Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty Optimization, The Best Settings to Change on PC!

[@abdelrahmanmahmoud7961]

I hope you keep doing this kind of videos .. helps us alot

[@MagiofAsura]

Best smash that like button, share and comment!

[@DanielFrost79]

It could help, if you actually play the game, yes.

[@GewelReal]

Just get 4090 and max everything out

[@The_MEMEphis]

​@@GewelRealshit how didn't I think of that

[@cptjackdaw]

fr

[@evanractivand]

For those with higher end GPU's with extra VRAM, HalkHogan has an HD Reworked mod with improved textures. He's the same modder who did the HD Reworked project for Witcher 3 that was integrated officially into the Witcher 3 Next-Gen update. It makes a big improvement to many of the in game textures with little to no performance impact if you have the VRAM. He's also updating it and expanding it to the new 2.0 update and Phantom Liberty soon. Well worth checking out!

[@mathias4514]

Is 8 gm VRAM enough?

[@esaedvik]

@@mathias4514 at 1080p maybe.

[@mathias4514]

@@esaedvik hmm I play on 1440p using dlss balanced, that should be equal to 1080p?

[@evanractivand]

@@mathias4514 there are 2 versions of the 1.0 version of the mod currently. A quality version which uses about an extra 800MB VRAM and a balanced version that uses about an extra 400MB. So if you have either 400 or 800MB VRAM to spare when the game is running, then you can run it with no performance penalty

[@Antidepressiva1980]

Do not bother with it. Even a 4090 cannot maintain 60fps @4K with this mod. @@evanractivand

[@daemonwhite3740]

I want to add some notes to a few features: Colour Precision for banding: Would be better to compare the sky during dawn and dusk times where there's a bigger variety in gradients. RT Sun Shadows: FAR better on the presentation of distant and long range shadows such as buildings where the cascade shadow maps would normally lose resolution and clarity. Accuracy of shadows on thin objects such as the tree leaves themselves vs the shadows on the ground or close-range and smaller objects like a fire escape, windowsills, the smaller debris like rebar rods in your second example, or those sandbags you used for Contact Shadows demonstration. RT Local shadows: "Worse" shadows visually perhaps, but they are accurate to shadow diffusion for the long tube lights of the bar. RT Lighting: Medium enables Sky lighting + RT Ambient Occlusion and some smaller objects like Neon signs. Ultra enables additional and larger sign types like advertisements. Psycho adds an indirect bounce to sunlight. Most things look different as we're used to the physically incorrect SSAO type of shading that only considers distance between objects and not the world as a whole, giving a more contrasted or shaped look to the shading. These settings aren't quality options, so much as features being turned on.

[@VoidProjekt]

Yep that’s the one thing I was meh about for the video. I’m keeping the RT settings on :) I changed everything else he suggested turning off though.

[@219SilverChoc]

Have you seen any difference with Color Precision? From my testing, RT Local Shadows is alot lighter on the CPU compared to the other RT settings, so I've stuck with them on my rig. I'm currently using mods to stretch out the shadow cascades so they don't loose clarity as quickly, RT Sun Shadows are still better of course but I'm happy enough with them.

[@agoogleuser2369]

I've been missing these optimization videos. Please keep on doing these Tim! 🤗❤

[@super84trooper]

These optimization guides are absolutely amazing, please keep making them! Love the idea that at the end of the video you give two sets of optimized settings: one quality-focused and one performance-focused. I also like the idea that there are separate recommended ray tracing settings for those who want to use it.

[@xBintu]

Optimization videos are always awesome! Great work

[@Fr0z3nS0liD]

While this entire video is just about one single game, I've found this to be incredibly useful. I'd like to personally thank you guys for making this one. It actually matters.

[@Fertro]

Path Tracing is a great feature, all four of the frames I get per second look amazing! (Honestly kinda surprised my 2070S didn't immediately crash when turning it on lmao)

[@jagerfromgsg945]

Fellow cyberpunk 2070s player

[@WarshipMolester]

Me telling my rtx 4060 that it is about to take on the full force of a star before turning on path tracing with everything else optimized. I am honestly surprised I am getting 30-60 fps.

[@zoopa9988]

@@WarshipMolester I was getting around 60 FPS in the benchmark with path tracing using my 4070Ti at 4K. I was using DLSS ultra performance however so I was rendering the game at the same resolution as a Nintendo Switch, 720p lol.

[@airnox726]

​@@zoopa9988thought 60fps stable on benchmark I should be fine. Ready to play untill I exited V's apartment 😂 and the CPU began to work

[@zoopa9988]

@@airnox726 Yeah, the benchmark isn’t the same as actually playing the game. I was getting between 50-70 FPS while playing, which primarily depends on how taxing it is for my R5 7600, I believe. What you could consider doing is lowering the crowd density; this makes the game less taxing on the CPU.

