Low FPS after 2.0 Update

[AllmightyBOAT]

Before the Update. the game ran completely fine on the highest settings (without Raytracing)
But now my frames drop down to 30 FPS. I've already made sure Raytracing is turned off but it doesn't seem to change anything.
My specs are:
MSI RTX 3060
AMD Ryzen 5 3500x
32 GB RAM

[Proxy]

Yes, they said you would have lower FPS. They increased the CPU load. There are some good youtube vids about optimizing the settings for 2.0 if you have an older chip, I would suggest you take a look at them.

[doomsday649]

I am sorry you are having issues - my advice would be make sure fps is limited to 60fps and slowly go through the graphics settings turning off/lowering them

[AllmightyBOAT]

I checked my CPU while running the game and it was at ~50% usage. So, it's not like it is causing a bottleneck or something like that...

[Proxy]

Originally posted by AllmightyBOAT:

I checked my CPU while running the game and it was at ~50% usage. So, it's not like it is causing a bottleneck or something like that...

Thats not how it works. Its like putting 4 tons of rocks on a honda civic and then saying the engine isn't holding you back because the speedo isn't maxed out. The game engine tries to load up the cores as much as it can, but it ALSO has to merge everything back into a single thread to get the completed frame.

If you look up Intels PresentMon beta and run that while you're playing, you're likely going to see your frame time is significantly longer than the GPU busy time: i.e. something else in the system is holding you back, be it storage, CPU, etc.

[AllmightyBOAT]

I see...
Dammit, why is CD Project Red always ruining the performance of their games. At first it was The Witcher 3 and now Cyberpunk.

[Proxy]

Originally posted by AllmightyBOAT:

I see...
Dammit, why is CD Project Red always ruining the performance of their games. At first it was The Witcher 3 and now Cyberpunk.

I understand your pain, but you can still optimize your game settings.

The Ryzen 5 3500x is pretty long in the tooth and doesn't have SMT. I'm guessing you have a prebuilt as that chip was mostly for OEMs, but you could check and see if something newer can drop into your motherboard.

[angelsenvy228]

Originally posted by AllmightyBOAT:

I checked my CPU while running the game and it was at ~50% usage. So, it's not like it is causing a bottleneck or something like that...

you have a better system than me and i get 70 avg fps at native 1440p no RT, so unless you are doing native 4k something is up. try tweaking settings like someone said, especially turn off Screen space reflections as they dont do much and are 20ish fps loss. Also, what helped my frames after update was deleting usersettings.json in C:\Users\whatever\AppData\Local\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077. The game will recreate it on launch but it will reset your keybinds and graphics settings to default, it may not help but other than defaulting that stuff it won't hurt anything. You can also try turning SMT to ON instead of Auto if you don't see equal utilization across all your cores

I have ryzen 1700x 16GB RAM and RTX 2070 Super

[Proxy]

Originally posted by angelsenvy228:

Originally posted by AllmightyBOAT:

I checked my CPU while running the game and it was at ~50% usage. So, it's not like it is causing a bottleneck or something like that...

you have a better system than me and i get 70 avg fps at native 1440p no RT, so unless you are doing native 4k something is up. try tweaking settings like someone said, especially turn off Screen space reflections as they dont do much and are 20ish fps loss. Also, what helped my frames after update was deleting usersettings.json in C:\Users\whatever\AppData\Local\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077. The game will recreate it on launch but it will reset your keybinds and graphics settings to default, it may not help but other than defaulting that stuff it won't hurt anything. You can also try turning SMT to ON instead of Auto if you don't see equal utilization across all your cores

I have ryzen 1700x 16GB RAM and RTX 2070 Super

The 2070 is still faster than a 3060, and the 1700X has 8 cores and 16 threads, the 3500X only has 6 cores, 6 threads. This game now has an option specifically for AMD SMT which helps a lot.

This guy does excellent videos on optimizing, I recommend giving it a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K0nMGv4ttQ

[Kawo]

Hello,

Dunno if you already did that but try deleting the settings file : "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077\UserSettings.json"

It will reset all your settings but since 2.0, it seems mandatory to have a fresh file.

[Proxy]

Originally posted by Kawo:

Hello,

Dunno if you already did that but try deleting the settings file : "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077\UserSettings.json"

It will reset all your settings but since 2.0, it seems mandatory to have a fresh file.

this is also a good idea, I just did a fresh install of the game since I hadn't played in a long time and had deleted it. But it definitely can help.

[lilbabykangaroo]

I I know that the game got much more CPU intensive which was already mentioned. I have a RTX 4070 and a ryzen 7 3700X. I ran into the same issue when I booted the game for the first time. What worked for me is simply setting all the settings to default and then going back to my settings again. Not sure if that worked for anyone else but that's all i did and I was back to 120 fps with maxed settings and ray tracing.

[Sky]

thanks, deleting the config doubled and almost trippled the frames for me xD

[Sky]

hmm, strange. reseting the config gives me 90 on ray tracing ultra, but changing any setting - even FSR from auto to ultra performance or preset from ultra RT to Low - drops it back to 30-40