4k witcher 3

[bphill1062]

Hi everyone. I have a pc, gtx970, i7 etc etc. My question is, if I bought a 4k tv would I be playing witcher 3 on 4k?

 

[superninja12]

No. unless you want to play on low

 

[13thmonkey]

yes you would be, just kind of slowly.

 

[cryoburner]

At 4K, your graphics card would have to render four times the pixels of 1080p, which would greatly reduce performance. Unless you were to upgrade to a very high end graphics card like a 1080 Ti, performance with high graphics settings at 4K in a demanding game like that would be more or less unplayable. You might be able to turn graphics settings way down to manage 4K on that graphics card, but that would make the game look significantly worse, entirely defeating the purpose of rendering it at a higher resolution.

Of course, you could still run the game at 1080p on a 4K screen, but I suspect that is not what you're looking for.

 

[spdragoo]

https://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page2.html
https://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page3.html
https://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page4.html

The Witcher III is going to cruelly laugh at you if you try to play at 4K with a GTX 970. Even on Medium Quality, they couldn't make it to 30FPS, let alone on High or Ultra. And yes, that's all because of the GPU; even AMD's old Phenom II CPUs were able to turn in decent performance (https://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html).

Basically, with your GPU you can probably play either Ultra @ 1080p or High @ 1440p, & maybe Low @ 4K (if such a setting exists). If you want better performance, you'll need a better GPU.