Dying Light

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PC folks if you're having stuttering issues when you move or turn, but FPS is fine when looking at the same scene without moving, and you have less than a 4G VRAM card then try turning the texture quality down. The game can eat up to 3.5GB of VRAM. I have a 690 and it has no problem with the raw processing but it was obvious that the stuttering was texture loading/unloading with it's behaviour, a few other folks on the Steam forum have verified this.

Now I know the texture visual quality itself does not seem like it should require any more than existing <2Gb games but they haven't bothered optimising it since the current gen consoles can access 4GB min.

ktulu123

Spear wrote: »

I'm playing on PC without issues. The closest to a problem I had was a slight shimmering due to the in-game anti-aliasing.

Same I've had zero issues on PC so far, running everything maxed out & recording. Watching TotalBiscuit's vid this morning though it seems you can get huge performance increases from lowering the view distance.

Duggy747

Running great for me so far on my R9 270 at 1080p and settings at high, view distance is set to midway but haven't really toyed with that setting yet. I've read around people with much better specs than mine having serious fps issues though.

Didn't get to play a lot of it last night so will hopefully get a proper go tonight.

Lone Stone

yeah well ive had nothing but issues with it, the fps is all over the place, even with all the graphics options turned off the fps is very random for me, any cut scenes give me a frozen frame but the audio plays then it goes back to start of the cut scene and plays the scene in a weird choppy framed way. I put the view distance bar right down to zero and its ok for moving around in game now but still the same with the cut scenes.

dreamers75

The kid is having issues running at anything that resembles playable.

Havent tried it on my pc yet.

Duggy747

Lol, I got a bit further and hit the same wall as everyone else now, completely unplayable and not in the sense of the odd stutter, some pretty heavy and drastic stalls. So much for my "running great" statement :pac:

Turned everything down to minimum but still very heavy fps loss, standing still is fine though.

Will probably have to wait for patch, this was the same shít with FarCry 4.

Pac1Man

Duggy747 wrote: »

Will probably have to wait for patch.

I wonder how many times this sentence will be used this generation.:(

I'm becoming disillusioned.

Nolars

Where did PC players buy it from? Thanks

Gandalph

Is this available on ps4? Can't see it anywhere on store even when I search.

kingtiger

Nolars wrote: »

Where did PC players buy it from? Thanks

the Torrent store :pac:

Nolars

kingtiger wrote: »

the Torrent store :pac:

no thanks, cheapest I've seen it is 30 anyone else get cheaper?

Lone Stone

i got it on steam dam you compulsive buying ! then today i got a mail got green man gaming selling it for 35 or something so yeah 30 is a great price.

Managed to get mine going ok now just putting draw distance down completely seems to have fixed most of the fps issues for me.

Nolars

Lone Stone wrote: »

i got it on steam dam you compulsive buying ! then today i got a mail got green man gaming selling it for 35 or something so yeah 30 is a great price.

Managed to get mine going ok now just putting draw distance down completely seems to have fixed most of the fps issues for me.

what GPU ya rocking?

Notorious97

Ps4, just played an hour of it, really happy with it so far, still on the tutorial missions and it is getting dark lol not looking forward to this haha

balkieb2002

Gandalph wrote: »

Is this available on ps4? Can't see it anywhere on store even when I search.

Not out in Europe yet (think Friday). I got mine from the US store.

Notorious97

balkieb2002 wrote: »

Not out in Europe yet (think Friday). I got mine from the US store.

I bought mine from Irish store, on 28th and was able to play on 28th

Lone Stone

Nolars wrote: »

what GPU ya rocking?

GeForce gtx 670
intel core i7 8gb ram cant remember which type of ram i got in this

Anyhow it seems to running fine now oddly, that view distance is a real performance killer, games fun its like a less goofy dead island.

Kirby

Duggy747 wrote: »

Will probably have to wait for patch, this was the same shít with FarCry 4.

Pac1Man wrote: »

I wonder how many times this sentence will be used this generation.:(

I'm becoming disillusioned.

Indeed. We might have to rename ourselves from Master race to Patch Race. Nothing seems to work at 1.0 anymore.

humanji

It's running great on PC for me, though I do have a new machine. I'm quite enjoying it, though I'm only really just past the prologue. I hadn't a clue what was going on in my fist night section when the agile feckers (no idea what their name is yet) started chasing me down. It wasn't until I died and had to do it over that I realised they had vision cones and I had to sneak past them. It's pretty cool the sense of panic you get from trying to evade them.

