Thursday, September 12th 2024

Cyberpunk 2077 Update Adds AMD FSR 3 and Frame Generation for PC Players

Cyberpunk 2077 has historically been a challenging game to run, although a number of optimizations and updates throughout the game's life cycle have improved quality of life and visuals greatly. The latest Cyberpunk PC patch 2.13, released on September 12, aims to improve both the base game and the Phantom Liberty expansion with the introduction of AMD's Fidelity FX Super Resolution with Frame Generation.

The addition of FSR 3 comes almost a year after the game gained support for NVIDIA's competing DLSS 3.5 and AMD claims that Frame Generation and FSR 3 can boost frame rates by upwards of 300% at higher resolutions with less of a quality penalty than previous versions. Cyberpunk's performance gains are likely less drastic, though, since even AMD says its Fluid Motion Frames 2 only achieves a 78% performance boost. Performance claims aside, FSR 3 and frame generation should make playing Cyberpunk 2077 on devices like the Steam Deck more viable, since the Steam Deck doesn't have the benefit of AMD Fluid Motion Frames built into the AMD drivers like Windows devices do.
PC players will need to enable FSR 3 and Frame Generation in the Cyberpunk 2077 graphics settings manually after the update, and CD Projekt Red has left FSR 2.1 available as a compatibility option. FSR 3 and FSR Frame Generation require at minimum an AMD Radeon RX 5000-series or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20-series GPU. Meanwhile, FSR 3 without Frame Generation is also available for AMD Radeon RX 500-series and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 10-series cards, which is likely where it will be needed the most, given the growing gap in performance between modern and aging graphics hardware.

There are also a few caveats about using FSR 3 Frame Generation, since CD Projekt Red and AMD both recommend only using Frame Generation if base frame rates are high—60 FPS according to CDPR and 50 FPS according to AMD. Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling is also required to enable FSR Frame Generation, so this will need to be enabled in Windows Graphics Settings. CDPR also advises updating your graphics driver to AMD version 32.0.11037.4004, NVIDIA version 556.12, or Intel version 32.0.101.5972, depending on your GPU vendor.

The Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.13 also contains other updates, including stability fixes, support for Intel Xe Super Sampling 1.3, and the ability to simultaneously use both DLAA and DLSS Ray Reconstruction. The options for HDD Mode, Hybrid CPU Utilization, and AMD Simultaneous Multithreading options have also been moved to a new "Utilities" tab in the in-game settings menu.
Official patch notes:
  • Added support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 with Frame Generation.
  • Added support for Intel Xe Super Sampling 1.3.
  • It will now be possible to enable both DLAA and DLSS Ray Reconstruction at the same time.
  • Added a new "Utilities" tab in Settings and moved HDD Mode, Hybrid CPU Utilization and AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) options there.
  • Other stability and visual fixes.
Source: CD Projekt Red
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122 Comments on Cyberpunk 2077 Update Adds AMD FSR 3 and Frame Generation for PC Players

#26
Prima.Vera
How about using DLSS and AMD's Frame generation ??
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#27
thesmokingman
Prima.VeraHow about using DLSS and AMD's Frame generation ??
You could do that previously with the modded fsr, so there's a likely hood it will work again. If it's blocked, it will be fixed with yet another mod no doubt.
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#28
Makaveli
thesmokingmanYou could do that previously with the modded fsr, so there's a likely hood it will work again. If it's blocked, it will be fixed with yet another mod no doubt.
based on this topic on videocardz the last post from this guy says the mods still work.
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#29
AsRock
TPU addict
CraptacularSo, they didn't use FSR 3.1?
Correct :(
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#30
Hyderz
this will be great for ze steam deck
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#31
AusWolf
I don't think I'll ever understand why frame generation is a thing. It's useless at high FPS, and unusable at low FPS.
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#32
radosuaf
HAGS is supported ONLY on RDNA3 and Windows 11 for AMD cards. It works in Windows 10 for NVIDIA. Not sure about Intel.
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#33
las
Tried it now, runs pretty bad compared to DLSS FG. Tons of artifacts, ghosting and jitter where DLSS FG is pretty much perfect. At least its an alternative.

