Cyberpunk 2077 is one of probably the most graphically pleasing video games on the market, significantly once you crank all of the graphics settings to their max and use the sport’s ray tracing options with a supported GPU. However, modders have additionally found the sport’s engine is surprisingly tweakable, to the purpose the place you possibly can run the sport on nearly any piece of PC {hardware}. YouTuber Budget-Builds Official achieved a problem to get the sport to run on an R7 370 with just 1GB of VRAM at a playable frame charge.
The problem took greater than just tweaking all of the graphics settings to low; the YouTuber had to go into the sport’s .ini file and tweak graphics settings under what the low preset permits in-game to obtain a playable frame charge. To get a baseline, the YouTuber ran the sport’s benchmark out of the field with default graphics settings and located the sport ran just shy of 30 FPS.
Tweaking the .ini recordsdata enabled the YouTuber to change a spread of settings, together with the next: lowering FOV and impact high quality to their absolute minimal, turning off world illumination, distant world illumination, and SSAO. Turning down display area reflections nearly completely, turning off volumetric fog, distant quantity fog, and distant fog. Modifying the shadow settings to cut back culling distance and high quality, in order that the shadows are nearly nonexistent. Turning off publish processing, bloom, movement blur, chromatic aberration, movie grain, lens aptitude, AA, and dynamic decals.
The final setting the YouTuber modified was the in-game decision. The lowest decision the sport formally helps is 1024×768, however to obtain the next frame charge, a decision of 640×480 was vital. To do that, the YouTuber had to leap via a number of hoops, together with booting the sport at 800×600 in windowed mode, swapping between fullscreen and windowed mode, altering the Windows desktop decision to 640×480, and eventually swapping again to the sport and enabling fullscreen mode once more. It is a cumbersome manner to power the sport to run at 480p, nevertheless it labored.
With all of these modifications added, the sport ran considerably higher, reaching above 30 FPS in most conditions. In the in-game benchmark, the sport achieved 45 FPS, whereas in-game, the sport achieved the same frame charge, besides in intense combating, when the sport dropped under 30 FPS.
Frametimes weren’t excellent, nevertheless it’s spectacular to see Cyberpunk 2077 operating on 1GB of VRAM at all, not to mention at a playable frame charge. The sport’s minimal necessities demand a 6GB GPU or higher, displaying how excessive this mod is. For perspective, the final NVIDIA GeForce graphics card with 1GB of VRAM was the GTX 750 that launched in 2014.
