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Cyberpunk 2077 is the open-world action RPG developed by CD Projekt Red, set in Night City and expanded by the Phantom Liberty story arc and the Edgerunners anime adaptation; a sequel ("Cyberpunk 2") is in early development.
Cyberpunk 2077 has to be one of the most covered games across Digital Foundry history, from pre-release media through to the ill-fated console launch, through to the various current-gen upgrades and - of course - PC's RT Overdrive path-traced upgrade. …
… In this week's DF Direct, I first tested Quake 2 RTX, then Portal RTX and finally Cyberpunk 2077 but for this purposes of this piece, I'm going to assume you'll want to know how on earth a PS5 can run path traced Cyberpunk at a playable frame-rate. …
… Mon 10th Nov 2025 DF Direct AMD News Welcome to the New Digital Foundry Website! Why we're doing this - and how you can help. Thu 6th Nov 2025 DF Direct Site News News Digital Foundry parts ways with IGN, now fully independent Independence is the future of quality games media. …
… Critically, Cyberpunk 2077 proved unplayable even on the lowest settings with aggressive upscaling, suffering from frame-time spikes that made the experience difficult to enjoy. …
… In Cyberpunk 2077, I had some sessions where the multiplier stuck to 6x, even when I reduced rendering load. Tellingly, ALT-TABing out and then back into the same scene in Cyberpunk saw the multiplier reset to the more plausible 4x. …
… Gamers Nexus, for example, saw roughly five percent frame-rate improvements in Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon's Dogma 2, but most other games like Cyberpunk 2077 saw equivalent scores for the old and new AMD flagships. …
… It's not disastrous by any stretch, but it's clearly not as robust as the DLSS CNN model seen in Cyberpunk 2077 and Resident Evil Requiem. …
… This makes us think that if there is DLSS involved, it's the "tiny" DLSS variant designed for higher performance, but lacking the more complete upscaling package provided by the convolutional neural network CNN model as seen in titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Resident Evil Requiem. …
… Bigger than the last big jump we saw in gaming graphics with the arrival of path tracing in triple-A games, kicking off with Cyberpunk 2077. …
