"Photorealistic" Cyberpunk but I don’t have a 4090…

[@tonin7228]

Pro tip: enabling the "Global Illumination range" setting (Cyberpunk 2077 6\config\settings\platform\pc) in the game's options.json so that it shows up in the game's graphics settings menu and setting it to Ultra (the game defaults to High) improves the quality of the rasterized lighting and reduces it's noise at pretty much no performance cost

[@kidShibuya]

Any way to make the lighting not constantly pop in? I cant even play the game, any driving has buildings in the distance go from bright to shadows drawing in to bright again...

[@tonin7228]

@@kidShibuya that's related to the draw distance of shadows and has nothing to do with the global illumination setting maybe there's a mod out there that could help?

[@fffrrraannkk]

If anyone has trouble finding it, search for GlobaIlluminationRange. I initially couldn't find it because I searched the file for the word global, but for some reason they spell it globa.

[@Bl4ckOnTube]

Thank you! Is there any video showcasing the effects of this change? Also, does it still make a difference if you have any kind of Ray Tracing enabled?

[@tonin7228]

@@Bl4ckOnTube the setting is quite obscure so i doubt theres videos out there of it in effect, but there have been mods on nexus that enable it and they provide some screenshots for comparison on the topic of RT, it probably wont work with RT lighting enabled since the RT lighting setting replaces the raster lighting with rt lighting, but it should work fine with rt shadows and rt reflections

[@FFox98]

thanks for being a youtuber who ACTUALLY posts the mods used in the description

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Gotta give the awesome creators credit :)

[@Sco77y70]

Watch Krush SG , he as done loads of lighting mod videos and he also leave links for the mods , also NoMorePaywalls.

[@defectiveparts8604]

The crazy past is there's that "Unrecord mod" spammer, that just keeps post editing everything, using outside renders, and then slaps an Nvidia rtx logo over it all and just flat out refuses to admit they're clickbait farming for likes, on top of refusing to actually tell what "mods" they're actually using.

[@Yuri-xx2gi]

And the fps

[@johntotten4872]

With all the talk about 8 GB of Vram not being enough for todays games and heavily modded games, This being a 3050 with 8 Gigs pulling this off is impressive. Nice video man.

[@papi7953]

I don't think people are playing latest AAA games. Even cyberpunk is almost 4 years old.

[@HybOj]

@@papi7953 4 years old but only recently finished as a ready to sell product..... that brings us to the "patient gamers" movement. It makes NO sense to play any game on a release date. Even the "good ones" like Baldurs Gate 3 or the new "Horizon" game... none of them. The games get SIGNIFICANTLY better 1 year down the road. And some need mlutiple years. Its just a matter of skipping that year by playing other games, and dont be caught in the fake hype, than u all of sudden play better games with much lesser HW required

[@MLWJ1993]

Cyberpunk is actually one of those games that does optimise its memory footprint. 😅

[@thetruth5232]

@@MLWJ1993 You can actually tell. It loads/reloads textures right in front of you, objects pop in a couple of meters away, cars and NPCs load and reload randomly and visibly.

[@defectiveparts8604]

Cyberpunk runs better if you have a good processor. Upgrade that first, not even kidding. You need more cores to make it run right.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

The issue I see here is that gaming raytracing is often exaggerated for artistic purposes. The vast majority of textures from how games display things are too shiny and glossy than their real life counterparts. A lot of modern games also use visual trickery to emulate things like chromatic aberration, which is a camera issue unrelated to our vision. Then it begs the question, do you want photorealistic graphics as seen through a camera or realistic like your eyes see it?

[@keatonwastaken]

I think a mix of both are good, for videos of games camera-style realism works better, but for gameplay i think its the other way around.

[@CyanRooper]

What's funny is that this is the opposite of the games of the 7th generation of consoles where everything was dirty, grimy and yellow/brown (due to what everyone calls the pee filter/Mexico filter) to appear more detailed. Games nowadays (especially those with ray tracing) look a lot more clean and shiny nowadays which isn't a bad thing but it's starting to become an obvious trend like the 7th generation.

