The Witcher 3 Remastered has been a huge success for CDPR, bringing millions of players back to the Continent just in time for Songs of the Past, but it hasn't been completely smooth sailing. AMD users have found themselves in a drowner's nest of trouble with graphical glitches, and there have been a litany of performance and visual issues more broadly across PC, forcing players to toss a Samum bomb into their settings just to hit a stable frame rate.
CD Projekt Red deployed a hotfix today to address most of these issues, rolling back Nvidia HairWorks to smoothen out performance while making tweaks to bloom after players reported the game looking washed out with it enabled. Nonetheless, The Witcher 3 is still seeing an influx of negative reviews, with over 1,100 posted on launch day. Fans called the game "near-unplayable" and "completely broken," advising others, especially those with AMD cards, to revert to the next-gen version.
On September 30, over 700 more negative reviews were filed, with players complaining about the "unskippable launcher," "totally broken performance," and "destroyed menu navigation." Today alone, another 237 negative reviews have been posted, echoing the same complaints about a "buggy launch,"...
