When the requirements for Cyberpunk 2077 were announced, I was happy and relieved to see that my PC should still be able to handle the game - albeit on low settings -, since my hardware was within or slightly above the minimum requirements.
However, the only thing the game does since launch day is crash to desktop as soon as I hit "play" on GoG.
Here are the things I've tried to do the last couple of days:
- disable Overlay in GoG Galaxy settings
- updated my AMD Drivers
- since that didn't work, clean reinstall for all Drivers
- checked for Win 10 Updates
- installed the Patches (as of now, Hotfix 1.04)
- ran Verify/Repair (multiple times)
- completely de- and reinstalled the Game (multiple times)
- disabled all so-called non-essential applications
- tried to force the .exe as Administrator with GoG Galaxy not running
- performed a clean boot and tried to run the game that way
- ...and combinations thereof
As of now, I cannot tell if I will ever be able to play this game without completely upgrading my PC (which is only going to happen sometime next year), and I feel ripped off for trusting the official requirements - especially in light of the embargo CDPR put on reviews pre-launch. Given the amount of bugs a lot of people struggle with, I can only suspect that even if I got the game to start, it might still be completely unplayable.
So at the moment I'd advice anyone who's PC is below the "recommended" requirements to hold off buying the game. Right now it's just not worth the time, effort, money and heartache. There might be a patch in the future that fixes this mess. But a possible, hopefully eventually existing patch sometime down the line - days, weeks, months? - can not be a criterion for buying a game in this state.
[I will update this review should the game become playable at some point in time.]