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

it should look good, not realistic. As an example really bright sun is realistic, but annoying af and bad in a game.

[@Tonba1]

Depends on the game

[@someguy3186]

Games like Cyberpunk generally benefit from a kind of "enhanced" realism." Too much realism just causes an uncanny valley feeling, and that's usually the case for "photorealistic" mods. And let's be real here. If I wanted realism, I could just go outside. Cyberpunk is an exotic, futuristic location that doesn't exist in the real world. What I want to see is something that I can never see in real life, yet having enough "realism" to be immersive (and path tracing does an excellent job of this). It's like great photography. It may be real, but it never looks like real life.

[@shrimpfry8657]

it's still impressive how good it can look even without rt and path tracing. nova lut is awesome

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah it’s awesome

[@IAMDEMIURGE]

​@@RandomGaminginHD how will it look if we combine it with RT

[@AstroAvenger]

@@IAMDEMIURGE Did you watch the video, he used RT at the end.

[@OutOfRangeDE]

​@@AstroAvengerbut only ultra. There is psycho after that (was introduced for 30 series GPUs) and ofc the pathtracing option (introduced with 40 series and frame gen in mind).

[@kidShibuya]

its shit, totally destroys the look and feel of the game

[@EnglishGamer2019]

I can already feel my GTX 1050ti has set itself on fire, trying to run this

[@Cre4tor.]

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[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

1050ti will still run path tracing than any AMD gpu

[@Jormungand47]

1050ti gang is here)

[@Cre4tor.]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 bro forgot an adjective

[@kazuhiramiller2121]

​@@Cre4tor.He definetly made one of the comments on that channel

[@fetus2280]

I am actually Impressed mate, I dont say this often either. I think im going to have to try this on my rigs and test things out for myself. Thanks for showing us this. Cheers.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Go for it! And thanks for watching :)

[@LuckyFullmetal]

2:03 is trippy as hell

[@tomferguson9250]

That color mod is solid, crazy how a little shift in tone & saturation can completely change a scene.

[@damara2268]

It looks kinda bland and generic though, everything is polished zero pollution in the air etc.. The OG look is a lot more stylized

[@BBB-999]

@@damara2268yeah but it just looks so real

[@damara2268]

@@BBB-999 no, it looks like generic future city blender render

[@BBB-999]

@@damara2268 u got high standards

[@THEfogVAULT]

It's interesting how closely these modding developments for CP2077 has mirrored what happened with Skyrim and Fallout 4 in their hayday. Especially in respect to weather, water, and lighting mods - even ENBs.

[@jesseomollo9405]

If cdpr pulls their head out their ass, and release an official mod editor for cyberpunk it will essentially be another Skyrim.

[@CyanRooper]

​@@jesseomollo9405I think part of the reason why they won't do it is because of fear of lawsuits or whatever. When people used mods to make sweet wholesome love to Johnny Silverhand CDPR issued a statement telling fans to stop having sex with Keanu Reeves's character as there was nothing in his contract that allowed this.

[@masterkamen371]

@@CyanRooper What does it matter what the contract says if CD Projekt Red had nothing to do with the mods?

[@railgunduck]

@@masterkamen371 They cant just allow that tho, "i just gave them guns bro, had nothing to do with the shootout"

[@lynackhilou4865]

​@@CyanRooperwell this mostly concerns Nexus mods as it's the main platform for modding , people made the sex with keanu mod there and then took it down but i'm sure it's still there on other sites . Modders for bethesda games also use real life models or ripped assets from other games which bethesda doesn't allow , so you find these mods on sites outside Nexus or discord servers

[@EVOTech1]

leave it to the brit to make the game more grey 🤣 really tho this is a great video to show just how much you can change a game for the better by just tweaking the visuals. a lot of these mods arent really performance hungry, usually just VRAM hungry at most. surprisingly low end systems can do some awesome stuff without sacrificing all that much performance.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

I think that's why I like it so much, it's just like home haha. Grey with rain all the time.