Just a couple of questions for those who played more than me:

1) When I go into my inventory it tells me it's backpack 4/4. Am I being stupid and this is just the amount of weapons I can have, and I've filled all 4 spaces, or are there several backpacks? It doesn't explain it in game, so had me wondering.

2) are you safe to land on any blue area, when you jump from a height? Or is it just the rubbish bags?

hallo dare

Gandalph wrote: »

Is this available on ps4? Can't see it anywhere on store even when I search.

It's there!

Dying-light

But buy it on the US PSN, way cheaper, and you can still play it on your own account.

iamtony

hallo dare wrote: »

It's there!

Dying-light

But buy it on the US PSN, way cheaper, and you can still play it on your own account.

Thanks it wasn't like that yesterday it disappeared and then when you searched for it, it would show it without a price.

calex71

hallo dare wrote: »

It's there!

Dying-light

But buy it on the US PSN, way cheaper, and you can still play it on your own account.

The way the euro is vs the dollar at the minute the saving is about 7 or 8 eu.

If you can wait 10 days for it to arrive and still have it 2 weeks before eu release it'll cost you about 55 off video games plus.

wes

Few reviews are in now:

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dying-light

So far an

80 average

Lone Stone

humanji wrote: »

It's running great on PC for me, though I do have a new machine. I'm quite enjoying it, though I'm only really just past the prologue. I hadn't a clue what was going on in my fist night section when the agile feckers (no idea what their name is yet) started chasing me down. It wasn't until I died and had to do it over that I realised they had vision cones and I had to sneak past them. It's pretty cool the sense of panic you get from trying to evade them.

Just a couple of questions for those who played more than me:

1) When I go into my inventory it tells me it's backpack 4/4. Am I being stupid and this is just the amount of weapons I can have, and I've filled all 4 spaces, or are there several backpacks? It doesn't explain it in game, so had me wondering.

2) are you safe to land on any blue area, when you jump from a height? Or is it just the rubbish bags?

weapons you just double click the one on the left in the inventory slots then click the slots on the right to put it in your weapons load out and you can unlock more backpack space with survival points i think

Dcully

Running fine for me too on PC , GTX 660ti and i5 2500k @ 4.3ghz.
Graphics card is nowhere near high end but game runs fine, will run better when i take delivery of new card today aswell as new monitor :P
Game itself is okay i suppose,nothing amazing and a tad bit boring so fa rbut i havent played much.

dreamers75

The boy has the minimum 6870 with 15 2500k and 8gb ram, its pretty much unplayable. Notice people with borderline nvidia cards running it perfectly........

Justwinginit

Running at around 30fps with FX6300 & R9 270, 8GB Ram. Smooth enough to play, now just to get rid of herself tonight for a few hours.....The problem with this game is it's only running on one core properly, needs to be patched, lots of high end rigs barely getting 60fps.

Jet Black

Looking at the recommended specs on can you run it for the PC and says my card doesn't meet the requirements despite it being above them?

Dr. Mantis Toboggan

Would this be ok to run it? Not sure whether to get it on PC or PS4.

balkieb2002

humanji wrote: »

Just a couple of questions for those who played more than me:

1) When I go into my inventory it tells me it's backpack 4/4. Am I being stupid and this is just the amount of weapons I can have, and I've filled all 4 spaces, or are there several backpacks? It doesn't explain it in game, so had me wondering.

2) are you safe to land on any blue area, when you jump from a height? Or is it just the rubbish bags?

For 1) Yeah at the start you can hold 4 weapons in your holding weapons slots and an additional 4 in the backpack. One of the first unlocks for the Survival tree gives you an additional 4 slots. I have noticed that when I crafted a flare it also ended up in there which I thought was strange.

Not so sure about 2) I know you can land on rubbish dumps, skips, cars and some roofs and not sustain any damage but I've nearly killed myself multiple times so not the best person to comment on this. It is a rush jumping off the tallest electrical towers and trying to land on the small rubbish dumps though :cool: There are agility unlocks around level 8 I think that reduce fall damage and eventually allow you to roll on landing.

john the one

ktulu123 wrote: »

Played 3 hours of it there with some mates in Co-op, great craic! Hopefully have a video of it soon for guys that are still undecided

Jeez, do you work???

Gandalph

Will this be available at midnight on European psn store then?

hallo dare

Gandalph wrote: »

Will this be available at midnight on European psn store then?

