Just installed the game and man my PC is weak shit. AMD phenom x4, HD 5850, 4gb DDR3. Ultra 20 FPS, High 30 FPS. 

Just installed the game and man my PC is weak shit. AMD phenom x4, HD 5850, 4gb DDR3. Ultra 20 FPS, High 30 FPS. 

Anyone know what setting might give the best boost in frames. I know ubersampling is a drag, but what else can I eliminate without really noticing?

1920x1080

You can turn shadows down some, yes you will notice it somewhat but it will boost FPS by a TON!

Depending on the quality of your monitor, you could always drop the res as long as you maintain the ratio i.e. 1920x1080 - 1600x900 - 1280x720

resolution is one way to fix but it can deteriorate the picture if it is not the same as your monitor. Id say just turn shadows down to low or medium and maybe some AA to a lower x like 2x or 4x instead of 8 or 16x and if worse comes to worse, bite the bullet and start dropping texture detail which will make things blend into each other but will boost fps. If your getting 30fps though just drop shadows some and see. should get at least a good 10+ fps boost from that alone.

That does not bode well for my machine considering I'm running more or less exactly the same system as you. 

Hrm interesting. My game is all most installed, should be interesting to see what performance i get out of it.

Well scratch that, i can't register the game, it cant connect to their servers. And on TheWitcher.com the "Register" button is all grayed out.

I dont know, I've been messing with the different settings, but am not sure if I am seeing much improvement. Turned the blur effects off, might have helped. The motion blur is rather intense and I might leave it off even though I dont think it hurts the fps that much. SSAO gives a bit of a boost.

Depending on the quality of your monitor, you could always drop the res as long as you maintain the ratio i.e. 1920x1080 - 1600x900 - 1280x720

Some games for me (recently AC: Brotherhood and Crysis 2) have negligible differences if I drop from 1920 to 1600. If you're using a controller and sitting a few feet away, you likely won't notice. Of course, some monitors don't interpolate anywhere near as well so it totally depends on what you've got. Wish PC's could upscale as well as the consoles sometimes. 

Depending on the quality of your monitor, you could always drop the res as long as you maintain the ratio i.e. 1920x1080 - 1600x900 - 1280x720
Some games for me (recently AC: Brotherhood and Crysis 2) have negligible differences if I drop from 1920 to 1600. If you're using a controller and sitting a few feet away, you likely won't notice. Of course, some monitors don't interpolate anywhere near as well so it totally depends on what you've got. Wish PC's could upscale as well as the consoles sometimes. 

@Ygg: I've found that there isn't that big a difference from med-high-ultra, it only changes a few settings. Other than ubersampling. I turned AA off, left most everything on, that got me to a consistend 40+fps.

Disable Ubersampling, voila, 60+ FPS. 

 I never bother enabling AA for the majority of PC games. Even since I put together my new gaming rig, the extra heat and performance hit just isn't worth it, IMO.

Definitely turn Uber Sampling off, unless you've got a really high end system. AA off will give a boost too. I turned off Motion Blur, since I think it's way too powerful. SSAO and Vsync off too. Game is running at a pretty steady 30-ish fps. It does dip down to the low 20s at some points though.

Q6600 Quad
6GB RAM
Geforce GTX 560 Ti.

Will definately be interesting to play around with the settings on this one to find an optimal ratio.

run it at a lower 16:9 resolution, it'll be a little more blurry but your frame rate should go up.

@ZimboDK I have an intel quad core and I'll be playing on a 19inch 1368x768 Monitor.

@RiotBananas said:

@ZimboDK I have an intel quad core and I'll be playing on a 19inch 1368x768 Monitor.

Oh, bear in mind that there are still no profiles from Nvidia yet. I expect an fps boost when they release new drivers.

I'm getting 40 fps on high with my 5770, AMD phenom x4 2.6 ghZ and 8 gigs of ram :3

I'm running a GTX580, 8GB Ram, and an i5 2500k @ 4Ghz.  I haven't booted the game up yet (at work all day), but I fully expect to be able to run this game on ultra minus the ubersampling.  If not, then I'll be pretty pissed off for blowing $500 on a video card that can't play the game I wanted play when I built the damn CPU.

I'm running a GTX580, 8GB Ram, and an i5 2500k @ 4Ghz.  I haven't booted the game up yet (at work all day), but I fully expect to be able to run this game on ultra minus the ubersampling.  If not, then I'll be pretty pissed off for blowing $500 on a video card that can't play the game I wanted play when I built the damn CPU.

Okay, so this game likes a fast CPU. Mine was only running at 2.4Ghz, and when I entered Floatsam (the first town), the framerate dropped to 15. Overclocked to 2.89Ghz, and now it runs at at least 30. I could probably push the CPU even higher without any problem.

@ZimboDK said:

@RiotBananas said:

@ZimboDK I have an intel quad core and I'll be playing on a 19inch 1368x768 Monitor.

Oh, bear in mind that there are still no profiles from Nvidia yet. I expect an fps boost when they release new drivers.

The gains on the 275.27s are supposed to be pretty significant for TW2.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/GeForce-Forceware-275.27-Win-7-Vista-x64-download-2727.html

I wonder if AMD will release new drivers, on the last driver they listed Brink as a reason for the new update.

Okay, so this game likes a fast CPU. Mine was only running at 2.4Ghz, and when I entered Floatsam (the first town), the framerate dropped to 15. Overclocked to 2.89Ghz, and now it runs at at least 30. I could probably push the CPU even higher without any problem.

Well I overclocked my XFX HD 5850 to 775/1125 the max my bios allows. With MSI afterburner I have the fan speed at 60%, maintained below 78 degrees celsius in furmark. Gave me a good 10-12 fps boost. Now I can justify leaving AA and vsync on. Some people said they dont notice any tearing, but I doo. I think they left their GPU driver settings for vsync as always on because I definitely notice it.