Previously, there was a “Very Low” option – which is now just “Low.” So “Very High” is the old “High” setting.

But in fact all that’s happened here is a renaming of the five Shadow option tiers.

Prior to the patch, Dying Light liked to put 100% load on one core and rather ignore the rest.Ī ‘new’ Shadow setting of “Very High” has been added. This isn’t the only change made by the patch, however, and people with multi-core CPUs are reporting a more even load across cores. If true, that’s a bit of a sneaky way of improving people’s frame-rates. So, either Techland has re-calibrated those values, or having the Distance slider set to maximum in the new version of the game may be equivalent to having it at around 55% prior to patching.

According to people who’ve poked around in the Dying Light config files, the maximum View Distance is now a lower value. Speculation is already rife that some of the ‘optimisation’ is actually just a newly lowered max limit for the View Distance setting. Techland has released a first post-launch PC patch for Dying Light (the one said to be “coming” yesterday,) which claims to make improvements to performance optimisation.

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