Can Your PC Run Cyberpunk 2077?

 

Visually, Cyberpunk 2077 is a cut above most open-world games. The grimy aesthetic is off-putting, especially when compared to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's bright and clean environments. That said, Night City is a larger, more interconnected world that's fallen on extremely hard times.

Night City is packed with visual delights. Car interiors drip with detail, as do the streets with their densely packed ads and cyber-enhanced NPCs. It's a pleasure to simply drive around town and take in the environments. Sitting in shadowy rooms and conversing with clients, gangsters, and kingpins looks cool and stylish.

My favorite game elements aren't the pulse-pounding action sequences or riveting side stories. It's simply being driven around town during certain missions and enjoying Night City's sights and sounds. CD Projekt Red has crafted an amazingly realized world. Once you find the visual settings that suit your PC, the game offers amazing atmosphere. 

Cyberpunk 2077 is the first game that makes my Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card feel dated. The game defaulted to Medium settings on my gaming desktop, a rig that contains the aforementioned GTX 970 GPU, an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, and 16GB of RAM. Still, the setting delivered decent visuals that moved at a solid 30 frames per second. Dropping the visuals to Low saw the frame rate dance between 40fps and 50fps, but the gameplay smoothness wasn’t worth the visual hit. Playing on High or Ultra dropped the frame rate to the low 20s, which also wasn’t worth the trouble.

To play Cyberpunk 2077, you need a PC that contains at least the Windows 7 operating system, an Intel i5-3570k or AMD FX 8310 CPU, a Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 or AMD Radeon RX 470 GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 70GB or available space. The recommended system settings demand an Intel i7-4790 or AMD Ryzen 3 3200 CPU, a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 590 GPU, and 12GB of RAM.

You can purchase Cyberpunk 2077  from many video game stores, including GOG and Steam. On Steam, the game supports many Steam features, including Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Steam Trading Cards. It has full game controller support, too. That's the preferred way to play, at least at the moment. There's no way to make your character stroll when playing using a mouse and keyboard; it's sprint or bust.