Massive Changes Revealed in Cyberpunk 2077 1.2 Patch Notes

Stability and performance

This section discusses changes that enter all the platforms but many of them make a bigger difference on last generation consoles and lower performance machines.

• Improved stability and performance of the engine and the rendering engine (reducing the number of random crashes).
• Memory optimizations and memory management improvements in various systems (reducing the number of crashes).
• Various optimizations and improvements in shadows, shaders, physics, workspot system, spawn system, scene system, animation system, occlusion system, and facial animations system.
• Fixed mechanism for managing UI icons atlases memory which helps with memory-related crashes, especially during long playthroughs.
• Multiple UI stability improvements and fixes for the most common UI-related crashes.
• Various crash fixes (among others, in Settings menu, and upon reloading saves repeatedly during gameplay and GPU-related).
• Multiple UI performance improvements.
• Fixed a performance drop during controller-button-mashing causing V to receive multiple copies of the same item.
• Fixed detection map markers sometimes appearing broken or glitchy on machines with slower hard drives.
• Various other stability and performance improvements.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed incorrect censorship when playing a copy of the game from a region other than Japan while the console region is set to Japan or language to Japanese.
• A settings option to hide Potential Enemy Markers was added to the Interface tab.
• A settings option to hide NPC name overhead display was added to the Interface tab.
• Telemetry consent is now saved in the user profile and synced via the cloud.
• Logic for loading last checkpoint when there is no existing savefile improved.
• Fixed game going to a black screen after difficulty is changed in the Pause menu.
• Improved D-pad/arrow navigation in menus.
• Navigation in Load/Save menu improved.
• Fixed Fists description in the quick weapon selection menu.
• Fixed an issue where the player could get locked in an aiming or crouching state after leaving a vehicle.
• Fixed an issue where jumping or carrying a body into Point of No Return area could lead to Point of No Return save not being created.
• Added fade-in on returning to the game after final credits.
• The “One more gig” message will no longer be displayed when the game ends and there is no Point of No Return save.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the money transfer notification to appear as 0 if the player performed a save/load cycle right before it showed.
• Fixed an issue where NPCs were missing their weapons after loading a save
• Fixed an issue where engaging in combat in front of Misty’s Esoterica could cause a nearby Animals’ bouncer to follow V in combat state to Viktor’s clinic in The Ripperdoc.
• Fixed an issue where Monk’s walk could reset if the Monk stepped on a defeated Maelstrom corpse in Losing My Religion.
• Misty will now walk correctly down the stairs on the way to “El Coyote Cojo” bar in Heroes.
• Telemetry consent request reappears once for some players due to an issue causing a reset of settings.