[News] Best Dying Light 2 settings on PC

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Link : https://www.pcgamesn.com/dying-light-2/best-settings-performance-benchmarks

The first Dying Light set the standard for just how fun freerunning should be in a game, and the developers at Techland might’ve outdone themselves with the sequel. But to fully enjoy post-apocalyptic parkour at its finest, your gaming PC needs to pump enough frames to keep things fluid, and this zombie romp might not give your system an easy time. Fortunately, we have the best Dying Light 2 settings right here, so you can get things running smoothly without the hassle of trial and error.Before getting into the thick of it, it’s worth recognising that the game isn’t quite as optimised as it could be. Techland’s already addressed a wealth of issues with its day one patch, including a hotfix for shaky co-op connections and brushing up problems that hindered story progression, but there are still texture and sound glitches that can ruin the experience.

 

It might be worth giving the developer a little more time to patch these issues before hopping in, but it shouldn’t take too long with any luck, as it’s not slowing down on the barrage of post-launch hotfixes.

Even the best graphics cards work up a bit of a sweat, meaning you might need the aid of upscaling technologies to hit these target resolutions and frame rates, yet all three options can leave 1080p looking blurrier than native. This is because Nvidia DLSS, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, and the standard linear option are all designed to help achieve higher resolutions, using HD as a base.You might notice that 1440p and 4K specs aren’t listed here, and that’s because they’re somewhat of a struggle. You might get away with the latter at 30fps provided you’re combining a current generation graphics card with your preferred upscaler, but more pixels causes the game to eat your frame rate for breakfast.Upscaling is non-negotiable when enabling ray tracing, so we recommend sticking to DLSS Quality if you’re running a compatible GeForce RTX GPU (it’s noticeably sharper after the day one patch). FSR works as a needs must, but comes with a visual toll that its green counterpart doesn’t, such as blurrier edges to the texture of buildings.

If you’re looking to dropkick zombies as quickly as possible, Dying Light 2’s five presets are a good place to start. Thankfully, they don’t adjust your resolution given that 1080p is the most that’ll be on the cards for many. That said, they also don’t tinker with upscaling, so you can do much better if you roll up your sleeves and rummage around in the individual ‘advanced settings’.

 

The city of Villedor is quite the sight, and one that probably shouldn’t be wasted on the Low preset if possible. It’ll cost you around 14% of your frames when jumping to Medium and just 17% to High, so you can probably skip over the middleground and crank things right up if your PC can handle it. It’s much harder to swallow the 40% dip the Raytracing preset brings from Low, or the 50% decrease from the High Quality Raytracing preset, especially if you’re aiming to keep above the 60fps mark.The good news is that you can fine tune the best Dying Light 2 settings to get just as many frames as the Low preset, while making it look a hell of a lot better. You’ll need to press ‘F’ on the graphics menu to access the advanced settings.