Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition Comes To The Mac On July 17

Mac owners will soon beryllium capable to play 1 of nan biggest games of nan past 5 years aliases so. Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will beryllium disposable successful nan Mac App Store arsenic good arsenic Steam, GOG.com and nan Epic Games Store connected Thursday, July 17. As nan sanction implies, it includes some nan guidelines crippled arsenic good arsenic nan Phantom Liberty description from 2023. The larboard was announced past fall and was primitively planned to get "early" this year, but it took a small longer to get everything squared away.

Unsurprisingly, you'll request an M-series Mac to play this game, but Apple and CD Projekt Red corroborate that it'll activity connected computers each nan measurement backmost to nan M1 — but you'll request 16GB of RAM. For years, 8GB was nan modular connected entry-level Macs, truthful those computers will beryllium retired of luck. And of course, graphics fidelity will alteration wide crossed nan various supported chipsets, but CD Projekt Red is including a "for this Mac" graphics preset that is optimized for each Apple Silicon-based Mac. So astatine nan very least, you shouldn't person to fuss astir pinch settings excessively overmuch to get a decent experience.

As for different method goodies, nan crippled utilizes AMD FSR for upscaling and framework generation, and Apple's MetalFX besides provides upscaling arsenic well. Upcoming Metal 4 features announced astatine WWDC 2025, including Metal FX Frame Interpolation and Metal FX Denoising, are coming to nan crippled via a early update. Metal FX Frame Interpolation generates an intermediate framework for each 2 input frames and tin beryllium mixed pinch existing Metal upscaling to let nan crippled to deed 120fps connected Ultra settings — but again, we're not judge what circumstantial models will support that.

If you usage AirPods pinch your Mac, Cyberpunk 2077 features spatial audio pinch head-tracking features. And nan crippled supports cross-progression sloppy of what level you play on, which should beryllium useful for anyone who started a crippled elsewhere and wants to prime it backmost up connected a Mac. If you've already purchased Cyberpunk 2077 from different storefront for illustration Steam, it'll automatically beryllium disposable for Mac.

While Cyberpunk 2077 isn't precisely a caller game, it remains 1 of nan much celebrated and lauded titles of nan decade (at slightest aft CD Projekt Red fixed galore motorboat bugs). And it joins a still mini but increasing number of awesome games optimized for Apple Silicon and nan Mac, including nan recently-released Assassin's Creed Shadows. A speedy look connected nan Mac App Store besides shows AAA releases including Death Stranding, Control, Lies of P, numerous Resident Evil titles arsenic good arsenic smaller but nary little awesome games for illustration Neva and Stray. Most big-name games don't travel to nan Mac astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic different platforms still, but nan Mac is an action for much than conscionable Apple Arcade games.