Dead Island 2 PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide
VRAM Use Â
VRAM utilisation is not something that most PC gamers should be concerned with when playing Dead Island 2. If you are using a graphics card with 8GB of VRAM or more, we found that the game ran without any major issues at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K at Ultra settings.Â
With our RTX 4090 graphics card, we found that a little over 10GB of VRAM was utilised when Dead Island 2 was played at 4K Ultra settings, but it is worth remembering that this is how much VRAM is getting used by the game, not necessarily how much VRAM is required. Many games cache a lot of unneeded files in VRAM to potentially save time later, and we found that 8GB GPUs like Nvidia’s RTX 3070 Ti had no issues running this game at 8K.Â
The good news for Dead Island players is that the game scales well for players that own GPUs with less VRAM. This is not a game where 8GB is not enough, though 6GB graphics cards do run into issues if you try to play this game at 4K Ultra settings. That said, no 6GB GPU has the horsepower required to run this game at 4K ultra settings without lowering some graphical settings anyway. At 1080p, 6GB graphics cards can run Dead Island 2 without many issues, though we recommend scaling texture settings down to prevent any potential VRAM-related performance issues.
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