[@Ty4ons]

16:51 I think the blurred shadow is because the light source is effectively a long strip. Larger light sources create blurrier shadows as they only shade some of the light. You can see this IRL if you make shadows with a similarly shaped light source.

[@R4K1B-]

Yep. The RT shadows are correct to real life. The shadows on raster is cast from a single point which a the light tube above isn't

[@phr3ui559]

oh

[@flintfrommother3gaming]

I think if he went outside a bit more instead of creating these videos he would have known.

[@0xCAFEF00D]

@@flintfrommother3gaming Maybe. But usually the lightbulb in the sky is the primary lightsource and it's like a point light. So indoors with tube lights is more helpful. Less cancer too.

[@IIFrozenFlame]

This has got to be the most indepth, accurate, and useful guide and pretty much tech demo I've seen on KZbin. Fantastic breakdown of everything with no nonsense.

[@Drawlistics]

Absolutely amazing work on the hub settings! Seeing videos like that make me even more pationate about PC gaming, it's so flexible!

[@silverfoxvr8541]

This is my favorite PC gamer enthusiast channel. I'm 55, owned an Atari 2600, new, a TRS-80, an Apple II Plus, and Amiga and built PCs from the beginning of time tbh. Played Nascar and Quake on DIAL-UP for God's sake. I've seen it all. Sure Steve at GM is good, but you guys do God's work helping the average PC gamer. Keep it up!! Oh, and when I enable Path Tracing, it saves my CPU's ass. Reduced my CPU overhead by 25-30%.

[@snozzmcberry2366]

I was really bummed out over the loss of these videos back in the day, and I'm absolutely ecstatic they're back. Thank you so very, very much.

[@chestercopperpot3793]

Perfect timing. Have sat on CP2077 until now. Starting my first playthrough. 5800X3D, 7900XTX @ 4K (FSR 2.1 Quality), ~120FPS, which is ideal for my C2. Thanks @Tim.

[@ultraviolet2497]

With a 3060 Ti at 4K -DLSS performance -HUB performance preset -No ray tracing I get 100fps avg on the benchmark, and 120 at 1440p. (DLSS balanced here) Didn't have time to test more before leaving to work, but these settings look really good. Thanks! Keep doing more of this 💜

[@supratimchatterjee825]

Gonna have to try these settings. Even without raytracing the game looks amazing. No sense dropping frames for some lights

[@turkeyman9914]

if that’s the performance you get and you want extra visual quality, i recommend rt sun shadows and rt reflections.

[@ActNasty5]

I always get more frames on a bench mark then when actually playing. 3700x and rtx 3080 12gb

[@NamTran-xc2ip]

@@supratimchatterjee825 I have a 4k60 monitor so if I have extra 40fps I would turn on rt. The game looks stunning without rt, but with it is ecstasy

[@hero654789]

@@ActNasty5yeah the benchmark isn’t the best in this game

[@HanSolo__]

5:16 Improved Facial Lightning Geometry - OFF makes the lady on the right side look younger. Amazing video. Thanks, man.

[@RicochetForce]

That was an absolutely fantastic optimization guide, the efficiency of information shared, the explanations, and the examples of what you're getting by turning some things on. Also, WOW at those path tracing examples. It feels like I'm looking at an offline render.

[@keybored-]

this is like the absolute perfect dream video for graphic settings impact and comparisons - i've watched so many but this is perfect. it includes literally every piece of information i would need: performance impact, visual comparison, and technical explanation. keep it up! subscribed

[@Patraquashe]

Thanks a bunch guys. Even though I think I got my settings pretty good right now, it takes so much time to figure out a good custom preset. I'll try your suggested settings and see if I get an improvement over the 60-70fps I'm running at currently with RTX enabled.

[@djxgam1ng]

I’m guessing you have a 4090?

[@LAG09]

I really like how well the new ray reconstruction de-noised reflections but am sorely disappointed it's only available in the RT overdrive mode. On a 3090 I could barely get it to what I'd consider "playable" (30 FPS minimum) at 1440p with DLSS2 Performance. Previously I could get stable 60 FPS with RT medium and 4k + DLSS2 Performance or 1440p + DLSS2 quality.

[@intrestingname7934]

Yeah... RR at this point is pretty much only playable with FG. Although RR in general should work with any ray tracing mode but NVIDIA/Cyberpunk didn't work on that yet. However, they mentioned that it will be added to all other RT settings sometime later. Also, fsr 3.0 should supposedly be coming soon so hopefully it will be good

[@LAG09]

@@intrestingname7934 The higher quality modes are in hardware so the upscaling can be close to that of DLSS 3.0. However the frame generation is a software solution and they've said its focused on getting 90+ to a solid 120 FPS. DLSS frame generation is focused on getting sub-30 to 60 FPS or near that so it's a pretty different thing.

