Enjoying 2.12 and all graphic updates???? Cuz I am!

[pathetic]

I would say I have a mid level pc, minus all the specs, most relevant is I have an RTX Gigabyte 2070 Super. Since launch and prior to update 2.0 I've kinda had struggles with visuals. Like everyone else I really wanted to see what the hype is of this game taking new spot of "can it play Crysis". NEEDED to use DLSS ultra performance at like 60-70%, 1440p, and basically all graphic options set to mid, low, and off just to play the game.

ENTER 2.12 AND ALL Nvidia updates in past year or so (advancing everything, ESPECIALLY DLSS) and I decide to try out higher stuff. Level some up, no fps drop, level up more, same, so I say screw it, let's MAX this out (to 2070 Super capabilities anyway)..... and, ummm, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ THIS GAME LOOKS INCREDIBLE!!!!!! I sit pretty af with 70-110 fps (quite smooth) whether in action, city, explosions, cut scenes, etc!!!!!

If you didn't know about all the updates involved that now allow this and were like me before and playing with a medium beautiful game, then I hope my topic helps you too.

Exact settings:

Graphics Tab
'Quick Preset'
- Custom
- DLSS Super Resolution
- Balanced (This is highest WITH some fps drop, try Performance first)
- DLSS Sharpness 1
*Next 3 options OFF (including ray tracing - tried with on and variations, regular reflections we edit below do plenty fine, so no need the extra power for RTX)
*Crowd density your choice (I keep mine low, but medium and lots were not too demanding on gpu)
'Basic'
-Chromatic Aberration and Depth of Field both ON, everything else OFF
'Advanced'
- 1st two options to ON
- EVERYTHING below to MAX (all the way to the right)

Hit Apply,

Video tab
'VSync'
- Other games this really matters, in this one I tried 144 (my monitor refresh rate is 145hz) and off and it doesn't seem to make any difference. Most ppl and games are better with this OFF.
'Max FPS' ON - Value 240 (or highest)
'Nvidia Reflex Low Latency'
- ON With Boost Enabled.

Hit Apply.


Enjoy :-)

**Rarely the game will freak out a little and drop fps. I just hit ESC then go back into the game immediately and that has fixed the drop everytime so far.

**********ONLY ONE DISCLAIMER - The GASH ANTIPERSONNEL GRENADE (The one that shoots lasers) .... since 2.1 update this one drops FPS HEAVILY! Still does. Even if I throw 1 or all 3 AND run away I still suffer through 10-20fps until the nades are done. So, if you love that nade like I do, you'll just have to give up on it. The major fps drops happened even when I had my settings to much lower too, game issue.

Also Also, I am not sure if from desktop, 'NVIDIA Control Panel' - Manage 3d Settings - actually plays a BIG role or not here. If it does I can upload in a reply in here what those are too if that does affect this performance upgrade for 2077.

[Death Approaches]

reflex and dlss might be overkill, same as max frames and dlss... you're already generating faked interframes, the input latency should be quite minimized with this... turn dlss off and notice the difference, you'll happily accept the few frames Flex eats up for instant control response.

re: the GASH, you sure you don't have RT on? Either way, that's turning on, what ~16 new local emitters, that need reflection and shadow and bounce calcs, not to mention the "burn" anims when cutting into gonks, and they're animated? a 10-20fps hit @ 1440 seems ludicrously impressive to me!

glad you're liking it, nonetheless. there's so many complaints threads its always seems a bit like bragging, I dunno what's up with you guys but mine is great! So go on and brag, choom!

[EpileptiK Crit Hit]

+1

[pathetic]

I'm not super adept with settings, technology, and the like. So I tried turning DLSS off just now and it dropped to 30fps right away. Standing still I see the image quality does seem to improve a bit, but with the DLSS settings I have it at to have smooth gameplay and higher fps, I don't mind the very slight 'grainyness' of using DLSS.

