Dying Light - PC next gen zombie open world game?

VincentHanna · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:22

CD Keys was £28.49 with 5% off code for liking the Facebook page.

Unlocks on Steam.

VincentHanna · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:23

varkanoid said:
box copy is £24.99 at Game.
not bad.

£24.85 on the rainforest.
£29.16 for download

Boxed copied aren't out for another 30 days though....

mrk · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:25

So you guys have verdict on it being actually decent? If so then I will probs ignore those elsewhere complaining of performance bugs and such

MarkeR · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:39

From the little time I played this morning, it played excellent, smooth and the free running was pretty wwll.

Winnter · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:41

MarkeR said:
From the little time I played this morning, it played excellent, smooth and the free running was pretty wwll.

Whats the spec of your rig?

Im currently waiting for it to download

randal · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:42

Winnter said:
Whats the spec of your rig?

Im currently waiting for it to download

As above, i5, 16gb, 970.

Winnter · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:44

randal said:
As above, i5, 16gb, 970.

wow thats great

ive been onto the steam forum and they are complaining about, only fps 20 with high end rigs
and other stuff!

VincentHanna · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:49

Go on the steam forum for every game release and there's always somebody complaining about something...

varkanoid · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:49

There is a SLI profile out for Dying Light

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/dying-light-sli-profile-now-available

James J · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:51

I didn't enjoy dead island at all, nor riptide, as they just played like crap console ports. Is this any different to those?

Boomstick777 · 27 Jan 2015 at 13:58

About an hour in...

Already game of the year for me !! (So far lol) (Grey Goo is also surprisingly good, that takes number 2 spot)

Graphics / Sound / Atmosphere / Scope / World interaction are spot on. Genuinely surprised at how sleek this game is.

Stunning and Reem

Only Witcher 3 can top this imho..

Thesnipergecko · 27 Jan 2015 at 14:49

Had an hour on it this morning before work. Had some terrible performance issues when I reached the outside.

Spent 10 minutes playing with the settings to see what was causing the issue. Seems the View Distance set to full was causing the framerate to drop as low as 40 FPS on my machine (970 SLI)

FYI MSI reports it is uing 3565MB VRAM on both cards.

cHk4 · 27 Jan 2015 at 14:50

Mine wont go in to full screen, any idea? I set it to on, it does nothing and when I go back in options it's set to off.

Omaeka · 27 Jan 2015 at 14:58

Thesnipergecko said:
Had an hour on it this morning before work. Had some terrible performance issues when I reached the outside.

Spent 10 minutes playing with the settings to see what was causing the issue. Seems the View Distance set to full was causing the framerate to drop as low as 40 FPS on my machine (970 SLI)

FYI MSI reports it is uing 3565MB VRAM on both cards.

Doesn't the 970 plummet in performance when exceeding 3.5GB Vram?

Thesnipergecko · 27 Jan 2015 at 15:04

Omaeka said:
Doesn't the 970 plummet in performance when exceeding 3.5GB Vram?

I have noticed massive performance drops at 1080p yes. But I can't say for sure if the 970's are to blame for that. Not sure what else it could be.

Obviously I'm watching the 970 news very closely at the minute to see what NVIDIA and OcUK official word are on the false advertising of the cards.

w00dy85 · 27 Jan 2015 at 15:10

After reading some of the performance issues, I can't make my mind up whether to keep the game or just sell the game key on the MM

cHk4 · 27 Jan 2015 at 15:17

This windowed mode is infuriating, other options save when I change just not full screen.

JoeFX · 27 Jan 2015 at 15:20

randal said:
Unlocks on Steam?

yep

Boomstick777 · 27 Jan 2015 at 15:21

w00dy85 said:
After reading some of the performance issues, I can't make my mind up whether to keep the game or just sell the game key on the MM

It's stunning, well worth keeping the game. Some peeps need to learn to expect that the very latest game might not run maxed out lol. Especially when they are as good looking as this one.

Keep the game and enjoy. If you run into issue lower some settings. This is a game well worth playing imho.

kedge · 27 Jan 2015 at 15:22

Thesnipergecko said:
Seems the View Distance set to full was causing the framerate to drop as low as 40 FPS on my machine (970 SLI)

FYI MSI reports it is uing 3565MB VRAM on both cards.

Texture Quality

'it appears that there is no difference in quality between the two settings, and that High may merely be storing more textures in memory on suitably equipped GPUs. For example, running around an area on Medium resulted in a modicum of texture pop-in and VRAM usage of around 2GB. Repeating the test on High resulted in zero pop-in and VRAM usage that topped out at 3.3GB, though during longer gameplay sessions usage of nearly 4GB has been observed'.

View Distance

'View Distance has the largest impact on performance, reducing framerates by more than half at 1920x1080'.

Dying Light Graphics & Performance Guide | GeForce