Cyberpunk 2077 dev warns PC gamers to 'check conditions of your cooling systems' before trying to run the Phantom Liberty expansion
The Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty expansion is set to arrive on September 26, just two weeks from today, and lead scene programmer Filip Pierściński has some important advice for people eager to dive into it: Make sure your PC cooling is up to snuff before you do.
With PCs, as with battlemechs, heat is the enemy: The harder you push, the hotter it gets, and if you can't dump it you're going to have big problems at the worst possible times. Maintenance is vital to keeping it all flowing smoothly, a point that Pierściński emphasized (although without the snappy Battletech analogy) in a warning posted to Twitter.
«Before release CP2077 2.0 and PL please check conditions of your cooling systems in PC,» he tweeted. «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.»
Cinebench is a program that tests a computer's hardware capabilities and stability while under a heavy load. It's not exactly the same as real-world usage, but generally close enough that if your PC can handle a Cinebench test without crashing, it'll be fine with whatever else you want to do with it.
Pierściński's caution understandably alarmed some people, who worried that either Phantom Liberty isn't going to run well on their rigs, or worse, that it could cause them to catch fire, melt, and/or explode. In replies he told his followers that Phantom Liberty will not push PCs as hard as a synthetic benchmark, «but still you can hit thermal throttling [during gameplay], if you have [an] insufficient cooling system. It will [deliver] results below expected performance or even crash in extreme.»
The worries were persistent enough that Pierściński posted a
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