Well there is definitely a big disparity in performance. Even between people with similar hardware or, even, exactly the same hardware.
My experience has been pretty much flawless compared to what people are experiencing. No game-breaking bugs. A single crash in 100+ hours of gameplay and with graphics on ultra running on a 1080TI. Getting a steady 60+FPS except for very specific areas where it dips in the low 50s/high 40s for a second or two.
Yet, others can't seem to hit medium graphics on a 1080TI. In fact, one of my friend had a set up that's technically a tad better than mine and he fell in that category of people with trouble running the game correctly.
They actually are. On old gen consoles It's so laggy that NPCs often take several seconds to react.
Yeah, there's so much to consider when determining performance.
How much RAM, what's the Ram's speed, CPU cores, Front Speed Bus, PCI lanes, Speed of the lanes, type of hard drive, speed of hard drive...
High end graphics card and fast CPU aren't going to do much if the motherboard ain't shit or RAM is slow or any other number of things. I make it a habit to never use game's preset graphics settings and set each one myself. Even now, there's some setting I probably left on medium because they aren't important in my mind (like some of the distant shadows or whatever)
It goes further than sheer numbers here though.
As I said in my previous post, a friend of mine was running a system that's slightly better than mine. Yet his performance was worse than mine.
It's as if the game makes full use of very specific hardware and not of others, even if said hardware is technically better.
Since then that crazy bastard accepted to pay scalper prices for a 3080 and upgraded his whole PC. He's getting much better performance than I am now but it was a very weird issue.
Has me pretty curious as to what all your parts were vs what all his parts were vs what all my parts were to see if there's some kind of common link there somewhere vs performance. Of course it could also be as silly as an antivirus app trying to scan every file CP 2077 opens or reads
Gotta love the excuses they posted. Luckily their behavior completely contradicts that post 
here are some threads to support the reason I disagreed.
my comment in after a month thread
Cyberpunk 2077 - State of game after a month
I just posted separately that I restarted the game after my initial 25 hours on the Xbox One X. The first 25 were awful and to the point where I had to just stop. Between the screen freezing, being glitched back to the console dashboard, the audio/video glitches, it was pretty much unplayable...
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This is a thread of people sharing various hardware configurations and not having issues
my personal a post in that thread.
let's compare pc specs
No performance issues at all with the game completely maxed out at 1080p except for film grain, chromatic aberration, DOF, lens flare and motion blur turned off (yucky). Couple weird random flatlines that sent me to desktop at character creation the moment I hit create character to enter the...
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Another thread of various people playing on pc with various hardware configurations and not having issues
It's fine on my PC | Forums - CD PROJEKT RED
My technical opinion on the software is broken vs software is ( generally ) fine its end user system compatibility issues debate.
About CDPR's attitude
I know they have released hot fix 1.06 and made a lot of people see "hope" in the game. But don't cry with joy yet. There are things I noticed for quite some time that I want to discuss with you guys. And through these details I'm really concerned and disturbed because somehow they show that...
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