I deactived Hairworks, since then it's better at least... Don't know why...

I can't say for sure if it is enough, because I don't believe that TW3 states how much Vram is needed for the various texture settings, like some games do. But I would guess that should be enough for high at least. What I usually do if I have an issue, is go through the settings one at a time, starting with the most obvious and working from there. Check each setting by itself and see if it corrects the issue, until you find the culprit. If you get through all of the settings and still are unable to fix the issue, then you know it is probably a bug that you will likely have to wait on to get patched, or another issue with your system. If the problem does turn out to be an issue with the game itself, I wouldn't worry too much about it, because CDProjectRED has some of the best customer support of any game developer around, and they have a history of patching things very quickly when possible, and going above and beyond what most developers do for their games. But I suspect that your issue is something you can probably improve at the present, if you are able to find the cause. Some settings in particular that I would recommend checking are, Texture Quality (obviously), Foliage Visibility Range, Grass Density, Number of Background Characters, and perhaps Detail Level and Terrain Quality. Nvidia Hairworks is a bit of a hog, so if you are using that, I would also try checking that as well and leave it off while you are testing. I would also check V-sync and turn it off as well while you are checking things. Games also tend to perform a bit better if you run them in Full Screen too.

I also forgot to mention before, to make sure that you also have the latest driver for your video card too. Nvidia released an optimized driver for TW3 when the game released. If you have an Nvidia card, make sure you have driver version 352.86 or higher. I would check that first, before doing anything else, to be sure it's not just an old driver issue. I am sure that AMD probably did something similar too, though I do not know for certain about them.


Hairworks is demanding to run. It can often make a big difference in performance with games that use it.

Afterburner reports only a usage of ~2gb VRAM. I have a 970 so its totally not a problem in VRAM. Must be somewhere else.

I've got a 980 and I get this popin everywhere. Max vram usage I've ever seen in this game was 2.5gb vram. It's never gone over that amount.

980 4gb here. Beside the popin this is a pic of what iv been getting quite abit sine 1.04:

Eh dunno how to post pics on this forum so heres a link, render issue:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/ih8qkk.jpg

Its quite obvious for people with tats or helmets etc, they will vanish from a short distance and re-appear up close. Especially during cutscenes.

Here is the reply I got from the support, in short - they are working on a fix and will release it as soon as possible:

[i]Hello there!



Our Development team are currently working on this issue as we speak. Although we can't confirm when this will be definitely resolved, this is a known issue and we're hoping to fix this ASAP. Nevertheless, thank you for you contacting us about this issue :)


In the meantime you may try decreasing the number of NPCs spawning near you, so those most important will spawn faster.[/i]

It happens to me everyday with Geralt's beard in cutscene for example. Shaved and 1 second later the beard appears.

Same for me, hope they get back to the previous settings, they worked juste fine before the patch even with my good old graphic card.

Ok thanks man !

I'll wait until the next patch to play tho...