YouTube's Digital Dreams has released a video showing The Witcher 3 Next-Gen in 8K with over 100 mods and reshade ray tracing. This heavily modified version of TW3 is designed to look as good as possible. So, let's check it out, shall we?
To capture this gameplay footage, the YouTuber used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with 32GB DDR5 and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Unfortunately, he didn't add a performance overlay, so we don't know what frame rates the RTX4090 can achieve at such a high resolution.
Although the YouTuber claims he has released his modlist, I can't find a current one on his page, so either he's using an old modlist or he hasn't released the latest one yet.
The good news is that you can use the following mods to get close to the visual effects in this video. And honestly, I don't really see why you would resort to Reshade Ray Tracing. The Witcher 3 Next-Gen features native RT effects, so for the best image quality, I recommend using those. Just skip any Reshade RT mods for this particular title.
So what mods do you need to rework the game's graphics? First of all, you can download a really cool first-person mod. In addition, the Characters Reworked Project improves the quality of over 100 characters. And let's not forget this mod that lets you kill most of the NPCs in the game. Earlier this month, we also shared mods that restored the boat races and added 15 new quests. A modder also restored the reputation system that CDPR removed from the game.
In December 2023, we shared this mod that restores content that was removed from all previous The Witcher games. Then we have the Witcher 3 Next-Gen Combat Redux mod. In January 2024, we shared a must-have mod to overhaul gameplay. And then, in February 2024, we shared a mod that attempted to remove the fake “hero” light from the game's cutscenes. There's also this mod that lets you explore part of the world from the first The Witcher game in TW3. Oh, and don't forget this mod that lets you ride a griffin.
We also have some mods for those who play with ray tracing. The RTX Mirrors mod adds proper reflections to the game's mirrors. Then we have this mod that improves the fire effects via Ray Tracing Global Illumination. And finally, this mod fixes the ray tracing bleaching issues.
And that's all. These mods allow you to improve the graphics of the game, so be sure to use at least some of them. Oh, and in a few months we have the HD Reworked Project. This mod will be released in November 2024. And I can't wait to get my hands on it.
Have fun and stay tuned for more!


John is the founder and editor-in-chief of DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fanatic and is a huge supporter of the modding and indie communities. Before founding DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. Although he is a diehard PC gamer, his gaming roots lie on consoles. John loved – and still loves – the 16-bit consoles and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. However, the PC platform won him over consoles. This was mainly due to 3DFX and its legendary dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on “The Evolution of PC Graphics Cards”.
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