After 5 lengthy years, Cyberpunk 2077 is lastly obtainable for the Mac right this moment, a number of months after Apple teased Mac avid gamers in the course of the M4 MacBook Professional reveal in October. (Really, Apple mentioned within the presentation that the sport is coming within the “early” a part of 2025, however higher late than by no means.)
Apple additionally mentioned on the time that Cyberpunk 2077 is “one of the vital graphically demanding and sophisticated video games ever created,” and to assist avid gamers get the perfect expertise, CD Projekt Crimson has included what it calls “For this Mac” presets that dynamically alter its settings for “an optimum stability between visible high quality and efficiency.” With the presets, the extra highly effective the Mac is, the upper the settings will go.
The minimal necessities for Cyberpunk 2077 are an M1 collection Mac with a minimum of 16GB of RAM operating macOS 15.5 Sequoia or later. The older the chip, the decrease the sport’s decision might be. For instance, M1 Macs will play the sport at 1440 by 900 or 1600 by 900 decision at 30 fps, whereas an M3 Extremely Mac runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 2294 by 1432 or 2560 by 1440 decision at 60 fps.
CD Projekt Crimson notes, nonetheless, that the presets don’t activate Ray Tracing, which is simply obtainable on M3 and M4 Macs. Customers of these Macs should activate ray tracing manually within the graphics settings.
As for storage, Mac App Retailer customers might want to allocate 159GB for the sport with “all voiceovers included,” whereas clients of GOG, Epic Video games Retailer, or Steam will solely want 92GB. So if in case you have a Mac with 256GB of storage, you’ll want a speedy exterior drive.
