Dying Light System Requirements Are Insanely High

04 December 2014

Update: as suspected, Techland updated Dying Light’s system requirements and they are a bit more reasonable now. RAM changed from 8/16 to 4/8, and the minimum GPU changed from GTX 670/Radeon HD 7870 to GTX 560/Radeon HD 6870. That’s more like it.

Techland‘s exciting Dead Island/Mirror’s Edge mash-up is scheduled to release on 27th January, and today the official Dying Light system requirements were revealed on the game’s Steam page.

Unfortunately, they’re also the highest we’ve ever seen - yes, higher than Assassin’s Creed Unity. Suffice it to say, you need an i5 2500, 8GB and a GTX 670 to even play the game, but if you want to have high/maxed settings you’re looking at i5 4570K, 16GB RAM and a GTX 780.

MINIMUM:
OS: Windows® 7 64-bit / Windows® 8 64-bit / Windows® 8.1 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-2500 @3.3 GHz / AMD FX-8320 @3.5 GHz
Memory: 8 GB RAM DDR3
Hard Drive: 40 GB free space
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670 / AMD Radeon™ HD 7870
Sound: DirectX® 10

RECOMMENDED:
OS: Windows® 7 64-bit / Windows® 8 64-bit / Windows® 8.1 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K @3.4 GHz / AMD FX-8350 @4.0 GHz
Memory: 16 GB RAM DDR3
Hard Drive: 40 GB free space
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780 / AMD Radeon™ R9 290
Sound: DirectX® 10

Dying Light is effectively the first game to recommend 16 GB of RAM. To be honest, I’ve played the game at Gamescom 2013 & 2014 and while I liked what I saw as a whole, I don’t really think that the graphics on display should actually require that much horsepower; not to mention that this doesn’t exactly bode well for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions, since consoles are far less powerful than the recommended PC hardware.

Still, it happened before that developers slightly backtracked on their initial system requirements, lowering them a bit. Let’s hope Techland does the same with Dying Light, as those are just too high and would severely limit the playerbase.

Commentonitall

It is just a push by Nvidia to make you think you have to buy a new graphics card. Total BS and if this game needs that much then it is clearly not optimized well.
- Ricoh123
  
  I knew Nvidia was doing this years ago.
  
  They artificially bloat the hardware requirements to drive sales.
  
  Try telling people this though. No one believes you and people just mindlessly pull their wallets out like sheep rofl
- Shinobi
  
  That makes no sense. Basically all newer games have requirements at about this level. Dragon Age Inquisition, ACU, FC4, The Evil Within, Lords of the Fallen, etc. It’s just that games are getting more demanding as we get into the generation.
  - Jecht_Sin
    
    We complain about games not looking great but then we also complain when system requirements go up to accommodate better graphics. Go figure.
    - Shinobi
      
      Yep. People got spoiled by a long previous generation in which almost every pc gamer could run every game at max settings and still get over 60fps.
      
      But now the new generation of games are just starting to really show up on the scene and people are just going to have to accept that the demands are going up too. It’s not a big deal though because a couple years from now everybody will be maxing everything out again with ease. This happens at the beginning of every new console hardware cycle.
Ricoh123

Mis-information.

This does in fact run great on consoles.

It’s yet another example of poor optimisation for the PC version.

Unlucky PC gamers ;)
- Shinobi
  
  Proof? Evidence? The console versions might run at an ok framerate, but at what resolution? At what graphical quality level?
  - / Alessio Palumbo
    
    That’s the big question. They might get them to run smoothly, but at what cost? It’s not like there’s magic here, either they lower the graphics or it gets choppy.
    - Ricoh123
      
      Choppyness is a PC problem.
      
      Console games have less graphical quality than PC games, but they always run smooth.
      - Kingdom17
        
        Somthing somthing Skyrim somthing somthing PS3 :( Or was that just a very rare incident? *I’m going to retract my statement, for as far as I can recall, Skyrim really was the only game to come to mind that did have such issues.
        
        Jecht_Sin
        
        The Assassin’s Creed series, X-Com: Enemy Within, and Mass Effect 3 are 3 that had pretty serious framerate issues or bugs on PS3 as well.
      - John Snow
        
        Tell that to just about every PS3 game to come out. Poor optimization happens in consoles as well. Try playing Crysis 3 on the PS3 as a wonderful example. Not to mention I would consider PC gamers the lucky ones. The unlucky people are the ones who don’t make enough money to fund something such as a gaming PC. Filthy joystick casuals, we whipe our noses with benjamin franklin.
        
        Your elaborate troll posts are fun to read nontheless. Want to talk about sheeple, I weep for all the console fps players that think they’re amazing with a joystick. Put them on the PC they wouldn’t last a second.
  - Ricoh123
    
    The best they can.
    
    And they will be optimised and run smooth like always.
    
