Cyberpunk 2077 Hotfix 1.22 Improves Memory Management on PlayStation 5

CD Projekt RED recently rolled out Cyberpunk 2077 hotfix 1.22, which makes memory management improvements on the PlayStation 5 alongside fixing a plethora of issues with quests and the game’s open world.

Complete patch notes are as follows:

Quests & Open World

• The Metro: Memorial Park dataterm should now properly count towards the Frequent Flyer achievement.
• Fixed glitches in Johnny’s appearance occurring after buying the Nomad car from Lana.
• Fixed an issue in Gig: Until Death Do Us Part where it was not possible to use the elevator.
• Fixed an issue in Epistrophy where the player could get trapped in the garage if they didn’t follow the drone and ran into the control room instead.
• Added a retrofix for the issue we fixed in 1.21, where Takemura could get stuck in Japantown Docks in Down on the Street – for players who already experienced it before update 1.21 and continued playing until 1.22, Takemura will now teleport to Wakako’s parlor.
• Fixed an issue preventing the player from opening the phone in the apartment at the beginning of New Dawn Fades.
• Fixed an issue where the player could become unable to use weapons and consumables after interacting with a maintenance panel in Riders on the Storm.

Visual

• Fixed various issues related to clipping in NPCs’ clothes.

UI

• Fixed an issue where subtitles were not properly aligned in the Arabic language version.

Stability and performance

• Various memory management improvements (reducing the number of crashes), and other optimizations.
• Improved GPU performance of skinning and cloth rendering.

Console-specific

• GPU and ESRAM optimizations and improvements on Xbox One.
• Memory management improvements on PlayStation 5.

Stadia-specific

• It’s no longer possible to get soft locked in the key bindings menu if a keyboard is not available.

Cyberpunk 2077 has yet to return to the PlayStation Store.

[Source: CDPR]