The Witcher 3 Remastered Players Urged To Change One Setting To Improve Graphics

Published Sep 30, 2026, 11:06 AM EDT

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered launched yesterday, and fans who’ve been playing the original game for longer than a decade were certainly excited to hop in and experience it with all the new accessibility features and official mod-like enhancements this remaster had to offer. For instance, it’s wonderful that players now have the option to disable the inventory weight limit, and it’s neat to see a more immersive take on the game’s meditation mechanic.

It hasn’t all been smooth sailing for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered’s free release, however. Many fans have since addressed their concerns regarding how the remastered version of the game looks compared to the Complete edition, which The Witcher 3 Remastered effectively overwrites. Thankfully, intrepid players have already found a way to rectify at least one graphical blemish they’ve come across so far, and it’s a PSA to anyone who also finds the remaster’s baked-in visuals to be lackluster.

According to users like Alox on X, players can remedy how washed out The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered naturally looks by simply switching off Bloom in the game’s settings. This user provided a screenshot comparison of how the remaster looks with and without Bloom turned on, and it clearly makes all the difference:

With Bloom turned on, colors don’t look nearly as saturated or vibrant, and there’s a distinct lack of shadows in general. As such, the remaster looks weathered, faded, and far below the standard of CD Projekt Red’s 11-year-old Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Indeed, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt may not have ever boasted visuals on par with what games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Dragon’s Dogma 2 have achieved, but it’s still a visually impressive game to this day. Not so much in the remaster, though, at least by default.

Without Bloom turned on, it’s neither here nor there whether it looks that much better than the Complete edition, and fans themselves aren’t sure they see a massive upgrade in terms of graphical fidelity, either. For instance, user guitaripod writes that “Witcher 3 Remastered’s graphics settings are so broken that the game itself is in a worse state than it was before the remaster patch.”

Likewise, console players reportedly don’t have the option to turn off Bloom in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered’s settings, with many fans now hoping to make CD Projekt Red aware of the issue and resolve it for them. Overall, it appears as if The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered isn’t off to as hot a start as it would’ve liked, but there are many fans who are merely elated by another excuse to play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt again and may have no problem with how the remaster has affected the game’s visuals.

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The new definitive version of the award-winning dark fantasy role-playing game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered brings an array of improvements and modernizations to visuals, gameplay, character progression, and much more.