Dying Light - PC next gen zombie open world game?

Sycho · 7 Feb 2015 at 12:53

How do you use Steam overlay when playing this? mine doesn't work.

LoadsaMoney · 7 Feb 2015 at 12:59

Vimes said:
Mine did that as well, not sure what has changed though as it still shows the same version number, IIRC.

Just fired the game up, and got the first time setup, was just that MS Visual C redistributable job.

Vimes · 7 Feb 2015 at 13:09

LoadsaMoney said:
Just fired the game up, and got the first time setup, was just that MS Visual C redistributable job.

When I first installed mine it somehow got into a type of loop where a message came up each and every time that I then started the game, as though it was the first time that it ran and Steam needed to install stuff etc. I got around this by finding a Steam type of utility cleaner. After running that it is been fine, so far.

LateX'Dog · 7 Feb 2015 at 13:14

Just completed it, thought it was a good game with some ok content and good legnth.

Kamwah · 7 Feb 2015 at 13:32

Anyone done the weapon challenge on the bridge?

It seems impossible, I've tried atleast 20 times now. Asks me to kill 50 within 1m30s and only provides me with 30 at max and they are too spread out below the bridge to even think it's possible. (I've tried aswell.)

Not to mention the bombers if they go off in a bad area can take atleast 5 zombies with them.

Swagger187 · 7 Feb 2015 at 14:57

How does this run on a 980 at 1080p then? Not my type of game but looks pretty good from the video and reviews....
My card should be with me on Wednesday so would like to get this downloaded prior

maddog · 7 Feb 2015 at 15:14

Swagger187 said:
How does this run on a 980 at 1080p then? Not my type of game but looks pretty good from the video and reviews....
My card should be with me on Wednesday so would like to get this downloaded prior

I'm running this great at 1080p max settings except draw distance which is 50% but i have turned off film grain and chromatic aberration with the dying light manager, getting 75 - 130fps on a 980 soc and 4770k at 4.4 8 gig ram

sometimes uses all 4 gig on card with no stutter or slowdown.

Swagger187 · 7 Feb 2015 at 15:18

Thanks a lot for that mate

Will crack on and grab it then. Cheers.

wnb · 7 Feb 2015 at 15:21

Is there some sort of end game bu going on? My game is telling me I have done 100% of the story but looking at walthroughs I have not done Mission 13 and the end mission 14

Neil79 · 7 Feb 2015 at 15:54

I've had a look at the memory usage in the game after the current complaints about 970's and vram.. The game does have a memory leak!

With every new area or shall I say moving forward to next objective in the very first part of the game, the memory usage goes up and up an up. You can pretty much walk 10 steps towards the next objective and the memory usage has already gone up by 50MB. Stand still and memory usage remains the same, walk back, remains the same

Very odd, watched it my self with MSI, it then crashed at the first healing part of the game

ValiantUK91 · 7 Feb 2015 at 15:57

Kamwah said:
Anyone done the weapon challenge on the bridge?

It seems impossible, I've tried atleast 20 times now. Asks me to kill 50 within 1m30s and only provides me with 30 at max and they are too spread out below the bridge to even think it's possible. (I've tried aswell.)

Not to mention the bombers if they go off in a bad area can take atleast 5 zombies with them.

Theres scaffolding on the side of the bridge climb that there should be tons on top of the bridge....there was for me anyways

Neil79 · 7 Feb 2015 at 16:25

Rebooted the game, it said it was using 2043 VRAM at the same location previously it was using 3432 VRAM.. Played as far as the first mission outside and the game freeze hard locks up with this

Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: DyingLightGame.exe (2004) consumed 4992946176 bytes, Steam.exe (1164) consumed 75055104 bytes, and explorer.exe (1612) consumed 69197824 bytes.

Had to reboot the comp

VincentHanna · 7 Feb 2015 at 18:27

Vimes said:
With having 16GB I have not had the issues you describe but I have seen the game use as much as 8GB of memory in total.

Mine did that as well, not sure what has changed though as it still shows the same version number, IIRC.

Steam updated a bunch of games with a 12.8 MB VC redistributable.

Carl_Bennetts · 7 Feb 2015 at 19:07

I've downloaded the Manager tool and turned off grain.....i'm back playing with no spikes/freezes. My spec can't handle the grain obviously but it did before the patch on Tuesday.

slick rick · 7 Feb 2015 at 19:09

I want to play this game so badly but AMD are dragging their feet with the crossfire profile!!!

so sad

Raumarik · 7 Feb 2015 at 19:33

That's why I've given up on SLI/Crossfire Slick, fed up with one GPU doing nothing.

VincentHanna · 7 Feb 2015 at 19:41

Not something you can easily abandon with a 4k screen.....

To be fair it was running above 30fps after they patched it, so its playable.

Neil79 · 7 Feb 2015 at 19:53

This game needs a patch, never known a game to crash with a virtual memory error before and a constantly climbing vram usage! Were the devs asleep when they released this?

Raumarik · 7 Feb 2015 at 21:47

I haven't had a single crash in 24 hours play tbh.

Neil79 · 7 Feb 2015 at 21:49

Halfmad said:
I haven't had a single crash in 24 hours play tbh.

Mine crashed because it complained about the lack of virtual ram, I've got an 8GB system, with virtual page file set to 300-4000. Set it to system managed and thus far had no crash.

But the game made me feel nauseated and also didn't make me feel oh wow this game is amazing