[@LAMG059]

@@LAG09 you can turn on ray reconstruction through the userconfig file without the pathtracing mode

[@sanderbrouwer91]

On a RX6950XT (1440p): With Performance HUB including: - Raytracing Reflections - Local Shadows - FSR Quality - Image sharpening 0.9 I get average 82 FPS in the benchmark with 1% low of 51. Totally playable. Changing FSR to performance I could also include Ray Traced Lightning on Medium with a similar benchmark.

[@Tricky_Adventures]

You need to mark what resolution you are running at. I am assuming 1080. Cheers

[@sanderbrouwer91]

@@Tricky_Adventures why would someone have 1080p monitor with a comparable GPU tom the 3090 ti?

[@xaviermitchell578]

Color Precision set to medium was causing many parts of Konpeki Plaza to have black flickering across the entire screen. It was fixed instantly when set back to high (so definitley worth the 1% performence drop).

[@whoisswhoo]

Are you guys working on a cpu benchmark by any chance? Looking forward to it a lot after seeing the 1h+ testing from Daniel Owens. Great vids as always,

[@cavannanicolas]

Been through a bunch of these videos, and this is definitely the most comprehensive one, thank you very much for all the work!

[@matthewbusse1059]

Tim nailed with his thoughts on RT; it looks different, not necessarily better. Hopefully the tech keeps progressing, I've seen a lot of times when it looks really nice

[@vindicator879]

ray tracing technology once it becomes mature enough will eliminate any need for pre-rendered/baked lighting, and we'll get more realism and details from dynamic light sources

[@willuigi64]

path tracing with 3.5 most definitely does look better, but standard rt lighting is only different. Shadows do "technically" look better but from a visual perspective, but it's still just shadows. Then there's the current rt reflections. They ain't too shabby. I found my fps can sometimes improve slapping on the rt shadow options if I've already got a rt effect enabled. BVH and whatnot

[@oldmatttv]

This game has really, really good baked lighting. That's not the case with a lot of others. They really managed to make this game look amazing without any RT features.

[@RicochetForce]

Tim actually nailed it when he mentioned the path tracing IS vastly superior but that regular RT just looks... different. His example of it feeling like an artist moved light sources and color grading for a scene is about right.

[@OhItsLuCa]

Path tracing looks incredible, especially on my OLED monitor. Like actually stunning

[@sir.fender6034]

Very close to 1 Mil subs. Congrats in advance!

[@ImOnMy116]

the amount of work that goes into these videos is insane, very much appreciate it, I feel like I always learn a great deal from these!

[@unotoli]

Simply priceless and of highest quality content. Very well put together, informative. Percentage numbers instead of two digit FPS is puzzling to some at first, but 200% more usable, I hope people will get used and will love it more in future.

[@Scytherman]

Would've been interested in seeing a mention of if any settings have an impact with little visual difference while Path Tracing is enabled. I've been running that on my 4070 and it looks so good that i don't want to go back anymore, but i'd be interested if there's any way to scrape some extra performance out of it to make sure it stays in the "plays well" FPS range most of the time.

[@shyvchuk]

i'm interested too!

[@reaper378]

I'm also running it on my 4070 everything maxed out with frame gen and getting great performance

[@Pamani_]

I got an outlandish 5% improvement by turning off all raster-related settings (half of them are not active in PT anyway). On a 4070Ti at 1440p DLSS quality and FG off in the built-in benchmark: from 59.14 fps to 62.38 fps, making it finally playable (it's above 60, I don't make the rules).

[@HassanAlHajry]

*Most important setting is **12:20** Free 50% Gain from 1 setting that pretty much unnoticeable visually by switching Psycho to High and no its not the ray tracing settings*

[@afrofantom6631]

22:29 for those just looking for the settings

[@DanH11]

With Performance Optimized settings at 1440p DLSS Quality I averaged ~100 FPS on my 9700K + RTX 3060 build, but with dips down to the ~75 on occasion I opted to just cap my FPS at 70 and have had an almost completely "locked" 70 FPS experience. It looks and feels great! I tried doing some light RT and could manage FPS in the low 60's on average, but there were occasional drops to 50 or even below in really busy areas and, while I can certainly handle that (it's basically the experience I've been having with Starfield), I'd much rather have a no-less-than 60 FPS experience consistent. Thanks for making this process much easier for me, HUB! 😁

[@gentarox]

Thanks for this video :) Saves a lot of time trying things out. Also: I will never choose raytracing over 30-50% more fps. Not gonna happen.