The gash nade though... I put the game down after getting it at launch cuz of the millions of bugs. I then tried game again when 2.0 was released and majority of bugs were fixed. Gash is my fav nade and it had no issues. But I think it was 2.1 update that made it drop me down TO 20-30 fps, whether I am looking at them, near them, or dash jumping away as far and fast as I can. Same now with 2.12, so idk :-(

Ultimately, I agree with the lots of complaints. I get those though, like a lot of games, when updates come out they somehow break things that were fine before (like when 2.1 came out and finisher animations didn't work anymore). BUT..... FOR ME, I'd say 95% of all bugs are gone (remaining ones are hilarious imo), and now I can fully enjoy the game as it was meant. Last piece was visuals for me and it seems to be fantastic now. I'm also finding (since replaying at 2.0) that this game's replayability is insane! I'm on 5th play through now, knowing outcomes and if I want to change them, getting iconic items, trying out new perks and attributes (especially not doing it random anymore, I know which trees to work on and their order), building characters (I swear this and 2 play throughs ago I made the cutest female V possible, esp current one), how and when to level up, getting money and crafting components, secret places, etc. This game is truly brilliant! Couldn't imagine the revenue they would've had if it was this quality at launch.

[Phynrae]

Nope. Game's been completely bricked since the update.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by pathetic:

I'm not super adept with settings, technology, and the like. So I tried turning DLSS off just now and it dropped to 30fps right away.

Yes, don't turn off DLSS. With your setup (and mine, specs in profile) DLSS is a great invention for improving framerate with little loss in quality.

If you weren't aware, with DLSS the image is rendered internally at lower resolution, then 'blown up' to your set resolution using AI tech and other things to fill in the pixels that aren't rendered, in a nutshell.

I use 'Nvidia Reflex On' only. With Boost I notice quite much drop in framerate, but not improved graphics or anything, so I'm happy with that.

I'm not sure if you use Nvidia GeForce Experience to install drivers and such, but it also has a nice feature where it automatically adjusts graphics settings for you in many games, including Cyberpunk. It can be a good indication to use that first, then adjust other settings manually in the game after, but if you have found settings you're happy with, that is great

I also started playing the game properly after one of the latest patches (2.1), after first having tried it a few times since it was released (spending most of the time adjusting settings back then), and I'm very happy with the game and performance as well, compared to what it was like before. I also had a bit lower specs back then, though. In fact it was an RTX 2070 card (but not Super). It's become one of my all time favourite games of this type.

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by pathetic:

I would say I have a mid level pc, minus all the specs, most relevant is I have an RTX Gigabyte 2070 Super.

Actually, your CPU is just as important and everything you said is almost ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless without at least CPU and RAM information . There's a massive difference between an i5-7000 and an i9-13000. There could be a significant performance difference between 16GB and 32GB of RAM as well. But we won't know because you didn't provide the information to compare with.

We can't use any of that to compare to anything because you only gave us one component that accounts for, at most, 50% of your PC's gaming performance.

[EricHVela]

I still tweak settings now and then. Last night, I introduced red Twilight sparkles in some situations. I'll be undoing those changes this evening first thing (if I can figure out what I did that caused them—willing to do a total computer wipe to get rid of it if necessary). Something with Path Tracing mixing poorly with some other feature is what my superficial look-up suggested before I headed off to bed. Will do more research after work.

[tbloyzz]

The only recognizable change is that the game crashes more often since the update. Well done!

[EricHVela]

Originally posted by tbloyzz:

The only recognizable change is that the game crashes more often since the update. Well done!

They patched that in for specific users. I think it was a highly requested feature.

I lucked out of that lottery. It doesn't crash for me even after hours of play.

[tbloyzz]

Originally posted by EricHVela:

Originally posted by tbloyzz:

The only recognizable change is that the game crashes more often since the update. Well done!

They patched that in for specific users. I think it was a highly requested feature.

