Talk:Cyberpunk 2077

Everybody is always quick to disable blurring, distortions and aberrations for 3D (despite the fact that it's not 2011 anymore and they frequently are quite fair the eyecandy to have), but I'm surprised about how little conversation the mess this game UI is got.

I didn't personally find decorations and effects to be a biggy (even though those were also an annoyance for others) but my god doesn't lens distortion makes a night and day difference with just about anything. From the text used for the subtitles right in the middle of your screen, to even just the silhouette of the 🟡❕ objective marker.

Presumably this disaster is very resolution dependent, which could also explain why it flew low on the radar of the pickier graphics guys (I was just casually comparing how much 4K->1080p DSR made a difference on image quality, when I noticed that the interface was easily hands down the biggest clarity benefiter). How is it that we weren't offering the Purify The UI mod before CDPR added the right accessibility toggles a few months ago?

I´m talking about this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/533 Using it myself, easier and faster install than the linked mod (CET)

Thanks, I've added the mod to the section as well. Seems to work fine with latest version of the game.

I want to use one of the side buttons to dodge, but I can't figure out what the game calls the side buttons internally. I tried rebinding things to the side mouse buttons ingame then looking for those binds in the file but I couldn't find them anywhere.

I tried button IDs and IK_Mouse4 worked, was expecting it to be SideMouse or ThumbMouse of something bc the other mouse IDs use words but i guess not

mouse4

In order to optimise CP2077 I added these changes to my ini file:

[code] [RayTracing/BottomLevelCache] Budget = 3221225472

[RayTracing] GeometryUpdateBufferSizeMB = 8176 ScratchBufferSizeMB = 8176

[Streaming] EditorThrottledMaxNodesPerFrame = 3000 MaxNodesPerFrame = 1800 MinStreamingDistance = 50.000000 [/code]

The bottom level cache change is an idea I had initially and the two buffer sizes were recommended by someone here and tested by ComTest over at Nexusmods ( https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/491?tab=posts ). According to his testing, the maximum size possible value is 8176 in both cases.

MinStreaming distance is causing static flickering to many billboards if the value is above 50. (Again, thanks ComTester.)

DistanceBoost was causing issues for me, but it didn't persist in the save file as reported by other users.

I think it would be a good idea to document these findings here as well. I'm not a fan of having them in various mods or having to search posts for some mods to get a "good" ini file.

Also, I should point out that with these settings I see my VRAM allocation rising from 10GiB to 18GiB, which is quite a significant increase. I do not know how much of the VRAM is actually used and not just allocated, but if you've got VRAM to spare it also doesn't hurt.

I wasn't logged in when I created this post. Is it possible to adjust it after having posted it?

I have noticed that 3221225472 Bytes for BottomLevelCache exceeds the maximum of said cache. It has a maximum of 1024 MiB + 1023 MiB which is 209715200 Bytes.

Where did we get that slow hard drive mode might result in the issues mentioned?

No idea. I've added a [citation needed] tag to the end of the sentence.

Based on Infogram1's INI dump I went ahead and adjusted the cache like so:

[RayTracing/BottomLevelCache]

Budget = 3221225472

EvictAgeLimit = 60

This should increase the cache size from 20MiB to 3GiB. It seemed like the VRAM allocation did increase but I'm not entirely sure. I'm also wondering if different RT settings result in different cache sizes...

Anyway, if additional people could test this, I would be more than thankful.

Any performance gain?

Since CP2077 doesn't have an integrated benchmark it is harder to make any assumptions. I seemed like it allocated more VRAM than before which should not reduce the performance and it seems reasonable that a larger cache shod result in performance gains.

However, it might be some time before I can truly claim anything of that sort and I'm grateful for anyone who is additionally testing it.

Be aware that memorypoolbudgets.csv is planned to be deleted in patch 1.05. Alternatively this tool will still support it afterwards, but it's not certain: https://github.com/yamashi/PerformanceOverhaulCyberpunk/ Consider making backup of your game if you wish.

Thanks, but this is something different. I'm not changing the memorypoolbudgets.csv file but I'm creating a new one which uses existing ini settings.

try GeometryUpdateBufferSizeMB and ScratchBufferSizeMB

Thanks, I will have a look at those when I find some time :-)

The game settings provide settings for inner and outer deadzones, which is really neet in theory.

However, my inner deadzone is HUGE, even after turning corresponding setting to 0. Does anyone else experience the same issue?

(Yes, I prefer playing the game with a controller for better car handling and smoother camera movement below 60fps)

Found a way to change the cvar-like options without needing to patch the EXE file, seems it's handled through the INI files inside engine\config\platform\pc & engine\config\base dirs, any INI files inside there should be read by the game AFAIK (at least, debug.ini seemed to work).

