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

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00:00 - Welcome to Hardware Unboxed
02:54 - Texture Quality
04:08 - Motion Blur
04:44 - Contact Shadows
05:17 - Improved Facial Lighting Geometry
05:32 - Anisotropy
06:11 - Local Shadow Mesh Quality
06:53 - Local Shadow Quality
07:41 - Cascaded Shadows Range
08:22 - Cascaded Shadows Resolution
08:57 - Distant Shadows Resolution
09:12 - Volumetric Fog Resolution
10:29 - Volumetric Cloud Quality
11:29 - Max Dynamic Decals
11:37 - Screen Space Reflections
13:03 - Subsurface Scattering Quality
13:17 - Ambient Occlusion Quality
14:01 - Color Precision
14:11 - Mirror Quality
14:38 - Level of Detail
14:53 - Crowd Density
15:21 - Ray Traced Reflections
16:26 - Ray Traced Sun Shadows
16:51 - Ray Traced Local Shadows
17:23 - Ray Traced Lighting
18:51 - Path Tracing
19:24 - Presets
22:28 - HUB Optimized Settings
25:08 - Final Thoughts
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Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty Optimization, The Best Settings for PC!
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  • @abdelrahmanmahmoud7961
    @abdelrahmanmahmoud79618 ай бұрын

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

  • @MagiofAsura

    @MagiofAsura

    8 ай бұрын

    Best smash that like button, share and comment!

  • @DanielFrost79

    @DanielFrost79

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @GewelReal

    @GewelReal

    8 ай бұрын

    Just get 4090 and max everything out

  • @The_MEMEphis

    @The_MEMEphis

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @cptjackdaw

    @cptjackdaw

    8 ай бұрын

    fr

  • @fuhrerhosty
    @fuhrerhosty8 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sticking with doing these optimizaion videos, Tim! I've watched and used every single one of them since your Rdr2 guide. Please never stop doing them.

  • @TheDarksideFNothing

    @TheDarksideFNothing

    8 ай бұрын

    Yeah it's super helpful on these big heavy games with lots of options. It's overwhelming to try to figure it all out manually. Knowing which settings will actually help performance and having a practiced eye to give me an opinion on the visual impact really does a lot to help me be able to enjoy these games instead of spending hours fussing with settings.

  • @bubdigli6756

    @bubdigli6756

    8 ай бұрын

    Seconded, one of the main reasons I'm subbed. That and Tim looks like a muppet that wished to be a real boy. Something about the way his mouth moves that looks artificial, like Superman in the justice league reshoots

  • @HugoStiglitz88

    @HugoStiglitz88

    7 ай бұрын

    Luckily I've got rdr 2 running great otherwise I might need that. I'm impressed with how consistent the performance is in that game. Wish all games were like that. Even the benchmark doesn't fluctuate all that much

  • @wx2999

    @wx2999

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@bubdigli6756there are other youtubers that do this as well: GamersNexus Digital Foundry Benchmark King

  • @evanractivand
    @evanractivand8 ай бұрын

    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

    @mathias4514

    8 ай бұрын

    Is 8 gm VRAM enough?

  • @esaedvik

    @esaedvik

    8 ай бұрын

    @@mathias4514 at 1080p maybe.

  • @mathias4514

    @mathias4514

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @evanractivand

    @evanractivand

    8 ай бұрын

    @@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

    @Antidepressiva1980

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @xBintu
    @xBintu8 ай бұрын

    Optimization videos are always awesome! Great work

  • @Ty4ons
    @Ty4ons8 ай бұрын

    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-

    @R4K1B-

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @phr3ui559

    8 ай бұрын

    oh

  • @flintfrommother3gaming

    @flintfrommother3gaming

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @0xCAFEF00D

    @0xCAFEF00D

    7 ай бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Fertro
    @Fertro8 ай бұрын

    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

    @jagerfromgsg945

    5 ай бұрын

    Fellow cyberpunk 2070s player

  • @agoogleuser2369
    @agoogleuser23698 ай бұрын

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

  • @super84trooper
    @super84trooper8 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @daemonwhite3740
    @daemonwhite37408 ай бұрын