[@Ligmaballin]

Grey on the buildings looks amazing tbf, gives a sad dystopian vibe

[@barkyyy]

Nice little video to drink my coffee to before heading to work. Been watching since you had below 75k subs, I love the vids keep it up :)

[@micahottaway8455]

It's good to see an entry-level GPU running Cyberpunk well with mods. Oh boy. Down the rabbit hole of mods we go! Remember Skyrim and running it with 50+ mods? Great video...

[@uglybob7505]

I remember seeing the GTA5 hyper realistic textures and being blown away as to how amazing it looked. Suppose it was only a matter of time before Cyberpunk would attempt something similar. Look great, thanks for sharing :-)

[@InnerHacking]

Great video bro and great results. 'A computer straight out of NASA' is very true, not everyone has at least $5k to spend on a computer. Subbed.

[@RotcodFox]

I actually prefer this over the normal graphics honestly, this looks better to me. It reminds me of Half-Life Alyx

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah I think I do to tbh

[@Bsc8]

Thank you, that was exactly was i was looking for for my r7-5800x+rx6750xt build to replay this game! So i'm super grateful about this mods demonstration :)

[@przemysawpiotrowski6213]

does it work so well on AMD cards? i got 7900 xtx and wondering if the raytracing diff will make a huge diffrence

[@Bsc8]

@@przemysawpiotrowski6213 yes It doesnt hit raster performance too much, i was searching something that looks like RT but it's raster. I don't use RT on cyberpunk on my AMD card it's too weak for some good lookin results in this game, the 7900xtx it's very powerful and has a lot of RT improvements i think you should try. Anyways my problem with RT on AMD, besides the performance hits, it's the fact that Nvidia has a better denoiser: so the RT reflections on AMD are a lot more grainy and worse than raster in my opinion.

[@przemysawpiotrowski6213]

@@Bsc8 thanks for reply

[@Bsc8]

@@przemysawpiotrowski6213 Ur welcome

[@willydapooh]

Great work here helping people. the amount of times i have to help people when they see something in a video is insane.

[@flamingburitto]

As much as i enjoy looking at people make wonderful mods that make games look lifelike. I also feel that making a game look more "realistic" reduces the art direction impact of that game.

[@christianrobloxserver7282]

Boo fuckin hoo. No one is forcing you to use it

[@flamingburitto]

@@christianrobloxserver7282 I didnt say anyone is? Im just sharing my opinion?? Why you mad bro?

[@blunderingfool]

Someone didn't take their antipsychotics, christ on a bike, you know how to find the weird ones, OP!

[@flamingburitto]

@@blunderingfool Its a blessing and a curse XD

[@poopscoop2000]

Another normal human here. Lol Anyway, yes, whilst I like looking at the ultra realistic mods on YT, I wouldn't like to play the game like that. Gaming for me is escapism and I like the slightly enhanced colours etc as, in the UK at least, I live in a world that is far too grey and dreary for 9 months of the year. I went to get away from that. 😁 Great video as always though, one of my favourite channels.

[@Chill_Mode_JD]

I’ve tried all of his LUTs; Pure, Vibrant and HDR and gotta say the HDR one with decent tuning looks the best to me! Cheers Steve ✌️💯

[@lilpain1997]

Only if you actually have a real HDR monitor as that is what it was made for. Using it on a none HDR monitor would be useless and not look right at all

[@victorkreig6089]

Novalut Supernova is where it's at

[@Chill_Mode_JD]

@@victorkreig6089 Yea I agree supernova is pretty good, the mod author CyanideX has updated all of the LUTs quite a bit since I made this post, my favorite lately has definitely been nova pure with the RenoDX HDR fix mod along with ultra plus to get better bounce lighting from RT/PT without the huge performance loss that comes with RT/PT

[@morganfreeman8230]

​@@victorkreig6089does my pc need to be beefed for this?

[@giZm]

Neat! Just needs dlssg-to-fsr3 mod on top to enable FrameGen on any RTX card, not just the 4000 series.

