Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive Mode Preview Coming on April 11th with Update 1.62

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At the Game Developers Conference 2023, CD Projekt RED announced (via Reddit) that the Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive Mode will debut via a technology preview on April 11th, which will mark the release date of Update 1.62.

The news came from the GDC 2023 session "Cyberpunk 2077' RT: Overdrive – Bringing Path Tracing into the Night City (Presented by NVIDIA)", which took place earlier today at San Francisco's Moscone Center, on the GDC Partner Stage, Expo Floor, North Hall. There's no information or media from the session yet, but here's the description:

RT Overdrive mode aims to take it to the next level by bringing RTX Path Tracing into the mix.

We all are well too familiar with the limitations of the current real-time direct and indirect lighting algorithms. Things like non-shadow casting lights with non-physically based range, low-resolution indirect light multiplied by screen-space ambient occlusion, or screen-space reflections are still widely used. While delivering satisfying performance on lower-end hardware, they limit maximum image quality and reduce content creator flexibility.

RTX Path Tracing aims to minimize constraints put on the content creators by delivering pixel-perfect soft shadows and indirect light contribution in fully dynamic environments from all the lights - be it an analytical local light, emissive surface, skylight, you name it.

Join our session to find out how the new unified lighting pipeline created by the core algorithms of RTX Path Tracing, can improve the game's image fidelity while simplifying the direct and indirect lighting pipeline simultaneously.

CD Projekt RED and NVIDIA first announced Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive Mode last September during the Ada Lovelace GeForce RTX 40 Series