain Quality –

As the name suggest, by turning this feature on you can get more detailed ground graphics. It puts a bit less impact on the game output, but still if you need high fps it is recommended to turn it off.

Texture Quality –

Texture quality is to get more detailed and realistic look in the game. Witcher 3 is build ton REDengine 3 game engine. This game engine can capture a very high texture output even on a bit low end graphic card with at least 2GB VRAM. It is ideal for those who want a bit better graphics on low resolution. The texture quality can be adjusted from Low, Medium, High and Ultra.

Water Quality –

Water quality is to make the waves in ocean to look more realistic. You can see ripple effects also. The water settings can be adjusted from low, medium, high and ultra.

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