[@alpsalish]

I'm also often not into the look. Everything is pushed a little too far.

[@gladesucks7907]

I’m someone who’s a complete noob to PC gaming as I’ve been on console my whole life up until this year. The sheer amount of graphics settings available was extremely overwhelming and confusing since I was used to everything being pre-optimized for my console, so thank you for explaining what each setting actually changes! It made everything much clearer

[@ShermSpinner]

Great Analysis and breakdown. The SSR Psycho option makes a lot more sense on AMD GPUs as they get completely destroyed by pretty much any of the RT options. Quick test on my 79xtx at 1440p Ultra, no upscaling, setting SSR from Ultra to Psycho reduces my FPS by about 30%, while even just activating RT Reflections tanks me down 49%. Whether those 30% are worth it to begin with is another question obviously.

[@ioritenshi]

im playing on a 6700XT @ 1440p with Ray Tracing + RT Sun Shadows and RT Local Shadows and i get 60fps everywhere except Dogtown... Please, dont spread false information! RT Reflections is the only somewhat killer (it shouldnt really be using a 7900XTX). and dont forget when using Ray Tracing to a decent degree you always want upscaling, even on nvidia cards...

[@thetruth5232]

My 7900 XTX gets 90 FPS on Ray Tracing with PT bounce lighting enabled with XeSS 1.3 quality at 1440p. Path tracing at 50-55 fps.

[@thecanunu2647]

I just tested this on my i5-12400 + AMD RX 6700 XT using HUB Quality with RT Reflections. I seem to average 50-53fps **WITHOUT** FSR or Intel XESS. Thank you Hardware Unboxed team :)

[@marcosousaesteves]

The amount of work you guys put in each video, is crazy! Thank you and congrats for the amazing content. We´ll keep watching.

[@vinipm300]

Wooow, after trying the sugested settings I can finally play with ray tracing enabled on my 3060ti and always stay above 60FPS, before that it would go as low as 40, thanks guys! Keep up the good work.

[@joreberking]

Great stuff! Optimization guides for heavy games are top notch!

[@miletech]

Man you guys really nail your content! So little BS, very to the point, very well tested, clearly explained. It's not often I would watch a half hour guide video like this and feel that NONE of my time was wasted with pointless self-indulgent guffawing & bad jokes. It really sets you apart from others in the same field.

[@Scorpius165]

Personally, I'd love to see if there are any performance/visual impact from any raster setting related to lighting when PT is turned on. PT mode is supposed to completely replace the rendering pipeline with full ray tracing, so, theoretically, it shouldn't matter if you disable SSR or set shadows to Low when path tracing is enabled.

[@stangamer1151]

I thinks it is true. In my experience most graphics settings (like shadows, AO and reflections) simply do not work at all, while you are using either path tracing or ray tracing. So there is no way to improve performance aside from changing RT settings quality. While in PT mode the only way to improve GPU performance is to use an unofficial mode, that reduces light bounces down to 1 (the game still looks gorgeous though and performs quite a bit better).

[@Alex.Holland]

This is essentially my experience as well. Once i turn on path tracing and dlss, changing presets from low to high barely changed my fps, as in 1-5 fps delta.@@stangamer1151

[@karelleet]

Litterally searching for an optimization guide few hours ago, knowing nobody does it better than you guys I gave up and then I see this!

[@congareel]

My god is that not the best optimisation video you've ever seen? I'm just blown away by the research and presentation. Inspiring stuff. Never stop!

[@ravous246]

This should help me out a ton. Every other area ive had no problems but certain actions in the new area caused my pc to crash for some reason. Do some tinkering when i finally can but i cant tell you how much i appreciate this video.

[@YataLocK]

Classic Nvidia move. Sell everyone on features/quality that most cards can't do.

[@ravikrao]

Appreciate you putting the summaries at the end. I watched the whole video, but it's good to have single screen with all settings.

[@paulbrooks4395]

A note about RT overdrive is that it can make the game darker in many areas. It also seems to overly smooth some elements (this could be a DLSS thing as well). Since it requires DLSS, the ghosting can be apparent and distracting. In many ways, the game looks better without DLSS (or any upscaling) at RT High or Ultra. I have a hard time justifying the smudging of upscaling technology relative to the added features. Lastly, the biggest hit to visual quality in my opinion was HDR mode vs not using HDR. So I would tell people that you may get a better gaming experience-regardless of the game-by getting an HDR monitor than having a non-HDR screen and turning the settings up.

