The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been out for a few days now and it's already seen a couple of day one patches that have been released to improve the game's performance and optimize it for players.
Following complaints that the game has been visually downgraded, CD Projekt Red has released a new patch that adds even more graphical options into the mix, allowing the game to boost anisotropy levels to 16x on Ultra, and adding a slider to the Sharpen postprocess setting.
In addition to all of that, the patch improves stability in gameplay and the UI and improves the title's performance during cutscenes and gameplay. It also brings significant improvements to the performance of Nvidia Hairworks, so it doesn't cause as much of a hit.
On top of all that, the game sees the return of a character named Rostan Muggs.
Here's the full patch notes:
- Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
- Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
- Fixes grass and foiliage popping that can occur after density parameters change
- Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
- Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
- Sharpen Postprocess settings extended from Off/On to Off/Normal/High
- Improves menu handling
- Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
- Corrects an issue with stamina regeneration while sprinting
- Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occcurs when scrolling the map
- Generally improves world map focus
- Corrects a bug where player was able to fire bolts at friendly NPCs
- Corrects an issue in dialog selections
- Corrects some missing translations in the UI
- Minor SFX improvements -Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
- Rostan Muggs is back
