Tips for more FPS?

[SgtPow3rs]

Howdy, running the game fine with my 6700 XT on high settings, 1080p upscaled to 1440p. Any advice to squeeze so more fps? I noticed some drops in the busy downtown area, nothing major.

[Zahk]

I cut shadows down, I rarely look at them and rarely notice their lower quality.

[Bjørn]

I've noticed that turning off Steam overlay for this game actually gives a smoother experience, so I can recommend that.

Another thing I've started doing is to use medium textures instead of high (from the main graphics menu before loading a game). You notice a little difference at first with slightly lower textures, but then get used to it. Still better than most other games. The upside is that I now play with everything at max settings, DLSS Quality, full ray tracing on Psycho - most bells and whistles. Looks beautiful, and steady fps (locked at 60 at 1440p).

I used to have some slowdowns and decreased fps after a playing for a while before, when going to menus, using the map and such, and fps down to 30-40, and had to restart the game to 'reset', but all that is gone now. I suspect my 8 GB of VRAM got filled up constantly with the high textures, causing slowdowns when moving around data in the memory or something, but now it's very smooth

Specs in profile, if curious.

[Avery]

Set screen space reflections quality is set to high or lower. As low as you like to go. I usually prefer high or just off. Anything in between has some less than desirable looks imo.

Set color precision to medium. Negligible viewing difference between that and high for a not insignificant performance gain.

Volumetric cloud quality to medium.

Crowd density to medium.

Turn off motion blur if you're getting anything above 60 fps stable, and all the other usual offenders like chromatic aberration and film grain, lens flare etc.

[Sassanid]

It's crazy. I spent around $2000 on my current gaming PC and with a mixture of low/medium/high settings, with RT on, using DLSS quality, I get around 55-70fps at 1440p.

If I turn on PT then it all drops down to around 15-25fps depending on the scene.

I remember people used to use Crysis as a meme back in the day because it was so graphics intensive, but I think I can confidently say CP2077 has taken over that title. Any time in the future when I want to test my new hardware, my new RTX 5080Ti, 112GB 9800mhz RAM, i8 17500K CPU, etc, I'll install CP again and test how everything runs completely maxed out.

One day we'll be able to run this maxxed out, with PT on, and get the smoothest gameplay, 150+ FPS, etc.

[pjedilord]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

I've noticed that turning off Steam overlay for this game actually gives a smoother experience, so I can recommend that.

Another thing I've started doing is to use medium textures instead of high (from the main graphics menu before loading a game). You notice a little difference at first with slightly lower textures, but then get used to it. Still better than most other games. The upside is that I now play with everything at max settings, DLSS Quality, full ray tracing on Psycho - most bells and whistles. Looks beautiful, and steady fps (locked at 60 at 1440p).

I used to have some slowdowns and decreased fps after a playing for a while before, when going to menus, using the map and such, and fps down to 30-40, and had to restart the game to 'reset', but all that is gone now. I suspect my 8 GB of VRAM got filled up constantly with the high textures, causing slowdowns when moving around data in the memory or something, but now it's very smooth :104:

Specs in profile, if curious.

Pal wonder if they get steam achievements if overlay is off?

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by pjedilord:

Pal wonder if they get steam achievements if overlay is off?

Yes, you just won't see the pop-up and hear the sound when playing, but the achievements are still triggering normally.

[Nar!]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Originally posted by pjedilord:

Pal wonder if they get steam achievements if overlay is off?

Yes, you just won't see the pop-up and hear the sound when playing, but the achievements are still triggering normally.

Yep. I have my Steam overlay turned off and still gain Steam achievements.

[Grat Dalton]

Originally posted by SgtPow3rs:

Howdy, running the game fine with my 6700 XT on high settings, 1080p upscaled to 1440p. Any advice to squeeze so more fps? I noticed some drops in the busy downtown area, nothing major.

Not enough info on PC specs. CPU / RAM / HARD DRIVE / OS.
- Sounds like CPU bottleneck.
Suggest:
- Set in-game video options to 1080P at high settings with no upscale & see if issues still occurs in downtown area.
- Set in-game video options to 720p at high settings with no upscale & see if issue still occurs in downtown area
- If there is no difference between 1080p & 720p at high settings no upscale, than your PC hardware is bottleneck.

[kth]

Information given is not sufficient to provide any suggestions, please post specs

[SgtPow3rs]

Thanks for all the comments so far. And my specs:

6700 XT
Ryzen 5 5600
32gb ram
SSD
Windows 11

[MILKElikeCAT]

Buy a 24~28 inch 1080p120hz~240hz screen (you can enjoy high picture quality on a large screen)
If you upgrade the image to 2k, the quality of your image will drop a lot. Conversely, if you can sacrifice some screen resolution, you can achieve higher quality.
Based on my gaming experience, at the current game level, with all the special effects turned on, at least 80~90fps is required before considering the resolution.

[kth]

Probably stupid question but do you use FSR?

[PanPan]

Most probably CPU bottleneck :
Disable all RT (if not already the case).
Lower Crowd density to medium or low.

If GPU limited, put some settings to medium like decals, volumetric fog and reflections.

[PanPan]

Originally posted by k33th:

Probably stupid question but do you use FSR?

He is using 1080p upscaled to 1440p...

Originally posted by Just A Camembert:

DLSS > FSR

Downscale > Native > DLSS

[SgtPow3rs]

I can share my settings now? Hold on.
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Changing crowd to medium already gave a boost I think.