For me, with Mesa/aco, stuttering is practically gone (with llvm it still happens when new shaders are compiled).

Last edited by Shmerl on 30 January 2020 at 1:46 am UTC

This is very odd. I'm in Kaer Morhen and exploring, as you do. Ran up a tree covered hill, took a screenshot of a nice view. Walked a little further - here is a plateau. Completely flat, and suddenly Geralt falls over dead. It happens a little further ahead of the last screenshot.

Came across an Igni Place of Power that I'm not sure I've found before. There was no map marker by it.

May be you found one of the map holes. Bugs like that could happen. If you don't want to break the fourth wall, consider it a world anomaly :)

As far as exploration goes, it's cool to find such places :D

Unmarked place of power though is interesting. Does it give you a character point?

Last edited by Shmerl on 30 January 2020 at 5:55 am UTC

Yeah, kinda cool to come upon something like that, though it sure was hard to get out of that place alive. It's very high up, with steep sides everywhere, and we all know that Geralt is not fond of heights... Tried to move around that place as well to get past it, but died in other places too (despite it being flat). So either there were several place like that, or it's a big-ish area.

Yes, the unmarked place of power did give me an ability point. And I see the wiki mentions one place of power in the Kaer Morhen valley, so it's probably that one. Usually they have a question mark, but this one did not. I was trying to get down from another expedition of sorts, and basically rolled down a side and right into the place of power. A very nice surprise! :D

Quoting: ShmerlFor me, with Mesa/aco, stuttering is practically gone (with llvm it still happens when new shaders are compiled).

Problem solved... Might be related to something between Gnome and Nvidia on Pop!_OS. For testing purpose, I installed SteamOS-Compositor and after 2-1/2 hour of gameplay, stuttering, tearing, fps drops & Fan noise totally gone. Game runs at Ultra. I'm no specialist, but is this what we call memory leak?

Last edited by Mohandevir on 30 January 2020 at 1:52 pm UTC

Stuttering is usually caused by CPU bottlenecks, heavy I/O and such. So some heavy shader compilation or lack of caching could be the reasons. May be something else was eating CPU in your previous tests.

I don't know what could be the cause... It's a clean Pop!_OS install... It runs Steam and nothing else and it was a day/night change. One minute I had Gnome loaded with the tearing, stuttering, etc... The next, I had a super smooth experience on SteamOS-Compositor.

Last edited by Mohandevir on 30 January 2020 at 5:30 pm UTC

For those interested in translating the runes, here are quite a few. Think it was from the Following the Thread quest.

It's the same ones as before it seems. Compare to (mirrored):



More details here: https://witcher.gamepedia.com/Modern_alphabet

Same one is reused in a bunch of places out of context. More in context you can find it on the walls of Triss' house yard in Novigrad.

Last edited by Shmerl on 30 January 2020 at 10:52 pm UTC

Suppose people haven't seen Geralt like this before?