Did you read any of the last few posts? I posted a link. It's already available

vex

Pre-ordered this a while ago from amazon, got the email today saying the physical Pc release has been pushed to March sometime

hallo dare

vex wrote: »

Pre-ordered this a while ago from amazon, got the email today saying the physical Pc release has been pushed to March sometime

Is it not the same time as the PS4 physical release FEB 27th?

vex

hallo dare wrote: »

Is it not the same time as the PS4 physical release FEB 27th?

I think it originally was , the email said the estimated arrival date for PC has changed to March 02 -04.

ShaneU

dreamers75 wrote: »

The boy has the minimum 6870 with 15 2500k and 8gb ram, its pretty much unplayable. Notice people with borderline nvidia cards running it perfectly........

I have a 660ti and i5, only problem I've had is shuddering during cutscenes. Turning field of distance down makes a big difference

FAILSAFE 00

I've played an hour so far and I am finding the game very enjoyable.

The 'be the zombie' mode has potential, I just played the training mission for it so far, I can't wait to invade people's games.

Spear

The Steam edition just got it's first patch, and they do refer to a bunch of performance optimizations. The notes are a bit light on details.

goon_magee

Hey anybody on psn playing wanna add me go ahead, goon_magee is my username

Always game for some co op however very few ppl on my friends list playing so any fellow ps4 players would be appreciated

Agricola

Would like to know if this is more like Far Cry 3 than leaning toward the original Dead Island. Never really got on with the 1st game cos it felt and looked cheap and wonky. If this is more like FC3 with zombies and parkour, Ill likely pick it up at some point.

Spear

Agricola wrote: »

Would like to know if this is more like Far Cry 3 than leaning toward the original Dead Island. Never really got on with the 1st game cos it felt and looked cheap and wonky. If this is more like FC3 with zombies and parkour, Ill likely pick it up at some point.

It's less cartoony and more grounded graphically than Dead Island. But it still has some less than realistic aspects such as adding fire and electrical effects to wrenches and all that. FC3 with zombies and parkour wouldn't be a terrible description all said.

hallo dare

Yep, Far Cry 3 with a dash of TLOU.

MagicIRL

Was about to pick it up this morning on Steam until I read the dreaded words: Season Pass.

I guess I'll avoid it.

calex71

MagicIRL wrote: »

Was about to pick it up this morning on Steam until I read the dreaded words: Season Pass.

I guess I'll avoid it.

Wow you'd not play many games these days so :P

Even as a selfconfessed achievement whore I can pick up a game and not be compelled to buy a season pass. If I enjoyed the game and don't think they are taking the piss with the season pass / removing content to sell to me later I'll have a second bite, other wise they can keep their DLC.

Duggy747

Spear wrote: »

The Steam edition just got it's first patch, and they do refer to a bunch of performance optimizations. The notes are a bit light on details.

Patch fixed the stuttering for me, running liquid smooth now on high settings.

Timmyctc

dreamers75 wrote: »

The boy has the minimum 6870 with 15 2500k and 8gb ram, its pretty much unplayable. Notice people with borderline nvidia cards running it perfectly........

I have 6950 and I have a similar issue. They have yielded that AMD/ATI hardware requires an additional patch. In the meantime. If you use this launcher for the game you can access additional settings to make it more playable if you don't mind sacrificing some pretties.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/239140/discussions/0/604941528470729562/#p1

Brought my frame rate up from 20-25ish to 60 by sacrificing some shadows etc. It'll do until the AMD patch comes out

FAILSAFE 00

Does anyone actually own this game on console

it really highlights the benefits of console gaming where you can turn on and get gaming without all the fuss of adjustments and patches for certain setups.

I am currently 7 hrs in at the moment and really enjoying the game.

degrassinoel

Agricola wrote: »

Would like to know if this is more like Far Cry 3 than leaning toward the original Dead Island. Never really got on with the 1st game cos it felt and looked cheap and wonky. If this is more like FC3 with zombies and parkour, Ill likely pick it up at some point.

i didnt like dead island either, thought the exact same as you. I like dyling light though, nigthtime scares the bejasyus out of me

Robert ninja

@FAILSAFE 00

The console versions are limited to 30fps. The 'fuss' people are having is that they can't get it to 60fps reliably and that the graphic settings and how they effect performance are strange.

In other words the 'fuss' of low FPS (30 and sub 30) is guaranteed on the console version, with absolutely no way to fix it or change graphic settings to suit your preference. I don't see how that's a positive highlight for modern console gaming.