You also get a very granular level of control over which specific ray traced effects to engage. Ray traced effects invariably look better up close, mind – check out the more believably darkened bus interior, or how the clumps of overgrown grass actually cast shadows at all.Ģ560x1440, no upscaling, High Quality Raytracing 2560x1440, no upscaling, Raytracing 2560x1440, no upscaling, High 2560x1440, no upscaling, Medium 2560x1440, no upscaling, Low Having all things RT enabled will drastically improve the quality of reflections and lighting effects, even with the occasional imperfect you can see in the comparison shots below, for instance, that shadows from the most distant building’s balconies and roof have a shorter draw distance than standard shadows. It’s worth noting that Dying Light 2 goes in hard on ray tracing, on a level rarely seen outside of games like Metro Exodus and Control. So if you lack a suitable RTX graphics card, it’s simple enough to pick one of the three presets with no ray tracing whatsoever. In addition to the Low, Medium and High presets, there are a further two levels named Raytracing (no space, the hooligans) and High Quality Raytracing. To its credit, Dying Light 2 takes a smart approach to its most demanding ray tracing adornments. And that was with DLSS – without it, the usually 4K-friendly RTX 3070 simply won’t be able to handle such settings. Sadly, even if you own one of the best 4K gaming monitors, dropping to 1440p might serve you better: with my usual RTX 3070 back in the test PC, trying to run maxed-out settings at 4K only got me 32fps on average. It’s a downright necessity when ray tracing is in play, too, though some settings combinations will remain out of reach for all but the likes of the RTX 3090.
Dying Light has three kinds – DLSS, FSR and its own linear upscaler – and even with its soon-to-be-patched lack of sharpness, DLSS is easily the best of them.
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This jumped to 74fps with the aid of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), AMD’s more widely supported version of DLSS, but upscaled 1080p is just too blurry to bear.Īh, yes, upscaling. Next out of my GPU pile was a GTX 1080 (no RTX 2060s in there, sadly), and while this is broadly on par with the recommended non-RT spec, it fell a bit short of the magic number with 53fps at 1080p. I tried a GTX 1050 Ti with Low settings at 1080p, as per the minimum spec, and even when paired with a faster Intel Core i5-11600K CPU it only averaged 29fps in a benchmark run through the open world.
And although some games can end up with overly cautious system requirements, in Dying Light 2’s case you really shouldn’t go below the prescribed amount of horsepower. You know a game is a PC-melter when it suggests the mighty RTX 3080 might be able to cobble together 60fps at 1080p, ray tracing or no.
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That said, if you are indeed eyeing this on launch day, your best course of action may be to… wait a bit? Developers Techland have already confirmed a “day one” patch for consoles containing over 1,000 bug fixes, and some of these issues have definitely found their way into the PC version too.
That goes double if you want to dolly up this post-apocalypse with some shiny ray tracing features, so even if you’ve got a rig that can breeze through most games, I’d recommend reading on for a guide to Dying Light 2’s best settings. Not in the hours to completion sense, or even difficulty in general – Matthew’s review found a rather unthreatening strain of undead – but in how tricky it is to get running smoothly on PC. Dying Light 2 is out and hoo boy, is it a tough nut to crack.
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