Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 BEST Settings for FPS & Quality (In-Depth Optimization Guide) 

The correct settings literally make or break the game in my opinion, its amazing how well it looks and plays after following your recommendations, I'd argue it even looks better than just using the stock high / ultra preset, was really sleeping on the dlss sharpness slider. Thank you :)

RESULTS: Ok, as I said below, I was already close to these settings, but I changed everything accordingly to match exactly - except my FOV is on 80, and my sharpness is on 75 (which I actually moved up from 50). The result was that YES, I did get an FPS boost, probably between 5-10, enough to notice in dense areas. As for how the game looks - it actually looks BETTER than it did before. So, with these adjustments, both the look and performance improved. It's all about knowing which settings give you the most bang for the buck, and adjusting accordingly. I really thought I had it locked in, but these recommendations gave me a notable improvement all around. Thank you!!!

Thank you so much, went from 60 to 100+ fps after these settings with quality staying pretty much the same

You explained how a lot of these settings work in such a clear and understandable way that really demystified how things work for me. Thank you

Update 2.1 reduced my performance by 60%. Going default helped a little bit this video made it run like butter. Thank you!

wow okay ! Thank a bunch for the video. As for my end of the bargain, I went from around 60-80 to 110-125 fps, with believe it or not better visuals in some areas, because I had some settings tuned lower than what you suggested. My CPU is intel 13600K (running at base speeds) and RTX 3070 (8GB, modestly OC'ed). Cheers !

This worked great for me. I'm running a RTX 3070 / I5-13600k combo at 1440p and was averaging 61 fps on the benchmark with my ill considered and badly understood config. Following your settings albeit with contact shadows off I'm now getting 119 fps average, with a lowest of 89, and the experience is great in terms of graphics quality and immersion. So glad to get this nailed just as I'm getting back to the game to experience phantom liberty. Fine work sir, you have another subscriber.

Absolutely best video. Went from 33fps avg to 98 in bench before and after. Game still looks incredible.

My FPS shot up from 65fps to 90fps on the "Run Benchmark" test inside video settings in-game. That's a 38% FPS boost! I too have a 3090 GPU like the video poster (as well as a i7-10900k CPU), and I more-or-less did exactly what the video poster did except for maybe 3 options which I did different (put on more demanding of setting). This video is gold to get your FPS to skyrocket while also, surprisingly, making the game look even better! Hats off to FourEyes for posting this!

Amazing video dude! I've struggled to find that quality/fps sweet spot since this game came out, but these settings were perfect. I'm on a 3060, and went from running 40-50 frames in crowds and I'd hit 60 at best normally, to 90-100 normally, and 70-80 in crowds.

Killer video breakdown! I was already pretty close in my settings, just from a lot of experimentation, and this video will save people a LOT of that time I used. I run on a 3070ti mobile, so I went a little more on the FPS side, like having contact shadows off. The one that I have off, that I'm immediately going to toggle on, is Lens Flare. I just don't typically turn it on, but the mention of all the neon has me curious to see. Plus, my current FPS floats between high 70s, in the most dense areas, to mid 100s, meaning I have room to add a little more.

I've got an i9900k & RTX 3060Ti on a 4K native screen (42" Sony TV). Was getting 55 FPS with recommended settings, RTX off & DLSS Performance. Went through your guide and now getting 66 FPS with DLSS Quality and RTX off (38 FPS with RTX on). Very nice improvement in FPS and image quality. Thanks for posting this guide. Cheers.

Awesome changes. I have been fiddlingwith setting for some time and best i got was 40-50 fps but with your suggested settings i get 70-90. Huge jump dogtown is not a stuttershow anymore. Thx for the video.

Thank you Sir! Went from 55 to 82 FPS averages on the in game benchmark. Running a 3060 (12G) on a Ryzen 7 5800X at 1440p. Much appreciated.

