Dead Island 2 Gets Official PC System Requirements

[GFreeman]

Deep Silver has revealed the official PC system requirements for the upcoming Dead Island 2 game. The technical FAQs posted over at the official page also reveal a bit more technical details details. As expected, Dead Island 2 will only support DirectX 12 and, surprisingly, it will only have support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR 2) as well as AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS), but there is no DLSS support, at least not at launch. The game will not support cross-play, but will have a co-op story mode for up to 3 players. It is also cross-gen, and more details will be available soon.

When it comes to PC system requirements, Dead Island 2 revealed minimum, recommended, high, and ultra system requirements. The minimum includes AMD FX-9590, or Intel Core i7-7700HQ CPU, 10 GB of RAM, and either an AMD Radeon RX 480 or an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060. In order to run everything at ultra settings with 4K/UHD resolution at 60 FPS, you'll need an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X or an Intel Core i7-13700K CPU, 16 GB of RAM, and last-gen high-end graphics cards, the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. You'll also need 70 GB of storage space to install the game. Dead Island 2 is coming to Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and the PC on April 21st.



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[Hyderz]

only on epic games for the first year, then steam

 

[Denver]

The requirements are quite abnormal, 7700HQ(laptop processor) next to an FX9590 furnace.

And for 4k they require some of the best recent CPUs. lol

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

The requirements are quite abnormal, 7700HQ(laptop processor) next to an FX9590 furnace.

And for 4k they require some of the best recent CPUs. lol

To be fair, the 7700HQ still has better single-thread performance...

And maybe they were counting on FSR, which can be CPU intensive.

 

[konga]

As usual, the people who put together these requirements seemingly do so through guesstimation instead of actual thorough testing. And they don't seem to be very good guessers, considering the nonsensical CPU requirements.

To be fair, the 7700HQ still has better single-thread performance...

And maybe they were counting on FSR, which can be CPU intensive.

FSR doesn't involve the CPU at all. The only reason why people run into CPU bottlenecks when using FSR is because their frame rate increases. And higher frame rates place a heavier burden on the CPU. But as we see here, they're not accounting for high frame rates in these requirements.

 

[neatfeatguy]

The requirements are quite abnormal, 7700HQ(laptop processor) next to an FX9590 furnace.

And for 4k they require some of the best recent CPUs. lol

I agree, some odd listings of some required hardware. Most high-end CPUs from the last few releases should make very little difference at 4K.

Just looking at the 7900X review here on TPU the difference between the 3900x and the 7900x at 4k for relative performance is about 3%. Even the 3600x shows it's only about 4% behind the 7900x at 4k.

I think it's sad that companies seem to think it's okay to tell people that the last few gens of CPUs aren't good enough for their 4K settings.

 

[Verpal]

Hope it is similar to last dead island and I can just turn brain off, have some dumb zombie killing fun.

I wonder will they create another lit trailer? The original DI2 trailer is pretty legendary.

 

[XL-R8R]

As a person with almost 250 hours of Steam playtime through the various DI titles, I have to say, I have very little interest in this game after all the time thats passed... OR playing Lenny Kravitz as a main character.


He just seems so lost.

 

[InhaleOblivion]

I got this game for free just like Calisto Protocol with my GPU. I guess it makes sense it's on Epic Games since all the other games I have there are for free as well. LOL

 

[Lionheart]

Those CPU requirements at the recommended are overkill lol

 

[robb213]

As a person with almost 250 hours of Steam playtime through the various DI titles, I have to say, I have very little interest in this game after all the time thats passed... OR playing Lenny Kravitz as a main character.


He just seems so lost.

I'm right there with you, but for a different reason. This game changed hands between numerous developers during its development cycle. At one point one of those developers had only worked with and specialized in Android mobile game development. As far as I'm concerned, this game is dead on arrival...and I've been craving a followup to Dead Island for so long. If I remember right too, I recall hearing about the project being scrapped and started over a few times, but take that with a grain of salt.

 

[Tomgang]

Either this looks like the last of us over again with needy demands for cpu and gpy power.

Let's see how this turns out. A bug plague unoptimized mess or a game that runs smoothly and great or some where in between. I have plans on getting the game, but I have not pre-order. I have seen to many games release way before they should have been released. Cyberpunk 2077, the last of us, some assassin's creed games just to mention some bug plague releases.