Free Witcher 3 Remastered mod reportedly boosts path tracing by up to 30% indoors

A free Nexus Mods tweak for The Witcher 3 Remastered is reportedly targeting the game’s heavy ray-tracing and path-tracing load with relatively small visual compromises. Wccftech, citing the modder Hourlines, reports test results on an RTX 5070 at 1440p with DLSS Quality showing about 10% better path-tracing performance outdoors, roughly 30% indoors, and around 5% to 8% in ray tracing. The biggest gain reportedly comes from reducing path-tracing light bounces, which especially helps interiors. The tradeoffs described include darker indoor corners under path tracing, slower global-illumination response to lighting changes in ray tracing, and the in-game RTGI preset no longer affecting results while the mod is installed.