existensmaximum
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I think it's the only PS5 game that I've had freezing on me regularly.
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.....why did nobody notice The Witcher 3 - PS5 port was a glitchy mess?
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Xtib81
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I admire your dedication but they don't give a fuck. They know very well about this glitch and it's been more than a year. They would've fixed it by now if they cared. I'm not even sure even a single employee is working on this game anymore.
I was thrilled to play blood and wine, which I've heard is the best expension ever, but alas I won't because of this damn glitch. I'll wait for the witcher 4 now lol
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vitopursuer
Neo Member
still no solution?
Skifi28
Member
Apparently, it's fixed when playing on the pro.
Zathalus
Member
I’ve been cross playing this on PC and PS5 recently and I’ve noticed no issues on my PS5. I do have a Pro but I can’t see how that would make a difference.
gooner4life_uk
Member
OP is playing the PS4 version of The Witcher 3 on PS5, the PS5 version doesn't do this, only the PS4 version on the PS5.
Puscifer
Member
Unrelated, but Death Stranding has vegetation pop in after the directors cut which is bizarre to me since the original on PS4/PC has a draw distance that feels like it absolutely shouldn't be possible.
SkyHighTrees
Member
Its even more bizarre. PS5 Pro fixes it for some hardware reason, but with the PS5, select PS5s dont have this glitch.
I has 2 base models, one launch and one from 2021, both exhibited this glitch. Some peoples base consoles just dont have this and I'm 100% sure about this.
And no, not playing the PS4 version on the PS5, not a dense person.
Its the most random bug I think Ive ever seen. But so so Glad that the PRO absolutely fixes this.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Shake Your Rump
Banned
There is no problem. I just played PS5 version over the past few days and it's flawless. (OG launch console)
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NeonGhost
uses 'M$' - What year is it? Not 2002.
Not true
Xtib81
Member
I'd say after playing the expansion for a good 10 hours that it's mostly fixed but not completely. It appears randomly from time to time in some areas, for a few seconds, and then nothing for an hour. That's really weird ^^
SkyHighTrees
Member
That's fine lol. At that point you can ignore it. On regular PS5 it was a miracle whenever it stopped doing that, lasted for 40 mins or so. Some people never had it though
diffusionx
Gold Member
Actually people did complain, they did a horrible job with the port.
GymWolf
Member
I'm noticing it right now, i bought the complete edition on pro just to fucking use the console with something relatively modern and i already had 2 crashes and one time when the loading was infinite and i had to manually close the thing and weird stuff happening on screen sometimes like flickering or some shit, but no vegetation problem.
I would not call it a mess but i was expecting an hassle free experience on console, i already have a pc that run this shit way, way better, if i wanted "pc problems" i could just play there.
(Btw it's not the console, call of pripyat run perfectly)
I would not call it a mess but i was expecting an hassle free experience on console, i already have a pc that run this shit way, way better, if i wanted "pc problems" i could just play there.
(Btw it's not the console, call of pripyat run perfectly)
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mayham2199
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Colin from LSM has noted other issues like this with random games. One of the guys on his team literally couldn't play Returnal period. He had to send it in to Sony and I think they just gave him a new one or something. Colin also had serious issues with Alan Wake that no one else was having.
vitopursuer
Neo Member
what only I did not try to fix this damned bug, restauring default settings that cleared out all from ps5, doing hard factory reset, clearing out cloud saves, cleaning cash and rebuilding data probably like 100 times, buying seperate vanilla eddition, installing from friend's account that had no bug on his ps5, nothing worked. It feels like some malfunctions in some ps5 only for witcher 3, which sounds ridicious and rather impossible, but does this bug happening only to some people with no way to fix sounds totally impossible. Identical consoles, some never ever had it, and some can never get rid of it.
vitopursuer
Neo Member
there is like 40-50 thousand players on PC according to top games by player's count on steam, not counting gog, so I imagine on PS5 there would be like at least few thousand players. There is dozen of posts on reddit and also videos on youtube, but not crazy ammount of people to make this issue seen. I even went to DigitalFoundry discord channel, one of their manager had the issue too but did not care enough to even report it. But still, I do not feel like totally giving up and constantly checking if there are new people who experience the issue and there is more of them each time, so hope is not dying that it might get fixed.
