So, for lower-end graphics processors, I've come up with a range of settings that retain the lion's share of the game's visual splendour, but do produce some artefacts in select scenarios (for example, volumetric rendering quality). What's clear is that this game is so demanding on the GPU that several iterations are required to maintain decent performance across a wide range of hardware. When it comes to optimised settings overall, one set of recommendations isn't quite enough. Watch on YouTube Here's the Digital Foundry verdict on Dying Light 2's current-gen console showing. Shadows, ambient occlusion and reflections also benefit but for the best balance of performance and image quality, RTGI is the core focus.
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It's ray tracing where PC is transformative, principally with ray traced global illumination (RTGI), which accurately maps light bounce around the environments, completely transforming the scene. In truth, the high setting seems almost like overkill in many scenarios.
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In terms of how Dying Light 2 scales beyond even PS5 and Xbox Series X versions, it's true that raster settings can go beyond the high territory occupied by the consoles, but you'll note that I've used these sparingly.
Its graphics are better, meaning it requires more powerful GPU hardware, but areas of the graphics are now 'unscalable' that could have helped the lower end GPUs. Secondly, this higher floor means that Dying light 2 scales worse than its predecessor on lower end hardware. This change has a few effects: firstly, Dying Light 2 by default looks a lot better than its predecessor because its graphical quality baseline is much higher. This time around, level of details sliders for geometry and shadow maps are absent. However, many PC gamers chose to push the slider to the max, effectively killing performance. This may well be down to the initial reaction to the first Dying Light's options - famously, its level of detail slider (even on minimum) presented higher draw distances than the console versions. It's when we go beyond the scope of the console versions that we see a PC version that clearly has high ambitions for the platform - but I was a touch disappointed to note that the range of the settings seemed somewhat more limited than its predecessor. Watch on YouTube Alex Battaglia presents this extended deep-dive into the PC features of Dying Light 2, showing how the settings work and what options deliver the best balance of performance and quality.
Expect some variance in specific settings here or there, but generally, that's the lie of the land. This rises to medium for the last-gen enhanced machines, and high for the PS5 and Xbox Series X. The base last-gen consoles effectively run at something equivalent to PC at its low global preset. However, with Dying Light 2, it seems that Techland has chosen a different approach. Typically, console renditions of any given game use a grab-bag of varying PC-equivalent settings across the board - the developer's own optimised setting selection. Whether you're using an RT-enabled card or not, I've put together a series of optimised settings recommendations, but before we dig into this, it's important to put the console versions into context with the PC offering. Yes, you can play this game and get a good experience on consoles but the bottom line is this: the PC version goes much, much further. That's where high-end PC hardware comes to the fore, where Dying Light 2 deploys a range of hardware accelerated ray tracing features that radically transform the game, with only a small, limited sub-set of RT features ending up in the PS5 and Series X versions. Yes, it's a cross-gen title for sure, but one where Techland's C-Engine allows for scalability well beyond the limitations of the last-gen machines - and perhaps even their current-gen alternatives too. Dying Light 2 is a true graphics juggernaut that shines brightest on PC.
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