[@BlastedBilly]

If anyone is playing at 1080p I recommend you enable DSR 4.00x in control panel. In-game set DLSS to performance and your resolution to 3840x2160. Huge boost in visuals and because of DLSS the fps impact is small. RTX 3070.

[@lion123z]

This is truly some of the most impactful content you could make. Thanks for the effort you put in!

[@niklaty2732]

This is AMAZING i ve been messing with the settings and watching FPS and watching YT videos that were ok and finally found this. GREAT FUCKING JOB

[@vibonacci]

19:02 Path tracing hits 75% on the performance, but damn, it really does look much much better and more realistic. That really simulates real life lightning the most accurate, and it is noticeable.

[@andersjjensen]

But three RTX generations in and it's still not even remotely attainable to common folks. Maybe the 7060 will be able to do it at 1440p without upscaling.

[@inrptn]

would love to see a path tracing vs ultra / psycho RT video.

[@scuba7695]

Thanks for this, I was just about to go through the settings to see what they changed.

[@stevefuncke9798]

Really appreciate the guide, but I must confess I was very dissapointed by the path tracing section - as a 4070 Ti owner playing at 1440p, I really DO want to optimize a little while still using path tracing and the new DLSS 3.5 RR feature... It would have been nice to have a path tracing section to clarify which settings become irrelevant, which still have significant performance impacts, etc. Even for those with a 4090, some optimization is still required (at least upscaling), so I think it would be useful to have covered some basic optimizations for 4070 Ti, 4080, and 4090 owners who are using path tracing. Maybe in a future video? Cheers.

[@Scorpius165]

Hello, I am on a RTX 4080 so my experience will be slightly different but not by much. I can offer some insights, that will, hopefully, be useful. Baseline: I am getting around 150 fps with no RT at all, and around 60, or slightly less than 60 fps, with path tracing on. Resolution is 1440p + DLSS Quality + RR. No frame gen. What I've learned so far: Ray Reconstruction gives you non-trivial performance back, even though it does introduce some ghosting artifacts that can be quite noticeable from time to time. However, the AI denoiser also gives you like 10% perf at least, so, it's a no-brainer even on 4080. Frame generation almost doubles the visual fps with no degradation to quality that I could see, so, all of these features should be on if you are on a 4070Ti and want to do path tracing. You should aim to have at least 50-55 fps without FG in the benchmark to get you to enjoyable experience, because framegen will take that and almost double it but it will keep the original input lag (also, Dogtown is more demanding than the benchmark). To get there, if necessary, I would personally not sting away from using DLSS Balanced. Yes, it will look slightly worse than Quality at 1440p target resolution, but the most amount of shimmering and instability comes from the ray tracing itself at that low of an input res - and RR takes care of that (mostly). At least to me, Balanced with RR on still looks pretty good in 1440p, and it will give you that extra performance you might need. I would honestly not touch any of the raster setting because if we are talking PT here, it will probably not matter anyway (pending research, of course).

[@stevefuncke9798]

Thanks, that’s quite helpful. I’ve been running with all the things on (frame gen, path tracing, and DLSS quality). So far it’s pretty smooth visually. 1% lows stay above 60fps. The RR artifacts don’t bother me too much. Game does feel a little “laggy”, but I’m not sure if that’s just from my sensitivity settings or input lag. Haven’t played the game in a long while. I’ll try out DLSS performance and see if it’s a good trade-off.

[@Davidesonar449]

simply THE best graphic settings video's on youtube. thanks man.

[@DailyCorvid]

Even in 480p this is still streets ahead of any other GPU comparison style. Guys this is really amazing stuff, loving the level of detail in this.

[@PickeringSamuel]

Wdym 480p? This video is 2160p.

[@bagerklestyne]

As someone who doesn't even play CP, I really enjoyed this complete tackling of all the settings and the impact. Outstanding work Tim.

[@shaquilleoseal1390]

Please do not abbreviate cyberpunk like that

[@leovanlierop4580]

The Command Prompt does not need improving!

[@Laurentus]

All I really want is normal ray tracing with ray recon.

[@xensho3561]

According to Bryan C. It doesn't have much impact on the image quality, thus they didn't enable it below rt overdrive

[@vietnick]

I believe I saw a method of using it for regular ray tracing by changing the config file’s default setting for RR to “on”.

[@Laurentus]

@@vietnick Yeh, you can do it that way, but the quality isn't good.

[@Tomekkplk]

So happy I found this, I have a 6700xt and followed the settings exactly as you had it and my fps went from min: 30.28fps max: 60.69 avg: 43.68 To min: 43.28 max: 99.54 avg: 67.49 Runs much better

[@Mash229]

This is really useful, thank you for doing this. As a side note, it would help if the name of the setting being discussed was on the video in the corner somewhere. I'm noting down the recommended settings throughout and kept forgetting what the setting being discussed was called and having to pause and refer to its name in the chapters.

