Cyberpunk 2077 followers might discover the sport considerably heavier on their PC {hardware} than ever earlier than, in keeping with CD Projekt Pink’s Lead Scene Programmer Filip Pierściński. Forward of the discharge of Cyberpunk 2077 2.0, it seems we should always brace for the sport’s efficiency to vary.

Extra particularly, Pierściński claims that the sport will now “use all [the CPU power] you might have,” with the anticipated processor workload being round 90% on an eight-core system. Some spectacular effectivity numbers, at the very least on paper. That mentioned, Pierściński was additionally cautious to level out that cooling might develop into a problem throughout such an intensive workload. The truth is, he really useful that gamers run efficiency evaluation instruments like Cinebench to examine whether or not their techniques are secure below these circumstances.

Earlier than launch CP2077 2.0 and PL please examine circumstances of your cooling techniques in PC. We use all what you might have, so workload on CPU 90% on 8 core is predicted. To avoid wasting your time please run Cinebench or related and examine stability of your techniques ?https://t.co/TWOAkP0ONu

— Filip Pierściński (@FilipPierciski) September 11, 2023

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Graphics are, clearly, one in every of Cyberpunk 2077‘s strongest options. The sport options many visible bells and whistles with full path-tracing enabled, however this doesn’t come low-cost, hardware-wise. Pierściński’s claims are well-timed, as the sport will see its second large visible improve with Phantom Liberty.

There’s no actual motive to doubt what Pierściński is saying, in fact. However warning folks about their PCs’ cooling capabilities over a online game patch is kind of curious, all issues thought of. We’ll see how effectively the sport scales with completely different ranges of {hardware} as soon as replace 2.0 hits. In spite of everything, this stage of efficacy would make Cyberpunk 2077 an much more ubiquitous benchmarking title in the long term.

Presently, there’s no official launch date accessible for Cyberpunk 2077 2.0. However we are able to moderately count on the replace to launch forward of Phantom Liberty, which can arrive on September 26.