by Antonio Delgado Make 30 minutes …

A few days after its launch, not without controversy, it seems that the new trendy game, Cyberpunk 2560 , integrates in its source code a series of instructions that artificially limit the performance of AMD Ryzen processors making , when detecting the processors, only allow to use half the available threads.

This behavior, discovered by several reddit users uses the GPUOpen suite to detect if the processor used is an AMD Bulldozer or one of the Ryzen processors, in case of detecting a Ryzen, the Cyberpunk 2077 ignores half of the threads of the processor causing it to be underused and that if system yields up to 23% less .

Cyberpunk 2077 detects if the system has an AMD Ryzen processor and discards half of the threads. Here’s how to avoid:

The “bug” only affects AMD Ryzen processors, and Intel processors are not affected by that instruction entered in the game code.

There is a unofficial solution that you have been able to try on TomsHardware that consists of carrying out the different steps on the Ciberpunk executable 2077 using a hexadecimal editor:

• Search the text string with the values: 75 30 33 C9 B8 01 00 00 0F A2 8B C8 C1 F9 08.
• Replace said entry, which should be at address 02TO816 B0, by string: EB 33 33 C9 B8 01 00 00 0F A2 8B C8 C1 F9 08.

In this way the game will not apply the artificial performance restriction , and AMD Ryzen processors, including the newer Ryzen 5000 based on Zen 3 architecture, they will be able to develop their full performance. Processors like the Ryzen 5 5600 X get improvements of up to 23% performance, making the game fluidity considerably higher.

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Antonio Delgado

Computer Engineer by training, editor and hardware analyst at Geeknetic since 2011. I love gutting everything that comes my way, especially the latest hardware that we get here for reviews. In my spare time I fiddle with 3d printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything here you have me.