I have seen a lot of badly optimized games on PC, that eat GPU VRAM for Breakfast
Yes, Cyberpunk does utilize a lot of VRAM, but here's the thing that differs it for me from other games like The Last of Us Part 1 for example:
I'm running a PC with an RTX 4060 (8GB VRAM)
and I'm playing the game at 1080p RT Overdrive with DLSS Quality + Frame Generation
These settings, when tested on a 4090 ( 24GB VRAM ) use around 13GB, But on the 4060, which keep in mind, only has 8GB, the game doesn't crash or have any major problems or anything.
I'm getting a 60FPS average with almost unnoticeable stuttering on occasion and slight texture pop-in sometimes, This is all supposedly 5GB VRAM over the 4060's Limit.
90% Of games would have crashed or had severe stuttering issues if you even barely surpassed the 8GB
Just felt like I had to touch on this, This game really has come a long way since launch.
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This game is badly optimized. On my old pc, I had a 2060. During the 1.5 or 1.6 update, I tried to replay the game. It had so much trouble I had to put every single graphics settings to their lowest option, and it still had issues. When I tried the game again around March of last year on the same pc, I was getting ~20 fps on the lowest settings. I actually had to increase my graphics settings for the game to run smoothly. There’s still funky stuff going on with the game
I upgraded my gpu to a 4060 and got an SSD and this game runs better than anything i’ve got. It’s insane how much FPS i get on here compared to other games.
Um no it does not. It’s one of the few games that chugs when the vram fills up instead of dynamically adjusting. I have a 3080 with 10gb and if I crank rtx too much, my frames are fine, but opening the menu or sporadically during gameplay the fps will drop to single digits. Only solution is lowering textures to medium. With the same raytracing settings but medium textures I get nice and smooth framerates, no menu stutters or drops. Aka. shitty vram management.
I’m glad it’s working fine for you, but you can’t test the game on just two systems and then make a claim like that.
Me when I lie
It has pretty low res textures to be honest. Red Engine is really cool, but nothing special in regard to VRAM management.
A picture and you writing things doesn’t say as much as a video with your hardware read outs
i’m impressed by it originally i played it on a pc with an intel xeon and a rtx 4060 compact and i could run the game at a stable 30 fps and decent graphism+ ray tracing in 1080p, and i had quite a few mods
meanwhile when i played rdr2 the pc was hyperventillating and had difficulties to run it
now thank god i’m on a better pc and i can enjoy the game in it’s full beauty
https://preview.redd.it/npualki8hf1f1.png?width=1246&format=png&auto=webp&s=133c32479c2186ca1e76dd3a7f7df68621d49975
but i’m impressed by how well the game is optimised to work even on bad config
Boy. My ps4 did this game no favors
Most games try to use as much memory that’s available. This isn’t a new thing.
It’s actually insane how well optimized Cyberpunk is now, considering it’s rather unfortunate launch
Im playing on PS5 and it looks amazing imo
I run this game with 1660 super ray tracing on. So I can vouch for how amazing this game is.
Games allocate VRAM based on what they might need, not on what they actually need in that moment.
That is the reason why games looks like they uses more VRAM on systems that have more VRAM. It isn’t necessarily needed right now.
I noticed the game instantly crashes for me when I download a 2k texture modpack as I run out of vram. The game seriously compromises on texture quality to save on vram. It’s very obvious at times when ads have text that isn’t readable in the slightest
Tell that to DOOM The Dark Ages smh
I play at DLAA 1080p, with PT and FG with a 4070 Super and VRAM was never a problem
the game looks like horseshit on your screenshot tho?? the lanes are pixelated, asphalt is not rendered, npcs look like straight from psx
y’all say this game looks good while you look only at flashy lights that are the illusion of good graphics. all it takes for people like you is a screenshot of a skybox with the sun and you’ll probably jerk to it saying its gorgeous. this game is trash optimisation wise. its 5 year old game and it runs like dogshit on ultra on my pc when i can ultra Alan Wake 2 in 2k without DLSS
While it’s great looking on foot it still has insane popup at all settings cranked up to the max as soon as you’re in a fast moving car.
I hope in the sequel with UE5 they remedy thia, because especially at higher resolutions like 4K it becomes an issue MEZ