- Apr 20, 2020
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Hi,
I've seen the thread on reddit doing the rounds about hex-editing the Cyberpunk 2077 .exe file so that it is able to make more effective use of my Ryzen 5 3600 and therefore have less frame drops. All I had to do was edit one value, changed 75 to EB at the start of a certain string of numbers, saved it (all after making a backup .exe of course) and whaddya know it really worked, took my CPU being locked at 50% usage to being able to go 80% and higher if it needed to. Much more stable frame rate.
My only question is, is it safe for my hardware to do these sorts of things? I have great cooling, haven't overclocked the CPU and everything that needs to be stable or cool, is so. I'm not worried about software issues as they can be reversed in one way or another but I really don't want to be potentially damaging my hardware. Is this even possible with doing hex edits to a game .exe or am I risking a software problem at worst? (e.g. crashing game etc which hasnt happened yet)
TL😀R, edited the cyberpunk EXE so it would use my ryzen fully, it did so and worked well, but now I'm worried that hardware damage is somehow possible if I mess up with editing the .exe through HxD. I want to know if that's the case.
I've seen the thread on reddit doing the rounds about hex-editing the Cyberpunk 2077 .exe file so that it is able to make more effective use of my Ryzen 5 3600 and therefore have less frame drops. All I had to do was edit one value, changed 75 to EB at the start of a certain string of numbers, saved it (all after making a backup .exe of course) and whaddya know it really worked, took my CPU being locked at 50% usage to being able to go 80% and higher if it needed to. Much more stable frame rate.
My only question is, is it safe for my hardware to do these sorts of things? I have great cooling, haven't overclocked the CPU and everything that needs to be stable or cool, is so. I'm not worried about software issues as they can be reversed in one way or another but I really don't want to be potentially damaging my hardware. Is this even possible with doing hex edits to a game .exe or am I risking a software problem at worst? (e.g. crashing game etc which hasnt happened yet)
TL😀R, edited the cyberpunk EXE so it would use my ryzen fully, it did so and worked well, but now I'm worried that hardware damage is somehow possible if I mess up with editing the .exe through HxD. I want to know if that's the case.
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