Dying Light 2 Stay Human was originally on track for release this holiday season, which makes it one of the most highly anticipated releases for the first part of 2022. And with the release on the horizon, February 4, 2022, today comes a look at what sort of PC rig you'll need to experience its open-world post-apocalyptic RPG action.

Turns out that with ray-tracing effects turned off, a fairly modest rig -- with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GeForce RTX 2060 listed as the minimum and recommended GPUs. Turn ray-tracng on though, and Dying Light 2 is set to feature a suite of effects ranging from ray-traced global illumination, shadows, and reflections, and you'll need a modern GPU. A NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080.

Here's the breakdown.

Minimum System Requirements (Ray-Tracing off)

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For 1080p at 30 frames-per-second
CPU: Intel Core i3-9100 or AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
RAM: 8GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 560 4GB
OS: Windows 7
Available storage space: 60GB HDD

Recommended System Specifications (Ray-Tracking off):

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For 1080p at 60 frames-per-second
CPU: Intel Core i5-8600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
RAM: 16GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB
OS: Windows 10
Available storage space: 60GB SSD

Ray-Tracing On Minimum System Requirements

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For 1080p at 30 frames-per-second
CPU: Intel Core i5-8600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
RAM: 16GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB
OS: Windows 10
Available storage space: 60GB SSD

Ray-Tracing On Recommended System Requirements

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For 1080p at 60 frames-per-second
CPU: Intel Core i5-8600K / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
RAM: 16GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB
OS: Windows 10
Available storage space: 60GB SSD

For those wondering about higher than 1080p output, Dying Light 2 will support DLSS at launch, so the recommended specs should be fine for 4K in DLSS Performance Mode.