Photorealistic reshade, sharper textures, dirtier look: the Digital Dreams channel buffs up Cyberpunk 2077, with spectacular results.
Cyberpunk 2077 already shines in the vanilla version with atmospheric graphics, especially with activated ray tracing effects. But modders like to get even more out of it – which has now been achieved impressively in Night City!
The YouTube channel Digital Dreams, known among other things for beautiful videos on Red Dead 2, shows in a new episode what mods can tease out of Cyberpunk 2077. A total of over 50 modifications, including ray tracing and photorealism reshades, are used.
Take a look for yourself at what Night City looks like after this special treatment:
Far more mods than you can see
The result of the action is a game world with more realistic lighting, sharper textures and overall less green tones. With this, Digital Dreams creates a very clear look that also fits well with the cyberpunk setting.
The complete mod list is available via Nexusmods. You can also download the mods used there for free if you have an account. For the reshade preset for CP77, created by Digital Dreams themselves, you have to support the channel on Patreon.
By the way, those who mod Cyberpunk 2077 so profoundly will get far more changes than can be seen at first glance in the video. Among other things, the level of detail of the character V was increased (for the photo mode), the driving behaviour of the cars was improved and … the NPCs were dressed more freely? That might save performance…
Your PC will also sweat a lot if you install so many mods in Cyberpunk 2077. The video was shot in 4K while running the game on a high-end machine: Digital Dreams used an RTX 3090, a Ryzen 9 3900X and 32 GB of RAM.
You can get a good comparison between Vanilla and the 50+ mods in this video:
The release of the game on 10 December 2020 was overshadowed by many technical problems. In another video, we analyse Cyberpunk 2077 half a year later and clarify whether CD Projekt Red has gotten the bugs under control in the meantime.
