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Dying Light PC System Requirements are Awfully Demanding – 16GB of RAM, GTX 780 or R9 290 Required

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Update: Techland has now revised Dying Light’s minimum and recommended system specification on the game’s Steam page. The new ones are not much scary on the RAM side, but VRAM requirements are still the same. The new system requirements are listed below and we are sharing a screencap that shows the old ones.
Original Story: Techland is wrapping up the production of its upcoming next-gen exclusive action-adventure survival horror video game known as Dying Light, and now that the game is almost ready to hit the local markets next month in 2015, the developer has rolled out its system requirements, revealing what kind of horsepower the PC gamers will need to have to run the upcoming horror title. Horribly enough, the system requirements for Dying Light are insanely high, which means a significant amount of PC players will either have to upgrade their rigs, or just miss out on this horror adventure.

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Techland Wants PC Gamers to Upgrade Their Rigs for Dying Light – Insanely High Required System Specifications Revealed
After building quite a good impression in the survival horror video game genre with its horror action role-playing game known as Dead Island that landed back in 2011, Polish video game developer Techland decided to come up with a next-gen only survival horror video game known as Dying Light, which actually looks like a blend of Dead Island and Mirror’s Edge. The upcoming game was even meant to be a sequel to Dead Island, but the developer decided to turn it into an entirely new IP because the game contained many brand new features and felt distinctly unique in a way.
Dying Light has been in the news for quite some time now and Techland has high hopes for it. The developer has started to wrap up the production and just recently, Warner Bros. Interactive, the publisher of the game, rolled out its system requirements via Steam, revealing the hardware that gamers will need to have installed in their rigs. Quite warily, the listed minimum and recommended system requirements are as scary as the game itself. They are insanely high, even higher than those of Assassin’s Creed Unity.
Such high system requirements can stand for two things, either Dying Light is the next Crysis 3, or it is just a very poorly optimized game that is preparing for losing bucks on PC sales because a significant amount of gamers will clearly have to choose between spending more bucks for upgrading their rigs to meet the requirements or just miss out on this horror ride, and second option seems more affordable, in many situations. A Core i5-2500 with 8GB of RAM and a GTX 670 or Radeon HD 7870 are the minimum requirements, while to max it out, it is recommended for your rig to sport a Core i5-45670K with 16GB of RAM and GTX 780 or R9 290. Without further ado, you can check out Dying Light’s system requirements for yourself below.


Read more: http://wccftech.com/dying-light-pc-system-requirements-insane-16gb-ram-gtx-780-r9-920/#ixzz3L7MbalhQ
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  • 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: 4 GB RAM DDR3
  • Hard Drive: 40 GB available space
  • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560 / AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 (1GB VRAM)
  • Direct X®: Version 11
  • Sound: DirectX® compatible

    Recommended Requirements:
  • 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: 8 GB RAM DDR3
  • Hard Drive: 40 GB available space
  • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780 / AMD Radeon™ R9 290 (2GB VRAM)
  • Direct X: Version 11
  • Sound: DirectX® compatible
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They changed the RAM requirements from 16GB to 8GB (phew I hear you say :D)

Still a very demanding game, even for the minimum specs but does look good :)

 
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Looks good but really those specs? I feel like for the game play i just watched that they could have optimised it a bit better?
Recommended requires the latest hardware really? Unless recommended now = running the game on highest settings? Then fine but thats not how ive ever seen recommended.
 
That memory requirement. Specs are getting higher, but there are a lot of grey areas and don't forget there is no legislation for developers when dishing out these specs, nor do we know who's really giving them out. They're probably given a rough idea from the people who've done the ground work.

It's no surprise we need more memory of all things, as well as grunt. I'm just left wondering when people are going to stop being so surprised by progression :D
 
I don't think it is the best looking game. Compare that to Assassins Creed Unity and there is no competition. Maybe they are following the specs that create talk in forums and bad talk is better than no talk for example?
 
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Did you look at the gameplay demo?

They are having a laugh surely!
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http://www.supercheats.com/dying-light/screenshots/

Looks ok to me. Some of the rendering distances are pretty impressive too. 16GB might be a little of an overestimate but I don't judge a book by it's cover

People get too hung up on recommend specs, more importantly is how the games setting scale. Oh and there have been a few trailers since E3, that's old footage
 
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I'm glad games are getting more demanding on PC ! Those skinflints still using 4GB system memory and GPU's from years ago upgrade or move to console, bloody peasants :p
 
Gregster said:
Still a very demanding game, even for the minimum specs but does look good
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Not really, The i5 2500K is nigh on 4 years old and the last time I had 4GB of memory was in 2009 :p

Devs shouldn't be held back just because some only upgrade once every 5 years ;)
 
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