The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5.6 Tech Demo Is A Stunning Ray-Traced Showcase

If you've ever played a video game based on Unreal Engine 5 and grumbled about the poor performance of it, we're right there with you. Unreal Engine 5 games are notoriously heavy, and to some degree this is down to what the engine is doing. But it turns out that, at least partially, this is also down to the engine's crap optimization. We say that because CD Projekt Red's The Witcher 4 was the centerpiece of Epic's "State of Unreal 2025" presentation today, and it's running with all of Unreal's latest and greatest technology at a fairly consistent 60 FPS on a base PlayStation 5.

In case you hadn't figured it out, The Witcher 4 centers around until-now-series-protagonist Geralt's adoptive daughter, Ciri. Early in ...