(EDIT: I'd advise creating a new INI inside "engine\config\platform\pc" instead of editing any existing INI, otherwise the changes could be overwritten by future updates, or possibly break the updater used by GOG - using the platform\pc dir should let the settings override any other setting too)

INI section is the section name of the setting, then you can add the settings themselves like normal INI entries.

eg. for disabling antialiasing, you can add the following:

[Developer/FeatureToggles]

Antialiasing=0

Would be nice if someone can confirm this works for them too.

(AFAIK people have already started work on tools that can patch these settings in the EXE, but those are just for the boolean on/off settings, hopefully through the INI files we should be able to change the integer/string ones too)

I've also dumped a mostly complete list of the settings that can be changed thru INI files, not fully complete though since I couldn't figure how to dump string settings values yet... those probably aren't that interesting anyway. (EDIT: figured out how to dump strings too, updated link below)

List can be found here: pastebin.com/mg5Mh3sV

E: Also made a list of some of the EXE parameters I've found, could be worth mentioning some of these in the article? pastebin.com/jmGpVNWe

I can confirm that this does work, great find! I've changed a variety of ini settings with your info, and the command line parameters work as well.

Since the new patch introduced some new bugs, I'm wondering if you know what patch 1.03 exe ini values were set to. We might be able to fix some new patch issues ourselves temporarily if we know if some are caused by ini changes.

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Downloading old 1.03 patch now. Can you explain how you dumped these settings? Without knowing how to do that it's not possible to see what was changed.

Glad to hear, and it wasn't too hard to dump luckily, but isn't really that trivial neither, had to patch in a hook into the EXE so it'd capture the setting names/values when they were inited by the game (even then I'm not 100% sure it's dumping every setting that's available, could be other ways they get inited that the dumper isn't handling)

Would probably work on 1.03 too but I'd have to get a copy of the 1.03 EXE to get the right function offsets for the hook, might need the 1.03 data files as well to make sure the values are correct..

I only have 1.04 here atm though, maybe I'll try clearing some space and look into it soon, or if anyone already has the full 1.03 game available I could probably post a DLL that can dump the settings, once I get hold of 1.03 EXE to update the offsets anyway.

I'd uploaded the bin folder, but pcgamingwiki thinks I'm a bot, so I don't know how to post the link without it flagging it.

If you'd rather acquire the old patch yourself, I followed the tutorial here in order to revert to 1.03: (Look in the comments section): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1086279994

If you don't feel like finding the offsets, no problem, I realize you'd be the one doing all the work.

Figured a way to dump the string settings too, here's a more complete list of them: pastebin.com/mg5Mh3sV

Some neat settings to note there:

[Debug/Singleplayer]

DefaultGameDefinition = "base\quest\demos\e3_2018\definitions\q003_end_night.gamedef"

FallbackGameDefinition = "base\quest\demos\e3_2018\e3_2018.gamedef"

SelectedGameDefinition = ""

Think I can probably dump 1.03 settings using just the EXE too, I'll look into it some more later.

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E: figured out a way to dump the settings at runtime (in this case, dumped after loading into a save), instead of when they're first added by the EXE, so should have more accurate default values now: pastebin.com/mg5Mh3sV

Is there a way to disable enemy health bar with some of these settings?

Hi, quick question;

When you say "create a new INI file...INI section is the section name of the setting" Do you mean that I should just create an .ini file with a random name...include the section...change the value? And will it than take the value from that ini file? How does the game distinguish what ini file to reference?

Sorry, might be quite the nooby question, but I want to start fiddling around with it but don'tr want to break my game :)

Thanks in advance for the elaboration! Great find!

Volkert

Hi,

What's this part do ?

Especialy the first part [AI] CodeTweakActionsEnabled = true EnableLowFPSDetection = true LOD0BucketSize = 0 LOD0TickRate = 1 LOD1BucketSize = 16 LOD1TickRate = 4 LOD2BucketSize = 16 LOD2TickRate = 8 LOD3TickRate = 16 LODUpdatePeriod = 1.000000 LowFPSThresholdMax = 29 LowFPSThresholdMin = 24 VariableTickRateEnabled = true

I try to change the LOD for avoid popping

When you say "create a new INI file...INI section is the section name of the setting" Do you mean that I should just create an .ini file with a random name...include the section...change the value? And will it than take the value from that ini file? How does the game distinguish what ini file to reference?

Yep, any filename is fine, the game seems to read from any filename as long as it ends in .ini and is in the right folder.

I don't know about what order the game reads them in though, I'd guess alphabetical, but I know that INIs inside "engine\config\platform\pc" override any settings from "engine\config\base".

I'm not sure about the LOD stuff, maybe one of the streaming settings can help with that, but that might be handled through some other config file (AFAIK the .archive files contain some configs inside, don't think we can modify them yet though)