[@TheZROLimit]

I’m going to try this out this weekend. I have a 4070ti super and I didn’t particularly like the look of it in vanilla form with ray tracing/path tracing. But I really like the look of yours. I’ll give it a try as I’ve never modded Cyberpunk before.

[@west5385]

Thank you for the video! I am planning to do a heavily modded playthrough of Cyberpunk (again) but I am waiting for FSR 3.1 to be implemented before I go for it :) I have an RX 6600. Wait, you are using an rtx 3050 wow. Thank you for not using a 4070 or a card like that. Really helps us lower end gpu users

[@poopscoop2000]

Thought of trying out XESS 1.3 mate? AI learning "DLSS" but for all brands of cards. It's looking very impressive both in quality and performance.👍

[@chillhour6155]

The Intel downscaler is really good to, you have a crisper image with that annoying flicker or hairy looking textures at a distance compared to FSR 2.1

[@west5385]

@@poopscoop2000 I am playing Horizon Forbidden West at the moment . Will update the DLL and see if I like XeSS 1.3. Thanks for the advice

[@BBB-999]

@@chillhour6155it looks better but it doesn’t give as much fps as fsr and dlss

[@Hempterbicc]

6600 is mid range

[@jayb2705]

It's amazing how far the game as come from all the bad publicity it had at launch. The devs stuck at it and fixed the game, and released a killer DLC. The modding community was always very active and really enhanced the game, I used the 3rd person mod a lot which makes the whole game a lot more immersive. It's a real passion project that there are all these great mods out there, and this is far and away the best looking game of the modern era.

[@red4cted-]

Fun content, keep going! :)

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks, will do!

[@xTrivago911x]

DF has shown the 3050 running path tracing at 1080p 30fps with dlss set to performance. They also made use of a mod that makes the path tracing bounce rays once rather than twice. This did mean a minor visual sacrifice in some reflections, but performance was genuinely impressive. Of course, while doable, you'd have to lock the framerate to 30 for the best experience. I'd use rtss for that. In fact, I use it a lot when playing games on my main pc with intel hd 630. I've been playing throughout many of the early Assassin's Creed games with a 30fps lock and a controller, and it was a great experience. So far I'm playing AC3 and I just finished the starting Haytham section. Now Connor is a teenager and he knows how to climb trees. Keyboard and mouse play is definitely possible, but the Ezio games have some horrible forced mouse acceleration intense enough to allow me to spin several times around Ezio and give him motion sickness. And even if 3 doesn't have acceleration as intense and is therefore much more playable, I like being able to step back and play on a controller. This is especially great on a 1080p 39" TV. Works like a charm at 540p on the hd 630, but sometimes one of the cpu cores is pushed too hard and I get framedrops because of that. Not the best port. Here's me hoping Black Flag is better in that regard.

[@someguy3186]

The frame gen mod should improve things as well, though for a fairly smooth playing experience with good resolution, I don't think path tracing should be used on anything less than a 3080/4070.

[@upfront2375]

@@someguy3186 Agreed. The frame gen mode gives some annoying artifact while driving, specially when on a bike and also adds a frame shadow when you're driving fast. I'm on a 3060ti and replayed half the game at ultra-ultra RT with Qdlss which gives me 60-70 fps, but with RT off that +100 fps makes the game feel much more smoother

[@Loundsify]

​@@upfront2375what resolution?

[@upfront2375]

@@Loundsify 1080p

[@OutOfRangeDE]

2:04 i think a color palette like this is what i was mssing in CP2077, there was never a moment where i thought "this looks like it could be on earth" because the standard palette is just crazy and too much black/dark grey and weird color tones are used.

[@Bluedino549]

In my current playthrough, I started walking to quest markers that are within 1Km with the specific goal of taking in the world and enjoying it properly because I've noticed I didn't really take the game in, before. Pretty much worth it if you dig the game's art style. Guess this playthrough just got another notch more interesting, too!

[@NoverianSnowCone]

Great video choom

[@guitarzilla555]

Good callout on overcast weather being used for realism videos. Cyberpunk's color grading is stylized, the mods do make it more realistic but less atmospheric.