[@realnzall]

They mention a full overview of all the recommended settings at the end.

[@Mash229]

I know but its nice to know what we're talking about during watching the rest of the video@@realnzall

[@sirmonkey1985]

@@Mash229 he pretty much says it between each section. if you're looking for specific settings check the video index in the description which has each setting named in the video if you're trying to watch on mobile.

[@oscarmeneses294]

I have a 4070 paired with a 5600X, and you can play with path tracing if you enable ray tracing reconstruction and frame generation, achieving FPS ranging from the high 90s to the low 60s fps.

[@Harzexe]

I tried out max settings with Overdrive mode enabled on my 13600K/4070Ti(1080p144Hz) system and inspite some minor issues I can't go back to normal Ray Tracing. Game looks just too beautiful and thanks to frame generation I manage to avarage about 105 fps 😊 Pathtracing really makes a huge difference in this one. Lightning and shadows look completly different. There were moments when I was just standing and enjoying views of the Night City like hipnotized 😍

[@TheSometimeAfter]

Hilarious

[@megamanx1291]

Me with the rx7900xt 🧍🏿

[@META313.]

Bruh, who the F uses 1080P monitor for these specs, tf is wrong with you?

[@TheKproductionsful]

That rig seems overkill for 1080p resolution IMO but that's alright. 144hz can get demanding for open world games like CP2077.

[@Drip7914]

Imagine spending thousands all that just to play at 1080p with blurry dlss and high latency fake frames ☠️ so glad I went with my xtx and rasterised gameplay

[@davkayo6757]

I really apreciate your hardwork HU team, not only for this video but for the years of good journalism and dedication. For this video tho, I am currently trying to find my optimal settings, pretty much aplying most of Tim's recomendations, activating RT (reflections and medium illumination) drove my 3070 + 5800x3d at 1440p from 127 fps to 30ish, Nvidia super resolution on Auto and 1 on the sharpening got me to 59 fps, I think imma stick with that. (game installed on a cache-less intel SSD) Edit: results from the ingame benchmark as I want to dive righ in the game after I tinkerd with the settings.

[@ironeleven]

On my rig screen space reflections settings besides "Off" and "Psycho" induce terrible ghosting, so I'm surprised to not see it mentioned here. Makes me wonder if this is this a Radeon-specific issue.

[@BlastedBilly]

thank you so much for doing this Cybperpunk running so much better now thank you thank you!

[@antares4nt828]

BOOST FPS = RAY TrACing OFF ! Problem solved !

[@baumstamp5989]

LOL HAD THE EXACT SAME THOUGHT!

[@antares4nt828]

I really try again and again to play with RTX... I got a good config, but FPS are so low, or not constants... And if RTX is not in ultra with all option, it's blurry... Because obviously I need to activater DLSS with it. So without RTX, no DLSS, and FULL ULTRA !!! Game is beautiful !@@baumstamp5989

[@Z3t487]

@@baumstamp5989 But the 26% of performance you get on Path Tracing compared to Ultra Settings with No Ray Tracing is still good! (on an RTX 4090).

[@nadstengco2591]

This exactly.. Just turning RT off makes a huge difference.. It's not like there's a mile difference on the graphics but there's certainly a mile difference on performance 😂..

[@antares4nt828]

Yes, the only big difference with RTX is reflection... Otherwise it's clearly not interesting.@@nadstengco2591

[@cmw8426]

Doing Gods work. This guide took me from 45-55fps to 65-70fps with RTX on. Hugely appreciated.

[@mkatakm]

Disable all RT effects, make everything else ultra. Best quality and performance.

[@SoulfulKira]

Disagree. Ray tracing if accessible is amazing

[@neiltroppmann7773]

Saved me hours of my own benchmarks ty! Got a 15fps boost with the optimized settings and honestly looks the same, unless you where to stare at them in side by side.

[@dubwub4667]

Who in their right mind would play this on a Steam Deck💀

[@pcynbit]

I guess if I had no other way to play the game, from what I've heard it runs fine

[@gingerd2098]

It’s more fun to drive a slow car fast, than it is to drive a fast car slow.

