Witcher 3 Next Gen - DX12 Looks Better Than DX11

I have also Noticed thzt the water isn't as good as in dx12. The overall look of it is so much better in 12, there is a lot more interaction with your boat and the. Biggest thing were possibly the waves. There were no waves in dx11 whereas 12 made very good use of their resources.

so slightly darker?

No, thx, 35fps vs 75fps(dx12/11)

sadly the d12 version crashes my whole pc with a green screen dont know why

Play it with DX 11, DX 12 dropped my fps from 110 to 35. Maybe in a few years it will be better, but it 's stupid to play a downgraded version of the game with a 3080 TI.

This video is somewhat wrong now , since both dx 11 and dx12 have HBAO+ in this video its just turned off in dx11 so it looks worse, but still the new next gen dx11 has low performance and 1.32 has much better performance BUT the anti aliasing... ouch even on my 1440p monitor aliasing is very bad

How do you convert between 11 and 12?

Hi I was wondering if most of these graphical upgrades are tied to ssr, cause the fps difference on using high to low settings is so far for me. I am wondering if using low ssr settings would remove these graphical upgrades

With 3090 dx 11 ultra+ 1440p 120hz vsync is very smooth and uses like 160w sth like this

With dx12 no rt all ultra dlss quality uses like 380w and 90 fps to 100

With rt ultra it drops 72 to 48. Mostly 60 tho.

Dlss and fsr makes vegetation look bad on dx 12 while dx 11 with tauu the vegetation looks very good. Using it on dx 12 kills fps

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150FPS in DX 11 with Ultra+ vs 90FPS in DX 12 with "tweak" in Medium to High ...... i take the DX 11

lmao no difference in terms of graphics and render distance. Only difference here is gamma brightness is higher on dx11

Trust me, DX 12 performance hit is not worth it at all. Try DX 11, Use some mods, You will still get 60 FPS while having a gorgeous game. Why sacrificr 30/40% FPS just for shading and foliage which unless you compare, not notice anyway.

Sadly,I have performance issues with dx 12, so I have to run on dx11😔 it run smooth on it

But graphics are good in dx11 too

Dx12 utilise huge drawcalls that’s why we see more objects and grass

It's basically hbao + wich Was later added. So if you don't need dlss or rt better use the dx11 version with a nativ resolution. I can run dx11 at 4k max without a drop under 60. At the dx12 version dllss is needed at my end.

can I switch in game between dx11 and dx12 ?

Whats the title of the background music bro

DX12 in TW3 is 50-60% the speed of DX11. Those of you that claim can see an improvement whatsoever visually are delusional.

Hell, DX12 + DLSS2/FSR2 Quality is less than 75% the speed of DX11.

I simply cant agree lol? DX 12 looking the same as DX11. I just run into WEIRD performance problems on DX12 which I never had on DX11.
(Playing on 1660 Ti)

whats now when hbao+ is back? unless you use rt+dlss/fsr in some combo dx12 looks pointless with dx11todx12 wrapper

but performance drop around 30-40%, so you get under 60fps on 6600xt and lower with ultra+. also dx12 adds ray tracing and fsr/dlss

There's no tradesman in DX12 version :D

i cant sadly launch dx 11, i have some problems in redlauncher so i cant even run game on dx 11, and i really need fps. im playin in 50 fps on lowest settings with rtx 2060 super, simply bad optimalization. but can somebody help me with launching the game with dx 11 please?

honestly the DX12 looks worse; oversaturation of color like the bloom fad back in the 00s.

yes but i think in 11 is better and stability fps in wither 3. 12 is not good optimized for this game

Q alguien le pasa que en las afueras y todo les va bien en direct12 pero en interiores hay un bajón tremendo.

Is DirectX 12 better than DirectX 11? In terms of Performance?

yeah but in my case fps difference is much bigger than graphic difference. I have 170 fps in classic and only 100 in next gen. Im playing in 1440p ultra. Nah, i will pass with this not optimized mess and stay with classic tw3 on mods (which also looks much better).

Can someone help me? I try to open the game in DX11, but it doesn't open or an error appears

DLSS is better than native in some cases because the super sampling technique makes the edges much smoother while increasing performance significantly. I was honestly thinking about trying the game in dx11 to compare the differences but unfortunately, and it might be due to mods, but when the game comes up all i see is the minimap and the different HUD icons, but see black screen otherwise

I got similar problem after updating it and playing on DX12, but I got better result on FPS with DX12
when I tried to play with DX11, the game started to stutter every few minutes and fps drop ofc, drop to 20-30 on novigrad, while with DX12 I got more than 40+ with the same setting.
I play on budget gaming laptop, I5 9th gen 1650 max q 16GB RAM and I put the game on 1TB HDD

I've looked at some comparisons and even while using the new HBAO+ mod on DX11 it still doesn't look as good as DX12. I don't really see why they removed HBAO+ in dx11 though as it was clearly a downgrade. That being said I think the way moving forward is to focus on DX12 as the definitive way to play Witcher 3 assuming your hardware can handle it.

No matter what it looks. It stutters and suffers FPS drops in all settings.
Game is pretty unplayable at the moment.

The only difference that I see is that AO looks turned off in DX11 shots while it works on my side.

At this point you can use DX11+mods and it will look even better than 12 + it will run better

Big difference

The biggest change you notice here is the lack of HBAO+ in DX11, which baffles me. My soon-to-be uploaded extensive Deep Dive covering this gem on Steam Deck showcases all the nitty gritty stuff to get the best possible experiences with the game out of the box. That being said, good and clean comparisons, thank you for that!

the only thing that changes is a horrible peformance on DX12 even without raytrace, and the raytrace that you can enable in DX12. graphically they are the same

rtx have problem ihave 120fps with ultra but with rtx go down 40......

But both look worse than the original version

YEah i noticed this too the moment i swapped to DX11 mode, i quickly went back to dx12 and its looking sexy again. Great video btw. How do you achieve standing in the exact same spot? i could never get that right

Thats crazy. I really felt like there was a difference but I couldn't put my finger on it. Thanks for showcasing it! I knew I wasn't going crazy! Lol

I dont know but the game is kinda buggy for me. In the DX12 version I cannot turn off the kill feed, its just not there in the settings anymore and its the only game where FSR actually causes worse performance for whatever reason. In the DX11 version I cant turn off sharpening, it always stays on low no matter what I do...

optymalisation this game is one big crap , ray tracing is one joke another is dx12 performance and cpu work

Wow.... It's 0 difference between dx11 and dx12, nice content right here.

Do you guys know if changing your mode from DX11 to DX12 or vice versa will corrupt or invalidate any game saves you had under your previously used DX version? Hope I'm making sense.

Removal of HBAO greatly reduced graphics quality on non RT version. Please do a comparison between vanilla with HD texture mod + hbao and the last gen version

From my own experience (and Digital Foundry's) the biggest culprit seems to be uneven loads on CPU cores. Meaning some cores are heavily loaded and MOST cores are not. Essentially, our CPUs are gimped. That shouldn't have happened. And, if they knew about it and released it anyway... that's pretty shitty. Jus' sayin'. I hope I'm not the only one tired of publishers pushing out incomplete games, updates, whatever. This trend needs to die a quick death.