CD Projekt Warns Cyberpunk PC Players to Check Their Cooling Systems Ahead of Phantom Liberty Launch

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Ahead of the launch of the Phantom Liberty expansion and 2.0 update for Cyberpunk 2077, developer CD Projekt has warned PC players to double-check their rigs are up to the task.

Lead scene programmer Filip Pierściński took to X to ask Cyberpunk PC players to check their cooling systems in particular.

“We use all that you have, so workload on CPU 90% on 8 core is expected,” Pierściński said. “To save your time please run Cinebench or similar and check stability of your systems.”

Cinebench is a free cross-platform test suite that evaluates your computer's hardware capabilities. Pierściński focused on cooling systems due to concern players may hit “thermal throttling”, which in turn may result in poor performance or even crashes.
In June, CD Projekt updated Cyberpunk's PC system requirements, highlighting the game will support SSDs for minimum requirements going forward. The developer said the changes were designed to be more up to date (given the expansion is launching nearly three years after the base game) and target a resolution output of either 1080p or 4k.

While the Phantom Liberty expansion is a paid DLC, it launches alongside a significant patch that overhauls the base game and therefore means the PC version will become more demanding.

Cyberpunk 2.0 launches on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC alongside the Phantom Liberty expansion on September 26. For more, check out IGN’s hands-on impressions of Phantom Liberty.

 

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it's true that these kind of games can expose instabilities in people's systems. you see it when people's computers shut down during shyt like shader compilation. dudes got their shyt overclocked but never tested it with Prime95, or something similar

and then of course they'll blame the game
 

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Ran these settings from Hardware Unboxed. Outside of some frame drops that happened at the least framerate intensive times during the Chimera fight, my 3900x and 3080 12GB are handling this expansion well.

But the standard version runs like a fukking DREAM now. Can't wait to get back into that on my Nomad playthrough.
 
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