Update regarding the 1.05 patchnotes saying this file appearantly does nothing:

Hey all, I had no intention to jebait anybody in any way. I even asked two friends to try this fix before posting it, because it seemed unreal to me a file like this could change ANYTHING. After they confirmed this, I went to post it on reddit and people's responses were huge. I expected this to ONLY maybe help in niche-cases. Only after hundreds of people allegedly confirming that it made noticable diffferences, stability being the most common, reflecting purposefully increased memory pools, I started to collect data and tried to draw a better picture since some characteristics seemed very distinct (for example new Ryzens seeming to be totally unaffected). Maybe I got hit with placebo, but how the hell is it possible thousands of people appearantly did too? This bugs me quite a bit. If I really spread misinformation, I am sincerely apologizing. Obviously it's hard to argue with patchnotes most likely backed by developers or a member of QA, but for me my personal changes were far beyond any deviation that would fall in within placebo limits. (Yes, I am very aware that a game restart can fix a common memory leak issue or can get the game the chance to reorder itself, therefore giving you a few perceived temporary extra fps gains) I am still positive my game ran way more stable (even on higher settings and better resolution) and it recovered a lot better from fps drops. A prominent point were definite improvements in load times. I am not trying to pull something out of thin air for the sake of defending myself, I am being honest.

To the people calling me out for allegedly farming awards or having ill intentions: If there is any way I can refund the awards, for example via staff, I will do so asap. If I can refund Platinum / Gold 1:1 I will immediately do that if I am asked for a refund. I have zero interest in keeping any undeserved rewards. The one person who actually has donated me 4.69$ via PayPal has already been promptly refunded after reading the 1.05 patchnotes. --> https://i.imgur.com/DY6q0LR.png

I only had good intentions, sharing around what I found to get back feedback on, waiting for people to either tell me this is only in my head and that I am a muppet or responses confirming my assumptions. And I got a lot more from the later.

I would appreciate it if a CDPR dev can reach out to me personally so I have first hand confirmation, but It's definitely hard to argue with an official set of patchnotes claiming this file does nothing.

Again, sincere apologies if I indeed sold you the biggest snake oil barrel in 2020 on accident. It's just hard to grasp for me atm that this thread has tons of posts backing up my assumptions while an official statement states the complete opposite.

>> I have created an updated all-in-one video guide, scroll to 'What we've learned' for it.

Pre-Story 🐒

Hi, I played Cyberpunk for 14 hours now and was quite bummed from the start.

I have the following rig:

• CPU: i7 4790K @ 4.4GHz
• GPU: EVGA 1080Ti
• RAM: 32GB DDR3
• Game on SSD, Windows on a seperate SSD

My rig is normally a monster trusty chap when it comes to performance, I can play the most recent titles on 1440p high on at LEAST 60 fps.

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I was shocked that I was only averaging 30 - 50fps (lowest settings possible,1080p, 70fov, no extra jazz) at best depending on the amount of objects I was looking at. For someone that is used to play at 1440p @ 144hz, this was heart-wrenchingly bad performance and half an agony to play. So I took a look at CyberPunk in Process Lasso and noticed that both my CPU and GPU always lounge around at 40 - 60% and that my GPU consumed a humble 100 Watts. Something felt horribly off. It makes ZERO sense that my cpu & gpu barely do anything but at the same time my performance is horse shit.

I was looking on advice on /r/pcmasterrace, people with similar or worse rigs than mine were shocked how I was basically at the bottom's barrel bottom of the barrel, while they had no issues to play at 1080p @ high or 1440p @ medium. What the heck is going on?

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Guide 💡

Since I am a C# developer and very comfortable around configuration files, I figured it wouldn't hurt to take a look at the configuration files. And found something that I didn't believe.

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https://i.imgur.com/aOObDhn.png

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Please take a look at the above picture. This picture shows the configuration columns for each platform. PC, Durango, Orbis. (Durango & Orbis is what XBox & PlayStation run on).

Now take a look at PoolCPU and PoolGPU. These values are the same as the other platforms. This looks off. So I decided to give it a try and just screw around with this config. So based off my rig I assigned some values that made a little more sense to me.

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https://i.imgur.com/xTnf0VX.png

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I assigned 16GB (of RAM I guess) to my CPU and 11GB of my GPU's VRAM.

