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A CD Projekt RED dev warns players that, as of its 2.0 update, Cyberpunk 2077 may be much harder on their CPUs than before.

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[–] deadcream@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah they should just upgrade their PCs

[–] JelloBrains@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Todd Howard is that you!?!

[–] deadcream@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

What? I'm a Hodd Toward, please learn to spell names correctly!

No they didn't.

Before release CP2077 2.0 and PL please check conditions of your cooling systems in PC. We use all what you have, so workload on CPU 90% on 8 core is expected. To save your time please run Cinebench or similar and check stability of your systems

In other words: CPU load will increase, overclockers with unstable clocks will be more likely so see crashes.

No need to check your cooling, CPUs will be plenty stable unless you messed with your clock speed without significant stability testing.

[–] Ginkko117@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy crap. The only thing I wanted from this update is better optimization, and they instead are warning that things will get worse

The game will actually use all of the CPU cores without mods now. The lack of SMT support has been fixed, that sounds like optimisation to me. Currently, the game is struggling to use more than half the available CPU power available on some systems.

You can still artificially limit the CPU to only half your cores, of course (by setting the task affinity for the game process)