Cyberpunk 2077 - You don't need to download a tool to boost your FPS - change the User.ini file yourself

[theradelk]

As the title says, you don't need to download an app (the one from Codezilla), especially if you're worried about potential harmful code mentioned here: https://github.com/yamashi/CyberEngineTweaks/issues/317.

You can create a User.ini file yourself using the information in this Pastebin and add a few lines of code there. Reports from users say they're getting anywhere between 4-30% more FPS, depending on their hardware

 

[purecain]

Theres a problem with the game not using all the cpu and gpu power. Alt tab out and see what your usage is like. This was mine... I'm in the city with cars and people, buildings and shadows everywhere. No matter what i do i cant seem to get gpu usage top go up... I cant believe my card is only using 31% WTH is going on. V-sync off.... Same with CPU, hardly ever goes above 30%.
I was getting 89fps when i took this screen shot. With high and a couple of settings on medium. If i enable RTX it drops to 30fps... No other RTX title does this. Then i spotted the gpu hardly being used.
Anyone got any insight???

 

[Vayra86]

The SMT fix for Ryzen might help you. Other than that? Beats me...

Got anything else running alongside it? It kinda looks like that, some bursty load happening or that's just you alt-tabbing. But when its loaded in the peak of that burst, you definitely have a single thread limitation there. Won't fix that, game/engine limitation if its really Cyberpunk. At that point I would look into in-game settings that reduce CPU load, I can think of the population density for example.

What API is your game running on?
NVM DX12 only it seems.

Matter of fact, looking at it longer, those capped out cores are one core each + the SMT half doing the other 100% load, or just 4 separate cores alternating work. Note how the peaks alternate between the two sets of two cores. So you're single thread limited here - or some CCX limitation but I think the game, like most others, runs a single or few heavy threads and a bunch of lighter ones that can be offloaded to other cores.

Different translation: get those graphics settings maxed out, because it'll (probably) barely cost FPS Disclaimer for whatever weirdness CDPR cooks up.

 

[londiste]

SMT fix for Ryzen was already in 1.05 but was applied only to 6-core CPUs. CDPR claims and results from reviewers seem to agree that bigger CPUs do not get a performance boost from that.

[AMD SMT] Optimized default core/thread utilization for 4-core and 6-core AMD Ryzen(tm) processors. 8-core, 12-core and 16-core processors remain unchanged and behaving as intended. This change was implemented in cooperation with AMD and based on tests on both sides indicating that performance improvement occurs only on CPUs with 6 cores and less.

 

[purecain]

I already applied the smt fix on the 3900x. I couldnt get my head around the Titan V having performance issues as its chewed through other games with ease. I wish i had spotted the low gpu usage before i went and upgraded my cpu to the 5950x.... Anyway i needed to upgrade at some point.
The gpu sitting at 30percent is just a joke. Nvidia need to get their Drivers sorted. I'm also reading feverishly trying to work out if i have something set up on my pc which is causing it.
The problem is, i can load another game and the problem disappears.

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Here's what it looks like on my 10850k

 

[phanbuey]

it looks like that for me as well...

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

That sounds like the old school Windows times! (.ini)

 

[r9]

Theres a problem with the game not using all the cpu and gpu power. Alt tab out and see what your usage is like. This was mine... I'm in the city with cars and people, buildings and shadows everywhere. No matter what i do i cant seem to get gpu usage top go up... I cant believe my card is only using 31% WTH is going on. V-sync off.... Same with CPU, hardly ever goes above 30%.
I was getting 89fps when i took this screen shot. With high and a couple of settings on medium. If i enable RTX it drops to 30fps... No other RTX title does this. Then i spotted the gpu hardly being used.
Anyone got any insight???

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It's obvious, you need more cores.

 

[Vayra86]

Its a game limitation. 89 FPS is nothing to sneeze at for so much going on around you.

 

[purecain]

It's obvious, you need more cores.

