Witcher 3 Remastered PC players get two performance fixes

The Witcher 3 Remastered is already drawing reports of poor PC performance, and two temporary workarounds are being pointed to as ways to reduce the load on graphics cards while CD Projekt Red prepares further fixes. One comes directly from the studio: the official Witcher account on X said on September 30 that NVIDIA Hairworks may “significantly affect performance” and recommended disabling it until a patch addresses the issue.

Players have also been flagging Hairworks and bloom settings as problem areas on their own, with some saying they are turning both off. A second option is a mod called “Path Tracing and Ray Tracing Optimization (Remastered),” which modder HourLines says can improve efficiency by up to 30% in some areas. The tradeoff is that indoor scenes become darker and global illumination reacts more slowly to changes in light.