You can easily see the effect in the main menu screen under tip 2 (blurry background). This has much more effect than turning off some of the beautiful visual effects like HBAO+/SSAO (which gives you a plus of 2-5fps at most if you turn if off).ĭying Light also supports “DoF” ( Depth of Field) which blurs out parts of the image. You can see that some minor details are missing in the background, particularly when looking at the trees and grass in the background, but it really doesn’t make a huge difference, given that you can double the framerate. Sounds like the game is going to look bad? No, actually there was hardly any difference while the framerate on my gaming PC jumped from 35fps to almost 60 when playing with the lowest setting. To almost double the performance of Dying Light, I’d recommend reducing the View Distance slider found in the graphics options (Options, Video) to medium or even low.
But please check back for an upcoming patch which will hopefully fix all the issues above.
Update 1.3 should be applied automatically once you launch the game over Steam or standalone.
Upgrade your graphics drivers and even use beta drivers.This covers the basic steps to get your machine in top shape, and including how to: #1 – Start with the basicsīefore you start tweaking performance settings for Dying Light, I recommend that you follow the 9 essential steps to boost your PC or laptop speed that I published a while ago.
Realistically you need a GeForce 6 series, 8 GB RAM and at least 2.x GHz CPU to run Dying Light properly. However even on my gaming rig I was able to detect a slight stuttering here and there, which is why I put together a list of tweaks for Dying Light and was able to finally smooth out all the performance problems.
While testing that on my laptop (3.7 GHz, GeForce 650M) I found that I was getting less than 30fps at medium settings, while my gaming PC (Core i7, 3.8 GHz, GeForce 970 GTX) handled things a lot better – at the highest details.
From the moment I saw the visuals and the gameplay mechanics in the trailer, I was hooked. However, one game caught my eye: Dying Light. For me, that genre got tiring quickly which is why I also ignored the latest hype around games like H1Z1, DayZ, Days to Die or the Resident Evil Remake.