Random: You Can Run The Witcher 3 at 60FPS on PS5, But It Has to Be Unpatched

I've started this game two different times and am yet to finish it despite really enjoying it. With the PS5 release coming, I'll have to dive in once again.

I’d assume that launch bugs would have been caused by the uncapped framerate. It’s the only reason I can think why they would cap it after the fact.

The irony is not lost on me lol. Maybe PS6 Cyberbug2077 will be smooth as butter.

I assume there's loads of games with locked frame rate that probably won't get a patch for ps5 unfortunately

Hmm...Still have not finished Blood and Wine. Then again I still continue to fail at getting a couple PS5's so no rush.

This is great news....I've justified getting a PS5 so I can properly enjoy Cyberpunk 2077 when the update for that comes out. I'm playing it on a PS4 Pro but there's always a nagging feeling that it might be best to let the game go through several updates or even hold off until the PS5 version is released. Now with an upcoming proper PS5 Update for the Witcher 3 in the future, I'll have even more of an incentive to get a PS5.

@huntbearpig Same here, I've put in maybe fifteen hours. It's a good game, though I've honestly never understood where all the hype comes from. Great storytelling, but the combat is a mess and the map has that 'Ubisoft syndrome' of just scattering loads of copy and paste points of interest everywhere. Maybe I'm just missing something...

@SwitchVogel I thoroughly enjoyed my roughly 100 hours of Witcher 3 but taking each element on its own, it’s nothing revolutionary. It’s the writing that makes it. It won’t click for everyone but I too found the million question marks totally OTT while still really loving the game.

@huntbearpig lol same here. I think I got bored after clearing all side quests and dropped the game twice when I reach Novigrad. I’ve dropped all Witcher games like that with the 2nd being the closest to the end.

One of my favourite games and i cant wait for the PS5 upgrade. It wont be for everyone but, for those that have struggled to get through the main story, its worth sticking with purely for the side quests that become available throughout the game. Thats were it really shines.

Best off waiting for the next gen upgrade for this one now. We’ll no doubt get a performance mode alongside a Raytracing mode.

Game devs should just let their ps4 games run uncapped (or capped at 60 fps) on ps5, just give us the patch.

Lol I’ve bought this game 3 times, twice at a discount for the complete edition, and I still love playing through it every year. I have probably 500+ hours and can’t wait to get the PS5 edition... especially with CP2077 crashing on me pretty often 😕

Ah didn't know about the next-gen update - will look forward to that!

Nah, I'd rather just wait for the PS5 upgrade

Seems these early unlocked frame rate versions of games have an advantage. Although it's not as annoying in this case, as it is with Last Guardian, as we'll see a native version of Witcher soon.

I'm waiting for the PS5 patch before i play this, it should be epic

@nessisonett I mean, even the writing...

Look, it's a good game. I loved how detailed some of the side-quests were. But Geralt of Rivia is little more than a male power fantasy, and the quests and worldbuilding in general often lean hard on how edgy they are.

This edginess, of course, became a defining feature in CDPR's marketing for Cyberpunk. Taken almost to self-parodying levels when that list of adult content in the game from Korea or whatever leaked and CDPR's response was literally: "yeah, we don't eff around!"

Anyway, TW3 is one of those "more than the sum of its parts" games for me. I really liked it. But given how shallow its open world is, and how poor some of its RPG systems are, I'm not surprised Cyberpunk ended up the way it did (design-wise, not the game running at 15fps on PS4, lol)

Does the PS4 Pro version of the game not have a Performance Mode selection? I thought that unlocks the framerate.

Secondly, if the PS4 Pro version does have a Performance Mode selection, does the PS5 not run the PS4 Pro profile of the game?!

@Ralizah Yeah, Geralt can feel a little wooden at times but that’s more from the original books which are, for want of a better term, absolute searing garbage. They’re the height of everything wrong with the fantasy genre in the way Geralt is a big strong power fantasy with big boobed babes and sharp swords. I’m not that surprised by Cyberpunk because of the audience CDPR were cultivating through their dreadful edgy marketing campaign. It’s almost Shadow the Hedgehog levels.

I didn't include this in the video, but it wasn't as buggy as the PS4 version. Although I could've gotten lucky and just not encountered as many glitches, I didn't venture out too far from when the game first starts. I still recommend updating the game though.

Series X can run it at 4K60FPS on the latest patch due to it having both an unlocked framerate and resolution

@GamingFan4Lyf PS4 Pro doesn't have a performance mode but Xbox One X did with both unlocked framerates and dynamic resolution up to 4K. Running this without any patches also eliminates the Pro patch and the original code had an unlocked framerate, on the latest patch the PS5 will just run the Pro version

@carlos82 Oh, wow. I thought the Performance Mode was added to PS4 Pro after it was found the Xbox One X had it.

Good to know it gets the Pro profile when running on PS5, just a bummer the Performance Mode didn’t make it to PlayStation.

I have the game on Xbox because I have an X.

Wow. Pretty poor showing, to buy a PS5 and then find that the game is locked to the same sluggish 30fps that both the PS4 and PS4 Pro were - my copy is digital so there's no choice in the matter.

The Series X uses the One X Enhanced edition where the frame cap is 60fps, except the Series runs 60fps everywhere because it can handle more detailed environments with more assets and NPCs, so it doesn't drop to 30-40fps in places like Novigrad and Oxenfurt.

Therefore, as things currently stand the best console to play this game on is Series X. I think it also has a higher base resolution (One X Enhanced version targets 4K, no DRS).