Before hopping into Techland’s new zombie game, you’ll need to compare your gaming PC with the Dying Light 2 system requirements. Fortunately, the barrier to entry is quite low and shouldn’t tax most modern systems, but hardware requirements quickly become much steeper if you plan to turn on the game’s ray tracing features.
Yes, that’s features, plural. Ray traced global illumination, reflections, and shadows can all be turned on to push Dying Light’s visual fidelity even higher, providing you have a compatible GPU. However, turning any of these settings on will incur a performance cost. To combat this, Techland recommends you equip your system with one of the best graphics cards on the market: the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080.
Thankfully, Nvidia DLSS upscaling technology should help to boost fps if your rig’s struggling to maintain your target frame rate. Unfortunately, there’s no word of AMD FSR support, so those on team red with Radeon GPUs aren’t quite as fortunate.
Here are the Dying Light 2 system requirements:
Minimum (1080p/30fps) | Recommended (1080p/60fps) | |
OS | Windows 7 64-bit | Windows 10 64-bit |
---|---|---|
Preset | Low | High |
CPU | Intel Core i3-9100 AMD Ryzen 3 2300X |
Intel Core i5-8600K AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
RAM | 8GB | 16GB |
GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti AMD Radeon RX 560 |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 |
VRAM | 4GB | 6-8GB |
Storage | 60GB HDD | 60GB SSD |
If you plan on sampling the game’s ray tracing features, you’ll want to turn your attention to the Dying Light 2 ray tracing system requirements:
Minimum RT (1080p/30fps) | Recommended RT (1080p/60fps) | |
OS | Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 10 64-bit |
---|---|---|
Preset | Low RT | High RT |
CPU | Intel Core i5-8600K AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
Intel Core i5-8600K AMD Ryzen 5 3700X |
RAM | 16GB | 16GB |
GPU | Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 |
VRAM | 8GB | 10GB |
Storage | 60GB SSD | 60GB SSD |

Take the Dying Light 2 system requirements test over on PCGameBenchmark to answer the question… Can I run Dying Light 2?