Debug Menu

This is a sub-page of Development:Cyberpunk 2077.

To do:
Add details about the many remaining debug menu options. Ensure all the different tabs of the overlays are documented. (Shift+Alt+1/2/3/4/5)

WARNING Too many triangles rendered.

— CD Projekt RED

The Development Build that can be compiled from the source code contains a very comprehensive debug menu with many different features and settings. The debug menu is built with Dear ImGui. A selection of debug menu options can be accessed by using the radial menu in-game by pressing Shift+Alt or holding the View/Back button on an Xbox controller. The debug web server running on port 37010 can trigger and open further debug options not visible in the radial menu. To make the debug menus clickable, enable ImGui mode by pressing Left Shift + Middle Mouse Button.

Default#

Debug menu. Accessed by pressing Shift+Alt or holding the View/Back button on an Xbox controller.

Asset streaming overlay, displayed while loading a save.

Web Server#

Audio#

Displays informations about audio events, and what triggered these events. By default it opens the settings, event history and properties stats window.

All options in the Render tab enabled. The yellow numbered "World buttons" are clickable in ImGui mode.

Info shown when clicking a world button.

Damage#

This debug filter is only available via the debug web server. Displays sources of damages applied to the player entity.

Dismemberment#

This debug filter is only available via the debug web server. Doesn't appear to do anything.

Game systems#

These debug filters are only available via the debug web server.

Attachment Slots#

Displays items equipped in the slots of the player and the character the player is looking at.

Attitude Manager#

Display info about various NPC entities attitudes, e.g. if they are afraid, neutral, friendly or enemies towards the player.

Autosave#

Displays a countdown until the next autosave is triggered.

Cooldown#

Displays information about the cooldown system, which controls how fear is spread to other NPCs and counts down until fear is no longer spread to other NPCs.

GPS#

Displays debug info and log data from the GPS system.

Influence Map#

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: Read these 1 2 3 links and try to expand this section if the content is relevant to this context.

Shows information about influence, which are AI entities that react to the player.

Journal manager#

Displays info about the journal, which is used to control text assigned to messages, phone entries, websites and other things and shows if these entries have ever been displayed.

Level Management#

Possibly used to look up values in the TweakDB.

Lights#

Shows information about the light the player is currently looking at.

Population System#

Likely shows NPCs and vehicles that are allowed to spawn in the sector the player currently is in, and which ones that has currently spawned.

Quest system#

Debug log#

Displays information about quest sockets, seems to focus on displaying warnings and errors.

Phase Freezer#

Prefab Handler#

Displays information about loaded prefabs.

Prefab Loading#

Displays information about prefabs currently being loaded.

Quest Resource Loader#

Displays data about .questphase files currently loaded into the game.

Cyberpunk2077_dev_debug_gamesys_questssys_questresloader_1.png

Time System#

This tool shows information about time. Shows game time, engine time, sim time and playthrough time. Can also be used to change the in-game clock.

Cyberpunk2077_dev_debug_gamesys_questssys_timesys_1.png

Inspector#

Displays various information of assets used by the game. Raycast refers to a scanner that shoots out a straight line from the center of the player's frustum/camera towards the asset of the item they are looking at and displays info such as its mesh/prefab path. AoE scanner refers to an Area of Effect scanner, that scans a wide area at the user's command. "Marauder's Map" refers to displaying all devices/NPCs within a certain radius of the player.

Marauder's Map - I'm a Computer, I'm a Computery guy

Everything made out of buttons and wires

Memory#

A menu that displays details about... memory pools.

Displays navmeshes.

Nodes#

These debug filters are only available via the debug web server.

Bounding boxes#

Displays some kind of data about... bounding boxes?

Density Visualization#

It is unclear what density refers to here.

Excluded on console#

Likely displays assets that are not visible on console builds for performance reasons.

Socket Names Always Visible#

Appears to display the physical location of sockets in .questphase files.

Cyberpunk2077_dev_debug_nodes_socketsnamesalwaysvisible_1.png

NPC QA#

Displays debug data about the NPC in player view when user presses 4 on the numpad.

Overlay#

This debug filter is only available via the debug web server.

Script Runtime Error Console#

An error log that displays errors from scripts.

Cyberpunk2077_dev_debug_overlay_scriptruntimerrorconsole_1.png

Ping System#

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: What do the green circles/elements show?

Sway/Spread Manager#

Accessible only via an option in the debug web server, this tool allows the user to display weapon sway and spread data.

The red circle displays the spread of the weapon if fired.

The blue-ish line displays the path the sway of the weapon will take. A red line will continue from the tail of the blue-ish line.

A red line will continue from the tail of the blue-ish line and sway back towards the center.

Scoped weapons have a black square that likely helps with seeing sway on scopes. The red plus signs display the projectiles fired from the weapon.

Projectiles#

Displays data related to projectiles, such as trajectories, entity of the project and which entity that is the owner of the thrown entity.

QA#

This debug filter is only available via the debug web server. Displays various breadcrumbs/information about actions the player and well as some other actions the NPCs have performed. Likely used to assist with bug tracking and/or in-game telemetry.

Rendering#

These debug filters are only available via the debug web server.

Debug#

These debug debug filters are only available via the debug web server. Displays various debugging info related to the renderer.

Runtime System#

Entities#

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: What on earth does this debug filter show?

Unknown function. Appears to show something related to, uhh, entities and lipmaps? Some memory usage info as well. Partially makes the border of the window blue. Entities. Green arrow. Ticks. Registered components. Much information.

Node#

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: What makes a box green vs. red, which type of nodes that are shown in this filter.

Used to show where various nodes on the map are located. Shows only some(?) nodes related to entities, meshes, area nodes and rendering nodes. The location and path of assets accessed via physical proxies on the map are shown in a gray text box.

Geometric Descriptor#

Used to show barriers in the way of the player, and geometric data.

View from underneath the player, arrows turn to red.

Streaming Query#

Displays some type of data related to roads.

Scenes (Web server)#

This debug filter in the web server appears to be separate from the Scenes overlay in the radial menu. Displays data about characters and props spawned in quests.

Stats#

These debug filters are only available via the debug web server.

Crowd Density#

Displays the amount of pedestrians/vehicles within the user's spawn range, and targets for pedestrians/vehicles to be spawned within the user's spawn range.