Dying Light 2 Update Improves Ray Tracing, Adds Benchmarking Tool

A couple of days ago, Polish developer Techland released Dying Light 2 Update 1.8.1 on PC, introducing a benchmarking tool on and improving ray tracing effects. Here’s a comprehensive list of the technical upgrades and fixes of this Dying Light 2 update:

• Implemented benchmark mode, allowing users to measure their PCs performance in Dying Light 2
• Ray tracing effects range is extended by 20%
• LOD Range Multiplier – this feature is available in the Advanced video menu, but watch out, survivor, it takes a heavy toll on your performance!
• Rendering and Lighting improvements
• Low-quality preset in Video Options no longer switches to DX12 mode and sets Intel XeSS as an upscaler on PCs with AMD cards
• Players will no longer lose their money after accepting the best and reloading the game during Twin Brothers quest
• Players will no longer get stuck while sliding into the vent shafts
• Don Quixote achievement will now be granted after the player unlocks all the windmills in the game
• Fixed an issue with the game’s performance dropping after playing for more than 1 hour on some devices
• Fixed infinite loading screen that was happening whenever a player logged out of the account right after signing in
• Fixed an issue with sounds randomly disappearing
• Fixed an issue with force feedback missing while playing on gamepad
• [Xbox] Prologue forest will no longer be too dark during the daytime
• Players are no longer able to bypass the Perfect Block tutorial
• Fixed an issue with infected being too silent
• [PlayStation] Fixed crash during One Day in Harran and Fame and Infamy Challenge
• Fixed crash during the fast travel between The City and Opera
• [RayTracing] Fixed player’s shadow missing in photo mode
• [RayTracing] Fixed issues with corrupt lighting sources
• Fixed Baba Yaga challenge being unplayable
• Reduced the number of times infected will grab the player
• AI/Player will no longer shake after getting grabbed by Biters
• Fixed the game crashing after changing resolution from 3840×2160 to 1920×1080
• Fixed infinite loading screen upon opening the title in offline mode on EGS Launcher
• Optimized memory usage in d3d12 mode improving game stability
• Exposed setting for extending rendering range of highest level of detail geometry
• Fixed lack of player shadows in photo mode when using ray tracing
• Improved initial load time (by up to 10s on PS4)
• Minor improvements to texture streaming
• Improved tree shadows (LOD)
• Improved fog and water reflections quality

On the gameplay side, Dying Light 2 Update 1.8.1 alters the behavior of zombie Biters so that they will be aggressive. Additionally, there is now a Motion Sickness Reduction preset available in the Accessibility menu.

Dying Light 2 is one of the games due to get NVIDIA DLSS 3 support. There’s no timeframe yet, but we’ll let you know once the open world first-person action RPG is updated with the technology.