Great video! Glad you explained what each setting does too. I have a I7-13700 and a 4070. The game auto maxed everything and was getting normally 90-100 frames and down to 60 in more graphical intense areas. Now I get 180 and 140 in intense areas.

I spent so long trying to work out the best settings and failed. Wish I'd found this video earlier, it was super helpful. Thanks for making it.

I was using these settings before update 2.1 dropped (running a Ryzen 5 5600G & RTX 3060) and my FPS went from 30-40 to 80-90, then 2.1 seemed to throw my settings out the window. Glad I was able to come back to this!

Dude, THANK YOU!! I run a Ryzen 7 5800x and RTX 3080 and these settings keep me at 100-120 in most cases, between 80-90 on the lower side. so much better now, I was having some issues with streaming it to twitch, those issues are now gone. YOU'RE A HERO CHOOM

Thank you man, redownloaded CyberPunk and was getting 15fps for whatever reason and followed your guide and getting a smooth 75 your the best!

My fps took a huge tank in dogtown but these settings made it indistinguishable in terms of fps from other areas in the game, thank you so much!

for me personally I have to say that lighting makes a huge difference in visual fidelity. So much so that I'd rather go with path-tracing on and medium texture quality to balance out the VRAM usage. It runs at usable framrates for me, but I also only use a 1080p monitor with a 3070Ti

Running a Core i5-12600K - 32gb RAM - Gigabyte RTX 4070 12GB card with 1440 monitor. Ran with the exact same settings recommended in the video. Benchmark ended up at 166 FPS average.

Great video. Increased not only my fps drastically but my game also looks wayyyy better.

Thanks for the detailed explaining of each setting, great video!

That is incredible, and thank you. I am running an i5-12600K with the venerable 1080Ti, (so no DLSS or Ray Tracing) and previously on High settings. This is 1080p, and I was getting about 64fps on benchmark. I do like motion blur so set this back to High. The rest of the changes, I cannot tell the difference. I'm now getting 84fps with 109 high and 64 low on v2.1, too. This is a brilliant video, thank you again.

Liked and subbed went from 50 fps to 80 just like that. Thank you good man.

In the end of the vid when you said comment ur fps and ur specs, really helps from a person pov who tryna buy the game. gained a sub !

This is great seen a few optimisation tutorials now I get a proper boost! And thanks for the ray tracing tips that really make it. Thanks again

Well done, it worked for me way better than the default Low Medium High settings. Your recommendations are a real functioning optimozation

thank you so much,great video!

My system is an AUS ROG machine running an AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-core CPU with 16 GB RAM and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with 8 GB RAM. When I bought this machine about 2 months ago, I spent an hour in CP2077 playing with the settings and running benchmarks. My final results were: AVG FPS 138, Max FPS 226. After switching to your settings, my results were: AVG FPS 37, Max FPS 48. I think the biggest difference was your settings being at native screen resolution, while on my chosen settings, I was at 1920 x 1080 and using the Nvidia upscaling.

This is one awesome guide to properly running Cyperpunk 2077! Thank you for this man 🙂

THANK YOU. I needed something line this.

I run 1440p (ultrawide) on maximal (psycho) details, ray tracing, path tracing, DLSS balanced, 50 FPS ----- on 4060 Ti !!!!!!!!! :D Guys try path tracing, its something jawdropping how the technology can work with the light. Its not that demanding how you think, try it max performance first and then go up with quality. In fact, the human eye can tell the difference between 50 and 120 fps, but it won't affect the game experience, it will be smooth enough.

Great video mate! I'm getting an average of 90 FPS after those settings and the visuals are still amazing!

Helped my FPS a looot. Thank you!

Adapted your advice and jumped from 31fps to 75fps. Game still looks good in the benchmark tool. Nice video!