[@LennyHarnisch]

Downloaded it immediately, thank you so much bro

[@OsSoLobox]

Awesome vid! Great showcase of the mods and their performance impact. The look is interesting, though you can certainly tell that the NPCs and large buildings were not designed to be looked at so directly lol

[@waltersobchak84]

I hate it when you find a cool mod and want to install it but it needs like ten other mods as a requirement to function

[@vl3244]

And if one of them isn't properly updated to the newest patch you can't use the mod you originally wanted to install in the first place. Modding Cyberpunk definitely got pretty tedious after the 2.0 update; lots of trial and error.

[@epoch151]

>path tracing looks fantastic >giant ghosting trail and blur smears on car and puddles

[@doltBmB]

raytracing has always been the dumbest brute force approach. nvidia developed a 1ms global illumination technique but that doesn't sell 4090's so it never got used.

[@epoch151]

@@doltBmB VoxelGI/SVOGI is incredible but Nvidia completely dropped all work on it once they release the RTX series. Now its only Cryengine and Godot that have a form of it, and in Cryengine's case it runs on the Switch and updates instantly.

[@perkzy5146]

Using these mods plus reshade and simply using the ambient light and filmic tonemap shaders, tuning them a lil bit gives a 85-90 percent accurate pathtracing image on raster rendering for -1 or 2 fps

[@onetruekeeper]

You are the first to address this issue. I have a GTX card with no RT or PT but the game runs and looks great. But I would like to get that realistic look somehow without having to purchase a RTX card which can get quite pricey.

[@bigrob029]

this is great! I'm always afraid of running mods because i know i'll break something.... but this has made these things look cool and seem attainable.

[@solidsneak69]

realistic lighting, weather and environment, but the npc animation though...😅

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Haha yeah I should have installed something for that too

[@yukshee]

Nice and clear. Straight to the point . Cheers

[@Matextreme777]

This is really cool, i never imagined even trying to run cyberpunk on a 3050, its running and looking good. Pretty awesome.

[@zloboslav_]

I install the Ultra plus better path tracing and stutter hotfix - on the performance PT preset, it adds a lot of FPS and it is AMAZING! And the de-noising stuff here are just better looking than vanilla in every way! And I also add the dlss to fsr 3 mod - this makes it incredibly smooth! And with these I can have smooth 60 FPS on my 3060 with full Path tracing and it looks better than vanilla. I also love the Nova LUT Pure, and I combine it with Nova ENV Raster for the less fog and less dark shadows. I have no performance loss when adding any LUT or ENV. It's just like color palette and lighting settings, it's not like it's modding anything that heavy.

[@j.d.4697]

The irony is, a lot of the realism also comes from high contrast, which is something people always avoid/tone down when playing games. It's just easier on the eyes with lower contrast and it's easier to see things. You can use realistic ReShade settings and experience it for yourself. So coupled with monitors not using light the way light behaves in nature, realistic graphics look great but nobody ends up using them.

[@SeesSean]

Looks Great, and Modding can be a chore, hope you get some return for your time and enjoyment in cyberpunk :D

[@JimmiG84]

I'm actually quite impressed by how good I can make Cyberpunk look on my 3060 Ti. There are a lot of mods that improve things without the brute-force approach of PT, which, it should be noted, also isn't perfect in all areas. You can also use frame-gen as long as your base FPS doesn't drop much below 60 FPS (though I find even ~45 FPS is fine for latency in a game like Cyberpunk). The game supports FSR3 natively now, but you still get better image quality with the DLSS3-FSR3 mod since this allows you to combine DLSS upscaling with FSR3 frame-gen on 20 and 30-series RTX cards.

[@peterstrong772]

I like the idea of getting better graphics on lower end cards, excellent work.

[@emmjay_]

Ultra Plus mod helps with the FPS while offering more options for RT and PT!

[@SandTiger42]

This is pretty impressive, and people who want it more true to reality probably are amazed. But to me it looks like the soul was just sucked out of it. Doesn't feel like the fantasy cyberpunk anymore. I'm stuck on ps5 though, so no mods for me anyway. My 1060 3gb is cowering in a corner just watching this video.

