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Re:Cyberpunk 2077 removed from PS Store and refunded by indrekju on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:19AM (#25465309)
Interesting. I've been playing it on PC now for ~15 hours and have only seen a couple of minor bugs. I wonder how the experience is so different for users.
Re:Cyberpunk 2077 removed from PS Store and refunded by bayindirh on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:22AM (#25465330)
Game software is a highly optimized piece of software. GPU & CPU make, model, or things like RAM amount or I/O bandwidth can affect a lot of things.

Half-Life 2 was randomly crashing on AMD systems on launch. Valve was sometimes churning 4 updates/day. Then they requested some actual gamers with AMD systems to come to HQ for testing. After that point all bugs are ironed out in a week or so.

Re:Cyberpunk 2077 removed from PS Store and refunded by rootlocus on Friday December 18, 2020 @05:05AM (#25465613)
Hardware being to blame is plausible when it relates to visual glitches or outright crashes.

But blaming I/O bandwidth for bugs that are clearly related to game logic is naive.

Re:Cyberpunk 2077 removed from PS Store and refunded by bayindirh on Friday December 18, 2020 @07:58AM (#25466605)
> But blaming I/O bandwidth for bugs that are clearly related to game logic is naive.

Lazy loading assets with a slow I/O backbone might cause some glitches though. Unless you have a finicky storage controller, you can't create too much problem with a slow storage.

Re:Cyberpunk 2077 removed from PS Store and refunded by qz2 on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:21AM (#25465319)
Crashing here constantly. What GPU/CPU combo do you have? Seems to be rather sensitive to that. I've had no issues with any other games on this PC.

3700X / B550M / GTX 1660 here.

Re:Cyberpunk 2077 removed from PS Store and refunded by consp on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:53AM (#25465534)
5900X / B550m / Vega64

So far had one crash in looots of hours of play, which was a memory hog which ate my entire memory/allocatable region and then crashed the game (saw it slowly rise to 99% commit). Seems to be configuration dependant, who knows what setting causes it.

Re:Cyberpunk 2077 removed from PS Store and refunded by indrekju on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:26AM (#25465352)
3900X / 5700XT
Re:Cyberpunk 2077 removed from PS Store and refunded by qz2 on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:41AM (#25465456)
I was going to move to the Radeon side of things. Perhaps that'll help... assuming I can get one!