And howdy cowboy, my i7 finally woke the fuck up and started kicking in second gear, now working at 85 - 95% CPU usage. My 1080Ti also now uses 230 Watts on avg instead of a sad 100W.

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https://i.imgur.com/fP32eka.png

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Booted the game and et voila, I am now rocking a solid 60+ fps on:

• High Settings
• No Film Grain, No Ambient Occlusion, Lens Flare etc.
• 80 Fov
• 1440p

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My loading times have gone down from 20 seconds to 2.

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I can't put the emotion in words how I felt when I discovered this. It was something between disbelief, immense joy and confusion.

I can confirm GOG patch 1.04 and Steam patch 1.04 have this borked configuration file.

If you need guidance on what to assign in your config:

• PoolCPU: Use half of what your RAM is, make sure to leave 4GB for windows tho.
• PoolGPU: Google your graphics card on google and see how much VRAM it has. For example my EVGA 1080Ti has 11 GB GDDR5X, so I am entering 11GB.

A fair bit of warning 💀

• These changes can possibly crash your CyberPunk and Windows. I do not take any responsibility for any problems resulting from this.
• CyberPunk will complain that it crashed, even when you close it. This shouldn't matter too much though.
• Mileage may vary. I can't guarantee this will massively improve your performance, I can only say mine did a huge leap and the response from my friends has been very positive.

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If anybody is more familiar with the configuration I am touching, please let me know and I will adjust it. I am merely showing this around because it looks like a promising starting point for many who have weird performance issues.

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If this helped you, please let us know with a short comment how much your FPS and joystick ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) went up.

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Update: What we've learned.

Since this is starting to make bigger waves I decided to create a video compiling a lot of key points of this thread of all sorts. I made a 16 minute long video that should be a one-for-all guide catering all types of users.

>> All-In-One Video Guide <<

If you prefer to go through this in a written version, the agenda i go off on in the video can be found below in prosa.

Timestamps for the video:

General Info: 0:00

Additional Fixes & Troubleshooting: 3:57

Calculating your Values: 6:58

Finding the file: 9:50

Explanations about the File: 10:30

Actually configuring it: 11:58

Zero Config & Theory Crafting: 14:28

Written Version:

TLDR
Possible Benefits
* strong fps gains (up to 50%)
* better stability, less jitter
* better load times
Condensation
* newer processors seem to be already fed correctly, ryzens mostly
* older processors seem to benefit a lot more from this, especially the 4th gen i7 / i5 (4790K)
* scroll the thread. try to Ctrl + F your proc / gpu, a lot of kind people post references
* deleting the file or entering critically low / impossible values will most likely resolved by the engine initializing with defaults
* safe tryout can be the 'zero' config
* its not placebo, its just possible the changes are very minimal for your setup
Troubleshooting / Additional Fixes
* VS Code is light & should replace notepad on windows. 
Treat yourself to a good editor. 
https://code.visualstudio.com 
* running 'Cyberpunk 2077.exe' as admin can help sometimes
* make sure to run the latest nvidia drivers.
* pay attention to formatting in the csv
* yamashi's https://github.com/yamashi/PerformanceOverhaulCyberpunk 
(mentioned by u/SplunkMonkey)
* u/-home 's https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/kbuswu/a_quick_hex_edit_makes_cyberpunk_better_utilize/ AMD Hex Edit
(mentioned by u/Apneal)
* if your pc starts to behave strange, lower the Pools, try zero config
How To Calculate Values?
* Task Manager / Performance
* https://www.heise.de/download/product/gpu-z-53217/download for GPU-Z 
* Amount of RAM / 2  & leave atleast 4GB for windows
Examples:
64GB RAM = 32GB
32GB RAM = 16GB - 24GB
16GB RAM = 8GB - 12GB
8GB RAM = 4GB
Folder Locations

Steam

X:\...\Steam\steamapps\common\Cyberpunk 2077\engine\config

GOG

Y:\...\GOG Galaxy\Games\Cyberpunk 2077\engine\config

Epic Games

Z:\...\Epic Games\Cyberpunk 2077\engine\config

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My personal memory_pool_budgets.csv

