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sc94597 on 06 March 2017
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Hynad said:
sc94597 said:

No I am not. The performance of the game fluctuated with each patch, in some it was worst than others, depending on what platform you were playing on. For example, in the video you linked there were multiple drops to 20 fps on the PS4 version and 25 fps on the XBO, and the frame time lags were quite frequent (the stutter I mentioned.) In the description Digital Foundry says. 


"This analysis of version 1.01 is now out of date! Please go to our Patch 1.07 test - there've been a lot of changes"

Which you can find here. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oNdvGcJ-vc

I count frame-rate drops to the low 20's at :30 until 1:09 (Breath of the Wild doesn't often have framerate drops to 20 fps for that long), at 1:16, at 1:40, at 3:02, and at 3:30. In a video that is only 3 minutes and 30 seconds long, that is quite frequent. 

Witcher 3 did not settle on a consistent framerate and performance until patch 1.10 for both consoles, and then this was screwed up again in 1.12. I noticed this with the PC version as well.  

Yes, you are. I have played The Witcher 3 from day one on the PS4, and am currently playing Breath of the Wild on the Wii U, and none of the Witcher 3 version updates had performance drops as constant and severe as what's found in Breath of the Wild. Most villages in the later are constantly running at 20fps the entire time you're in them. That's a farcry from the few occasions this happened in The Witcher 3, and DF pinpointed most of those occurances for their videos. The only spot that took longer to fix in The Witcher 3, was the Bog. Mostly during certain weather conditions. And even then, it didn't run as constantly bad as villages in Breath of the Wild. 


I do wonder if you've played The Witcher 3 at all. Because from my experience, there was nothing as severe in it as what's in Breath of the Wild. 

The Switch version of BoTW does not drop as often in villages as the Wii U version (although it does drop during severe weather in villages.) Since the Switch version is the one being reviewed, that is the one I am talking about. The drops in the Switch version are limited to certain areas on the plateau and villages (during weather conditions) just like the Witcher 3 on PS4/XBO had drops in certain areas. Digital Foundry has only measured the performance on the plateau so far. 

 

Like I said, I played The Witcher 3 on my PC, and the differences between patches made a considerable difference. The microstutter in the PC version was more annoying than the framerate drops I have experienced in the switch version of BoTW, because it was constant. From what I have read, both the PS4 and XBO suffered from microstutter as well. You might have not noticed it, but I sure did, and so did plenty of other people.