Great settings and great video! I just differ on one thing you mentioned about Path Tracing. I've played the game in both rasterized and ray traced modes, the visual upgrade you get with normal ray traced mode is only worth in reflections mostly. But now that I've tried path tracing... OMG it's a totally different experience (visually). Of course you will destroy fps with that setting on, but if you have a nvidia 4070ti or higher, the game is surely playable. I'm running it on that card and getting 50-90 fps without your optimizations! For me the most important thing for any game to look good, is great lighting, and don't get me wrong, cp2077 looks beautiful even in pure rast mode!

thx , ur an amazing person u explain everything very clear

This worked a lot for me! TY!!!!

so easy to follow along with thank you so much

About the setting "crowd density", it has a very large impact on fps, cause I tested it out with a config, where all NPC's and cars got removed and I got more fps, a lot more... and no stuttering

omg bro thanks so much!! helped me to get fps from 17 to playable 55

Nice guide dude, well done!! Clearly it does look better to me.

Thank you for this video. It really helped me

Thank u this was awesome I went from about 60-80 to 170 with FG with a 4070 super and 7800x3d

Thanks for the explanation, i like to know such things.

Good guide, got me to a solid 70ish fps 1440p ultrawide w ryzen 9 and 3060ti

I’ve got a 3060 ryzen 7 5700x and this really helped my fps

thanks it made my game look really nice

This video actually went so hard my game looks so clear now

...and with this video YOU earned my SUBSCRIPTION...good one keep 'em comin'...

good recomendations overall. the only 2 things id say need a "astrix" would be V sync, and motion blur. V sync unless youre sensitive to latancy or in a competitive game you really should leave that on. save power, temps, and possably noise. unless youre struggling to hit the refreash rate, as it can create stutter in that case. then motion blurr, if you struggle with motion sickness in game try turning on motion blurr. its something youre brain dose to fast moving objects naturally. especially if you sit close to youre screen and/or it takes up a large portion of youre field of view this can help a ton. it can make it worse though depends.

That DLSS Sharpening made my game look incredible thank you !

If you're not playing in a competitive FPS tournament frame rates is not that important, especially in a single player game. It's allot more important to get a stable frame rats. You will feel like it lagging if the frame rate bouncing all over the place even if it's between 60 and 120. Some times it's better to cap the frame rate at a lower Hz than try to get as high number as possible.

Thank you much mate, good guide

as someone who gets 90+fps on maxed settings but came from a low end system, this doesnt explain everything in the settings but it does help to those who have an old gtx gpu

Bro on my 4060 laptop following your instructions(plus ray tracing) I’m getting able to run 1080p100fps and looks mind blowing.

Great info...THX!!! :)

Thanks that really helped me out

Thanks I tweeted and applied these settings to my Lenovo legion go, averaging 60 fps only because I care about the game looking good too otherwise with lower settings getting closer to 75 fps.

Thank you sir❤👊

I run this game as high as I can for a 3070 rtx , these tips helped boost me by roughly 10+ fps howver normally i fell like this should increase your fps by about 18fps

Thank you so much sir, it really helped boost the fps by almost 45%!!

Welll explained settings. Thank you

Woah just what i needed, didnt expext so good video about this to exist.

I find it really irritating when people say things like "this setting has no impact on performance." Sure, it doesnt on your 3090 system, but it can and does in lower end or older cards, or even good cards paired with lower end CPUs for certain settings. Just because the bottleneck is elsewhere for your card doesn't mean that's the case for everyone or every system.

Once I was blind but now I see!! Nice Work! Thanx!

I just realized that I don't have to decline a feature. I play with the "Ray Tracing Overdrive" preset with path tracing on and 2K ultra-wide screen resolution and get around 100 FPS. My hardware is good, but not the best (for example, the smallest current CPU). But I chose a 4080 graphics card - and oh my god, is that a beast of a card! I will never regret spending €1500 on it. The good thing is that the card will be enough for the next 10 years (as long as the card doesn't break).

