Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Says Update 2.0 & Phantom Liberty To Be Very CPU Intensive on PC, Natively Supports 8 Cores
Cyberpunk 2077's major overhaul is coming soon in the form of Update 2.0 & the Phantom Liberty expansion but it looks like it's going to be very CPU-intensive when it comes out.
Filip Pierściński, the lead scene programmer at CD Projekt Red, has posted over at X.com that with the Update 2.0 and Phantom Liberty expansion releasing soon, PC Gamers should check if their CPUs are properly cooled since the new updates will be very taxing.
Filip goes on to state that the CPU usage is expected to reach 90% on an 8-core chip and advises testing your CPU's stability in some popular benchmark applications such as Cinebench. Following is the post by Filip:
Before release CP2077 2.0 and PL please check conditions of your cooling systems in PC. We use all what you have, so workload on CPU 90% on 8 core is expected. To save your time please run Cinebench or similar and check stability of your systems
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