Hex Editing safe?

[fastfishy2]

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)

 

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, fastfishy2 said:

My only question is, is it safe for my hardware to do these sorts of things?

Um, you aren't altering the hardware, you are literally just running software on it. Yes, running the CPU even at 100% load is perfectly fine as long as the cooling can handle it.

[fastfishy2]

3 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Um, you aren't altering the hardware, you are literally just running software on it. Yes, running the CPU even at 100% load is perfectly fine as long as the cooling can handle it.

so even if I somehow managed to completely bugger up the .exe, the worst thing I'd get is a game that wouldn't run or would run wonky and I'd have to swap in the backup?

[WereCatf]

Just now, fastfishy2 said:

so even if I somehow managed to completely bugger up the .exe, the worst thing I'd get is a game that wouldn't run or would run wonky and I'd have to swap in the backup?

Yes.