I am running a 3070Ti (ZOTAC) and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor. The FPS went from a stuttering 45-60 to a really smooth and clear 120-140. This remind me of when I played Shadow of Mordor without proper graphics drivers at around 15 fps, watched Total Biscuit the Cynical Brit may he rest in peace, and then updated the drivers and the game ran at over 80fps

Just the video i needed

i got a 4060 ti 16gb and a i5 10400F and thanks for helping, this sadly took a bit of the games beauty but gave me 100Fps in addition to my original 80 Fps

Thanks a lot, Definetely going to try this on my 3060 and 10400f combo :)

Very good video thanks

Dude thank you, i went from getting around 10-28 fps to getting an average around 140

Thank you for the in-depth explanation of everything. With your exact settings I got an average of 132 FPS on my 7900XT GPU and Ryzen 5 7600 CPU. I think I might try turning of AMD FSR thanks to this and play that way. Edit: With AMD FSR Turned off the benchmark result is 113. So I am keeping these settings (with only AMD FSR turned off). Thank you very much for the video.

RTX 2080 Super (recommended settings) was at a 44~48 fps on the benchmark after tweaking the settings with your recommendations I'm at ~90-95 fps, and I feel the game looks better than it did originally.

so much better dude thanks

Finally some good settings! I havent been able to optimize this game until now and can finally enjoy it. Hardware Unboxed just lost a follower and you just gained one sir.

Game runs and looks incredible now

thank you , bro👍

thx helped a lot

Great vid 👍🏻

From 90 to 140 in my case wow, thank you brow

Thank You!

About nvidia reflex, turn it off if your processor is not fully loaded, so after it will be faster. If they both work and load 90% on, and 95%+ boost

Went from 35-40 fps to 75-85fps. Thanks man. Game still looks great! 3080ti and i7-9600k.

I benchmarked the exact same settings shown in the video with local shadow raytracing enabled: Min: 70 Max: 192 Average: 148 System: Laptop/Mobile (Acer Nitro 517-55) RTX 4060 - i7-12700H - 16GB DDR5 Standard power mode

I play with Path Tracing and all RT on max. My FPS went from 28-30 avg (console experience) to 38-40. 33% gain. 😊 Specs: 10600K, 7900XT eco-mode. My PC is built to be quiet and cool. The difference in quality is massive. I dont wanna play the game without Path Tracing.

I wish you showed benchmarks before and after. Either way good stuff

I like to leave the lens flare on in this game because I feel like since I basically have a camera in my eyeball it would probably make sense that you would get a lot of lens flaring happen when walking around the city.

People really sleep on max fps it can literally save you stutters since it can keep frame-times consistent

2070 super with Ryzen 7 5800x3d getting about 90-100 FPS, thank you!

I normally run the Hardware Unboxed recommended settings. They show that RT shadows looks no different to pure raster shadows. Raytraced reflections look better than SSR set to psycho

Well done, thanks for sharing, this game demands a lot of performance, the thing is that it don't look that good, is almost all red in its colors, I have gamed other titles and they look amazing w/o the demads this game calls for.

I'm going to apply these settings on my setup and later will edit if there were any improvements. I just downloaded this game now on may 2024. my setup: i7 9700K RTX 2070 16GB TEAMFORCE 4000mhz

thx mate

After my RTX 4070 died just within two months, I decided to buy a RX 7800 XT. Really good card and great price to performance, but I just can't stand FSR in any game... so I try to avoid image scaling as much as possible. My goal is to achieve good visual settings at 1440p / 75 fps + and enable RT reflections with local RT shadows at the same time... thanks for the great guide. EDIT: Is not possible to use RT without at least FSR on quality, but at least you can do ray tracing and keep the good looking visuals with your recommendation.

Follow your settings it really doesn’t look different than when I had other settings on high but now game still look amazing & my average fps is 67 high like close to 80 on 4k & high crowd really change a lot in terms of immersion

thanks dude after your configs i get 40 fps on 70 :D