Cyberpunk 2077's Ray Tracing Overdrive Mode Is Tanking Frame Rates
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red triumphantly announced its extremely impressive Overdrive Mode earlier this month, which promised to deliver full ray tracing and a variety of different visual improvements as long as you had a rig powerful enough to actually get it to work. It was made abundantly clear by the developer upon the announcement that only people with top end machines would be able to make Overdrive Mode work as intended, but that hasn't stopped many fans from trying to get it work regardless.
Even if you have a GPU that is capable of supporting ray tracing, you still might find that it struggles to deal with Cyberpunk 2077's Overdrive Mode, as showcased by Hardware Gamong on Twitter. Having just built a new Zen 4 gaming PC with an iGPU, they decide to give Overdrive Mode a whirl, only to experience a frame rate that is only one step up from a PowerPoint presentation. Honestly, you could run Doom on a calculator powered by potatoes and get a better frame rate.
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Of course, Hardware Gaming isn't the only Cyberpunk 2077 fan who's decided to torture their GPU with the release of this update, as the Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit is filled with similar examples of people experiencing strange issues, along with plenty of people working together and trying to get the best performance possible on less than optimal hardware. A lot of these issues are frame rate related, though there are the odd texture and crashing problems. Even the more powerful setups out there are dropping to 30fps.
To really drive home how intensive the mode can be for a PC, The Verge senior editor Tom Warren shared that Cyberpunk 2077 will run at a staggeringly low 13fps on a 139000KS or
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