Cyberpunk 2077 running at 72p is impressively hideous

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If you love high fidelity graphics, then you should probably avoid this video of Cyberpunk 2077(opens in new tab) running at 72p. Yeah, you read that right, that's 128 x 72 pixels. Kryzzp of zWORMz Gaming set this up as an April Fool's joke, but as can sometimes be the case with whacky ideas, there's something in this that is appealing. 

He starts off the video by running the game at 2560 x 1440 and then downscaling everything by a factor of 10x to achieve 144p. In order to unlock the 10x downscale, he had to edit the configuration file and set the minimum and maximum resolution to 10%. The game also demanded that AMD FSR be turned on, which clearly has its work cut out, especially when it comes to trying to sharpen the image. 

As the game is running on an RTX 3080 Ti, everything else is maxed out, including setting the ray tracing to the highest «Psycho» mode. I'll be honest it's pretty hard to tell whether those reflections are actually working or not, but you can convince yourself that they're, and that's probably all that matters. In case you're interested, the frame rate isn't particularly high, as the game is CPU limited at this point, with the GPU topping out at 50% utilization.

«It's just a blurry mess» is a fairly good description of what's happening on screen, especially when he ditches driving around Night City in favour of attacking the Maelstrom in the early mission called «The Pickup» with Jackie. It doesn't go well, as the darkened interiors reduce everything to blurry, dark nonsense. You can just about follow what's happening on-screen, but that's mainly thanks to your brain trying to fill in the blanks.

It's when he drops the resolution to 1280 x 720 and hits the same 10% scaling that things get really