[@PuddingTaToRnAtOr]

I play on my ally, 1080p medium settings at 50-75 fps. Runs smoother and looks better than the embarrassing 30 fps mode on console

[@THEpirateshunter]

@@PuddingTaToRnAtOrdo you use fsr frame gen? Would be crazy if it is without framegen honestly and you would get a crazy boost in fps

[@PuddingTaToRnAtOr]

@@THEpirateshunter whoops I apologize I mistyped, I play all settings medium with fsr set to quality in 1600x900. Can do the same with 1080p with 10 less fps on average or you can change fsr to balanced to help keep it in the same range. I’m in handheld mode so It’s almost unnoticeable going from 1080p to 900p. Frame gen is a no for me as the game has no stutters and looks smooth, so I’m not looking to add increased input lag for extra frames I won’t really notice. As for the ally, 6gb vram and 30 watts plugged in. Turn off “memory integrity” under core isolation in your security as well for a decent performance bump

[@bobbyandes]

Hardware unboxed and Digital Foundry are my go-to for game optimization. Love you guys.

[@nimrodery]

"turn ray tracing off" you're welcome

[@SoulfulKira]

Hard disagree.

[@TheWretchedWorld]

Ray tracing is transformative in this title and is absolutely worth running if you have the headroom

[@nimrodery]

@@TheWretchedWorld It's really not, though.

[@TheWretchedWorld]

@@nimrodery It is, the game looks significantly better with it switched on. It’s the best implementation of rt in any game

[@nimrodery]

@@TheWretchedWorld "best implementation of rt in any game" that would mean RT is truly worthless. No it does not have the best RT implementation of any game, far from it.

[@Perkele_Itse]

These videos are the go-to for me when I get a new game, please never stop doing them. Optimized settings is such top tier information.

[@jackdren9974]

> how to boost FPS >Uses 4090

[@NajCarnage]

HUB settings saved me the trouble of trying to figure it out myself. Thanks guys, im over 60 fps now with rt on. Looks great

[@camaro8570]

Thanks Tim for stickung doing this Hub Optimisation guides even though u said u dont wanna do them anymore. Great job!

[@mazamonx]

Thank you very much for taking the time to test every setting and break it down for us. It's really appreciated. Your HUB quality setting is fantastic. Cheers.

[@ubermk3]

The level of professionalism in this video is outstanding. I haven't touched Cyberpunk since launch and this is exactly what I needed to get the game optimized for my first playthrough with 2.0 and Phantom Liberty. Much appreciated!

[@LordWallace]

Awesome video as an XTX owner I salute you. Volumetric fog is a fps killer in a lot of games one I'm really familiar with is Monster Hunter World on PC, it has it and it might be the most demanding setting in that game outside of HD texture pack that many people are oblivious to and I honestly couldn't see an appreciable difference between "highest" and "low" fog in that game even when squinting and straining, though turning it completely off does look different and to be fair I was standing completely still when comparing which I learned through this video may make more difference while moving. Then again are you worrying about how fog looks in the middle of fighting a giant dragon in that game? Nah. Just going down to Medium or Low makes that game so much more accessible on the performance side while sacrificing little in terms of image quality and even high end systems appreciate this boost as it could take them from just above playable to truly fast and smooth.

[@mmorkinism]

For crowd density at least used to be before 2.0 (waiting for bug fix patch to play 2.0) that you can add line to configuration file and unlock hidden astonishing setting for even higher density.

[@OCretribution]

This video was immensely helpful, thank you for taking the time to make it. Helped me dial in my 3080 so much easier.

[@Jomenaa]

I wished for this video and here you are you beautiful thing! Thank you so much, just started playing again and gonna test these settings out :) Optimization videos are THE BEST

[@Rudniken]

my pc is getting old, gtx 1070 and i7-7700k 16 ram rig starts to not handle newer games as good as it did so your videos helps a lot, i found your channel when i was looking for rdr2 settings and to this day when i want to play more demanding game i always look for your videos

[@seanm746]

Videos like this are always greatly appreciated. It saves us a headache of messing with settings, and gives us good settings, with minimal tweaking needed.

[@RetroNutcase]

This was an incredibly helpful video in trying to figure what I could tweak for minimal visual quality loss but maximum performance gain. Thank you!

[@sorinpopa1442]

14:17 next level character customization ^^

[@khanhvu6969]

Just decided to started my second playthru after few years since the release, this videos couldn't come at a better time, thank you.

[@YourFourthCousin]

The Raytracing Overdrive Optimizations mod (available on Nexus Mods) makes pathtracing viable all the way down to 3050 Ti (with compromises of course). It reduces the light bounces from 2 to 1 in exchange for a huge performance boost. The quality is a step down from the default 2 bounce but still *leagues* above the rasterized lighting. And the Ray Reconstruction in DLSS 3.5 improved the quality and performance for the modded version arguably more then the default path tracing! The modded version used to be notably noisier than the default but Ray Reconstruction has resolved that almost entirely. I’m playing at 1440p DLSS Performance on a 3070 with only a couple settings below high (like volumetric fog) and I got an average of 56 fps in the built-in benchmark, which is plenty smooth on my VRR display. If I didn’t have VRR, I’d probably just lower my monitor’s refresh rate to 50Hz when I played. There are dips out the VRR window here and there but I can probably buy a few more frames by dropping texture quality to Medium based on this video (since the 3070 is an 8gb card). I should note that my friend is playing with the same settings at 1080p (DLSS Performance) on his 3060 Ti and also having a great experience. I truly can’t recommend this enough. There are occasional artifacts and you may be running at a lower res than you’d prefer, but the path tracing is so transformative that I would pick it over Ultra/Psycho 4K rasterized even if I had to drop to 1080p Ultra Performance mode to run it.

