CyberPunk 2077 Patch Notes 1.62 — Ray Tracing Like You’ve Never Seen

Jonathan Isenhour

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The latest patch for Cyberpunk 2077 is here and patch 1.62 brings with it a whole new way to experience Ray Tracing. Path Tracing is what this new Ray Tracing method is called and since it is so experimental, it is being called a technology preview until all of the bugs are ironed out.

But if you want to experience this new method for yourself and have a graphics card that can support it, you can jump right in and try it out. If you want to read the full patch notes you can find them here. But we have them laid out for you to view below.

Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.62 Notes

• Path Tracing: Technology Preview

Added a Ray Tracing: Overdrive preset which includes the Path Tracing technology. You can enable the Ray Tracing: Overdrive preset in Settings > Graphics > Quick Preset, or just Path Tracing separately in Settings > Graphics in the Ray Tracing section. To make sure Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode works correctly on your PC, update your NVIDIA Game Ready Driver to version 531.41 at minimum.

Additionally, we included an option to render path-traced screenshots in Photo Mode for other Ray-Tracing-capable graphics cards with at least 8GB VRAM. If your graphics card has more than 8GB VRAM and this option is still greyed out, it means you need to lower your in-game resolution. Note that the higher the resolution and the less powerful the GPU is, the longer it will take to take a screenshot (between a few seconds to several minutes). You can enable Path Tracing for Photo Mode in Settings > Graphics in the Ray Tracing section.

• DLAA

Added NVIDIA DLAA, an AI-based anti-aliasing mode designed to improve image quality. DLAA requires a NVIDIA RTX graphics card. It can be enabled in Settings > Graphics in the NVIDIA DLSS section.

• Intel XeSS

Added support for Intel Xe Super Sampling 1.1, an upscaling technology using machine learning to provide improved performance with high image quality. It can be enabled in Settings > Graphics in the Resolution Scaling section.

• Benchmark improvements

Improved the Benchmark to display more information in the results screen, including PC specs, GPU driver version and selected settings.

Is Patch 1.62 Live in Cyberpunk 2077?

Yes, this patch is live right now for you to go and play for yourself. Even if you can’t fully runt he game Ray Traced, you can have it enabled for any photos you take to really spice up your screenshots.