CDPR Releases The Witcher 3 Remaster Patch 5.01 With Graphics and Optimization Fixes

Developers have focused on glow effects and refined them.

CD Projekt RED continues to gradually refine the remaster of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The developers recently returned with a major patch 5.01, which includes a series of technical improvements and various bug fixes.

The team fixed issues with claiming stream viewing rewards (Twitch Drops and Bilibili Drops), refined glow effects, adjusted proper collision calculations with vegetation, and corrected the user interface. For example, they fixed a bug where the “You have gained a skill point!” message could freeze and remain on the screen.

Some changes and improvements:

• Fixed a bug where vegetation did not react correctly to collisions.
• Fixed short-term flickering of control prompts on the meditation screen.
• Fixed a bug where the potion tutorial did not appear after switching to the “Potions and Food” tab.
• Introduced various changes to improve performance in console versions.
• Fixed a bug on PlayStation 5 where settings were reset every time the game was launched.
• Fixed incorrect framerate limits in various graphics modes on the base PlayStation 5 model.
• Made a series of graphical improvements, including refined glow effects, tonemapping, character lighting, ray tracing, and path tracing.
• Fixed a bug where items from the “My Rewards” program, as well as Roach gear from Twitch Drops and/or Bilibili Drops, might not appear in the chest in Velen.

Changes for the PC version:

• Fixed a bug where the game could select the wrong graphics card in some cases.
• Fixed a bug where the GTAO quality setting was reset after restarting the game.
• Fixed a bug where DLSS or XeSS could activate on unsupported graphics cards when toggling graphic settings.
• Fixed a bug where skill prompts might not update until hovered over again.
• Fixed a bug where an incorrect setting might be displayed after changing the anti-aliasing mode for dynamic resolution.

Okami13_ conducted a graphics comparison (which can be viewed here):

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CDPR released an update for The Witcher 3 Remastered that massively improves the visuals.

They fixed the brightness and color tonemapping and the shadows look way punchier now.

It honestly looks like a proper remaster now.

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October 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM · Open in X

The full patch notes for update 5.01 for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt remaster are available at the following link. The developers continue to prepare new patches.