the-witcher-3
I have a question about the relatively new DLC for Witcher 3 New Game+:
I read, that there is no level cap, so you can play the complete Game with the story and after that you can farm till Level x, or how is it to understand?
I have played about 200 hours now and actually don't want to continue in order to find out the answer for the question above by myself.
I can see why there are several posts suspecting it might be your video card overheating... the behavior you describe kind of suggests it... but it might be power settings.
Check the 'Manage 3D Settings' category in the NVIDIA Control Panel and make sure your Power Management Mode is set to Optimal Power. This is the default setting, so its kind of a long shot, but when it comes to troubleshooting, you need to be thorough.
With that 'thorough' concept in mind, test the stability during game play. If you can, find a large group of wolves or nekkers or something... try to cause graphic intensive activity. If it really is overheating, the GPU fan should cause a noticeable sound difference, not to mention the game would crash soon after. This serves the purpose of eliminating the cause more than it attempts to resolve the issue, but if you have overheating hardware, it needs to be addressed immediately.
Here's a final suggestion should your issue persist. Find the game installation folder... which, I think, by default is
C:\Program Files(x86)\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt
and navigate to the bin\config\base folder. Now locate the rendering.ini file and create a copy somewhere... anywhere.
Once you have the file backed up, Right-Click and Edit it. Either use the search function or skim the variables (under the [Rendering] block) until you spot TextureMemoryBudget=500 and increase this to 1024. Save the file, and test out the game again.
Hope this helps. If not, I think the error information needs to be analyzed a little more closely... in an attempt to narrow down and pinpoint a more precise cause.
Yes, Achievements / Trophies can be obtained in New Game+, including Munchkin (tested this evening in NG+).
However, progress on some achievements are reset - these achievements being any of the quest or item related achievements (this of course being due to these items / events resetting with NG+) such as Card Collector or Brawl Master.
Best Answer
There is no level cap in The Witcher 3, but killing monsters is worth very little XP - primary experience income is on-level quests.
For this reason, you can level as high as you want through NG+, but you will have a hard time "farming XP" afterwards.