Update: I had to free up nearly 90 GB to install this patch! Please CDPR, DON'T publish patches with file patching! I'd rather download 50 GB rather than 5 GB, where the installation requires more space than the actual game's size and takes ages to install, even on an SSD!

It does not help me with the framerate problem. It remains so inconsistent.

Is it just me or does it take absolutely forever to install? Stuck on 56% for a while now, just after it finishes downloading and starts to install it. 100% disc use the entire time.

I don't know what hardware you have. I'm playing on a I5-7600K, 16 GB RAM, Radeon RX590 (8 GB), SSD. The game at default set graphics to ULTRA, but that was way too high. I've spent two hours to play with the settings and my GPU drivers. Given that your WIndows is properly configured and optimized, GPU drivers (and others) are up to date and your hardware isn't too old, you should get good results with the right settings.

First I'd try to lower (or better disable) Screen Space Reflections. It not only looks terrible (at least in 1080p) but also eats a whole lot of performance!

And what really helps, while maintaining good visual quality, is to set Dynamic Fidelity FX CAS:
Set the target FPS to 50 or 60.
Set the min resolution slider to 60 or 70 percent.

If that's not enough, go on with these, one by one:

Lower cascade shadows resolution and distance. (medium or low)
Lower AO setting. (medium or low)
Lower local shadows quality, resolution and distance (medium or low)

However, if you own a capable NVIDIA card, use DLSS!
if you have AMD, use Anti-Lag and ENhanced Sync (Or freesync if you monitor supports it).

That's what I'm talking about. The installer comes with 4,5 GB of size. But the installation performs file patching, that means it patches the changes into the existing files rather than overwrite them. The advantage of this method is that the installer size is quite low. But the file patching process takes a lot of time, and also a LOT of free space. Because it has to unpack, change and repach the related filesm which requires free space double the size of the patched files during the process. When it's done it will clean up these and you will end up with a lot of free space.

That's why I'd prefer common patches with classic overwriting method over file patching!

I saw a lot of people havbing problems with performance and stability! First you should at least own a rig that's not too old, otherwise it's not a surprise. My PC is now three years old, but I run this game ith med-high settings at stable 55-60 FPS. No crashes. But also I'm pretty sure that it will get a few more patches and then will run much better! Also learn how to setup Windows and you hardware the right way. Many people don't learn about that and think they can run any game just like that. That's unfortunately wrong.

The patch made my crashes worse, now they take the GPU with them switching my monitor off and forcing a hard reset of my PC to get it back, I'm done, I've asked for a refund.

Was the update like a massive zip file and thats why its taking forever to extract the update?

Apparently in the wisdom of CDPR, what it does is copy your game to a temp file, applies the patch, then deletes the temp file. So basically you're downloading the base game all over again, then applying a patch, then deleting the base game.

I have never seen a game patch this way before, but it's the most horrible way to patch ever. It's almost quicker to just delete the game and redownload it.

While it is coppying the base files over and then patching them... it is NOT downloading the entire thing.
It is using a tiny amount of d/l space and a crapload of local processing to put all the little patches into the big ass archive files.
After it does that, it copies them back and overwrites the old files.
Then all the temp files are deleted.

It's super slow compared to a d/l for someone with a fast connection, but bandwidth wise it's super efficient.

I was super stoked for this and I even was able to actually begin the Nomad tutorial and play with that for a few minutes. But I closed out that game so I could restart with my character customized the way I wanted... only for the damn game to crash and return me back to this constant loop of crashed to desktop during the intro video.

This... is getting tiresome.

I Can confirm the patch did absolutely piss all for anything. Game still crashes before it even starts for me no matter what I do. I'm on Win7 btw.

Did you update your graphics driver?
I had that problem and it was solved by graphics driver update.

Sadly the random crashes after ~hour still happened.

After 1.4 update, CP is working as it should. Playing on 1.3 was laggy and unplayeable but now the game runs on Ultra even on i5 7200u (laptop procesor) with RX 580 eGPU. If this game was realese with this fix in the first place... but still there is a lot to fix or add like;
-If you rescue NPC, they just run away or stay and act scared
-Equipment menu is a mess with
a) scrolling and covering all of the screen with discription tab is a no go
b) items load every time you use item
c) game need a better items menu (faster)
- C BUTTON! and slow walk button (hold/toggle)
- better items icons (now it is hard to understand)
- more pocket slots in quick menu
- calling V's car can mash it into traffic
- NPC on street needs to react faster when engaging combat (RUN AWAY WHEN I'M SHOOTING STUFF!)
- police spawn with drones - They spawn even on rooftops!
- TPP mode - maby DLC in future? really FPP is really amazing but I can't see my character. Created character with all this cool stuff that he wears. Really if there is no TPP cutscenes so what is the point to customize my character
- If gang member kills NPC - nothing happens. If I kill NPC - police spawn in like 2 second. Good luck handling thoes beasts with gorilla HP bars...

Thats all and im just 5 hours in the game and didn't seen logo reveal. C'mon CPR!

Oh yeah I did update the drivers for my graphics card just a few minutes ago actually. The game actually launched, although it crashed immediately after I changed the resolution and stuff because it defaulted to windowed mode. But the game Did launch. But it flatlined after I chose my story path (went streetkid btw). So I have yet to be able to play a game that I bought over 24 hours ago, because of the pathetic launch this game has had.

But I mean... it IS progress to some degree I guess. Just not enough for my liking.

heh yeah.... 'progress'

I have 812 GB of free space on my drive and it still tells me that I don't have enough free disk space. Lovely.