Verify Your PC’s Cooling System Earlier than DLC Drops

Cyberpunk 2077‘s large, free 2.0 replace and the paid Phantom Liberty enlargement are across the nook. To arrange for this coming one-two punch, developer CD Projekt Pink is suggesting you examine your PC’s specs forward of time.

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Each the two.0 replace and Phantom Liberty are large additions that considerably change Cyberpunk 2077. There’s a redesigned talent tree and perk system, a revamped cyberware system, vehicular fight and automotive crashes with precise explosions, enemy AI enhancements, and much more. And that doesn’t even embody every part in Phantom Liberty, the sport’s sole paid enlargement. However both manner, each updates are so enormous that lead scene programmer Filip Pierściński suggested on X on September 11 that folk examine their PC’s cooling programs to make sure they will deal with the newly tweaked open-world RPG.

“Earlier than [the] launch [of Cyberpunk 2077] 2.0 and [Phantom Liberty], please examine [the] circumstances of your cooling programs in PC.” Pierściński wrote. “We use all [of] what you have got, so workload on CPU 90 p.c on eight core is predicted. To save lots of your time, please run Cinebench or comparable and examine stability of your programs.”

Cinebench is a free cross-platform program that exams your PC elements by operating varied stress exams and assigning standardized scores that allow you to evaluate your rigs with others’. Pierściński appears fearful that folk may run into throttling/overheating issues if their PCs aren’t as much as snuff, which may end in poor efficiency or recreation crashes.

When reached for remark through electronic mail, a CD Projekt Pink spokesperson pointed Kotaku to Pierściński’s follow-up X publish explaining why he made the suggestion. He shared a picture of Phantom Liberty’s beneficial specs, saying that in case your machine matches the invoice, then it ought to carry out simply as anticipated.

“My intention was to spotlight the necessity to preserve your cooling programs and examine them recurrently,” Pierściński wrote. “Neither Cyberpunk 2077 after 2.0 nor Phantom Liberty will soften your PCs. Sport will carry out nicely on beneficial {hardware}.”

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Phew! It’s good to know that Cyberpunk 2077 gained’t completely fry your PC when the two.0 replace and Phantom Liberty land on September 26. It’s nonetheless a giant replace, although, so it’ll be attention-grabbing to see the way it performs in the long term.