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Cyberpunk 2077Is Windows 7 Being Locked To Low Graphics Settings?(7 posts)(7 posts)
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Posted December 01, 2020
To start, i want to say THANK YOU, I genuinely appreciate the developers ALLOWING this game to run on Windows 7!

But i recently looked at the recommended system specs lists, and under Windows 7 it says Low, but then High and Ultra are listed under Windows 10 with no mention of Windows 7.

Surely this can't be the case?

My System Specs:
Crosshair 7 X470 Motherboard
2700X (8-core) CPU
32Gb Trident Z Neo rated for, and running at, 3600Mhz

Vega 56 graphics card, which has been undervolted and overclocked.
Base 1622Mhz / OC 1697Mhz Graphics Clock
Base 800Mhz / OC 957Mhz Memory Clock

(Weirdly enough, i can run this card at 1710Mhz while testing with Crysis without crashes, but it crashes in every other game tested. I can get to scene 11 or 12 on Superposition 4K Optimized before a crash at 1710Mhz too)

I can play RDR2 with the graphics sliders maxed, including water and shadows maxed, on 1440p resolution, and i get 55-60fps in the most built up parts of St Denis while having a ton of police fighting me.

I will likely upgrade this GPU to a 6900XT but would hate to find out it wouldn't matter if this game is locked to Low graphics settings on Windows 7.

I know any other time in the past, this would simply mean that as long as your hardware can do it regardless of OS, like Windows 7, 8.1 or 10, but considering how games are being artificially locked to Windows 10 only now, i have to ask just in case.
Posted December 01, 2020
It most likely will run great on your system specs.

good luck man!
Posted December 01, 2020
MuhEbola, good point.
According to the system specs can Windows 7 only handle minimum settings, atleast this is my 1st idea when i look at it.

2nd idea is, they mean "you need minimum Windows 7 and older OS we do not support"...
But 2nd conclusion is maybe wrong because Windows 8 is newer and not listed.


Anyway, very good question and we need some clarification.
Posted December 02, 2020
As this game requires Dx12, it depends how it will be implemented in Win7. Microsoft officially does not support Dx12 under Win7 but makes few exceptions for big enough games like World of Warcraft.

So even though your HW should be able to handle the game just fine, the actual implementation of Dx12 and game settings in Win7 will decide how you will be able to setup it.
Posted December 02, 2020
as far as i recall it, CP77 comes with its own fully DX12 package on Win 7
so you ll most likely not run into any problems on the API

Since the devs build in full Win 7 support, so if your HW is in the recommended
specs the game should run in higher graphic settings without issues at all.
Posted December 02, 2020
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MuhEbola: To start, i want to say THANK YOU, I genuinely appreciate the developers ALLOWING this game to run on Windows 7!

But i recently looked at the recommended system specs lists, and under Windows 7 it says Low, but then High and Ultra are listed under Windows 10 with no mention of Windows 7.

Surely this can't be the case?

My System Specs:
Crosshair 7 X470 Motherboard
2700X (8-core) CPU
32Gb Trident Z Neo rated for, and running at, 3600Mhz

Vega 56 graphics card, which has been undervolted and overclocked.
Base 1622Mhz / OC 1697Mhz Graphics Clock
Base 800Mhz / OC 957Mhz Memory Clock

(Weirdly enough, i can run this card at 1710Mhz while testing with Crysis without crashes, but it crashes in every other game tested. I can get to scene 11 or 12 on Superposition 4K Optimized before a crash at 1710Mhz too)

I can play RDR2 with the graphics sliders maxed, including water and shadows maxed, on 1440p resolution, and i get 55-60fps in the most built up parts of St Denis while having a ton of police fighting me.

I will likely upgrade this GPU to a 6900XT but would hate to find out it wouldn't matter if this game is locked to Low graphics settings on Windows 7.

I know any other time in the past, this would simply mean that as long as your hardware can do it regardless of OS, like Windows 7, 8.1 or 10, but considering how games are being artificially locked to Windows 10 only now, i have to ask just in case.
just out of curiosity, is there a specific reason that you are not upgrading to win10?
Posted December 03, 2020
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MuhEbola:
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frank0420cs: just out of curiosity, is there a specific reason that you are not upgrading to win10?
For me it is simply about never knowingly downloading or installing a Trojan and Adware (or Ad Malware since it is malicious software) which is how Windows 10 behaves. This is what I'd boil it down to.

To expand on this -
Then you have all the forced telemtry, so in this department i have Microsoft (and others) siphoning off my bandwidth to access my system remotely to "steal" information about me, my system, my location and my browsing and gaming, and of course log keystrokes and access my camera and microphone and scan my library folders and notepad files.

Now, people will tell you that you can disable most or all of those things, and that's somewhat true, but microsoft, as has been proven by microsoft, can now just reactivate/reinstalled all of those things in their next update. I don't have time, nor wish to devote time to dealing with that. It's my OS, i paid for it, i want to be in control of it.

If any other application done these things, it'd be considered a dangerous program and be blocked and removed by every AV software on the market.

It used to be the case where T&Cs could not be abusive, but maybe i was wrong, because what Microsoft is getting away with doing to users now is disgusting on every level.
Post edited December 03, 2020 by MuhEbola
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