DYING LIGHT PC OR CONSOLE 1080P
DYING LIGHT PC OR CONSOLE PS4
DYING LIGHT PC OR CONSOLE PLUS

When the first core becomes saturated, likely with DirectX draw calls (the instructions sent to the GPU), engine performance drops significantly, despite other cores remaining mostly available. In this case it seems that the engine isn't particularly well multi-threaded with a lot of the game's performance hinging on a single core.

We've already established the baseline for console performance as a capped 30fps with occasional dips and on the PC side, Dying Light also proves surprisingly demanding. The processing requirements are also rather high, making it difficult to reach the desired 75fps necessary for smooth head tracking. It's a neat feature but at the moment it's clearly unfinished and difficult to use, mostly due to interface limitations. Curiously, Dying Light includes preliminary Oculus Rift support that is enabled through the game's config file. Unfortunately, this option has a pretty noticeable impact on performance, so use it carefully. Crucially, Techland has even provided an adjustable field of view option - something its previous games have lacked. Outside of limited anti-aliasing options, the PC version of Dying Light is reasonably tweakable, with a range of adjustments available including shadow and texture quality, view distance, motion blur, and a pair of Nvidia Gameworks features: HBAO+ and Nvidia depth of field.

DYING LIGHT PC OR CONSOLE 1080P

Use the 1080p option at full screen for the best presentation A look at Dying Light as it appears on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Some additional AA options would be much appreciated on the PC side. We've seen some excellent implementations of SMAA, but the ghosting here is too severe to overlook, particularly at 30fps. Unfortunately, the only included anti-aliasing option in the PC version closely mirrors the console version, suffering from the same temporal ghosting issues. The PC version, of course, offers full arbitrary resolution support as one would expect.

DYING LIGHT PC OR CONSOLE PLUS

That's usually one of the best forms of post-process anti-aliasing available but in Dying Light, there are some noticeable 'ghosting' artefacts.ĭespite the resolution deficit, image quality is very good on Xbox One - conceivably, this rendering set-up should allow the developers to cram five buffers at 4bpp (bits per pixel) or two FP16 render targets plus depth into the Xbox One's 32MB ESRAM, with a fairly minimal impact on image quality.

DYING LIGHT PC OR CONSOLE PS4

As we mentioned in our performance analysis, Dying Light operates at a rendering resolution of 1920x1080 on PS4 while Xbox One is in the region of 1536x1080, with both seemingly using a variant of SMAA T2X anti-aliasing.

The overall look is impressive, if not quite as striking as one might expect, but it's clear that Techland has made huge strides in its transition to this next-gen version of its tech. In addition, light probes are pre-calculated and stored as spherical harmonics for each time of day and weather condition with the engine able to dynamically interpolate between them. Dynamic weather is also included, with adjustments to the wetness (or gloss) properties of objects allowing for an expected level of shine as rain falls. Most importantly, the team has switched to a physically based materials pipeline, allowing for a realistic depiction of how light interacts with materials, more closely simulating the real world. In migrating to the next-generation consoles and PC hardware, Chrome Engine is now in its sixth iteration, with a range of new features added to the mix since the release of its prior outings on the Dead Island titles. Earlier this week, we established that the Polish developer has sorted out most of its performance issues, but with more game hours under our belt we can better discern how version six of the Chrome Engine operates on the new consoles, and factor in the PC version too. Just like DICE's Frostbite and Crytek's CryEngine, Techland's Chrome Engine struggled on last-gen systems, but there's the sense that the technology has finally found its feet on PS4 and Xbox One. For some developers, the start of a new generation offers an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and deliver experiences previously impossible on last-gen hardware, while for others, the power is finally there to make enhanced versions of their existing tech shine.

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