The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s 1.03 patch is available now on Steam and GOG.com, and brings a number of changes including new graphics options and general stability and performance improvements.
It’s the first step towards smoothing out the game’s rough edges, and perhaps adding in a little bit of extra visual flair - CD Projekt has admitted that the game’s graphics were tuned down a bit since its impressive VGX demo.
”Considering our values, hiding is the last thing we ever want to do,” said developer Marcin Iwinski. ”And for those who are still not 100 per cent decided, I definitely encourage them to wait and see what we will be releasing in patches, updates and whatnot.”
Here’s the full patch notes for 1.03:
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Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
Fixes grass and foliage popping that could occur after density parameters were changed
Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
Sharpen Post-process settings extended from Off/On to Off/Low/High
Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
Corrects a bug where player was able to shoot bolts at friendly NPCs
Improves menu handling
Corrects an issue with Stamina regeneration while sprinting
Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occcured when scrolling the map
Generally improves world map focus
Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
Corrects some missing translations in the UI
Corrects an issue in dialogue selections
Rostan Muggs is back
Minor SFX improvements
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