The Witcher 3 Remastered Crushes GPUs With Path Tracing, but Free Mod Claws Back Up to 30% Performance

The Witcher 3 Remastered is out on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 with demanding path tracing on PC. A free Nexus Mods mod by Hourlines cuts light bounces from two to one and lightens RTXGI, recovering up to 30% performance with minimal visual impact.

• The mod delivers up to 30% more performance, mostly indoors where path tracing is slowest
• Light bounces are cut from two to one, making dark indoor corners about 10% darker
• Ray-traced shadows are untouched: tweaks yielded only a 1% gain
• Separate DLSS 5 settings for the remaster were shared by Nexus Mods user Nesumi