Making Cyberpunk Look Amazing on an RTX 2060! | Cyberpunk 2077 Graphic Mods

what is up everybody it is star boy and today I have a pretty amazing video for yall so recently if you like me you've probably noticed that there's been a ton of videos that have been popping up that have all been showcasing cyberp punk in its absolute photorealistic Glory but the only downside to those videos are they are all being done on RTX 490s are equally high-end Hardware meaning that if you're like myself running at RTX 2060 then our dreams of running Ray tracing on psycho tuning with path tracing is nothing more than a far dream or a fast way to turn your RTX 2060 into a toaster so after a little while of experimenting with different settings and graphic mods I finally come up with a pretty decent setup at least for the 2060 that allows you to run the game at above 60 FPS as you can see right now we're sticking right around the 80 to 70 FPS PS range all while improving the graphic quality of cyberpunk now before we get too deep into the video first things first let's go ahead and dive into the settings section so that way we can get it out of the way and start with a solid base before we apply mods so starting with a few things first off I will be running dlss on balanced mode now I haven't noticed a huge difference between balance and performance but if you have a more Discerning Eye than I do feel free to go ahead and toss that on for my dlss sharpness I do like to keep it around 0 55 to 60 range but this is personal preference so adjust that to your taste scrolling down a little bit we'll see that I do have the dlss frame generation option available and that's thanks to the dlss to FSR mod which is available on Nexus now I will come back to this a little bit later but I will have this also linked down in the description below for your texture quality settings however obviously go ahead and make sure that those are on high if your system can handle it for Ray tracing if you're on a 2060 I would recommend leaving this off as it will absolutely plummet your FPS as far as our crowd density settings go this is one of the most CPU intensive settings that you can adjust now typically if I'm recording I'll keep this down to low just to reduce the CPU draw however for just normal gameplay you can kick this up to medium without too much pain but pushing this all the way up to high will require a pretty beefy CPU so just keep that in mind as far as majority of your basic settings go things like field of view is completely personal preference adjust that to your liking film grain chromatic depth of feel lens flare as well as motion blur are also pretty much personal preference however do take note that some of these notably depth of field and lens flare as well as motion blur do come with a little bit of a performance hitch now personally majority of these settings I do keep off with exception to motion blur as I do like it on every now and then getting down into the actual beef of the settings majority of these settings you can absolutely Max out on a 2060 things like contact Shadows lighting geometry all of these can be pushed up but there are a few settings in here that are your big performance hitters namely some of those things are like your cascaded Shadow range which you could drop those to medium as it's basically just how far out you can actually see Shadows pretty much at medium you really won't notice a difference other things like distant Shadow resolution which impacts the resolution of far away Shadows volumetric fog can definitely be dropped to low as it's a huge performance hitter but for the most part the rest of these settings you can run at between high and medium without too much loss now ambient occlusion definitely tweak with that setting between medium and low depending on your system I have noticed that medium looks the best while also not hitting performance too bad as far as the rest of the settings go I am currently running this windows borderless but that's solely so that I could tab in and out while recording normally you could just run this in full screen as far as resolution goes for the sake of the video I am going to be running this at 1920 x 1080p but with Nvidia super scaling you can push this a little bit further but I haven't tested it just yet to see the performance draw and we will have Nvidia Reflex on Boost now that we've covered all the basics of your training it's time for the moment you've been waiting for all right let's get into the mod shall we visual mod number one that I'm going to be running is Ghost in the Shell 3 3.0 or GS 3.0 specifically the curia I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly but the curia preset which is just a personal favorite of mine as it does preserve a little bit of the natural tones that cyber Punk comes with at base but matures them a little bit now of course again that's just my personal preference feel free to choose a different preset if you do like the way that it looks however I can't will say this much if you go with a different preset your game may look a little bit different in tone and color than what you're seeing right now on screen as far as my other mod that I run that is the infamous Nova lot by the run and only