Over time, the games are becoming more and more beautiful, more impressive in terms of graphics, images and content. Sure, this can’t be happier news for gamers, but at the same time, it also hides many constant worries. The most obvious thing is that many people have had to rush to improve the hardware on their PCs, not to increase performance, but simply to meet the increasing demands from publishers. and many blockbuster games. For example, the latest case of Cyberpunk 2077 – the game is also creating a lot of controversy.
Accordingly, Cyberpunk 2077 has officially set September 26 as the release date of the expanded version called Phantom Liberty, which is being eagerly awaited by many people. However, in parallel with this, the publisher CD Projekt also silently changed the required configuration on the PC, including an item that received a lot of attention. Specifically, Cyberpunk 2077 now requires users to install the game on an SSD drive, at least from SATA 3 or higher and no longer has the HDD Mode like the previous release period. That is just the most basic condition, but if you compare the required parameters to experience Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty smoothly, gamers will still have to invest a lot of money to upgrade CPU, RAM, and GPU. yours anymore. Although the capacity of the game has not increased too much, it will be difficult for old PC devices to meet the new experience in this expansion version.
It is known that Cyberpunk 2077 will be remade a lot in terms of graphics, when completely changing the previous lighting and shading mechanism with path tracing – controlling and calculating the entire path of the light source, instead of just calculate how a certain number of light rays behave in a game environment. This is also one of the main reasons why CD Projekt insists on requiring players to upgrade their PC to meet the new improvements from this version. But for sure, this will also put a lot of pressure on the player’s GPU.
Of course, according to the development of technology, the fact that the games are becoming more and more beautiful, shimmering and eye-catching is also an understandable trend. However, this also puts a lot of pressure on the pockets of gamers, with evidence appearing more and more such as the increase in the price of blockbuster games to $ 70 from nearly every publisher. , to the increasing requirements of hardware devices.