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PC Gamer
Nick Evanson

The PC hardware requirements for Dying Light: The Beast are heavy on the CPU side, but they're all over the place when it comes to the GPU

A man fighting zombies.

With ultra-realistic, ray-traced graphics being the norm for developers wanting to show off the power of their proprietary game engine, you expect PC hardware requirements for such releases to focus almost entirely on the graphics card. Unusually, though, the freshly-released system specs for Dying Light: The Beast go very much the other way, suggesting that the game will make mincemeat out of most CPUs.

Developers Techland posted the suggested PC requirements for Dying Light: The Beast on Steam, and they're certainly…interesting. Starting with the minimum specs, to achieve 30 fps at 1080p, using the Low graphics preset, you'll need the following PC:

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