I honestly think i have a hardware implementation problem in windows. I might need to reinstall the OS. I've got so many apps installed on this copy. I think its finally had enough.
After seeing other people having no issue getting maximum use out of their CPU's and GPU's. I upgraded to a 5950x thinking i needed more cores, but the cores were not maxed out and now the new cpu is sat at 60%, gpu @ 50% even when i'm playing the game and streaming. Before i do reinstall windows i'm going to try to find out whats causing my problem so i can stop it from happening again in the future. Might help a few others out aswell on the way!
@Vayra, i'd be interested to hear what you think is going on with the game buddy. Is it something to do with the engine used. I used to get really good performance out of the witcher 3. #I think that was made on an earlier version of the same engine.
What do you think about the AMD cards hitting max usage???

 

[Athlonite]

SMT fix for Ryzen was already in 1.05 but was applied only to 6-core CPUs. CDPR claims and results from reviewers seem to agree that bigger CPUs do not get a performance boost from that.

And you believe them LOL on my R7 3700X under 1.04 with the SMT fix I averaged 50~65% CPU usage on all threads and averaged 75 fps in busy areas under 1.05 & 1.06 lucky to get 45% on half the threads and dropped 10~15fps because of it so tell me is it working correctly on my 8 core 16 thread CPU is it behaving like I have an old FX83XX CPU instead

 

[R-T-B]

As the title says, you don't need to download an app (the one from Codezilla), especially if you're worried about potential harmful code mentioned here: https://github.com/yamashi/CyberEngineTweaks/issues/317.

You can create a User.ini file yourself using the information in this Pastebin and add a few lines of code there. Reports from users say they're getting anywhere between 4-30% more FPS, depending on their hardware

Looks like a deadend investigation, this user did his homework:

So to wrap this story up, I went through the obfuscated parts and got the encrypted (and compressed) payload decrypted and extracted. It's essentially a "dead payload", pretty much only containing the icon of the executable; it contains no other notable resources, or even any code.


Based on the embedded payload's metadata, the obfuscation program used was made by a company called LogicNP Software, and is called something along the lines of Crypto Obfuscator For .Net (v2020) (link to the product page). It only did some pretty basic obfuscation, to the point that I got through it with relative ease by just using ILSpy (and dnSpy), plus a couple hours of free time (probably way less would have sufficed, if I had actual experience in analyzing C# applications).


If anyone feels like reproducing my findings, they can just use dnSpy like I did (the x86 version, because this tool was compiled to prefer x86 for some reason), and put a breakpont on the line return memoryStream.ToArray(); in the method A.cd5aa3b8a1ae939d6d3a43c9aac5cb237.c9bc0aeef7e527f7935d4b45a818ed89a(), then step line-by-line until you can dump the byte array into a file. Do so, then load it back up in either dnSpy or ILSpy, and have a gander.


TL;DR: It's not malicious, just jank. Doesn't do anything other than what it advertises. Antivirus programs might flag it because of an obfuscator tool he mistakenly included with the application (misconfigured Visual Studio?).


Note: The analysis was done on the day I posted this, when the latest executable of that tool had the following hashes:


MD5: 2C4B955C4E67EE782ECB6EE69B8C7C9A
SHA-1: CC2BBFC9BF60D44BA79199B2B09ABBE50BE954D0


This analysis may not be valid at a later date, if the creater posts a new version of his tool. Compare hashes or reanalyze the executable yourself, if you think or know that a new version has been posted and are suspicious of the changes possibly made.

TL:dr It's janky, not malicious. Still, don't run random binaries. Do the edits yourself.

 

[Vayra86]

I honestly think i have a hardware implementation problem in windows. I might need to reinstall the OS. I've got so many apps installed on this copy. I think its finally had enough.
After seeing other people having no issue getting maximum use out of their CPU's and GPU's. I upgraded to a 5950x thinking i needed more cores, but the cores were not maxed out and now the new cpu is sat at 60%, gpu @ 50% even when i'm playing the game and streaming. Before i do reinstall windows i'm going to try to find out whats causing my problem so i can stop it from happening again in the future. Might help a few others out aswell on the way!
@Vayra, i'd be interested to hear what you think is going on with the game buddy. Is it something to do with the engine used. I used to get really good performance out of the witcher 3. #I think that was made on an earlier version of the same engine.
What do you think about the AMD cards hitting max usage???

You assume a lot, I think!