[@commandertoothpick8284]

Mods are an absolute must use in cyberpunk.

[@phucnguyen0110]

Interesting video, Steve :D

[@Greyhun]

After watching this, no matter what everybody says I still love my 3050.❤ Amazing video ❤

[@zodiacfml]

it got me. the thumbnail looks like a photo of a city from my country. nice mods indeed without fps penalty.

[@NicCrimson]

Do you think you can do some VR videos? Especially with Cyberpunk.

[@dank4dayz]

The high-res textures will make any system buckle a little especially with Preem Water.

[@noodles9345]

I never liked the look of outdoor environments in this game, even at maxed out settings. They never looked bad of course but something always felt off. Indoor environments look incredible though. Cool that there are mods that make outdoors more to my taste.

[@jlb4685]

Neat. Pretty wild how default kinda looks like a cartoon by comparison. I don't know why so many are obsessed with reshades or nvidia settings that jack up saturation and think that looks good.

[@lasdernas]

1:55 I hate photorealistic. I want _realistic_. these mods do exactly that, and i've been using them myself for a while now. Usually when people say "photorealistic" they want the movie look, which is most of the time exaggerated. Proper realistic is much more toned down, just like these mods, which are perfect.

[@jessterman21]

Preem Water and Preem LUT are must-haves for me now, gets rid of the yellow smoggy coloring in the city. I love all of TheCyanideX's mods, they are pretty genius. Load Begone, Trash Begone, Preem Hair, Preem Beards...

[@selohcin]

Not bad! RT Ultra in combination with these mods looks strikingly realistic at times.

[@eduardobenassi3072]

I'm trying to look for an alternative to the buggy ultra SSR that is currently making me use the psycho setting...

[@nikitad6877]

I've been playing with Nova Lut Pure and it's a good alternative if you want colours to pop more and an overall less washed-out look.

[@Shinyshoesz]

I actually have been developing my own modlist for my 3060ti which can run ultra settings but no RT with 100+FPS most places. NovaLUT does indeed do a ton of heavy lifting, but there are many things you can do to push this game to looking really great even without RT as long as you have around 8GB of VRAM. I'll try and link it here maybe when I can as an expansion to your suggestions!

[@FA7ALtheGOD]

I wonder if there's a mod for cel-shading so that you can get an 'Edgerunner' anime vibe.. I'm about to look that up..

[@Tonba1]

2:15 "a more true to life pallette" Oh yeah I forgot you're British the outside world is very grey and depressing for you guys

[@ddemmkkimm]

In Bodycam, I felt the same that the tone-downed color increases the reality.

[@pierrea3094]

I don’t love the drowned out color look but sometimes it’s cool. Thx for the list

[@SIMKYUSHA]

A thanks for sharing this. I also like to see how far I can push my medium spec machine in terms of graphics.

[@mexicanhalloween]

The only RT option that makes a difference that isn't too subtle to be readily apparent is RT Reflections, honestly I think just RT Reflections and no resolution scaling looks better than any other RT configuration with resolution scaling if you play at ultrawide or 4k.

[@awalay-wz3nh]

in all this pursuit of more and more computationally expensive and technically more realistically rendered lighting, no dev (or at least a significantly large one) stopped and thought to ask, does real life actually look that reflective and glary? Most of the time its kind of drab, dull, or the sun is up and im on fire and blind

[@LRK-GT]

The 'science' of Real-Time Ray Tracing is being rapidly developed in the 'entertainment' space but, is very-applicable in real-life Imaging and Sensing. Wi-Fi 'ray tracing' has already been demonstrated by college students for a form of "Technological X-Ray Vision"...

