Dying Light 2 recommends an RTX 3080 for 1080p? You've got to be kidding me

(Epitome credit: Techland)

Techland has finally released organisation requirements for Dying Low-cal ii, and while they starting time off pretty reasonable, the recommended requirements are a bit obnoxious for a PC game in 2022.

For case, the game volition apparently only require a GTX 1050 Ti as a minimum spec, which will be adept enough for 1080p at low, with about thirty fps. However, if you lot want to turn on all the graphics settings and stay at 1080p, y'all're going to need an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 - a graphics card that is way more than powerful.

It gets fifty-fifty worse when you look at ray tracing specifications. At a minimum, the developer is suggesting an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 for the "Low RT" preset at 1080p, 30fps. A bit high, but that's fine, it's a next-generation game and all. Notwithstanding, for the 'High RT' preset at 60 fps, it's calling for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. For 1080p.

I legitimately doubt you'll need an RTX 3080 for 1080p in Dying Light two.

A question of scale

While the RTX 3080 is a pop graphics card (even though it's notoriously difficult to detect), there'south no reason that it should exist recommended for 1080p gaming, as information technology's a 4K GPU, especially when an RTX 2070 is what'south recommended for the lower RT preset at the same resolution.

We're talking near a gigantic jump in operation between those GPUs. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 was a gigantic generational bound over the flagship of the 2070's era, the RTX 2080 Ti, permit alone the mid-range Turing child.

In terms of raw performance, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 is well-nigh double the power that an RTX 2070 brings to the table, and yous cannot convince me that the delta between the low graphics preset and the high graphics preset is going to exist enough that it's going to require that much of an upgrade.

At almost, the requirement for the High RT preset is probably going to be closer to the RTX 2080 Ti and worst-case RTX 3070, and that's if (big if) Nvidia DLSS doesn't end up being supported.

Dying Light 2 system requirements — (Prototype credit: TechLand)

Why freak people out?

It'southward no undercover that graphics cards are extremely hard to come up by right at present, and that's specially true for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. By making that graphics card the "recommended spec", even for a preset with ray tracing, at 1080p could make people think they take to become out and shell out for an extremely expensive slice of hardware to play a game.

The fact of the matter is, the RTX 3080 will likely exist overkill at 1080p, regardless of what settings you're playing the game at. Unless in that location's some setting in there that is downscaling the game from a higher resolution, a la Ubersampling in The Witcher 2, in that location'southward no reason that information technology would require such a powerful GPU.

I'm non sure why Techland decided that putting such an expensive and coveted GPU as its recommended spec at 1080p was a adept idea, and I've reached out to the studio for comment and will update this story if I hear back. I suspect it might simply be because it is a GPU the company can be absolutely certain volition articulate that 60 fps threshold.

There's likewise a possibility that there are some genuine problems with the game's optimization that will make it harder to run on more reasonable hardware at those settings. Y'all tin count me equally intrigued, and I fully intend to exam this game upon release to see what you'll really need to play this game at its best.

Crysis Remastered — Y'all can't tell me that Dying Light two is going to be the Crysis of 2022 (Image credit: Crytek)

I guess forget about playing this game at 4K

If the game actually does require an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 just to play the game at 1080p with ray tracing enabled, and so you tin can pretty much forget about playing the game at 4K, period.

Even the RTX 3090 is just about 10-15% faster than the RTX 3080 in almost situations, and y'all're going to demand something much more powerful than that to push Dying Light 2 at 4K if these system requirements are at all indicative of how the finished title is going to perform.

There are certainly games and franchises that are known for putting hardware to the test, and are designed to push hardware for years to come. But even Metro Exodus was playable at 4K with ray tracing with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. And even Cyberpunk 2077, with all the problems it had at launch, was too capable of running at 4K, thanks to the inclusion of DLSS.

Dying Light 2 does not seem like information technology's going to be 1 of those games, and with how long we've been waiting for information technology, I sincerely hope the developers don't endeavor to make it a tech showcase - because it probably will not stop well.

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