A Cyberpunk Performance Guide

A Cyberpunk Performance Guide

A brief explanation of why Cyberpunk 2077 performs poorly for most people and how to fix it.

Cyberpunk is a beautiful game and, contrary to popular belief, it is fairly well optimized. But, Cyberpunk’s release was clearly rushed and there are some glaring issues that need to be addressed.

First, I’ll start with general settings and their intended audiences.

Lets talk about CD Projekt Red’s most glaring mistake: the memory pool budget file. I won’t go into length about it here since it’s already been discussed at length here. Instead, I’ve uploaded my own edited memory pool budget file available for download, including a backup of the original. Just unpack the file into your Cyberpunk install directory. To put it simply, CDPR pushed the wrong file to PC. By default, the application will only have access to a maximum of 1.5 GBs of RAM and 3 GBs of VRAM, which is far less than the average PC gamer has on-hand. This is what’s causing extraordinarily low framerates on relatively powerful systems.

Lastly, we’ll talk about some other modifications you can use to improve performance and stability.

Misc finding:

Dear NVIDIA GPU users: please open the NVIDIA Control Panel and force “High Performance” on “Texture filtering – Quality” under Manager 3D Settings. There is little to no discernible difference between High Performance and High Quality, and it will net you an additional 2 or 3 FPS.

I’ll update this list as new fixes, mods and patches come around.