Techland’s survival horror game, Dying Light: The Beast, is now available for PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs and the Steam Deck.
Before we delve into the best settings for the PC version of Dying Light: The Beast, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Dying Light: The Beast Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
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- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Vertical Synchronization: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, otherwise set to match frame rate limit
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling: Off
- FPS Limiter: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else set to preferred target frame rate
- Upscaler Type: DLSS on supported GPUs, FSR otherwise
- Upscaling Mode: Quality
- Glow: On
- Light Streaks: Off
- Lens Flare: On
- Chromatic Aberration: On
- Film Grain Effect: On
- Motion Blur Intensity: 0
- Renderer Mode: D3D12
- Asynchronous Compute: On
- Texture Quality: High
- LOD Quality: High
- Draw Distance Multiplier: 100
- Particles Quality: High
- Shadows Quality: Medium
- Screen Space Shadows: Off
- Ambient Occlusion Quality: Low
- Global Illumination Quality: High
- Reflections Quality: Low
- Fog Quality: Low
- Post Process Quality: High
How Does Dying Light: The Beast Run On Steam Deck?
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- Quality Preset: Very Low Quality
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Vertical Synchronization: On
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling: Off
- FPS Limiter: Off
- Upscaler Type: XeSS
- Upscaling Mode: Performance
As seen in the above video, Dying Light: The Beast’s frame rate tends to stay above 30 fps on the Steam Deck using the lowest possible settings. As such, we consider the game playable on Valve’s handheld device.
