Cyberpunk 2077 is known for being as beautiful as it is greedy, but this feature delivers a huge performance gain with minimal impact on visual quality.
Thanks to cutting-edge graphics technologies like Ray Tracing and Path Tracing, Cyberpunk 2077 is a real feast for the eyes… provided you have a Cyberpsycho PC to enjoy it all smoothly. This is exactly where the Ultra Plus Engine Control Panel mod created by Sammilucia comes into play. This is intended to optimize numerous graphical elements of the game for a significant performance gain without significantly affecting the overall visual quality.
An implant to optimize the performance of Cyberpunk 2077
On paper, Cyberpunk 2077 Path Tracing requires a graphics card with at least 8GB of memory. In fact, even relatively new configurations can be completely brought to their knees by enabling this option, as it is very resource intensive. For example, even a still solid RTX 3080 may struggle to run the game at 1440p/4K at more than 30 FPS. The mod Ultra Plus engine control panel
This actually suggests making path tracing 58% faster and optimizing many other visual aspects of the game, for both NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards. By properly customizing this panel, it is possible to achieve a significant performance gain of around 40% without sacrificing too much in overall visual quality, as you can see in the MxBenchmarkPC video below. However, this mod is not for everyone, as you have to adjust numerous settings manually depending on the configuration.
However, we can bet that it’s worth the effort to enjoy Cyberpunk 2077 even more now, in a much better condition than when it was released. So much so that, in addition to an Apple/Mac version coming out in a few months, CD Projekt RED is now seriously working on developing its highly anticipated sequel, Cyberpunk 2.
Source: Nexus mods
