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Everything you need to know about Dying Light The Beast’s PC optimization, including the best settings to use for optimal performance.
Dying Light The Beast is a major step up in terms of visual fidelity and features, compared to its predecessor(s). However, unlike Dying Light at launch, which had a ton of performance-related issues, The Beast is rather well-optimized across all platforms. It seems the roughly month-long delay actually paid off and delivered fans a “polished” Dying Light experience. That said, the game does have a few rough edges, particularly when it comes to VRAM utilization. While there doesn’t seem to be a memory leak, The Beast can stutter and drop frame rate, occasionally.
The performance issues are mostly evident on older GPUs with limited VRAM. However, with a few tweaks to the graphics settings, you can easily remedy that. Here’s a comprehensive PC optimization guide for Dying Light The Beast, including the best settings to use for the game.
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Dying Light PC System Requirements
Here are the official PC system requirements for Dying Light The Beast:
Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: Intel i5-13400F / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 1060 / AMD Radeon 5500 XT / Intel ARC A750
- Storage: 70 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: Intel i5-13400F / AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TI / AMD Radeon 6750 XT / Intel ARC B580
- Storage: 70 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
High
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: Intel i7-13700K / AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- Memory: 32 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TI / AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
- Storage: 70 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
Ultra
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: Intel i9-14900K / AMD Ryzen 9 7750X3D
- Memory: 32 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 / AMD Radeon RX 9070 / Intel ARC B580
- Storage: 70 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
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Best Settings for Dying Light The Beast on PC
Here are the best settings to use in Dying Light The Beast, across various PC configurations (Low, Recommended, and Ultra):
| Graphics Settings | Low | Recommended | Ultra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texture Quality | Medium | Ultra | Ultra |
| LOD Quality | High | High | High |
| Particles Quality | Low | High | High |
| Shadows Quality | Low | High | High |
| Screen Space Shadows | Off | On | On |
| Ambient Occlusion Quality | Medium | High | High |
| Global Illumination Quality | Medium | High | High |
| Reflection Quality | Medium | High | Ultra |
| Fog Quality | Low | High | Ultra/High |
| Post Process Quality | Low | High | High |
As for the renderer, DirectX 12, as usual, is significantly more stable than DX11. However, if you’re playing the game on a GPU without mesh shaders, or less than 8 GB of VRAM, it’s best to use DX11. Additionally, do note that on lower-end GPUs, increasing the FOV will affect performance. However, you can offset the performance impact by using DLSS or FSR. The game also supports XeSS, but in our testing, we found FSR to be a better option compared to the former.
While XeSS does resolve finer details much better, it doesn’t offer enough performance boost, unless you have enough VRAM to spare.
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