First you assume you need more cores 'because others get maximum use out of CPUs and GPUs' when its a long and well documented fact that games overwhelmingly hinge on single thread performance. Always have and likely always will, because things need to be executed in sequence, or you're not gaming but watching a movie or the game's already played for you. DX12 doesn't eliminate that fact completely, either.

Did you notice the 100% pegged AMD GPU in this topic is a measly 5700XT? And even that one doesn't run 100% util, as you can see in the graph above. Its rather something like 90-95% most of the time.

Second, you're playing the game AND streaming, and then assume this doesn't cost you performance? I did ask specifically if you have another load in the background This load might limit your FPS, if its not running exclusively on the cores not pegged for the game logic. It can still interfere with frametimes anyway, because there is more data going over RAM and within the CPU cache levels too, most likely.

Third, you assume REDEngine runs the same game logic in TW3 as it does in Cyberpunk, even if they're wildly different games with different mechanics. Heck, TW3 is not even in the same player perspective. At the same time... I'm curious if you get your capped usage in well populated Novigrad? In terms of game world at least that seems the closest you can get to Cyberpunk's crowded streets. All those people are at least some sort of CPU load.

Fourth, you're chasing fantasy performance levels based on supposed expected usage from components, and when you're not seeing capped usage you think something is wrong. You're assuming that if percentage is not 100%, usage is not 100%, but you can't squeeze the workings of an entire PC into one or two percentage numbers.

Maybe you need to let go of the idea that its necessary to keep throwing top end hardware at efficiency and bottleneck problems in software. Or, if I'm being more blunt and real with you: stop overpaying for your hardware and start trying to understand it first, its getting clearer now that lots of info is missing - even if its your basis for several thousand dollars worth of upgrades every few months.


The game is fine, well, apart from being a buggy mess, don't expect the performance cap or overall CPU behaviour to change a whole lot. Intel rigs look much the same and core count beyond 8 really has little impact. This was also benched, not only for Cyberpunk but for loads of other games. Gains drop off sharply beyond 4/6/8 cores depending on the game/engine in play.

 

[purecain]

I've posted most of the info in another thread. about updating my CPU due to streaming and being given the impression that my 3900x was struggling with the game....

The game needs optimising and is far from finished. I'm enjoying the solution ive managed to come up with and i like the 5950x. It should go well with a new GPU sometime next year.

And dude, I passed a Data science course to add to the rest of my qualifications and 30yrs experience. Your not telling me anything new, I'm not sure why youd speak to me like some noob.

Anyway good look with that!!!!! I guess that was your opinion, i shan't ask for it again. My first sentence states I have a hardware implementation problem eg. Software issue.. anyway you must not have English as your first language as I feel like your answering another person. Reread what I wrote, I assumed too much did I??? lol I'm trying to work out why my system eats every other game but struggles(69 - 98fps i lose 30fps to streaming and other gui) with one that is graphically less demanding than Shadow of Mordor.IMO
When I stream I lock my pc at 60fps, but I have to use 1080p. i wanted some kind of software windows tip. Your response was like pulling teeth!!!!
Im chasing fantasy performance level's, I disagree.

 

[Vayra86]

I've posted most of the info in another thread. about updating my CPU due to streaming and being given the impression that my 3900x was struggling with the game....

The game needs optimising and is far from finished. I'm enjoying the solution ive managed to come up with and i like the 5950x. It should go well with a new GPU sometime next year.

And dude, I passed a Data science course to add to the rest of my qualifications and 30yrs experience. Your not telling me anything new, I'm not sure why youd speak to me like some noob.

Anyway good look with that!!!!! I guess that was your opinion, i shan't ask for it again. My first sentence states I have a hardware implementation problem eg. Software issue.. anyway you must not have English as your first language as I feel like your answering another person. Reread what I wrote, I assumed too much did I??? lol I'm trying to work out why my system eats every other game but struggles(69 - 98fps i lose 30fps to streaming and other gui) with one that is graphically less demanding than Shadow of Mordor.IMO
When I stream I lock my pc at 60fps, but I have to use 1080p. i wanted some kind of software windows tip. Your response was like pulling teeth!!!!
Im chasing fantasy performance level's, I disagree.

What?! DId you just casually ignore all the facts laid out before you and I'm being silly here? The CPU usage monitoring tells you what is happening here.