    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

    @VoidProjekt

    7 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @Fr0z3nS0liD
    @Fr0z3nS0liD8 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @RicochetForce
    @RicochetForce8 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @IIFrozenFlame
    @IIFrozenFlame8 ай бұрын

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

  • @Drawlistics
    @Drawlistics8 ай бұрын

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

  • @marcosousaesteves
    @marcosousaesteves8 ай бұрын

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

  • @keybored-
    @keybored-7 ай бұрын

    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

  • @KJPalmer24
    @KJPalmer248 ай бұрын

    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!

  • @ImOnMy116
    @ImOnMy1168 ай бұрын

    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!

  • @mvp4lithuania
    @mvp4lithuania8 ай бұрын

    I discovered your channel when searching for RDR2 optimization and found your amazing video. These optimization videos are incredibly helpful and I would like to see more of them. I would even pay for them. They save SO much time. I wonder if you could ask the community what other games you should do these videos on. Thank you!

  • @mazamonx
    @mazamonx7 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @hanrisckjaeger
    @hanrisckjaeger6 ай бұрын

    thank you for the detailed explanation of the effects of each settings.

  • @snozzmcberry2366
    @snozzmcberry23668 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @joreberking
    @joreberking8 ай бұрын

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

  • @justzero1525
    @justzero15258 ай бұрын

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

  • @cavannanicolas
    @cavannanicolas14 күн бұрын

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

  • @Patraquashe
    @Patraquashe8 ай бұрын

    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

    @djxgam1ng

    2 ай бұрын

    I’m guessing you have a 4090?

  • @whoisswhoo
    @whoisswhoo8 ай бұрын

    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,

  • @blkwolff
    @blkwolff8 ай бұрын

    I’ve been waiting for this video, thank you so much!

  • @unotoli
    @unotoli8 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @lion123z
    @lion123z8 ай бұрын

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

  • @ultraviolet2497
    @ultraviolet24978 ай бұрын

    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

    @supratimchatterjee825

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @turkeyman9914

    @turkeyman9914

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @ActNasty5

    @ActNasty5

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @NamTran-xc2ip

    @NamTran-xc2ip

    8 ай бұрын

    @@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

    @hero654789

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @Partymoth642
    @Partymoth6428 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for the hard work spent in this video. It's really helpful.

  • @sir.fender6034
    @sir.fender60348 ай бұрын

    Very close to 1 Mil subs. Congrats in advance!

  • @Scytherman
    @Scytherman8 ай бұрын

    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

    @shyvchuk

    8 ай бұрын

    i'm interested too!

  • @reaper378

    @reaper378

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @Pamani_

    @Pamani_

    8 ай бұрын

    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).

  • @matthewbusse1059
    @matthewbusse10598 ай бұрын

    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

    @vindicator879

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @willuigi64

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @oldmatttv

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @RicochetForce

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @OhItsLuCa

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @Messiah666rc
    @Messiah666rc8 ай бұрын

    Ok, wow, i applaud this kind of work. Amazing video even though i did not really need it, it was so interesting to watch the settings dissected one by one with comparisons and percentages. Thank you!

  • @seanm746
    @seanm7468 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @gentarox
    @gentarox8 ай бұрын

    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

    @alpsalish

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @LAG09
    @LAG098 ай бұрын

    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

    @intrestingname7934

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @LAG09

    8 ай бұрын

    @@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.

  • @LAM_G80085

    @LAM_G80085

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @OCretribution
    @OCretribution7 ай бұрын

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

  • @Jomenaa
    @Jomenaa8 ай бұрын

    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

  • @congareel
    @congareel8 ай бұрын

    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!