[@kreozello]

Honestly, when I've seen these mods I expected significant performance drop. Props to you and the modders! I think I would try to play Cyberpunk later with my 6750xt for WQHD again. Maybe even I'll fetch some mods to improve LODs and models of food/etc as those are.. Been not good, honestly. Rt is out of question for me, ofc 😂

[@GuitarSaxBassoon]

Some other recommendations: In place of that horrible paid-for DOF, I would download reshade instead and use "Tilt Shift." It's a static peripheral blur instead of true DOF, but it doesn't make you feel like your character needs glasses. Also if you don't have a 4090, but have something up there (I'm using a 4080S) and want to use path tracing, downloading Cyberpunk Ultra Plus is a must. Boosts PT performance. I'm okay with 35-40 fps (as opposed to 20 or something) for the fidelity it adds. Using Intel Super Sampling also gives sharper reflections over DLSS when using Path Tracing.

[@KC80SiX]

Nice. Always looking for a reason to play this game for the 100th time.

[@NULUSIOS]

So, how far can I take this with a 4070 Ti Super on a 3440x1440 monitor?

[@nimaarg3066]

NVIDIA and their fanboys might not like this, but you don't need RT and PT for gorgeous and realistic graphics. You need competent devs.

[@michubern1444]

i turn rtx off most of the time too

[@2hotflavored666]

AMD and their fanboys like you might not like this, but the future of graphics lie solely in RT and specifically PT. Path Tracing will be the norm in 5-10 years. You AMD fanboys are welcome to live in the past like AMD has been doing for 20 years.

[@Akuxz]

@@2hotflavored666 Self-aware much?

[@nimaarg3066]

@2hotflavored666 lol. My NVIDIA card begs to differ. I'm not a fanboy of anything. I just know that for now, even the best cards from NVIDIA struggle with PT, and most gamers don't bother. It just shouldn't be the focus right now. It makes the cards obsolete quickly. We live in a global economy where people barely afford to pay for food and housing. Not many can afford these features for the coming years.

[@michubern1444]

@@2hotflavored666 3070ti here.. we are not there yet..path tracing is way to demanding.. even raytracing is still too demanding imo and i dont think its worth it.. in 5 years sure.

[@ashryver3605]

The problem with the LUT and colour grading is that it makes everything gray & white overtone. It loses the vibrancy of night city and becomes dreary and drab.

[@yavuzhannnn]

Hey, do you think 4070 Ti will do very simillar to those 4090 Photorealistic Cyberpunk videos in 1080p 60 FPS at least? I would LOVE to try it out myself since I'm just about to upgrade from GTX 1050 2 GB to 4070 Ti because I found it at the same price as a 4070 Super.

[@maciejgrabowski2228]

Path tracing is playable even on rtx4060 laptop with dlss and frame generation. Idk if it is 60fps but is definitely above 30.

[@sumika3132]

In my case I was impressed by the 4060 trying these mods, but pairing it with my already 8 years old i5 wasn't the best idea, as the framerate dips everytime I move the camera, tho I couldn't do much anyway because I only had enough for the GPU

[@iffy_too4289]

It reminds me of a stop motion TV show that has amazingly detailed models. Like 21st century Captain Scarlett.

[@yipperdipper3189]

My favorite game of all time. Glad it has modders that do stuff like this

[@vl3244]

You haven't played many games, have you? lol

[@luizferrarezzi]

it looks nice. modern engines already looks good without raytracing its more important to tweak the lighting and colors to match the results you want and this video shows it

[@MrDrewseph]

Much, much better than the ridiculous overblown vanilla lighting

[@Eternalduoae]

@00:40 the irony here is that NASA probably would lend one of their old 1980-90s pieces of tech! 😂

[@Lurch-Bot]

Reminds me of when I tried Cyberpunk with Psycho RT on a 3080 I briefly had for mining purposes. You could crank everything to the max but you aren't getting high framerates and I don't expect that to change, given how lazy game devs have gotten. But you can totally do photorealistic these days. If Rockstar is being honest about the GTAVI trailer being actual in game rendered footage, then that will become the norm in the next few years. There really isn't much point going over 4k because the average human eye will see little to no difference between 4k and 8k. It is sort of like how there is no point playing games at 300FPS because you can't see that fast anyway. Also, if we break down the term 'photorealistic', that would mean 'like a (analog) photograph', which is roughly equivalent to 4k unless you have some very expensive film and camera. As for the results here, well, I've never seen a saguaro cactus look so good in a video game. Nevermind the fact they are being depicted somewhere that is 300 mi from their rather limited natural range. Even with climate change and deliberate planting (which I doubt would have happened in the Cyberpunk universe), there wouldn't be this many of them just a couple decades after a global war and they wouldn't be as big. They also didn't do enough iterations of them to make it not seem repetitive. At 4:41, we see two identical saguaros within just a few feet of each other. The one in the right foreground. That cactus would be about a century old. Need a procedurally drawn cactus which really isn't difficult these days, it is just that CDPR sucks.

