Stronger Wind Effect - Custom Wind Scale

Have you ever considered and felt that the environmental ambient and wind effects lacking a bit , compared to the old-gen? the wind fx strenght and its influence feels a bit off. not strong enough for me at least.

back then majorty of the audience were thinking exactly the opposite. and using mods like realistic wind effects (pretty lowered the wind strenght trough the weather .csv edits for each each weather types and regions.)

recently ive been experimenting on the WindScale parameter in the game's base\rendering.ini file. it was there since the beginng of the next-gen upgrade of the witcher 3.

with this simple modification, you can set a custom wind scale whenever you want and do it globally. without editing the existing weather csv files.

there are simple ways to make it easily:

- editing the rendering.ini file which located in The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt GOTY\bin\config\base\ find the "WindScale" line , edit and save.

-  instead of editing the rendering ini , create a simple custom .ini file (create a new text document file, put

WindScale=1. 0f

save as custom.ini , file type: all file types) and put it into \The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt GOTY\bin\config\platform\pc\

- download my file and replace with yours.  \The Witcher 3\bin\config\base\

(make a backup of your rendering.ini file first)

here is a quick demonstration of what ive been testing. WindScale=1. 0f

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the default WindScale value is 0. 7f

increasing this to 1 is a bit fishy. may cause some issues during the storms, on the water waves. the safe limit seem to be 0. 85f or 0. 9f

depends on the lighting of your choice. this parameter affects the game directly and globally. all regions.

you may quickly test the opposite by setting the value to 0. 0f , save and launch the game. you will immediately see the difference.

Some more tips to more audible effects and immerse yourself:

adjust your audio settings if you like to ;

master volume : 100

music: 10-20

dialogues: 40

effects: 90-100

(all the radial menu, witcher senses, footsteps, hoofsteps, blows and wind...etc effects gonna be much more audible, clear, crisper)

dynamic range: headphones or 3d headphones if you have decent headphone and even better to set your spatial audio to dolby atmos on windows 10-11.

(if you have the dolby atmos license, if not , set spatial audio to off for getting proper stereo exper