With Nvidia you also simply replace the DLL to change to another/newer DLSS version.
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#34
radosuaf
Same goes for FSR 3.1 - which CDPR seem not to be interested in implementing.
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#35
Hyderz
radosuafSame goes for FSR 3.1 - which CDPR seem not to be interested in implementing.
cyberpunk 2077 is coming up 4 years old this december... i think they have done enough and they need to be pouring resources into the next witcher...
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#36
Vayra86
Oh, just what, a close 4 years post release and over a full year after the game's feature complete. Well done AMD, this will really sway buyers at this point
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#37
AusWolf
Vayra86Oh, just what, a close 4 years post release and over a full year after the game's feature complete. Well done AMD, this will really sway buyers at this point
What's AMD got to do with this?
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#38
Vayra86
AusWolfWhat's AMD got to do with this?
The same thing Nvidia has to do with Cyberpunk: close collaboration to make sure your shit gets implemented fast and proper?

This is exactly what's always been missing and part of the reason is AMD, the other part is AMD too: they're too late; and they bring their technologies to the market badly; the fact we keep getting older FSR versions even today in new games is completely ridiculous. So on the one hand you have AMD investing time and money into improvements, and on the other they fail to move those improvements into the hands of gamers by pushing devs to use it.

This is all AMD and it always has been. They need to be far more pro active.
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#39
AusWolf
Vayra86The same thing Nvidia has to do with Cyberpunk: close collaboration to make sure your shit gets implemented fast and proper?

This is exactly what's always been missing and part of the reason is AMD, the other part is AMD too: they're too late; and they bring their technologies to the market badly; the fact we keep getting older FSR versions even today in new games is completely ridiculous. So on the one hand you have AMD investing time and money into improvements, and on the other they fail to move those improvements into the hands of gamers by pushing devs to use it.

This is all AMD and it always has been. They need to be far more pro active.
Except that AMD's shit is open-source, so no collaboration is needed. This is entirely on the game devs as far as I see it.
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#40
Beginner Macro Device
I'll be elaborately shocked if they fixed that insane ghosting of moving objects (mostly cars and bikes, 15+ mph) with FSR enabled. This issue is one and a half year old and never got addressed.



Can anyone confirm this ain't more the case?
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#41
radosuaf
Hyderzcyberpunk 2077 is coming up 4 years old this december... i think they have done enough and they need to be pouring resources into the next witcher...
If they took the effort to implement FSR 3.0, they might have as well implemented 3.1... But that would allow RTX 3000 users use DLSS for upscaling and FSR3 for FG - and refrain from buying new NVIDIA cards xD.
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#42
LittleBro
Another addition to crippling proper (native) rasterization and supporting poor game optimizations. Fake & distorted FTW!
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#43
Hyderz
Beginner Macro DeviceI'll be elaborately shocked if they fixed that insane ghosting of moving objects (mostly cars and bikes, 15+ mph) with FSR enabled. This issue is one and a half year old and never got addressed.
just the car performing sandevistan :p
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#44
Beginner Macro Device
Hyderzjust the car performing sandevistan :p
Then it must run fast. It's way behind 100 mph (the speedometer in the game has always been incorrect) so that's a bug, not sandy.
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#45
john_
A few months delay of implementing DLSS in Starfield.
Tech press, users, fans, trolls the whole universe revolts against bad AMD.

CP2077 being an Nvidia tech demo for years. FSR 3 implementation delayed for "almost a year after the game gained support for NVIDIA's competing DLSS 3.5". No one revolts.
CDPR implementing FSR 3.0 and not 3.1 so RTX 2000 and RTX 3000 users don't get Frame Generation support in combination with DLSS but with FSR that have been educated to hate. Does anyone revolting about this?
Vayra86Oh, just what, a close 4 years post release and over a full year after the game's feature complete. Well done AMD, this will really sway buyers at this point
CP2077 is more or less an Nvidia Demo all those years. I doubt AMD can give enough money to CDPR to convince them to optimize for AMD in the same way they optimize for Nvidia.
Vayra86This is exactly what's always been missing and part of the reason is AMD, the other part is AMD too: they're too late; and they bring their technologies to the market badly; the fact we keep getting older FSR versions even today in new games is completely ridiculous. So on the one hand you have AMD investing time and money into improvements, and on the other they fail to move those improvements into the hands of gamers by pushing devs to use it.