[@rez1222]

its so nice that its possible to play at max settings with path tracing using an rtx4060 with 60fps+ (1080P) because of DLSS and Frame Gen

[@arrongamez1388]

I would love to see the RTX 3050 used with the FSR 3 mod on Cyberpunk.

[@ahmetbaltac1415]

Having 4 GB 3050-laptop gpu is a very limiting factor for me :/ But at least I can play the game on high-ultra settings (no RT) with dynamic resolution dlss (55-85%) at 1080p locked 40 fps most of the time.

[@Skaut---002]

Thanks for this! I personaly own RTX 3050 and running just high preset for at least 70 fps +- 10 fps

[@PrimeGhost0]

PC or laptop and what tgp and vram

[@Skaut---002]

@@PrimeGhost0 PC, vram I think 8 GB, And.. whats tgp? 😅

[@PrimeGhost0]

Total graphics power

[@Skaut---002]

@@PrimeGhost0 I think It Is 500W

[@PrimeGhost0]

@@Skaut---002 okay, thank you 😊

[@AlexTM44]

It looks amazing

[@xilix]

Massively impressive

[@alcatraz6275]

3:00 This is the only reason I will use this mods, I like blade runner 2049 like a lot.

[@OfficialAeon]

The issue is with the likes of Novalut (and other LUTs), along with the vast majority of graphical mods in general for Cyberpunk is that there's absolutely no reason for the mods to exist, they're a bit dishonest. LUTs can just be applied to a reshade preset which allows you to toggle on the fly, and more in-depth visuals such as fog, shadows, cascades, volumetrics, ray tracing optimisation, etc. can be done with a fairly simple user.ini.

[@alacarte_32]

Already running this on 3060 ti using nova lut + photorealistic reshade. FSR 3 mod that support non rtx 40 series also help (frame generation), constantly get 100+ FPS ultra setting without Ray Tracing with DLSS Quality.

[@TrulyTheManOfAllTime]

I tried path tracing on my 1650, the in game smoke effects are so realistic I can literally smell them

[@dee23gaming]

Game lighting is often too warm. In reality, there's more blue light.

[@Alfenium]

Just from stylization alone, it looks insanely better.

[@atlasprime6193]

RandomGame: “We’re going to try it on…” **Everyone leans in under suspense** RandomGame: “…RTX 3050 8GB.” People with RTX 3070: “YES!”

[@esthermarye]

I've got a RTX 3080 12GB . downloaded a reshade and 2K mods . I have around 80 fps but as soon I turn on tracing it drops down to 20 - 30 fps in town center .. and also in dogtown . max res and all settings max but the tracing is a killer

[@KevinSmith-qi5yn]

I wonder if it's possible to just have an image of a building at maximum rendering, then use a place holder in game and use AI to generate an image of it on screen.

[@mr.pumpkin8891]

2:56 oh man bladerunner 2049 vibes right here. or should i say bladerunner 2077 haha...

[@DreuScuhDoo]

My hd6950 has imploded and created a quantum singularity localized entirely within my bedroom. At least the game runs now

[@paulssnfuture2752]

If mods make RT effect without the drop in performance means games have not change and still producing unoptimized because of companies shortcut via new tech rather than actually make the effects more as default rather than enhanced by RT, cheaper to ask programmers to utilize RT rather than pay Designers to make the actual high graphics

[@rollbacked]

the framegen mod would benefit greatly for cases like these (or in general) where the user has an underpowered card but want their game to look nice