Witcher 3's latest patch tidies up Nvidia Hairworks performance

Out now on PC, console soon.

News by Wesley Yin-Poole Former Editor-in-Chief

Updated on May 21, 2015

CD Projekt has released a patch for the PC version of The Witcher 3. It brings the open world role-playing game up to version 1.03.

The update focuses on improvement performance in cut-scenes and gameplay, as well as when Nvidia Hairworks is running, which some players have reported causes issues. Nvidia Hairworks lets users simulate and render fur and hair, adding thousands of dynamic hairs to characters and creatures.

Elsewhere, the patch adds additional graphics settings.

CD Projekt said the console version of the patch will be available "very soon", so look out for that, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One owners.

Here are the patch notes, as published on TheWitcher.com.

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
Fixes grass and foliage popping that could occur after density parameters were changed
Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
Sharpen Post-process settings extended from Off/On to Off/Low/High
Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
Corrects a bug where player was able to shoot bolts at friendly NPCs
Improves menu handling
Corrects an issue with Stamina regeneration while sprinting
Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occurred when scrolling the map
Generally improves world map focus
Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
Corrects some missing translations in the UI
Corrects an issue in dialogue selections
Rostan Muggs is back
Minor SFX improvements