  • @ShermSpinner
    @ShermSpinner8 ай бұрын

    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

    @ioritenshi

    7 ай бұрын

    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

    @thetruth5232

    23 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @DaringDomino3s
    @DaringDomino3s8 ай бұрын

    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

  • @HanSolo__
    @HanSolo__8 ай бұрын

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

  • @ironeleven
    @ironeleven8 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @Scorpius165
    @Scorpius1658 ай бұрын

    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

    @stangamer1151

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @Alex.Holland

    8 ай бұрын

    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

  • @ravikrao
    @ravikrao8 ай бұрын

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

  • @lloydaran
    @lloydaran8 ай бұрын

    Great work, interesting, informative, and useful. I still use most of your recommendations whenever I go back to Red Dead 2. I would be down to watch more optimisation guides for other demanding games as well.

  • @vibonacci
    @vibonacci8 ай бұрын

    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

    @andersjjensen

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @inrptn

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @paulbrooks4395
    @paulbrooks43958 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @NOHEATED
    @NOHEATED8 ай бұрын

    I was waiting for something like this, thank you so much

  • @Phaevryn
    @Phaevryn8 ай бұрын

    Awesome stuff, been toying with settings myself but still learned something new 😊

  • @YataLocK
    @YataLocK8 ай бұрын

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

  • @stevefuncke9798
    @stevefuncke97988 ай бұрын

    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

    @Scorpius165

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @stevefuncke9798

    8 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @shifty332
    @shifty3322 ай бұрын

    Absolutely amazing work! Need more of these!

  • @scuba7695
    @scuba76958 ай бұрын

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

  • @Laurentus
    @Laurentus8 ай бұрын

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

  • @xensho3561

    @xensho3561

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @vietnick

    @vietnick

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @Laurentus

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @DailyCorvid
    @DailyCorvid8 ай бұрын

    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

    @PickeringSamuel

    8 ай бұрын

    Wdym 480p? This video is 2160p.

  • @gorgistanojevik3196
    @gorgistanojevik31967 ай бұрын

    You are my favourite channel to look at for settings optimization so informative! Please keep doing what you do!

  • @bart_fox_hero2863
    @bart_fox_hero28638 ай бұрын

    Very clear and helpful info. Thank you guys

  • @Mash229
    @Mash2298 ай бұрын

    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

    @realnzall

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @Mash229

    @Mash229

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @sirmonkey1985

    @sirmonkey1985

    8 ай бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Harzexe
    @Harzexe8 ай бұрын

    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

    @TheSometimeAfter

    8 ай бұрын

    Hilarious

  • @megamanx1291

    @megamanx1291

    8 ай бұрын

    Me with the rx7900xt 🧍🏿

  • @META313.

    @META313.

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @TheKproductionsful

    @TheKproductionsful

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @Drip7914

    @Drip7914

    8 ай бұрын

    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

  • @caematos
    @caematos8 ай бұрын

    The video I've been waiting for! Thank you!

  • @user-co8vc5nd7l
    @user-co8vc5nd7l7 ай бұрын

    Mate this is so well presented. Thanks for this. It’s unbelievably helpful.

  • @mkatakm
    @mkatakm8 ай бұрын

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

  • @SoulfulKira

    @SoulfulKira

    8 ай бұрын

    Disagree. Ray tracing if accessible is amazing

  • @antares4nt828
    @antares4nt8288 ай бұрын

    BOOST FPS = RAY TrACing OFF ! Problem solved !

  • @baumstamp5989

    @baumstamp5989

    8 ай бұрын

    LOL HAD THE EXACT SAME THOUGHT!

  • @antares4nt828

    @antares4nt828

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @Z3t487

    8 ай бұрын

    @@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

    @nadstengco2591

    8 ай бұрын

    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

    @antares4nt828

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @Alexandra-Rex
    @Alexandra-Rex8 ай бұрын

    Great work as usual! These videos, as basically all your videos, are very appreciated!

  • @williampowell2964
    @williampowell29648 ай бұрын

    This is a tremendously helpful and instructive guide with lots of examples and criteria with which to base your decisions :D

  • @dubwub4667
    @dubwub46677 ай бұрын

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

  • @webikiru_

    @webikiru_

    28 күн бұрын

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

  • @gingerd2098

    @gingerd2098

    21 күн бұрын

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

  • @PuddingTaToRnAtOr

    @PuddingTaToRnAtOr

    14 күн бұрын

    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

    @THEpirateshunter

    6 күн бұрын

    @@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

    @PuddingTaToRnAtOr

    6 күн бұрын

    @@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

  • @nimrodery
    @nimrodery8 ай бұрын

    "turn ray tracing off" you're welcome

  • @SoulfulKira

    @SoulfulKira

    8 ай бұрын

    Hard disagree.