Zathalus
Member
I highly doubt CDPR is going to do any further updates at this time, so for PS5 players the only way to fix it would be getting the Pro.
vitopursuer
Neo Member
but ps5 pro is terrible when it comes to performance/value/quality. The biggest issue for me is quality, you get ps5 pro, and you do not even get full 4k in witcher 3, which is weird, since Witcher 3 on ps5 had a dynamic 4k, which was around 1800p, dropping and raising depend on the scene. You cannot also get higher resolution in most games, because they run just basic resolution that was made either for ps5 or even ps4. It was worth getting ps5, but pro, it is just like blatant money waste, unless somebody have a lot of it. I'd get it myself if I had a nice job and lived in an economically developed country.
vitopursuer
Neo Member
the issue is also present on ps5 slim as well as one of my commentors under my video of the bug attested to having a bug
vitopursuer
Neo Member
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Put about 30 hours into the PS5 version and encountered no bugs or glitches
vitopursuer
Neo Member
you are just among those lucky people who does not have this bug
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
vitopursuer
Neo Member
it is unlikely after 30 hours of play, I had it like from few hours of playing, I first played through Velen where it does not show itself so much really, but then started noticing more and more, googled it, and found out it is unfixable bug that happens only on some consoles and never happens on others
SkyHighTrees
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the fact that some people don't have it on regular ps5s bewilder me.
fact is, want it fixed, buy the pro. it also has a significant boost in IQ and draw distance compared to XSX so it's the best console version. the draw distance is better on PS5 regular too but the bug hampers it
this shit still crazy, the most random bug ever imo.
the fact that some people don't have it on regular ps5s bewilder me.
fact is, want it fixed, buy the pro. it also has a significant boost in IQ and draw distance compared to XSX so it's the best console version. the draw distance is better on PS5 regular too but the bug hampers it
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
FYI that was a bug on Xbox that happened near launch for DF when moving saves from one console to the other. I recall John mentioning it in one of their Direct's after their video too.
It does not happen during normal plays and I think further patches fixed the bug even when transferring saves altogether.
DF's initial coverage:
Actual on SX:
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SkyHighTrees
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sorry, it isn't really draw distance. it's more about the extra grass draw-in that is present on PS5 and PC version. Seems like there's more grass in the PS and PC version, like it's "fuller" around the player.FYI that was a bug on Xbox that happened near launch for DF when moving saves from one console to the other. I recall John mentioning it in one of their Direct's after their video too.
It does not happen during normal plays and I think further patches fixed the bug even when transferring saves altogether.
DF's initial coverage:
Actual on SX:
I've read about this somewhere, maybe DF or on the countless forums and subreddits I've visited trying to find a fix for the glitch present on the base PS5.
I've always thought it was this that caused the awful pop in and pop out on the playstation console but it isn't, it's just an odd bug present on 75% of the sony base consoles. For some really odd reason Pro almost fixes this fully so it's not a disadvantage anymore imo, it can actually look better this way. You're right tho the XSX draw distance problem was fixed early on
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
TW3 was recently added to PS Plus IIRC, I'll download it on mine and see if I get the issue.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Haven't tried it on PS5.
With CDPR I wouldn't be surprised.
With CDPR I wouldn't be surprised.
vitopursuer
Neo Member
I got ps5 for witcher 3, getting ps5 pro for witcher 3 - it starts to borders with madness. And I don't want to get new PC because I strongly dislike PC as gaming machine. And it is not like I am biased, I had PC since 2006, and got my first console in 2020. It was ps4 slim, I was surprised how such a small thing can play so many games and still back then have so many amazing exclusives.
digital_ghost
Member
....because they were checking out Tess.
vitopursuer
Neo Member
so as it turns out, the bug is totally absent on ps5 pro, so the what the hell is wrong with at least half of ps5 basic consoles? so then is it an evidence to blame half of the ps5 for having the bug or what is any logic in this insanity that is going on? I feel on the verse of buying ps5 pro but then when I start to think of it, and doing it only for one game - it start to sound like insanity. and at the same time I am totally confused why can't I play the game normally on basic console that still costs 500 dollars and is among those unlucky half or even more than half of consoles to have the stupid frigging bug. Curse either CDPR or Sony for it, who among them really to blame???
SkyHighTrees
Member
but the thing is having it work correctly is pretty rare. I have 2 PS5s and both show the glitch
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
SkyHighTrees
Here's a quick and dirty from the starting of the game, don't have a later save on PS5 to check later areas, sorry.
