This comes up often enough in Cyberpunk 2077 that it deserves a straight answer rather than a thread to scroll through.

Short answer

Do the simple thing first. It is correct more often than the complicated thing people recommend instead.

Testing this yourself takes a few minutes and settles it definitively. It is worth separating what the game does from what players have concluded it does. Patch notes move numbers around constantly; the shape of the answer holds even when a specific value shifts.

Worth knowing alongside this

The mechanic behind it is simpler than the discussion around it suggests. The accepted community answer is broadly right and wrong in a specific way that matters here. A single check up front replaces a lot of guessing later. Nothing here depends on a setting you are unlikely to have.

Most of the disagreement online comes from people describing different versions of Cyberpunk 2077. Where something depends on your platform or region, that is called out rather than glossed over. Edge cases are genuinely rare, which is why the simple answer is usually the correct one.

When the usual advice fails

There is no hidden trick here that the game is keeping from you. None of this needs a paid tool, a third-party launcher or an account on a site you have never heard of. It helps to understand why a step exists, because then you can adapt it when your situation is slightly different.

  • Revisit after a major patch if the behaviour changes.
  • Do not build a routine around an edge case.
  • Give a method one honest attempt before deciding it does not work.
  • Note the exception cases — they are specific rather than vague.
  • Check which version any conflicting advice was written for.

Why it works this way

There is usually a fast way and a reliable way, and it is worth knowing which one you are choosing. Where two approaches both work, the one with fewer moving parts is the one to keep. Everything below is framed around the current state of Cyberpunk 2077 rather than a launch-week impression. Screenshots age faster than text, which is why this describes rather than shows.

Most of the disagreement you will find online is two people describing different builds. Cyberpunk 2077 is not shy about hiding useful information two menus deep, so some of this is simply knowing where to look. The short version is near the top on purpose; the reasoning is there if you want to know why.

The practical answer

The community wisdom on this is roughly half right, and the half that is wrong costs the most time. If a step reads as obvious, do it anyway — the obvious ones are the ones people skip and then wonder about. Do the cheap check before the expensive one — that ordering alone saves most of the frustration.

The developers have changed their mind about this at least once, which explains the older advice. The awkward part is rarely the step itself, it is knowing which step comes first. If your result differs from what is described here, note what is different first rather than starting over.

What to do instead

Treat anything stated without a version number as provisional. Anything that behaves differently on console than on PC is flagged where it matters. What follows assumes you are on a current install and have not modified it.

Where people go wrong

  • Changing five things at once and then not knowing which one helped.
  • Skipping the prerequisite because it looked optional in someone else's summary.
  • Copying a setup wholesale from a streamer without understanding what each part does.

Cyberpunk FAQ

What is the short answer?

It is the paragraph near the top. Everything after it exists for the cases where that paragraph does not quite fit.

Do I need any mods or third-party tools for this?

No. Everything described here works with the base game on any supported platform.

Is this still accurate after the latest Cyberpunk 2077 update?

The method is; individual numbers may not be. If a value on your screen differs, trust the screen and keep the sequence.

Is there a faster method?

Sometimes, at the cost of reliability. Where that trade exists it is described rather than recommended blindly.

That is the whole of it — if something here stops matching Cyberpunk 2077, the game changed, not the method.