{"id":89163,"date":"2026-09-30T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89163"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:54:00","slug":"the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-remastered-pc-gets-the-best-visual-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89163","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt &#8211; Remastered: PC gets the best visual updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p class=\"_base_1s8rd_1 _default_1s8rd_12\"><b>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt \u2013 Remastered<\/b> is now available as a free upgrade for existing owners, bringing arguably the final round of graphical, performance and gameplay improvements to CD Projekt Red\u2019s epic fantasy RPG. As previously reported, the update is available on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2, although \u2013 unsurprisingly \u2013 it is the PC version that gets most of the new visual toys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_base_1s8rd_1 _default_1s8rd_12\">And there are quite a few of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_base_1s8rd_1 _default_1s8rd_12\">Firstly, there\u2019s <b>path tracing<\/b>, essentially taking the ray-tracing feature introduced with the game\u2019s Next-Gen Update in 2022 several steps further. Rather than applying ray tracing to individual effects such as reflections, shadows and ambient occlusion, path tracing handles much more of the scene\u2019s lighting together, including indirect and bounced light. The result should be noticeably more convincing lighting across the Continent, especially indoors and in scenes illuminated by candles, fires and other local light sources.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_embedContainer_wioo3_16\">\n<div class=\"_container_1stzb_1\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/LwN6Vez7MJk\/sddefault.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/LwN6Vez7MJk\/hqdefault.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_facade_1stzb_5\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/LwN6Vez7MJk\/hqdefault.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/picture><button class=\"_playButton_1stzb_12\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"_playButtonText_1stzb_39\">Play<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"_base_1s8rd_1 _default_1s8rd_12\">NVIDIA card owners also get <b>DLSS 4.5<\/b>, including the latest Ray Reconstruction technology to clean up ray- and path-traced effects. GeForce RTX 50 Series cards additionally support Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, while RTX 40 Series GPUs get the updated Frame Generation model. NVIDIA has also implemented ray-traced HairWorks, improving how hair reacts to lighting. RTX 50 Series GPUs can even go a step further with path-traced strand-based hair rendering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_base_1s8rd_1 _default_1s8rd_12\">AMD card owners also get <b>AMD FSR 4<\/b> with Frame Generation and Anti-Lag 2 support on compatible Radeon GPUs, as well as <b>Intel XeSS 2.0<\/b>, Frame Generation and Low Latency. Sony PlayStation\u2019s DualSense haptic feedback is supported on PC too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_base_1s8rd_1 _default_1s8rd_12\">Even without all the resource-intensive lighting effects turned on, the Remastered edition gets an improved shading model, updated textures and models \u2013 including assets based on the community-created <i>The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project<\/i> \u2013 and better lighting and shading for vegetation. CD Projekt Red has warned that the PC system requirements have consequently changed, so anyone returning to an older gaming PC may want to check those before turning everything up. Early impressions have shown that even a GeForce RTX 4090, without DLSS switched on, can struggle at 4K resolution and with all visual settings maxed out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_base_1s8rd_1 _default_1s8rd_12\">Isn\u2019t it amusing that a game that\u2019s more than 11 years old is still used as a showcase of graphic hardware?<\/p>\n<p class=\"_base_1s8rd_1 _default_1s8rd_12\"><i>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt \u2013 Remastered is now available for all owners of the game on consoles and PC for free.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"_subHeading1_1k87u_111 _base_1k87u_1\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwarezone.com.sg\/entertainment\/gaming\/cd-projekt-red-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-remastered-pc-version-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt \u2013 Remastered is now available as a free upgrade for existing owners, bringing arguably the final round of graphical, performance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2060,10411,3948,1790,678,10956],"class_list":["post-89163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-hunt","tag-remastered","tag-updates","tag-visual","tag-wild","tag-witcher","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}