Cyberpunk 2077 Game play, how its running, thoughts (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

Chaosphere · December 11, 2020, 05:00:52 PM

18:10 for the 1440p, non-RTX benchmarks - the ones that matter the most to most of us here.

Looks like I need a new GPU. :doh:

I remain hugely disappointed!

smilodon · December 11, 2020, 09:27:44 PM

Yup agree with Albert (although I have not specifically played Cyberpunk 2077 on it). Right now it's OK for some games. And everyone's mileage will differ. I have played Grid and a few adventure games and that's all. even for an old duffer like me it's very obvious the game is streaming rather than being played locally. In the end I've recently cancelled my premium subscription as I just don't spend enough time playing Stadia games to justify the cost. Yes it's the future but no it's not now. :-)

albert · December 11, 2020, 09:52:43 PM

Quote from: Chaosphere;443887You know me too well! :wub:

I'll give it a couple more hours and if I remain disgruntled I'll just stop and wait for it to improve, or for my eventually GPU upgrade sometime in 2021.

The Stadia purchase with the code for a Chomecast Ultra and an (argualby awesome) controller came through. So I will unashamedly keep the Stadia version of the game.

albert · December 11, 2020, 09:54:20 PM

Quote from: smilodon;443903Yup agree with Albert (although I have not specifically played Cyberpunk 2077 on it). Right now it's OK for some games. And everyone's mileage will differ. I have played Grid and a few adventure games and that's all. even for an old duffer like me it's very obvious the game is streaming rather than being played locally. In the end I've recently cancelled my premium subscription as I just don't spend enough time playing Stadia games to justify the cost. Yes it's the future but no it's not now. :-)

Premium can be seen as well.... lets just take the decent games every month and play when you can. I've spent the total of 2 AAA games on Stadia and received over 60 games, many of which are very highly rated. That's over 12 months.

sulky_uk · December 12, 2020, 09:23:06 PM

chaos like at 1:00 in this video, caould cure you low FPS wows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZQMV6JtQvU

Chaosphere · December 13, 2020, 07:06:59 AM

I've already been experimenting with it, and all of the other settings. Game just runs badly!

Ty for the info though.

smilodon · December 13, 2020, 10:59:55 AM

I'm reviewing my thoughts as I get deeper into the game and head of to investigate the swarm of map icons and what they offer. While Night City isn't anywhere close to being as impressive as Skyrim, RDR2 or Witcher 3 it's a place I have no issues with exploring. Maybe it's just an open world rural setting vs a city one but I have spent more time than I care to remember wandering around Skyrim and RDR2 just hunting, fishing and exploring. In Cyberpunk I'm more just getting from A to B. It's a bit of a lost opportunity sadly. But the world is pretty and I am exploring a bit more now. I'm also finding some quite funny quirky little side missions that don't involve just killing a load of people.

That being said as soon as I flipped off film grain, motion blur (which both just make the game look crappy) and cascading shadows the game now zips along and I've seen none of the army of bugs that littered the review copies. Their either patched or I'm just lucky.

Mikep1212 · December 13, 2020, 04:37:01 PM

[video=youtube;pC25ambD8vs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC25ambD8vs&t[/video]

BrotherTobious · December 13, 2020, 08:49:10 PM

Well I am not having any of it, I thought that stadia might work but it hasnt for me. Even buying the pro has not helped and running it on a 4k screen. What I did play I enjoyed and it was very very early. But the lag the visual just jarred you out of the game. Back to saving I think such a shame as others seem to be not having a issue.

Galatoni · December 16, 2020, 11:28:52 AM

Obviously, use at your own risk, but there's a number of performance fixes on nexus mods and github. I've played with modifying the hex values and config file that they shipped and saw some impact, but apparently there's some significant performance boosts to be found using stuff to unlock AMD cores.

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/107?tab=files - is one example. But there are others out there.

TheDvEight · December 18, 2020, 09:34:58 AM

i've yet to run into such issues playing it on pc, although i've only played it for about an hour?

TheDvEight · December 18, 2020, 09:36:06 AM

Quote from: smilodon;443934That being said as soon as I flipped off film grain, motion blur (which both just make the game look crappy) and cascading shadows the game now zips along and I've seen none of the army of bugs that littered the review copies. Their either patched or I'm just lucky.

I always turn off these settings in games, no idea why they put them in!

Galatoni · December 18, 2020, 10:43:26 AM

First impressions having used the performance mods.... good! Very good. Not only does it now fully use my CPU, but it shows a pretty bug performance boost/load times etc etc... I'd recommend it.

sulky_uk · December 18, 2020, 10:51:27 AM

ill try it today gal, cheers

smilodon · December 19, 2020, 01:07:32 PM

I suspected things were too good to be true. With the exception of appearing bald in mirrors I didn't experience any bugs. But as i came to the end of ACT 1 and the big mission it all horribly fell apart. Real game breaking issues surfaced. NCP's failed to enter lifts so that the mission would not progress. Several events that I assume were supposed to happen didn't trigger. My character falls through the scenery on several staircases. Dialogue events don't trigger properly and so on.

So for what it's worth these bugs are reported.... like CDPR don't already know this and a refund request (very unlikely to get) has been submitted. I'll be honest when companies like this do things like this there should be consequences. It's good to see Sony and to a lesser degree Microsoft kick them in the teeth. I certainly think they have burnt a lot of bridges with these two companies and will most likely have to jump through flaming hoops to get another certification for one of their games.

The Witcher 3 is still a masterpiece though and I may well fire that game back up. And no the hypocrisy is not lost on me :flirty: