CD Projekt Red (CDPR) rolled out new high-end ray tracing features for the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077, thanks to the newly released Ray Tracing: Overdrive mode introduced in patch 1.62.
A new PC-only feature is aimed at high-end rigs and brings a “full ray-traced, aka path-traced render mode” to the game. According to a new post on the Cyberpunk 2077 website.
Developers say the technology can accurately simulate light across any given scene, taking into account the properties of radiation from an unlimited number of sources to create faithful shadows, reflections, and global illumination. says.
As a result, the full set of new features is very GPU intensive and only available on a limited number of NVIDIA cards.
At launch, Cyberpunk 2077’s ray-traced overdrive mode will be available for PC players with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40-series (4070 Ti and above) running at 30 fps at 1080p resolution on NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 You can also PC players and others with ray tracing-enabled cards can render fully path-traced screenshots via the game’s photo mode.
Patch 1.62 also saw support for NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence-based DLAA anti-aliasing mode implementation and upscaling technology to boost the performance of Intel Xe Super Sampling 1.1. Visit the official Cyberpunk 2077 blog For a complete list of updates and related PC specs, visit .
CDPR labels new feature releases as “Technology Previews.” This is to reflect the fact that developers expect resource-intensive graphics features to have significant “problems” on startup.
“Pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with technology,” read the update blog. “But it’s very new and fundamentally different from what we’ve been using, so we know it won’t be perfect from the start and players may experience some issues. Technology Preview.” .
New graphics options are off by default. However, players with the necessary hardware can switch to the Ray Tracing: Overdrive preset from the graphics menu, or enable only the path tracing feature. CDPR also said it is working to improve future functionality.
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