With the Cyberpunk 2077 enlargement Phantom Liberty set to reach on September 26, CD Projekt is making some adjustments to the sport’s system necessities “to make sure that gamers have a greater understanding of what’s going to be wanted” to run the sport at an appropriate degree of efficiency. The adjustments additionally mirror the evolution of PC gaming {hardware} within the three years for the reason that unique sport’s launch, together with help for brand spanking new GPU {hardware} that wasn’t out there again then.
“The adjustments to the minimal necessities are a mirrored image of our new commonplace of necessities, which we consider higher signify the minimal PC configuration required to run the sport at 1080p, whereas sustaining a mean of 30 FPS at low preset,” CD Projekt stated. “The explanation for making these adjustments is that updating the necessities is a crucial a part of the sport enchancment course of, and of enhancing and including new options.”
One vital change, at the least symbolically, is the tip of arduous drive help: The quantity of cupboard space hasn’t modified however the brand new minimal spec says that an SSD is required, not simply really helpful. CD Projekt stated that tough drives will proceed to function (and, usually, Cyberpunk 2077 will proceed to run on the older minimal {hardware}) however energetic help for them can be ended, and future updates will not be examined on HDD-based setups.
Cyberpunk 2077 is definitely the second sport we have seen transfer to an SSD minimal requirement in latest days: Starfield’s minimal system necessities additionally requires an SSD. I initially questioned when Starfield’s {hardware} calls for had been introduced whether or not it was a mistake, however plainly builders are merely embracing the numerous advantages of solid-state expertise.
And rightly so: SSDs are small, quick, quiet, and as you possibly can see in our information to the perfect SSDs for gaming, in no way prohibitively costly anymore; I am not a {hardware} professional by any measure however I can inform you from private expertise that including even a middling SSD to your rig can be transformative, and as soon as you’ve got sampled that velocity, you’ll not return.
Listed here are the up to date specs:
No Ray Tracing
Minimal (In-game graphics preset low, decision 1080p, anticipated fps 30)
- OS: 64-bit Home windows 10
- Processor: Core i7-6700 or Ryzen 5 1600
- Graphics card: Geforce GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 580 8GB or Arc A380
- VRAM: 6GB
- RAM: 12GB
- Storage: 70GB SSD
Beneficial (In-game graphics preset excessive, decision 1080p, anticipated fps 60)
- OS: 64-bit Home windows 10
- Processor: Core i7-12700 or Ryzen 7 7800X
- Graphics card: Geforce RTX 2060 Tremendous or Radeon RX 5700 XT or Arc A770
- VRAM 8GB
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 70GB SSD
Extremely (In-game graphics preset extremely, decision 2160p, anticipated fps 60)
- OS: 64-bit Home windows 10
- Processor: Core i9-12900 or Ryzen 9 7900X
- Graphics card: Geforce RTX 3080 or Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- VRAM: 12GB
- RAM: 20GB
- Storage: 70GB NVME
Ray Tracing Enabled
Minimal (In-game graphics preset ray tracing low, decision 1080p, anticipated fps 30)
- OS: 64-bit Home windows 10
- Processor: Core i9-12900 or Ryzen 9 7900X
- Graphics card: Geforce RTX 3080 or Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- VRAM: 12GB
- RAM: 20GB
- Storage: 70GB NVME
Beneficial (In-game graphics preset ray tracing extremely, decision 1080p, anticipated fps 60)
- OS: 64-bit Home windows 10
- Processor: Core i9-12900 or Ryzen 9 7900X
- Graphics card: Geforce RTX 3080Ti or Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- VRAM: 12GB
- RAM: 20GB
- Storage: 70GB NVME
Overdrive (In-game graphics preset ray tracing overdrive, decision 2160p, anticipated fps 60)
- OS: 64-bit Home windows 10
- Processor: Core i9-12900 or Ryzen 9 7900X
- Graphics card: Geforce RTX 3080Ti or Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- VRAM: 12GB
- RAM: 20GB
- Storage: 70GB NVME
Together with the SSD change, observe additionally that the minimal listed RAM requirement is now 12GB, and the really helpful is 16GB. CPU and GPU suggestions are additionally up, though not a large amount, so your outdated GTX 970 workhorse will nonetheless get the job finished so long as you are prepared to make some compromises in visible high quality. Total, it isn’t an enormous leap ahead however it’s one thing to pay attention to, particularly in case your PC was on the bubble with the preliminary spec
We received some hands-on time with Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty over the weekend at Summer time Sport Fest, and at this pre-release stage it seems doubtlessly fairly good: Probably even the Cyberpunk equal of the sensible Blood and Wine conclusion for The Witcher 3.