Simply final month, Sony introduced that Cyberpunk 2077 can be getting a PSSR 2 replace, however now CD Projekt Purple has adopted up with a huge PS5 Pro update that’ll drop on April 8.
Cyberpunk 2077 famously had a problematic launch when it launched on consoles in 2020, and even after it obtained patched up, it has been far behind the PC model. However because the PS5 Pro got here out again in 2024, it has been a query of when, not if, CDPR would launch an replace that’d carry the sport nearer to the PC model.
Tomorrow’s replace will give PS5 Pro gamers entry to a few efficiency profiles: Ray Tracing Pro, Ray Tracing, and Efficiency. The Ray Tracing Pro mode is the place you may discover many of the visible updates made particularly for the PS5 Pro, focusing on 30-40 fps, with a brand new ‘BVH8’, or 8-way bounding quantity hierarchy ray tracing implementation. CDPR did not element precisely how this works, nevertheless it appears prefer it’ll observe as much as 8 rays of sunshine to create extra reasonable reflections, shadows and world illumination. That is not fairly to the identical stage because the Ray Tracing Overdrive mode on PC, nevertheless it ought to carry the PS5 Pro nearer to the Ray Tracing Extremely preset on PC.
CD Projekt’s weblog put up would not say a lot of something concerning the picture high quality supplied by the ‘Efficiency’ mode, solely that it will goal excessive body charges. If it is something like related Efficiency modes on the PS5 Pro, it’s going to most likely look just about the identical as the bottom PS5, simply with a a lot greater body price. Then, after all the common ‘Ray Tracing’ mode will sit someplace within the center, focusing on a stable 60 fps.
We can’t know precisely how properly this Cyberpunk PS5 Pro replace will look and run till it goes stay on April 8, however the screenshots on the weblog put up look promising. Both approach, I will be downloading the replace and attempting it for myself when it goes stay tomorrow morning. If CDPR was in a position to get it trying nearly as good because the PC model, it’s going to go a protracted strategy to proving the facility of PSSR 2.
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