A Cyberpunk 2077 player hit 85fps by running the game on a 25 year old CRT monitor.
Since launch, Cyberpunk 2077 has pulled in PC tinkerers determined to push it to extremes. Some crank path tracing until Night City’s streets look almost indistinguishable from a rainy night photo. Others go the opposite way, layering VHS lenses, grain, and jitter for a lo-fi, late-night feel.
The latest experiment goes the other way entirely: back to thick glass, scanlines, and flicker-driven motion clarity.
Night City goes full cathode ray
A Cyberpunk 2077 player shared a clip of how he got the game running at 85 FPS on 25 year old CRT.
In the 46 second clip, the setup runs shockingly clean as Night City races across a bulky beige screen, from smooth driving through the city to firefights with its street gangs.
During the peak CRT era, this is where you would have been playing 2005’s God of War or Resident Evil 4 on a PS2 or early Xbox 360, not cruising through a neon-lit city with ray traced puddles.
But r/KobraKay87 explained trick is modern muscle doing the heavy lifting while the old tech gets the spotlight. The monitor is a 2000’s Samsung Syncmaster 1200NF, but the game is actually being powered by an RTX 4090 graphics card and a Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor.
The tinkerer explained, “Video colors are unedited, only using ingame Reshade to add some slight VHS noise and chroma smear for that extra CRT oomph.”
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