Microsoft and Nvidia already ended support for their own products
Thehuge new patchreleased forCyberpunk 2077yesterday is mostly a good’un, bringing the dystopian RPG closer to the game it should have been 14 months ago. But Update 1.5 might be bad news for players with older PCs. CD Projekt Red have officially ended support for Nvidia GeForce 700 series graphics cards, and announced plans to end Windows 7 support later this year. This isn’t immediately bad, but the game could end up breaking on affected computers in the future.
Given that the game could definitely still benefit from more overhauls, upgrades, and tweaks through patches (and has an expansion eventually coming), it seems fairly likely this clause will trigger.
As for the decision to ditch older Nvidia graphics cards, CDPR explain:
“Due to the end of support for graphics drivers, we’ve decided to change the minimum system requirements of Nvidia graphics cards to GTX 970. The game won’t necessarily stop functioning on said cards, however, we are no longer testing the game on Nvidia 700 Series graphics cards.”
The Cyberpunk 2077 system requirements previously listed a GeForce GTX 780 as the minimum. The requirement for AMD cards remains unchanged, a Radeon RX 470.
I understand why CDPR would want to stop working with unsupported software and hardware, but it still sucks for people who might be playing the game on these vulnerable systems.
Update 1.5 is a good’un on the whole, mind. Along with updating the game for next-gen consoles, it brought improved AI for combat and crowd NPCs, the ability to customise V’s appearance, new apartments to buy and new styles for her old apartment, an overhaul of perk trees, new weapons, a bit of an economy rebalance, and more. I don’t plan to revisit the game until it gets a full-on expansion, but I’ll be glad to play that on stronger foundations.
