Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition Update 2.1 Further Enhances Full Ray Tracing & DLSS
In
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, immerse yourself in every story the world of the dark future has to offer, including the base game, its acclaimed spy-thriller expansion
Phantom Liberty, and the game-changing Update 2.0 - all in one package.
Become an urban outlaw equipped with cybernetic enhancements and build your legend on the streets of Night City. Go on daring adventures and build relationships with unforgettable characters whose fates are shaped by the choices you make, and decide how V's story ends. Your choices in the base game and
Phantom Liberty create interweaving webs of consequences, ones that shape the fate of the characters around you — and your own.
Update 2.1 ships alongside
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition and is available for free to owners of both the
Ultimate Edition and the original
Cyberpunk 2077 on PC. This major update for the incredible game is stacked with content, and new technical enhancements for PC players.
On the content front, players can now travel through Night City using a new metro system, which includes unique subway scenes and interactions. Players can now romance their partners in the comfort of their apartments, and can listen to radio stations when on-foot and riding the subway. Additionally, amongst a long list of other additions, a previously closed highway is now open to vehicles and the NCPD, new motorbikes and cars are available for purchase, select boss fights have been revamped, replayable street races have been introduced, new world mini stories are available to discover, and rasterized graphics have been enhanced for all platforms.
When playing
Cyberpunk 2077 and
Phantom Liberty on a GeForce RTX GPU, gamers have a laundry list of incredible options available to take performance and image quality to the next level.
DLSS Super Resolution and DLSS Frame Generation multiply frame rates by up to 5X,
full ray tracing replaces lighting with a unified, jaw-dropping path-traced model that takes immersion to 11,
DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction makes revolutionary use of AI to further improve image quality and performance, and
Reflex makes
Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay even more responsive, delivering the best gameplay experience possible on any platform.
Update 2.1 makes that technology even better, once again raising the bar for image quality, immersion, and realism.
Full ray tracing, activated via the
Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode, exits Preview status with the release of the
Ultimate Edition, boasting additional improvements.
Under the hood, technologies including
Shader Execution Reordering (SER) and
Opacity Micromaps (OMM) have delivered significant performance gains during the evolution of the Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode.
Now, we're introducing Reservoir-based Spatiotemporal Importance Resampling Global Illumination (ReSTIR GI) with the launch of Update 2.1 and the
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition. ReSTIR GI is an advanced sampling technique for indirect lighting available in the
NVIDIA RTXDI SDK, which further improves the quality of fully ray traced lighting in
Cyberpunk 2077.
Before the release of Update 2.1, some scenes were darker than intended due to the loss of lighting energy during denoising. Using ReSTIR GI, local lighting is appropriately bright, and light now travels further, illuminating a scene further into the distance and increasing the brightness of previously illuminated detail.
In Update 2.0, the movement of dynamic characters, the equipping of new weapons and items, or the moving of the camera could cause full ray tracing to visibly update in areas that were previously occluded. With the introduction of ReSTIR GI in Update 2.1, disocclusion noise has been greatly reduced.
In conjunction with Ray Reconstruction enhancements in Update 2.1, ReSTIR GI significantly reduces the ghosting of moving game elements and their shadows, further improving image quality and immersion.
If you’re unfamiliar with
Ray Reconstruction, it replaces several hand-tuned ray tracing denoisers with a single, unified AI model that accelerates performance by up to 5X in conjunction with DLSS Super Resolution and Frame Generation, and dramatically enhances path tracing image quality. Reflections are substantially clearer, light responds near instantaneously, and image quality overall is further improved.
With the launch of Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition and Update 2.1, Ray Reconstruction has been further refined. Now, the fidelity and realism of skin rendering is improved, and the quality of eye reflections enhanced, making character close ups in conversations and cinematic moments even better.
Additionally, Ray Reconstruction will now be usable when activating Ray-Traced Reflections, either as part of a preset, or when configuring custom settings.
With Ray Reconstruction enabled, the clarity and fidelity of reflected game elements is noticeably enhanced (click the icon on the bottom right to view in fullscreen)
These enhancements, additions and improvements mean that CD PROJEKT RED will be removing the Technology Preview label from the Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode, signifying that it has reached its potential, and the promise of being the next revolution in real-time graphics rendering.
In advance of
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition and Update 2.1’s launch,
we’ve released a new GeForce Game Ready Driver, which is required to take advantage of the tech outlined above. To get your system ready ahead of December 5th, go to the Drivers tab of
GeForce Experience or
GeForce.com to download and install our
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition Game Ready Driver.
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