Cyberpunk 2077 News

Welcome to "Behind the Settings" — a new series where we dive into the technical details of our games!

In our first episode, Joao Pedro de Mello (Senior Player Experience Specialist), together with his guests — Cezary Bella (Graphics Programmer), Jakub Knapik (Global Art Director) and Giovanni de Francesco (Senior Technical Lighting Artist), will give you an introduction to the upcoming technology preview of Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode, included in patch 1.62, by discussing DLSS 3 and path tracing.

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Nvidia have previewed the upcoming Overdrive Mode for Cyberpunk 2077, showcasing how it replaces the game’s already extensive ray tracing effects with full path tracing. Why Nvidia and not the developers, CD Projekt Red? Well, that might have something to do with Overdrive Mode being such a graphics card shatterer that it will supposedly take a GeForce RTX 40 series GPU – with DLSS 3 in effect – to run.

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Launched way back in 2007, Crysis instantly became the standard by which all PC games hardware was measured, routinely bringing the very fastest graphics cards to their knees. "But can it run Crysis" was the only measure that mattered. Kinda...
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Nvidia has released a new trailer showcasing the capabilities of Cyberpunk 2077's upcoming "Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode," which it says will make the game even prettier via the addition of path tracing—if you've got the hardware to handle it...
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