;;;
; ^[1-9][0-9]*(B|KB|MB|GB) - Pool budget
; -1 - Pool does not exist on the current platform
; 0 - Budget will be computed dynamically at runtime
;       PC        ;        Durango     ;        Orbis
PoolRoot                        ;                 ;                    ;
PoolCPU                         ;       16GB      ;        1536MB      ;        1536MB
PoolGPU                         ;       10GB      ;        3GB         ;        3GB
PoolFlexible                    ;       -1        ;        -1          ;        0
PoolDefault                     ;       1KB       ;        1KB         ;        1KB
PoolLegacyOperator              ;       1MB       ;        1MB         ;        1MB
PoolFrame                       ;       32MB      ;        32MB        ;        32MB
PoolDoubleBufferedFrame         ;       32MB      ;        32MB        ;        32MB
PoolEngine                      ;       432MB     ;        432MB       ;        432MB
PoolRefCount                    ;       16MB      ;        16MB        ;        16MB
PoolDebug                       ;       512MB     ;        512MB       ;        512MB
PoolBacked                      ;       512MB     ;        512MB       ;        512MB

Donations

I have been asked by a very small amount of people if there's another way they can send a little something my way besides reddit, so here's my business paypal: Paypal Link removed since 1.05 says this file does nothing. The one person who has donated 4.69$ will be refunded immediately. :)

Please feel zero obligation to do so, I greatly appreciate it though if you decide to.

Please consider donating money to the people creating performance mods (yamashi for example), creating a codebase like that takes a LOT of time and sending a digital coffee their way can be a serious motivation booster.

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As you can see with this road map they spent almost an entire year fixing the game.

And Add absolutely nothing to the game besides two jacket and 1 car.

And here we are praising them like they did nothing wrong in the first place.

We Whine, Cry and Complain when a Company lied and release a broken game, but what makes CDPR is out of the question? instead we praise them?

They are the one who started the fire and when they pull out the fire we praise them as a hero?

No wonder we have this buggy mess of GTA Trilogy and Battlefield 2042 because of the people like you..

The Sad thing is Pawel Sasko use the Steam positive review like they did nothing wrong. And All is Well.. How can you expect company to change when you praise them even though they LIED TO YOUR FACE!

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EDIT: This post is not to hate on Cyberpunk, but my disappointment of people giving CDPR too much leeway and giving them Hugs and Kisses.

How about letting them release at least a portion of the promise features they promised and let us wait for the upcoming next-gen upgrade next year? Before giving them a Hugs and Kisses, and for the love of everything good, let them earn our trust back first! Is that even hard? They lied so much in our face and you’re patting their back like everything is ok.

You have no idea how I want for Cyberpunk to succeed, you have no idea how I want for Cyberpunk to break the sales record of Read Dead 2. I want Cyberpunk to succeed to show Rockstar and EA that Single Player games will still make a lot of money without microtransaction. But what they showed the world is you can rake so much pre-order and sales unless you're good at “Marketing”, and hiring a celebrity and a bunch of known influencers and YouTubers just to hype the game even more.

Yeah, given that Cyberpunk sold almost 18M copies, but with what cost? CDPR baited us with Lie and Deception.

And for all the people reading this esp people on STEAM giving this game high praises.. I hope u knew what ur doing...U literally giving other companies idea that is OK to lied about the features, its ok to release a fake gameplay trailer, if ur game is a broken mess it's ok not to give a review copy, forcing reviewers to use a B-roll to hide the bug, releasing a curated demo exclusively for media and youtubers just to create more hype, as long the game has amazing GRAPHICS with RTX ON everything is All Ok...right?

Still, I wish CDPR good luck and hope that they will get through this mess.

But

I'll Forgive But I'll Never Forget.

I had to buy it.

I’ve seen so many complaints; the metro supposedly being a huge downgrade from what was proposed, certain features not coming, so on and so forth, and I just don’t get it. You’re not paying for this. You’re not required to interact with it. You could completely ignore the 2.1 update if you wanted to and nothing would change.

The 2.1 Update adds features to the game with no strings attached. It’s completely free to the user, comes with no new microtransactions, no seasonal subscription bullshit, nothing. Why are you complaining?

It’s actively costing CDPR money to do this for the sake of the community, and if I were a CDPR dev and saw some of the complaints I’ve seen I wouldn’t want to add things for sake of good faith anymore

https://www.reddit.com/r/LowSodiumCyberpunk/s/PqmEY05rx8 link to source of the OG meme