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location is: Steam Library\steamapps\common\Cyberpunk 2077\engine\config\memory_pool_budgets.csv
// u/ThePhoenixRoyal post below
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 when it comes to performance, I can play the most recent titles on 1440p high on at LEAST 60 fps.
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, while they had no issues to play at 1080p @ high or 1440p @ medium. What the heck is going on?
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.
https://i.imgur.com/aOObDhn.png
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.
https://i.imgur.com/xTnf0VX.png
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.
https://i.imgur.com/fP32eka.png
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
My loading times have gone down from 20 seconds to 2.
>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.
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.
If this helped you, please let us know with a short comment how much your FPS and joystick ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) went up.