  • @TheWretchedWorld

    @TheWretchedWorld

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @nimrodery

    @nimrodery

    8 ай бұрын

    @@TheWretchedWorld It's really not, though.

  • @TheWretchedWorld

    @TheWretchedWorld

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @nimrodery

    @nimrodery

    8 ай бұрын

    @@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.

  • @marksdone
    @marksdone8 ай бұрын

    thank you very much for this video and the information contained within it

  • @BinggomanLive
    @BinggomanLive8 ай бұрын

    Great work on this Tim, thank you so much for the video!

  • @Choklar_
    @Choklar_7 ай бұрын

    Thanks for making this! This is the best settings video I've ever seen! Very helpful! 🍻

  • @Andrei1396
    @Andrei13968 ай бұрын

    Love these kinds of videos! Keep up the good work!

  • @silverfoxvr8541
    @silverfoxvr85418 ай бұрын

    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%.

  • @ravous246
    @ravous2468 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @Pedone_Rosso
    @Pedone_Rosso8 ай бұрын

    This one is saved on the favorite list for sure. Thanks for your videos!

  • @Shatila5
    @Shatila56 ай бұрын

    thank you for this video, exactly what i was searching for

  • @davkayo6757
    @davkayo67577 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @EDG3PC
    @EDG3PC8 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much for your hard work, helped me a lot.

  • @mrchrisknight315
    @mrchrisknight3155 ай бұрын

    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 .👍🏾

  • @FelinVison
    @FelinVison8 ай бұрын

    And here I was looking for a guide one hour ago, always on point thanks Guys, great work!

  • @clayskii
    @clayskii8 ай бұрын

    This is incredible. Thank you for doing this!

  • @soxfansince97
    @soxfansince978 ай бұрын

    Great one Tim! I want to emphasize how helpful it is to have that ray traced settings hierarchy. Knowing which settings are worth toggling is exactly what I needed.

  • @shhhvcnear
    @shhhvcnear3 ай бұрын

    Videos like these I absolutely love, thank you for the time and effort you put into these, super impactful for my midrange laptop AND my high end desktop trying to play at 4k. The least I could do is give a comment and a like (already subbed). Thanks, guys

  • @GamerMcBaggin
    @GamerMcBaggin8 ай бұрын

    been waiting for this video!

  • @RetroNutcase
    @RetroNutcase8 ай бұрын

    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!

  • @neurokinetik
    @neurokinetik8 ай бұрын

    Love these in-depth guides. Thanks for this.

  • @BlastedBilly
    @BlastedBilly8 ай бұрын

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

  • @khanhvu6969
    @khanhvu69697 ай бұрын

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

  • @marcingawlicki
    @marcingawlicki8 ай бұрын

    Awesome guide, like always. Thank you very much. Greetings

  • @camaro8570
    @camaro85708 ай бұрын

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

  • @chrisdom7731
    @chrisdom77317 ай бұрын

    Thanks, this was awesome and in-depth =D

  • @Marlonlon1991
    @Marlonlon19918 ай бұрын

    amazing video. just what i was looking for!

  • @maltael5721
    @maltael57218 ай бұрын

    Damn, that a greatly detailed guide + comparison, thanks

  • @bingchilling177
    @bingchilling1778 ай бұрын

    Thank you soo much for this guide ❤

  • @BragoX90
    @BragoX908 ай бұрын

    Very helpful! Thanks guys

  • @S80Retroboy80s
    @S80Retroboy80s6 ай бұрын

    Thanks for such a great video with detailed explanations!

  • @LordWallace
    @LordWallace8 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @9r33ks
    @9r33ks8 ай бұрын

    I'll definitely test those settings out. Great job.

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