[@supratimchatterjee825]

playing on 3060ti with hub quality and it looks preem. Not using RT as I prefer the fps and hub quality lloks amazing without upscalers. U guys are amazing

[@AsnorC]

I've played the game in February 2023 and was looking for something like this back then. Gonna replay the game with the 2.0 update, thank you so much 👍

[@mrchrisknight315]

Thank you for this amazing in depth video. It really helped me out since I'm new to PC gaming. With consoles you just pop the disc in, and away you go. I was super frustrated that there were so many selections that I had no idea what they were doing, and how it was affecting my system. Now, I just need to learn about what the resolution scaling, dlss super resolution, and dlaa sharpness will do, and where I should be. I'll look to see if you' have videos on that .👍🏾

[@josephscott2071]

RT reflections are the only rt feature I use, definitely the one setting that changes the look of the game the most.

[@cosmic_gate476]

RTGI is what makes a game look ray traced, reflections and shadows can be mimicked using screen space techniques

[@Scorpius165]

Agreed, ignoring path tracing mode, RT reflections are the feature that adds most to the game given the sheer amount of reflective surfaces in the game, and nature of SSR fakery (disappearing reflections when objects move out of camera view, etc.). Imho it is worth even sacrificing some raster settings to get RT reflections.

[@KJPalmer24]

Excellent rundown, I've seen other videos like this but your graphs, comparisons and opinion/rundown of each setting is so valuable as a way of informing me how to make my own best choices for me. Keep it up!

[@klakhouse]

it's very difficult to know what these settings do if you're not an "enthusiast" so it's great having something that will let me know what really matters and what can be lowered

[@justzero1525]

I was literally waiting for this video!! Thanks a lot!

[@erictayet]

Thanks Tim! Normally I don't use RT since Radeon GPUs have much weaker RT cores. But with latest Radeon drivers becoming more overclocking friendly, IE., it doesn't hardlock the PC as much, I figured maybe I'd revisit RT. The biggest visual enhancement is Reflections. Everything else is situational. OK, I've tried the settings on my XFX Merc 310 7900XTX and I have surprising results. Setup is Ryzen 5900X on PBO. XFX is overclocked to RAM 2600Mhz, power limit 450W, GPU/Fan Auto. (These settings seem to give better sustained performance and stability during benchmarking.) Monitor is a LG 4K HDR monitor with Freesync from 48-60fps only. So my target fps is always 60fps. I wish for more but 4K60 is smooth enough for my gaming needs.) Since I'm still playing StarField, I haven't start Phantom Liberty so I can't confirm in-game stability. I tried the HUB Optimised settings for High-end GPU with RT Lighting & Sun Shadows OFF, FSR Quality. I got between 25-122fps! But when I switched to Ultra Setting + RT Lighting & Sun Shadows OFF, FSR Quality, I get 40-122fps! No idea why lower settings lead to lower lows... That is pretty paradoxical. Switching on RT Lighting on the 7900XTX is no go except with FSR Performance. So it's switched off. Ancient Gameplays did some really indepth RT Lightinng/Shadow comparisons so if you're on RTX 4000 cards, you can chk it out.

[@Ryamix]

I gotta say, this is a fucking amazing video. I've come back to reference it multiple times during the initial stages of running Cyberpunk. Thank you very much for doing such a fantastic job creating it for us

[@DaringDomino3s]

This is crazy detailed, thank you so much. Hope you do these for other games, because I’ll defer to this channel for them in the future

[@LarryAsberryJr]

I spent about 80 minutes yesterday coming up with the same optimal settings for my RTX 3070 To. Thanks for this though. A very thorough recap.

[@fenris.507]

I was already getting good performance my 2070 Super, and Ryzen 7 7800X3D but now its even better. Im even currently playing with DSR for an upscaled 1080p experience at 1440p and it runs great. Cant wait to actually upgrade to 1440p since my PC can handle it. Thank you for the information it helped a ton.

[@fastica]

I have a RTX3080 and will play with PT and FPS locked at 45. With motion blur, 45fps feels quite smooth.