cyanide X which I do run a few of their other mods such as pre water and blur beon now noval lot is an absolutely amazing tone mapper which really covers a lot of the bases that reshades do however it does it in just a native way so that you don't have to get the extra performance draw from reshade now our third and final mod that we're going to be running is HD reworked project which is amazing and does a great job at finding out those details within the various textures found around night City so things like graffiti uh things like the texture and asphalt all those small details that you may not notice until you look at them this improves them in such a major way now as far as installation instructions go I won't be covering them in this video because all of the mod Arthur have already done a great job of listing out exactly how to get these installed during your computer so take time follow the author's directions now once you've gotten those three mods set up your game should be looking pretty PR and we can go ahead and dig into one of the most important parts of this video and that is the FPS numbers now you can see on the top left side of the screen thanks to Reva tuner we are pulling around an average of about those mid to high 80 FPS numbers with Ray tracing off and without using our dlss frame gen mod now if we toss our frame gen mod on you can see that we do almost immediately Skyrocket all the way up to 130 plus FPS which while on foot and moving around on foot in night City can look great there are some slight drawbacks to frame genin which is why I don't always run it see once you hop into a vehicle and start moving around at much higher speeds in night City with frame gen on toward the the bottom of your screen you will notice a little bit of tearing or flickering and I think this is mostly attributed to the 2060 really just capping out with its vram Usage Now if you do have a 2060 super pushing 8 GB of vram you may not notice this as much now again on foot during combat situations I never really noticed or had to deal with any of those frame teing or flickers and i' never even had like some of the input latency that some users were reporting so I would say as far as frame genin is concerned use it as a test to see how many FPS you could grab if you don't have issues using it enjoy it if you do notice issues turn it off as it isn't hugely necessary now one thing I definitely think was worth noting in this video is performance in and around Dogtown now before Phantom Liberty even released cdpr released a notice stating that our PCS were most likely not going to be fully prepared for what performance dog sound was going to be asking for with that being said on an RTX 2060 I can average between mid-50s to just about 60 61 FPS however this is one spot that I think frame genin really shines because you can really push this above that 60fps number and stay there while really not noticing too many graphical issues now I'll say this again if you're watching this video and you're running something that is above a 2060 you have access to more than just 6 gigs of vram then you probably won't notice as low of performance numbers is what I'm pulling here but if you are on a 26 equivalent don't be surprised if these are your performance numbers now if you're back in Ni City and still craving a little bit more graphical appeal and you want to test this out with reshade I did run those numbers for you and using the ultimate natural Graphics reshade I was able to pull off a similar 79 to 80 FPS with it on and I don't think that's exactly bad I mean at the end of the day we are testing this on an RTX 2060 it's the entry-level RTX graphics card so truly for it to be able to run this game at this high of frame rate utilizing three different Graphics mods and a reshade on top I think those are pretty outstanding numbers now in the name of Science and cyber psychosis I decided to run one last benchmark test before this video ends and that was to turn reshade off and turn RTX on just to try and see how far can we really push this 2060 so with reshade off RTX on we did manage to pull above 39 hovering right around the 40ish FPS range which again for an RTX 2060 is really not bad I mean three Graphics mods Plus reshade on this thing is really chugging along pretty solid and again obviously if you're running more beef your Hardware you're definitely going to see some better numbers than this but for all of my equal to I would say mid-tier build PCS at this rate this is pretty much a proof of concept that you don't need an outstanding several thousand computer to be able to make cyber Punk look good so if this video did help you out in anyways be sure to leave a like and make sure that after you've downloaded all of these mods to go for to Nexus and be sure to endorse these creators as as much as I made this video it wouldn't have been possible without the hard work put in by all of the mod creators and with that I will catch yall in the next video

Channel: ST4RBOY

Views: 41,305

Keywords: Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2077, Graphic Mods, Modding, Gaming, PC Gaming, Nvidia RTX

Id: 4_NfwAcByU4

Length: 10min 56sec (656 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 30 2024