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[Draugoth]

"The long-awaited sequel, The Witcher IV, recently premiered with a stunning reveal trailer, which we can now confirm was pre-rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on a GeForce RTX 5090,"

Nvidia confirms in a news post.

"NVIDIA has been working with CD PROJEKT RED since the beginning of the game’s development, and once it’s ready to ship, The Witcher IV will launch with the latest RTX-powered technologies."

Source

 

[Zathalus]

It would be nice if the game on maximum settings looked like that, but anyone else remember the Witcher 3 reveal?

 

[R3TRO]

But will the 6090 be out by the time it releases…

 

[LazyParrot]

Holy shit, this changes everything!

 

[TheKratos]

No wonder Ciri looked fat.

 

[Rubim]

It would be nice if the game on maximum settings looked like that, but anyone else remember the Witcher 3 reveal?

That was mostly console's fault at time.

But yeah, since this has to run on Series X, i dont know how well they can do all that.

 

[Big Baller]

 

[lh032]

RTX 5090 is woke!

 

[Flabagast]

The love story between CDPR and Nvidia is a beautiful thing to see !

 

[Buggy Loop]

Was there any talk when Witcher 4 is supposed to release?

By the way

100% certain this game uses the new RTX Mega geometry for path tracing BVH. Maybe even Neural cache radiance. Nvidia always sends the best tech ahead of time to CDPR.

 

[The Cockatrice]

That...means...nothing lmao. You can pre-render amazing looking cutscenes on any gpu. These marketing stuff are really going above and beyond idiocracy.

 

[Xtib81]

So it was running on a card only 1% of players will have? Don't fuck up your communication once again CDP.

 

[Zuzu]

Now show it in real time

 

[Evolved1]

That was mostly console's fault at time.

But yeah, since this has to run on Series X, i dont know how well they can do all that.

lol your avatar is pretty funny. there are layers to it. sorry, off-topic

 

[Von Hugh]

I can render that with a GTX 1050. Running it in real time is another topic.

 

[BennyBlanco]

But will the 6090 be out by the time it releases…

100% it will. Nvidia and CDPR are attached at the hip so they will use it for marketing like they did Cyberpunk and it will have a bunch of Nvidia exclusive features I’m sure.

 

[Schmendrick]

To the surprise of no one, really. The only thing that would interest me would be just how much of the available AI trickery CDPR had to use on the 5090 there.

So it was running on a card only 1% of players will have? Don't fuck up your communication once again CDP.

that game is ~3-4 years out and that was just a target render. Don`t take promo material so serious.

 

[Ironbunny]

KEK...it will still run bad with it with everything max.

 

[KungFucius]

But will the 6090 be out by the time it releases…

Possibly 7090. I expect the game to be the graphics demo game that CP is so it will get updates that make use of the 8090.

 

[DanielG165]

I’m shocked, truly.

 

[Evolved1]

am i missing something here? it's pre-rendered…

 

[Buggy Loop]

But will the 6090 be out by the time it releases…

And that's fine

You still have to establish the technological foundation of what that game will be like by release time. You don't "typically" design a game to be released in 3~4 years with the current baseline, especially since we'll be on new consoles too.

 

[Neilg]

am i missing something here? it's pre-rendered…

Yeah lots of people don't seem to understand what that means.

It's a great workflow boost, being able to do pre-rendered cutscenes in the engine. CG cutscenes cost a lot and this brings that down, allows them to make more - but it is 100% a CG cutscene that could have taken minutes per frame to render and is no different than any other. Does not reflect what the game will look like in any way.

 

[IDWhite]

As expected. They continue to offer day-one support for everything Nvidia releases, even if only a small group of people can afford a $2K GPU.
It is evident how the version of TW4 for consoles is going to be released on the market.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Too bad the Polish president is such a dipshit, he had a good idea there.

 

[analog_future]

That...means...nothing lmao. You can pre-render amazing looking cutscenes on any gpu. These marketing stuff are really going above and beyond idiocracy.

This.

Complete non-news.

 

[Carmen Winstead]

Wow, a pre-rendered trailer with no actual real time gameplay footage was powered by the new overpriced NVIDIA GPU? This industry is a joke.

Why can't every fucking dev be like Rockstar and only release real-time trailers for their games?
I know this game is still very far away but this trailer is a whole lot of nothing like every CGI trailer ever released.

 

[TheRedRiders]

Was there any talk when Witcher 4 is supposed to release?

By the way

100% certain this game uses the new RTX Mega geometry for path tracing BVH. Maybe even Neural cache radiance. Nvidia always sends the best tech ahead of time to CDPR.

Buggy "Neural Cache Radiance" Loop

As for the trailer, it looks good but pretty sure it wasn't being rendered in real-time so who cares honestly, but if the visuals come close to that then I'll be shocked.

 

[rofif]

So?
You can pre-render it on 1060 too.
Probably was 1fps per hour anyway

 

[Fbh]

Lol pre rendered.

 

[SlimySnake]

Boasting about pre-rendering a trailer on a GPU is like boasting about having a hard-on after taking Viagra.

 

[llien]

RTX 5090 is woke!

 

[llien]

So?
You can pre-render it on 1060 too.
Probably was 1fps per hour anyway

Yeah, but on 1060 it would not radiate neurals!
And no transforming using transformers.

I think.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Was there any talk when Witcher 4 is supposed to release?

Not at all. 2-4 years away from release. Add another 2 years onto that for them to fix all the bugs and glitches.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Not at all. 2-4 years away from release. Add another 2 years onto that for them to fix all the bugs and glitches.

So that's maybe a PS6 launch game?

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Lol pre rendered.

True. I really don't like those words when it comes to videogames haha.

 

[amigastar]

Dammit, i really hope the final game will look like this trailer but probably not.

 

[SF Kosmo]

It would be nice if the game on maximum settings looked like that, but anyone else remember the Witcher 3 reveal?

It's pre-rendered in UE5, so I don't think there's even a realistic promise that this is representative. Like the fact that they used a 5090 is sort of irrelevant because it isn't realtime to begin with.

 

[PeteBull]

Too bad the Polish president is such a dipshit, he had a good idea there.

He is quite good vs other ones we had, actually, smart, and not leftist liberal cuck is most important imho.

 

[Thanati]

But will the 6090 be out by the time it releases…

Or a 6969…..ohhhh yeaahhhhhhh.

 

[Crayon]

That's surprising because when they said unannounced rtx GPU I thought they meant the 8060.

 

[Exentryk]

Will build a new pc for this game like I did for TW3. Will that be a 6090 or 7090, it will have to be seen.

 

[Mokus]

Pre-rendered could mean that each frame was made in one second (1 fps), hour (1 fph) or a day (1 fpd). It could have been done with an AMD GPU too if they wanted.

 

[Balducci30]

They should’ve just lied and said it was realtime like every other game that releases a crazy good looking teaser early in development

 

[bitbydeath]

She’s no Fortnite Ciri.

 

[Haint]

But will the 6090 be out by the time it releases…

6090 will most likely release Fall/Holiday 2026, we won't even have a second trailer by then. Will we have the 7090 is a better question, and it may well land almost concurrent with the game, Fall/Holiday 2028.

 

[hyperbertha]

The fuck is the point of statements like these? My ati radeon xpress 200 chipset from 2006 can render that given enough time. Clowns.