Cyberpunk 2077 - NO SPOILERS!

[anxious_ant]

I think CDPR shot themselves in the foot for trying to cater for all platforms on launch.

There is only so many times you can delay a launch before people start losing interest. Lots of pre-orders have now been cancelled.

[anonymous-user]

smithyithy said:

The last delay knocked some enthusiasm but after seeing that trailer, I'm right back on the hype train

This

[DanL]

anxious_ant said:

There is only so many times you can delay a launch before people start losing interest. Lots of pre-orders have now been cancelled.

Shouldn’t be a problem - anyone who wants a game enough to preorder it will buy it when it’s launched.

[FourWheelDrift]

Night City Wire 5 is a good watch too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCKfebVQFhU

[Rick_1138]

320d is all you need said:

If you have a PC, why on earth would you not buy it on PC?

PC is going to be a far superior gaming experience in every way, better graphics, faster to load, more flexibility for any future mods, better control options, enjoying the game on a proper monitor not a rubbish 50Hz Television with 15MS response time ...

I'd agree here except, due to the st show that is new GPU stock farce, i still have my GTX 1070, and its going to look like a potato on my 1440 widescreen monitor.

So as the plan is to get a PS5 (whenever they become available, i was able to get the collectors edition for PS4, so will look much better on the 4k tv once upgraded by CDPR, and once new RTX cards are in plentiful stock and back to RRP, ill get one of them, and buy the PC version probably reduced by then, and play it as its meant to be played then.

But for now, console is the option that would give me the best experience, (if i can get a ps5 before january that is haha)

[Lazadude]

FourWheelDrift said:

Night City Wire 5 is a good watch too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCKfebVQFhU

On the audio bit, is it usual to have so many bare wires jumping everywhere with the synths etc, some of those panels etc look like they've opened up some 80's computer bank / telephone exchange and just pulled all the wires out.

[FourWheelDrift]

Updated system requirements with more types.

[smithyithy]

Not bad, not bad.

I wish they'd put the framerate they're targeting with those settings though... Is it safe to assume 60fps?

[130R]

I have a 2080Ti and 1440p monitor so I'll have to see how RT performance goes since it's pretty bad on the 20 series cards

[320d is all you need]

I only have a GTX1060 6GB

Am looking to get a GTX2070 Super if someone has one and wants to sell to fund a 30XX upgrade!

I only game at 1080P though, so as long as I can get 60FPS I'm not bothered. And I'm sure it'll run fine on my system.

I usually turn shadows down a little. I get around 60 on Watchdog legions in places dropping to 40, but WDL is very poorly optimised.

[FourWheelDrift]

130R said:

I have a 2080Ti and 1440p monitor so I'll have to see how RT performance goes since it's pretty bad on the 20 series cards

Cyberpunk also has DLSS so turn than on. I never have any ray tracing problems with RT & DLSS games.

[W201_190e]

I'm getting this for Christmas, will have to do on my One S, until I get hold of a Series X

[Clockwork Cupcake]

I have an Intel Core i7-6900K (overclocked, water cooled), 32 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 RAM, an MSI nVidia GTX 1080 Ti Armor 11GB GPU (overclocked), and a 3440x1440 21:9 super-widescreen monitor (plus two 1200x1600 side screens).

I think I may need to consider an upgrade.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Friday 20th November 20:04

[dapprman]

I need to check I have cabling for a spare SSD I picked up (don;t want to install games on the OS one). Looks like my 1080Ti will be fine (the CPU and memory I'm all right with). Was not planning on upgrading the graphics for another year or so (and at present the 2080ti is silly money still).

[defblade]

I'm somewhere between RT min and high... a quick google for prices/availability of a faster gpu suggests I'll be staying there for the foreseeable, too

[130R]

FourWheelDrift said:

130R said:

I have a 2080Ti and 1440p monitor so I'll have to see how RT performance goes since it's pretty bad on the 20 series cards

Cyberpunk also has DLSS so turn than on. I never have any ray tracing problems with RT & DLSS games.

Yes actually I just looked at some benchmarks and a 2080Ti is basically identical in performance to a 3070 with RT on or off. So based on the system requirements that will run RT Ultra at 1440p (at I assume 60fps)

[General George Smiley]

What is RT

[smithyithy]

General George Smiley said:

What is RT

Ray Tracing. Basically a way of rendering very realistic lighting in games by computing (tracing) the light rays through and around objects. It's been around for years as a technology but it takes a lot of GPU performance to render it real time in a game as opposed to something like video production / animation where you have time to produce a frame at a time.

Quick video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D_dmvTH4iE

[FourWheelDrift]

FYI : Ray tracing has been activated for Pascal cards from the 1060 upwards. But since they don't have dedicated RT cores they have to do the ray tracing with the normal processing cores, the results aren't great.

1060 Ray tracing on vs off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKN7seiCVg8

1660 Super RT off, med, high, ultra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBE0FlTp3wQ

1080 Ti on vs off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXRrpYATYl0

[Rick_1138]

FourWheelDrift said:

FYI : Ray tracing has been activated for Pascal cards from the 1060 upwards. But since they don't have dedicated RT cores they have to do the ray tracing with the normal processing cores, the results aren't great.

1060 Ray tracing on vs off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKN7seiCVg8

1660 Super RT off, med, high, ultra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBE0FlTp3wQ

1080 Ti on vs off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXRrpYATYl0

Is this from a new driver to open up this process?

I am on a GTX1070, so expect it to be pretty poor.

Looking at a few new vids online for new games (COD:CW specifically) with a 2070 super at 1440p. on ultra with RT on and no DLSS you are getting about 45 fps, with DLSS on quality its about 55.

Seeing more and more for my 1440p ultrawide a 2070 super or 2080ti (used) would be fine for even cyberpunk at ultra settings for 50-65 fps, which is fine for me.

A hguge amount of the issues regarding what actually "runs" these games, is made by folk assuming a game running, = 144fps, where my monitor caps at 100fps, and as i dont play online and mostly in narrative games, 50+fps minimum is fine.

The issue is, you cant find 2070 or 2080 cards for love nor money now, its like they all just thre them into the sea the day to 30xx stuff came out. problem was, you cant get them for a while, and no reductions on old 20xx stock seems to be happening

ebay second hand 2080ti's are looking more attractive if under £550. real world tests showing the 3070 vs 2080ti isnt actually that much different in most games so far.