I lucked out of that lottery. It doesn't crash for me even after hours of play.

Well good for you. Mine crashes now in less than an hour. Before it crashed maybe once a day. That is worse than any other game I have ever played and I have played Fallout New Vegas.
I have paid for a finshed product. We are now back to beta testing.

[pathetic]

Originally posted by tbloyzz:

Originally posted by EricHVela:

They patched that in for specific users. I think it was a highly requested feature.

I lucked out of that lottery. It doesn't crash for me even after hours of play.

Well good for you. Mine crashes now in less than an hour. Before it crashed maybe once a day. That is worse than any other game I have ever played and I have played Fallout New Vegas.
I have paid for a finshed product. We are now back to beta testing.

**If you don't have RTX card ignore this reply**

If you read Bjorn's reply (a few above yours, he described a couple things and one may have been what accidentally happened with me.

I've had this game installed since 2.0 came out (I wanna say October last year?). For past week or so I have had an Nvidia hotkey issue and was emailing tech support there. One suggestion was clean uninstall of GeForce Experience and link to fresh install of it (ofc with latest drivers, etc).

I believe what may have happened since Bjorn got me thinking about it, when I fresh installed it the program reverted back to "Let Geforce Experience Auto set graphic settings for games" being on and when I started my 5/6th play through just a few days ago was AFTER that. So maybe it did smooth everything out and I just decided to try and level up the other things and that's why it runs like 20x better than before? Very likely.

[pathetic]

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

Originally posted by pathetic:

I would say I have a mid level pc, minus all the specs, most relevant is I have an RTX Gigabyte 2070 Super.

Actually, your CPU is just as important and everything you said is almost ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless without at least CPU and RAM information . There's a massive difference between an i5-7000 and an i9-13000. There could be a significant performance difference between 16GB and 32GB of RAM as well. But we won't know because you didn't provide the information to compare with.

We can't use any of that to compare to anything because you only gave us one component that accounts for, at most, 50% of your PC's gaming performance.

32GB Ram
i7-10700K 3.8GHz
Gigabyte 2070 Super
Game is installed on 1TB NVME SSD and has 600GB free space
I'm a Scorpio

You are right, the other components should have an impact on my topic as well. I rarely use steam itself, so I haven't put my specs in my bio, or thought to lol.

thanks

[tbloyzz]

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

Originally posted by pathetic:

I would say I have a mid level pc, minus all the specs, most relevant is I have an RTX Gigabyte 2070 Super.

Actually, your CPU is just as important and everything you said is almost ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless without at least CPU and RAM information . There's a massive difference between an i5-7000 and an i9-13000. There could be a significant performance difference between 16GB and 32GB of RAM as well. But we won't know because you didn't provide the information to compare with.

We can't use any of that to compare to anything because you only gave us one component that accounts for, at most, 50% of your PC's gaming performance.

It is not about performance. It is about a broken update. If it was about performance, CPU/GPU would heat up. Mine are both very cool and the game still crashes. Might be a memory management issue, but it is absolutely not a performance issue. Besides, why would the crashes then increase after the .12 update? I doubt that the patch has increase the hardware requirements.
In essence, it is entirely irrelevant what the system is like. If the game ran smoothly before the update and afterwards no longer, this cannot be a hardware problem.

[Death Approaches]

I have a backup snapshot of 2.1 and if the controls flake out even once more I'ma be restoring a backup until 2.13 arrives, which of course will fix 10 things, and breaks 15 more...

[PanPan]

Balanced upscale (DLSS/FSR/XeSS) isn't the highest, it's quality.
Best quality (LOD) is native : DLAA not DLSS.
Crowd density is CPU bound, GPU cares about resolution and quality.
I recommand no background/movement blur, no film or chromatic abberation...
If you have Gsync/Freesync, you should disable Vsync.

Crash can be a driver issue. Try to rollback graphic driver.