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Witcher 3 Wild Hunt

Version on Steam

Application Details:

Version: Steam
License: Retail
URL: http://www.thewitcher.com/
Votes: 5
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 8.5

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Test Results

Old test results
The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.
Selected Test Results

What works

NPC, Quests, Shops, Save, Load Save, Pause, Menu, Combat, Signs, Horse, Inventory, Map, etc.

What does not

CD PROJEKT RED Launcher breaks if The Witcher doesn't launch right away, don't delay.

Workarounds

Use Winetricks to install dxvk173, mfc140, d3dx9, d3dx11_43, d3dcompiler_43

What was not tested

The Gwent card game has not been tested.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU: Nvidia
  • Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Steam has a graphical bug in the Library with dxvk, so before adding the Winetriks workaround, install The Witcher 3 in the Library, after installing it, proceed with Winetricks.

dxvk is to fix performance issue using Vulkan instead of default OpenGL rendering.

I tested the classic old version of The Witcher obtained through Steam version 1.32 you can change to this version through The Witcher property on Steam. It is likely that the remaster will also work.

When the CID Project RED launcher is opened change to directx 11 in the same launcher.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
CurrentUbuntu 22.04 "Jammy" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Apr 04 20238.5Yes Yes YesGoldaguamole 
ShowManjaro LinuxJul 30 20183.13-stagingYes Yes YesGoldVladimir 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Jul 22 20183.13-stagingYes Yes YesGoldMehmet Akif TASOVA 
ShowGentoo Linux x86_64Mar 06 20183.3Yes Yes NoSilverKai Krakow 
ShowUbuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 21 20172.21Yes Yes NoBronzeAlexander Yakovlev 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
43133 The Witcher 3: ambient occlusion distortions NEW View

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HowTo / Notes

Maximizing performance

Currently with wined3d, The Witcher 3 is still affected by CPU-GPU buffer maps synchronization issue (bug #44315). It severely degrades performance.

Using dxvk instead of wined3d is the best course of action, since it performs very well, and also provides perfect rendering, as long as your Vulkan driver supports VK_EXT_transform_feedback extension.

Comments

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What were the settings
by Shawn on Sunday January 10th 2016, 17:48
I ask because wine defaults to windows xp, and when I installed steam it was also on windows xp. Windows xp can not do dx10 or dx11 so I assume it would have to be set on vista or windows 7 inoder to work.
RE: What were the settings
by Guillaume Charifi on Thursday May 26th 2016, 15:02
wine winecfg
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