This story has been updated with fresh information from CD Projekt Red.
Cyberpunk 2077 might have been one of the most visually striking games to hit our eyeballs during E3 2018, but the latest build is running smoothly on current-gen PC hardware. CD Projekt Red has detailed the rig it ran the gameplay demo on behind closed doors, but despite demo-ing the game on a 4K TV, it has now confirmed it was only rendering at 1080p.
Cyberpunk 2077 was easily one of the standout games from E3, and we’ve been waiting for more details of CD Projekt Red’s next RPG masterpiece since it dropped the original teaser bomb way back in 2013. But not only did we get a great new trailer, our Matt got behind the scenes to sit in on an hour of proper gameplay on PC too.
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When Matt stumbled out into the light of day after his demo he was positive that, given the sheer scale and density of the game world, it couldn’t possibly be running on current-gen hardware. And yet CD Projekt Red has confirmed it’s both shooting for a current-gen release and that its stunning demo was running on pretty standard PC gaming hardware.
On the CDPR junior community specialist, Alicja Kozera, confirmed the demo was running on an at stock speeds, with 32GB of DDR4 memory, and an