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This is how much "Hairworks" hampers performance.

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At 4K with a 900 series (Titan X) card, in particular. 

 

"Hairworks" enabled: 48fps

 

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"Hairworks" disabled: 64fps

 

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In conclusion; leave the feature off. The performance decrease is not worth the added realism of hair. To be honest, it's not a whole hell of a lot better anyway.

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The "hair" in the game renders it a 8xx msaa. Correct me if i'm wrong.

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I personally think his hair looks better without hairworks LOL

is this 1080p?!

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The "hair" in the game renders it a 8xx msaa. Correct me if i'm wrong.

 

I have no idea.

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What a joke...

The difference is negligible. Especially when you factor in a 20 fps decrease.

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I personally think his hair looks better without hairworks LOL

is this 1080p?!

I agree, haha.

 

This is native 4K.

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Lower the settings on it so it's not as impacting but still looks the same...

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Go to a more intensive scene, for example where your fighting an animal covered in hair.

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Go to a more intensive scene, for example where your fighting an animal covered in hair.

16fps decrease is not enough for you? :P Or do you want to see how hard it really tanks? I haven't really fought many furry animals yet.

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Go to a more intensive scene, for example where your fighting an animal covered in hair.

RIP performance xD

 

I agree, haha.

 

This is native 4K.

Woah i was worried back there LOL 

what settings is it on?

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16fps decrease is not enough for you? :P Or do you want to see how hard it really tanks?

Its a more accurate indicator.

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Its a more accurate indicator.

Maybe

 

Standing in a static position and enabling/disabling the feature is a quicker/dirtier way to measure it.

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RIP performance xD

 

Woah i was worried back there LOL 

what settings is it on?

Ultra

No AA

No motion blur

No blur

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The "hair" in the game renders it a 8xx msaa. Correct me if i'm wrong.

 

hairworks adds hair physics. easiest to see when displaying the gryphon trophy on your horse. the hair flows fluidly as you ride. not worth a huge decrease. with my 970 i can keep it around 50-60 fps at 1080p with it on, but it stutters pretty badly during the dips.

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outside, in combat, hairworks is 110%  worth it - especially with that gryphon head strapped to roach. fighting mobs with hair on them.

 

inside, with no wind, hairworks looks buggy as fek...

 

Its good to have the option to enable it, but I wish there was a "low" and "high" setting that ran with reduced tessellation and MSAA so the impact wasn't so high... I drop as much as 30 fps from it if Geralts head gets too close to the camera

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The gimick is strong, too strong....:P but I suppose 4K is exceptionally taxing on most GPU's but 20fps is pretty heffty price to pay for flashy hair.

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At 4K with a 900 series (Titan X) card, in particular. 

 

"Hairworks" enabled: 48fps

 

io4auHO.jpg

 

 

"Hairworks" disabled: 64fps

 

wxCKfnU.jpg

 

In conclusion; leave the feature off. The performance decrease is not worth the added realism of hair. To be honest, it's not a whole hell of a lot better anyway.

I want it disabled for Geralt and Enabled for Female Leads and CREATURES.

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I turned the HairworksAA to 4xAA instead of 8xAA (2xAA is great performance wise, but it shimmers) and also did the AMD "Create Witcher 3.exe Profile" for Reducing Tesselation multi's to 8x or 16x and it works very well reducing the drops even further.

 

Pity Project Cars does not get improved the same way...

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I turned the HairworksAA to 4xAA instead of 8xAA (2xAA is great performance wise, but it shimmers) and also did the AMD "Create Witcher 3.exe Profile" for Reducing Tesselation multi's to 8x or 16x and it works very well reducing the drops even further.

 

Pity Project Cars does not get improved the same way...

 

i never thought of checking the cfg... hmmmm

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Didn't see that coming, simulated hair looking bad in games. It's like TressFX in tomb raider, but way heavier and slightly less shitty looking.

 

What a joke...

The difference is negligible. Especially when you factor in a 20 fps decrease.

 

It's mainly in motion that it makes a difference.

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i never thought of checking the cfg... hmmmm

Yeah turn hairworksAA down to 4xAA and if using an AMD card, make a profile for W3 and tesselation multiplier reductions to 16x, and then turn some decal values/draw distance/shadow values up again :)

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