Can someone help with optimising the game? It runs about the same quality on high and medium, which is strange. Closed areas are generated easily but the open-world and cutscenes are not. For example, I was able to play the opening fight pretty smoothly on high settings at about 40+ FPS but I can't drive around without frequent frame drops. I also can't view cutscenes without the game freezing entirely in-between.

I also tried using NVIDIA experience's auto-optimising feature but it can't detect the game - or other games in the GOG folder other than Stardew Valley. Could use help with this too if anyone knows.

Specs -
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
NVIDIA GTX 1650
8 GB RAM
64-bit

Thanks in advance

hopeful bump

Thanks, this is quite helpful! Thanks for this info. I'm not much of a hardware geek and I just realised that my computer hardly ever hits those minimum/recommended requirements in any game. Didn't really pay attention to the letters lol. I have both, but the game file is on the HDD (because storage). The textures load in alright tho.

The textures may load fine, but I'm referring to the loading speed. The HDD reads the texture files from the install folder, then the GPU processes them, and you get an updated image on your screen when you're moving around in the game. If there is a delay anywhere in the process, you get lag.

Assuming you have read the system requirements:
https://www.gog.com/game/cyberpunk_2077

...then the AMD 3550H is about on par with the minimum recommended i5 3570K. Won't make for the intended Cyberpunk 2077 experience though.

If you want to find your hardware bottleneck, first open Task Manager (check the Always On Top in the Task Manager options), then open Cyberpunk 2077 and change it to Windowed Borderless mode (it's a setting in the main menu Video tab). Load in your save game, Alt+Tab to your Task Manager, and check your CPU and GPU and HDD utilization while you play.

If you want more technical information on your laptop's gaming performance during gaming, then you'll need something like MSI Afterburner, and install the RivaTuner Statistics Server (RTSS) as an addon. It requires setting up, which I found a bit complicated.

I've attached n screenshot of my own ingame stats with RTSS active (the image is fuzzy because I had to mangle the resolution to fit it below the 500 KB attachment limit).

I'm playing the game on custom High settings with reduced shadows, and DLSS and RayTracing disabled, at 7680x1440 or 2560x1440 resolution. I get 50--90 FPS depending on the resolution and whether it's a busy city or open area.

Specs:
Intel i9 10900K
RTX 3080
64 GB RAM
Windows 10 64-bit

...and this is way below what is needed to max out everything in Cyberpunk 2077. I once tried for fun, and got 12 FPS. Utterly unplayable.

To put things in perspective, to fully enjoy a maxed out Cyberpunk 2077 with no upscaling, you'll need a RTX 4090.

Quite the demanding game huh. This has been really helpful, thanks a lot. I'll try optimising as best as I can. Just hope it'll be playable lol.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll certainly try it out. Fingers crossed;