This is all AMD and it always has been. They need to be far more pro active.
But I do agree in this part. It's just that, in my opinion, AMD can't have much of a saying in CP2077 because it is Nvidia's game.
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#46
TheDeeGee
Makavelinot going to bother with all that.

If someone on windows 10 can post a screenshot of GPU Z showing they have HAGS enabled with RDNA 2 or 3 I will believe it . All the evidence in the links I posted say it was removed from windows 10.

Before the 7900XTX I was on a 6800XT and it was the same.

Additional OS Feature Support:Support for Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling for Radeon RX 7900/7800/7700 series GPUs on Windows 11 version 22H2 and newer. For more information, click HERE. Link: www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-23-12-1
AMD being AMD i guess, it works fine on my 4070 Ti.
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#47
AusWolf
john_A few months delay of implementing DLSS in Starfield.
Tech press, users, fans, trolls the whole universe revolts against bad AMD.
Of course people revolt... Against AMD being late. See, if you implement FSR first, it's AMD's fault for blocking Nvidia tech in their sponsored titles. On the other hand, if you implement DLSS first, or just a better version of it, it's also AMD's fault for being late (even though they've got nothing to do with later additions of FSR into older titles as far as I know). And some people say there is a striking AMD bias here on TPU. Yeah, right...
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#48
las
john_A few months delay of implementing DLSS in Starfield.
Tech press, users, fans, trolls the whole universe revolts against bad AMD.

CP2077 being an Nvidia tech demo for years. FSR 3 implementation delayed for "almost a year after the game gained support for NVIDIA's competing DLSS 3.5". No one revolts.
CDPR implementing FSR 3.0 and not 3.1 so RTX 2000 and RTX 3000 users don't get Frame Generation support in combination with DLSS but with FSR that have been educated to hate. Does anyone revolting about this?

CP2077 is more or less an Nvidia Demo all those years. I doubt AMD can give enough money to CDPR to convince them to optimize for AMD in the same way they optimize for Nvidia.


But I do agree in this part. It's just that, in my opinion, AMD can't have much of a saying in CP2077 because it is Nvidia's game.
Cyberpunk had FSR and several AMD features at launch, even back when the game was a mess. Also has XeSS for Intel GPUs. It's not CD Projekt REDs fault that FSR is hard to implement and switch between versions, with Nvidia you simply replace the nvngx_dlss and boom you are using the best version of DLSS/DLAA.

Like 90% of PC gamers use Nvidia, most developers are optimizing for Nvidia regardless of the game being sponsored at this point. Most developers test and optimize with Nvidia and uses Nvidia at home as well. You can't expect developers to optimize for only 10% of the market. Nvidia will always be a priority, unless AMD gets to 25-50% marketshare this is not going to change.

AMD hardware being used in consoles don't reflect to PC gaming market and don't give AMD GPUs an edge here.

www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidias-grasp-of-desktop-gpu-market-balloons-to-88-amd-has-just-12-intel-negligible-says-jpr

Cyberpunk 2077 after v2.0 is a pure masterpiece and no matter how hard of an AMD fanboy you are, you should probably give it a shot. One of the biggest turnarounds ever in PC gaming.
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#49
GoldenX
We waited a year for this, and it seems like someone just pushed the in-development branch to production.

We got FSR3.0, which is just 2.2 + framegen.
Even like that, using FSR3.0 in game looks much worse than FSR2.2, which is somehow still available. The image is much more unstable.
NativeAA looks worse than DLSS performance.
And to top it off, framegen is enforced to run only on 3.0, when even in that version it was possible to decouple it, something the mods have been doing for months.

All in all, the real star of the show is XeSS1.3 being lighter and closer in quality to DLSS, what CDPR did to implement FSR is an utter joke.
Hopefully the modding community solves it, the .dll files are there.
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#50
john_
lasYou can't expect developers to optimize for only 10% of the market.
I agree with what you say, I will just comment on this part.
If an AMD user and an Nvidia user buys the game, they will both pay the same amount of money. If the game developer can't or wouldn't optimize for a certain hardware, then they should be selling the game to those using that hardware at a lower price. Else they are becoming part of the problem that drives the market to a monopoly.
lashow hard of an AMD fanboy you are
Would you please stop calling the others fanboys. It doesn't help how you look. You don't become more objective in others' eyes.
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