Give me a break... Your last response is far below average Youtube comment and you're welcome to provide your solutions to your so called problem if you think you know best! Note the fact everyone is having your exact same usage on various CPUs.

its irrelevant if you disagree. PC's don't run on opinions. 30 years experience... it doesn't really show from how you approach evidence and assess game performance. You even underline my conclusions yourself by saying you're streaming and it also incurs both a quality and FPS hit. Helloooo? Streaming costs CPU cycles on an already CPU limited situation. Sure, run another software proggy under it, I'm sure that'll improve things

If you really do think you have a 'hardware implementation' problem you really oughta do a better job of motivating that, right now. I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary yet.

 

[purecain]

Are you unable to comprehend my words. I just wrote I had the impression at first it was a CPU limitation (due to streaming and being given the impression that my 3900x was struggling with the game..
That i upgraded a 3900x and didnt need to). I found this out after upgrading and seeing the problems persist with usage etc.

I just told you not to tell me how to suck eggs but there you go again. Whats your problem, are you having a bad day or something.

Im not ignoring anything youve written, ive been non stop researching the problem since release and find you speaking down to me insulting.

Dont tell me whats irrelevant, we are all due our own opinion. The idea is to help others along, not sit their on your theoretical high horse dictating the way everyone should think.
I reinstalled the OS after reading about 100's of others that did the same and found they gained a performance improvement. Also the new Ryzen's dont use the old Ryzen power plans, or havnt had any made for them that are superior to the ones windows provides.
So theres a few software changes influencing my system differently than before. I gained at least 200-300mhz across all cores on average.
I'm hitting 110fps in the city in 1080p. I'm happier than before and can manage with it, until CDPR update the game. I dont need to use the .ini to lower details in any way.
Ive spent years streaming and it was my initial reason for moving from intel to a ryzen 1800x.
Your not helping me or anyone else with your response to my post asking politely for your opinion. Instead you go on the defensive and attack my reasoning.
Seriously lets just agree to disagree.

 

[Vayra86]

I'm curious what you're looking for then, if you understand all of it. This topic is full of responses like mine. You're out of options but don't want to agree with that.

Are you unable to comprehend my words. I just wrote I had the impression at first it was a CPU limitation (due to streaming and being given the impression that my 3900x was struggling with the game..
That i upgraded a 3900x and didnt need to). I found this out after upgrading and seeing the problems persist with usage etc.

I just told you not to tell me how to suck eggs but there you go again. Whats your problem, are you having a bad day or something.

Im not ignoring anything youve written, ive been non stop researching the problem since release and find you speaking down to me insulting.

Dont tell me whats irrelevant, we are all due our own opinion. The idea is to help others along, not sit their on your theoretical high horse dictating the way everyone should think.
I reinstalled the OS after reading about 100's of others that did the same and found they gained a performance improvement. Also the new Ryzen's dont use the old Ryzen power plans, or havnt had any made for them that are superior to the ones windows provides.
So theres a few software changes influencing my system differently than before. I gained at least 200-300mhz across all cores on average.
I'm hitting 110fps in the city in 1080p. I'm happier than before and can manage with it, until CDPR update the game. I dont need to use the .ini to lower details in any way.
Ive spent years streaming and it was my initial reason for moving from intel to a ryzen 1800x.
Your not helping me or anyone else with your response to my post asking politely for your opinion. Instead you go on the defensive and attack my reasoning.
Seriously lets just agree to disagree. View attachment 181725View attachment 181726View attachment 181727

Sorry man but you're saying a lot about my tone of voice and helping people along... but the only one not helping you, is YOU. Because you're still convinced something is amiss when there is overwhelming evidence there isn't. Let's not move the goalposts: you have sub 100% GPU usage and you don't like it. This topic is full of people telling you it is what it is, and when told so, you ignore it and move on. You want to hear opinions, but when they don't sit well with you, you know it all.

Good luck with that. Its not the first time either, but I hope you find your magical fix.

 

[Athlonite]

NSFW

Spoiler: JoyToy

 

[purecain]

@Vayra86 agree to disagree. Its a misunderstanding... on your part lol Seriously though, forget about it.

I apologise ive misunderstood something you said brother.