    Consoles dont have the raw horsepower, but you always get a premium experience, premium support and you don’t have to faff about with graphical settings. Its all done for you.
    
    PC gamers get left out in the cold when it comes to developer support.
    
    Either the community fixes it themselves (which i find a hilarious situation), or it just doesnt work properly.
    - Shinobi
      
      “And they will be optimised and run smooth like always.
      
      Consoles dont have the raw horsepower, but you always get a premium experience and premium support.”
      
      This is such a load of crap. Many console games do not run smooth. And premium experience? Consoles have their place, but giving a premium experience is not what they are about.
Jecht_Sin

The PS4 and XB1 versions are probably going to be fine. The videos they’ve released of PS4 gameplay seemed to be running smoothly. That was never really the case with Unity.
Over

Remember that the “recommended” hardware is to play with a quality superior to the consoles’ version. If you’re fine with console graphics, then you’ll be fine with the “minimum” hardware or little more.
- Shinobi
  
  Absolutely. The recommended specs are usually the specs needed to run the game at max settings (better graphical settings than the console versions) and do it at around 60fps.
Sheldon Prescott

This is good news if you ask me. This means that “next gen” is officially about to start.
- Sin Lee
  
  Only the few understands the necessity now required by a much more ambitious next-gen game. Everybody else being shocked by the system requirements are simply just not ready for next-gen.
- / Alessio Palumbo
  
  The problem here is that the game doesn’t seem to justify such requirements (I’ve played it). Still, the updated requirements are more reasonable.
benbenkr

Lol the CPU jump to 4670k for the “Recommended” settings make no sense. The i5 2500 is just 15% slower clock for clock than the 4670k, in games the difference is less than 5%. So whoever wrote the recommended settings for the game simply thought that the 4670k is a popular CPU and it’ll earn some points from PC gamers.

Everything else I guess falls in place… except for the odd 16GB of RAM needed, which I’ll call bs right now.
- Sin Lee
  
  It makes no sense, is because you more than likely don’t understand what optimization went under the hood to not require anything more better than an i5 4670K. Perhaps they managed to optimized the game more under the new i5 vs the old i5 2500k.
  
  The game using more system memory is a plus, that means they managed to push more intense data into memory than to read it off the disk. That’s another form of optimization. It’s most likely that the additional 8GB of System RAM requirement is to store 4K resolution textures and to reduce object loading from reading the disk. You have to remember, Dying Light is a seamless open world horror survival game with no level loading.
  - benbenkr
    
    Thanks for telling the internet you know very little about computers and game development in general.
    
    I’m not complaining about needing only an i5. I’m questioning the fact that why is the recommended specs just a bump from 2500 (not k btw, which you got wrong) to a 4670k? It makes no sense because AMD’s 8350 isn’t even at an i5 2500 performance, period, don’t even try to argue about this.
    
    The Haswell i5 and the Sandy Bridge i5 has minimal new CPU instructions between them, none of which benefits gaming. So your guess is wrong.
    
    Textures are stored in VRAM, not RAM lol. Data processing is stored in RAM, in which case if Dying Light really is “seamless” then sure, 8GB of RAM makes total sense. 16GB? Hmm.
    
    None of this matters anymore as the devs has came out and said the specs list are just placeholders, further proving my point that the list makes very little sense.
    
    End of story.
Jason Mounce

And here people laughed at me, even PC Elitists who told me that I’m an idiot and clearly not a person who knows how to build a PC properly because ’16GB was pointless and not necessary’ and that any PC gamer would know that.

WELP. It’s called Future-proofing you dickless twats :D Woo! I had this game pre-ordered for a while now since I look forward to playing the Zombie Mode whilst watching the little kids whine about it being a pre-order bonus ;o Idunno. Mommy not lending them a credit card to pre-order a game that’s been in pre-order stages for almost a year now. (Not enough time to get $60 apparently)
D3Seeker

Clearly someone thinks graphix are the only thing being handled by all dat horespowa! xp………
Dale

Spend £140 on a Graphics Card to play on minimum. Doesn’t really sound that bad. Can’t wait for these next gen titles to finally come out!
Manoj Varughese

My PC surpass them. 32 GB, i7-4910 and 980 SLI. Still would prefer gaming on PS4.

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Dying Light System Requirements Are Insanely High

Update: as suspected, Techland updated Dying Light’s system requirements and they are a bit more reasonable now. RAM changed from 8/16 to 4/8, and the minimum GPU changed from GTX 670/Radeon HD 7870 to GTX 560/Radeon HD 6870. That’s more like it.

Dying Light System Requirements Are Insanely High

Update: as suspected, Techland updated Dying Light’s system requirements and they are a bit more reasonable now. RAM changed from 8/16 to 4/8, and the minimum GPU changed from GTX 670/Radeon HD 7870 to GTX 560/Radeon HD 6870. That’s more like it.

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