Dying Light: The Beast PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide
Conclusion – Is Dying Light: The Beast well optimised?
Dying Light: The Beast is a well-optimised PC game
Honestly, Dying Light: The Beast is a breath of fresh air following Gearbox’s Borderlands 4. Borderlands 4 required extensive optimisation to run well on PC. In contrast, Dying Light: The Beast ran great from the start. Even users of older PC hardware will be able to enjoy this game. Even Nvidia’s older RTX 2070 can deliver a 60+ FPS gaming experience at 1080p. That can’t be said for many modern PC releases.
With so many new Unreal Engine 5 games performing so poorly on PC, Techland is showcasing the benefits of using its own game engine with Dying Light: The Beast. This game boasts strong visuals, particularly in terms of lighting. Despite this, Dying Light: The Beast run well on PC. You don’t need a top-of-the-line PC for this game to run well. Even Techland’s TAAU upscaler delivers strong results, giving higher levels of image quality than AMD’s FSR 3 upscaler. However, AMD FSR 4 and Nvidia DLSS deliver the best upscaling results.
For users with 8GB GPUs, we experienced stuttering. This was especially at high resolutions and during extended gameplay sessions. Using medium textures alleviated this issue. This game isn’t overly VRAM-hungry, but it does benefit from having at least 10GB of VRAM.
Expect RT to make Dying Light: The Beast a lot more demanding
If you own a high-end graphics card, it is relatively easy to run Dying Light: The Beast at high framerates. Add on features like Frame Generation, and it is easy to see why 200Hz+ monitors exist. For these users, please note that ray tracing is coming to Dying Light: The Beast, which will make the game significantly more demanding (if you choose to enable it).
When ray tracing comes, it will arrive in the form of ray-traced ambient occlusion, reflections, global illumination, and shadows. These can be enabled separately or together.
Dying Light: The Beast looks great without ray tracing
Overall, it’s hard to complain about Dying Light: The Beast’s graphical presentation. The game runs well, and upscaling can allow lower-end hardware to deliver strong visual results. Even Nvidia’s RTX 2070 can provide a 60+ FPS gaming experience. Not bad for a GPU from 2018.
So far, Dying Light: The Beast gives us very little to complain about. Nvidia Reflex currently gives us some stuttering issues when it is enabled. This is a big issue that should be addressed with an update soon. Once that happens, Techland will have addressed the only significant problem we have had with their game.
Dying Light: The Beast gives us a lot of zombie-smashing fun. It is great to see the series return to its roots and deliver improved parkour. For series veterans, this game feels a lot more like Dying Light 1 than Dying Light 2, and that is a good thing (at least for me). If you like this style of game, Dying Light: The Beast is a fun time. If not, why are you even reading this?
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