CD Projekt RED has recently changed the Cyberpunk 2077 system requirements ahead of the DLC launch.
Cyberpunk 2077 System Requirements Officially Tweaked
Since Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty is launching in a few months, CDPR is already making some changes to the game’s system requirements to make sure that players have a better understanding of what will be required to play the game. These new changes also reflect how the PC gaming hardware has changed in three years since the game’s original release. This includes support for new GPU hardware.
“The changes to the minimum requirements are a reflection of our new standard of requirements, which we believe better represent the minimum PC configuration required to run the game at 1080p, while maintaining an average of 30 FPS at low preset,” CDPR said. “The reason for making these changes is that updating the requirements is an important part of the game improvement process, and of enhancing and adding new features.”
SSD is the New Storage Device
Based on the new system requirements, one of the significant changes to them are the removal of hard drive support. Instead, it is highly recommended to have an SSD now. Still, HDDs will still work, but the active support for them will be ended and future updates will no longer be tested on HDD-based PC builds.
Here are the new PC specs:
No Ray Tracing
Minimum (In-game graphics preset low, resolution 1080p, expected fps 30)
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- Processor: Core i7-6700 or Ryzen 5 1600
- Graphics card: Geforce GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 580 8GB or Arc A380
- VRAM: 6GB
- RAM: 12GB
- Storage: 70GB SSD
Recommended (In-game graphics preset high, resolution 1080p, expected fps 60)
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- Processor: Core i7-12700 or Ryzen 7 7800X
- Graphics card: Geforce RTX 2060 Super or Radeon RX 5700 XT or Arc A770
- VRAM 8GB
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 70GB SSD
Ultra (In-game graphics preset ultra, resolution 2160p, expected fps 60)
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- Processor: Core i9-12900 or Ryzen 9 7900X
- Graphics card: Geforce RTX 3080 or Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- VRAM: 12GB
- RAM: 20GB
- Storage: 70GB NVME
Ray Tracing Enabled
Minimum (In-game graphics preset ray tracing low, resolution 1080p, expected fps 30)
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- Processor: Core i9-12900 or Ryzen 9 7900X
- Graphics card: Geforce RTX 3080 or Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- VRAM: 12GB
- RAM: 20GB
- Storage: 70GB NVME
Recommended (In-game graphics preset ray tracing ultra, resolution 1080p, expected fps 60)
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- Processor: Core i9-12900 or Ryzen 9 7900X
- Graphics card: Geforce RTX 3080Ti or Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- VRAM: 12GB
- RAM: 20GB
- Storage: 70GB NVME
Overdrive (In-game graphics preset ray tracing overdrive, resolution 2160p, expected fps 60)
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- Processor: Core i9-12900 or Ryzen 9 7900X
- Graphics card: Geforce RTX 3080Ti or Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- VRAM: 12GB
- RAM: 20GB
- Storage: 70GB NVME
RAM Gets Upgraded
Aside from the SSD change, it should be noted that the minimum recommended RAM is now 12GB and the highly recommended one is 16GB. Better make some changes soon or else your gaming experience might not be optimum.
Cyberpunk 2077 is out now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. Phantom Liberty will be available on September 26, 2023.