Doesn't seem like that issue is happening on my game.
SkyHighTrees
Member
Here's a quick and dirty from the starting of the game, don't have a later save on PS5 to check later areas, sorry.
Doesn't seem like that issue is happening on my game.
Hey man, I thank you for the effort here!!!
Really appreciate this, but after dissecting your video to find it, I found it happening at 0:18, 0:30 and 0:40.
That pop-out is *not* intended, it doesn't happen on the XSX, PC and the odd PS5 that doesn't have the bug. Also PS5 Pro fixes 99% of this.
The intended LOD transition is not immediate, it happens with a smooth draw-in animation.
EDIT: you can look for Bojji's video in this thread, it shows PS5 gameplay without the bug. Also I could fix it after countless database resets, then it started happening again. It's something to do with the cache I think, but the weirdest part is how some PS5's don't have it, so that points towards differences between PS5s?
I don't care about this anymore after I saw how Pro fixes it, I will just buy the Pro to play this man
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vitopursuer
Neo Member
Here's a quick and dirty from the starting of the game, don't have a later save on PS5 to check later areas, sorry.
Doesn't seem like that issue is happening on my game.
I can see the pop in as well in the moment of the game, it is going to get some much worse in some areas, especially in Toussant and Skellige
vitopursuer
Neo Member
how many times did you try rebuilding data base? it did nothing for me, it never fixed the issue, not even one time. Buy ps5 pro that probabaly cost like 900 after all taxes for witcher 3? I wanted to do it myself, for me it cost even more, almost 1100 dollars, but I started to think it is a little bit insane, even leaned towards buying better graphics card to play on PC, but at the same time to buy Graphics card for one game only is not best idea either.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Yeah there's some minor pop-in but that's also there on the Xbox version.
Though it's nothing like the example
Bojji
shared earlier in this topic where it's literally drawing grass 10 ft in front of gerry.
Bert Big Balls
Gold Member
I've been playing the PS5 version recently and have noticed a ton of stuff like this. I was walking over a bridge a couple of days ago and the tree line in the distance was moving around and popping in and out like crazy. People glitch through walls, for example I walked past a building and there's some dude stuck half in / half out of the wall. Geralt's hair is crazy, blows all over the place. There was a thunderstorm in the game when it was night time, and even the next day in sunlight, there is still lighting flashing all over the sky. An NPC just flat out disappeared into thin air behind Geralt. An object just flat out disappeared from a table. It's mad.
vitopursuer
Neo Member
oh, that is ps4 pro verison working on ps5, and it is broken because of new gen patch broke draw distance for ps4 pro. Bascially when you install witcher 3 from ps4 on your ps5, and keep it resolution 4k, then it launches checkerboarded 4k ps4 pro version. If you set your resolution to 1080p, you get normal base ps4 draw distance. CDPR really messed up things, and just abandoned the game for playstation community in general. With a new patch, even on my old ps4 the game is having a lot of frame drops, so much more than before the next gen patch.Yeah there's some minor pop-in but that's also there on the Xbox version.
Though it's nothing like the example
SkyHighTrees
Member
I pl
To the database rebuild: A LOT, and it did work once or twice. Look at the OP, it shows the one time it worked well, then in the same session, like 1 hour after it started to glitch again.
The Pro is the only solution, I would trade the original and try to get the pro if you dont want to go PC
I played the game at 1080p on the Pro, the 4k cb was crap.
To the database rebuild: A LOT, and it did work once or twice. Look at the OP, it shows the one time it worked well, then in the same session, like 1 hour after it started to glitch again.
The Pro is the only solution, I would trade the original and try to get the pro if you dont want to go PC
Skifi28
Member
I've barely finished it 5 times, who plays this crap right?
usamarslan
Neo Member
I've made a video about a similar problem almost 2 years ago, is this the same thing still not fixed?
vitopursuer
Neo Member
yes, exactly like this problem, I have seen some streams, people had this issue, and all of them just rushed through the game and did not pay attention. I did not pay much attention to it myself really because I was doing some question but then time came to explore a little bit going all over the map, and then it appeared to me more and more until I could not stand it and went to google possible fix, and found no working solution. So I basically found this forus where there was this post and a lot also of discussion in the comment sections on youtube videos, a little bit of discussion on redit as well, but nobody found solution to the problem. More over I filed like 5 tickets to CDPR, in the last one they said they finished work on the game and will not be returning to it.
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