HBAO Plus (Next-gen DX11 ONLY)

This was built and tested on the Steam release. The DirectX 12 version of Witcher 3 is NOT supported. Please post any issues in the comments.

Installation

1. Extract the .zip contents to your game root folder. dbghelp.dll should be in the same location as witcher3.exe, which are both inside the /bin/x64/ folder.

2. Launch the game and make sure Ambient Occlusion is enabled in your graphics settings.3. Play.

Uninstallation

1. Delete dbghelp.dll inside the /bin/x64/ folder.

F. A. Q.

Q. I still can't find the game folder to install this DLL. Where is it?

A. Probably under "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Witcher 3\bin\x64".

Q. How does this patch work?

A. HBAO+ is still implemented in the game code. I patched a jump to forcefully enable it. There's no user-facing option to enable HBAO+ and it's likely an oversight on CDPR's part, rather than something out of malice.

Q. Do you plan to implement anything else in the future?

A. If time permits I'll try to add XeGTAO (Intel's Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion) support. Supposedly this is the state-of-the-art non-RT AO algorithm. I don't have a timeframe.