The big day has finally arrived. After being first teased all the way back in 2012,Cyberpunk 2077is here, and players are flooding into Night City at a record-breaking pace,makingCyberpunkthe first single-player game on Steam to reach a million consecutive players. It’s not all good news, though, since it has its fair share of technical issues, and it turns out that these even extend outside of the game itself to PC players’ desktop screens.
It goes without saying thatCyberpunkhas far more moving parts than the average game, given not just its open-world design but the ambitious amount of detail CD Projekt Red has put into its world, narrative structure, and customization options. The game was bound to come out with a lot of bugs, and while the bug problemhasn’t stoppedCyberpunk 2077from receiving loads of positive reviews, it’s become a noticeable part of the conversation in the past week. It’s also why PC players have noticed that the game’s Steam desktop shortcut is strangely blurry.
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Compared to the other glitches that critics and players have reported, it’s a pretty minor problem, but one that will leave plenty of players frustrated still. Luckily, there’s already a fix, courtesy ofCyberpunk’s fledgling modding community. Mere hours after the game launched, Nexus Mods user kostas96b has provided a mod that addresses this specific issue, swapping out the blurred icon for one with a proper resolution and removing the hazy eyesore from players’ computer screens.
What’s more, players don’t even have to stick with anythingCyberpunk 2077-related for the desktop icon if they’d rather. As spotted by PC Gamer, there’s another mod that lets players swap out the official artwork of V with a funny photo of Bethesda’s Todd Howard. Why anyone would want to use it isn’t exactly clear, but the option is there for those interested.
In all likelihood, CD Projekt Red will get around to fixing the desktop icon problem itself sooner or later, though it’s safe to assume that players may have to wait longer for that than other fixes. With how many more serious (andmore NSFW) glitches there are inCyberpunk 2077at the moment, it won’t be all that surprising if this issue ends up being a lower priority for the developer.
While there are a wide range of issues that players may run into at the moment, some of them, like the desktop icon, are things they can address themselves. For instance, anyone who bought the game on PC digitally canfixCyberpunk’s audio popping and hissingby adjusting a few things in their computer’s sound settings.
Cyberpunk 2077is now available for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions slated to launch in 2021.
