Dead Island 2 PC System Requirements Now Available

Discover the newly revealed PC system requirements for Dead Island 2, ensuring your gaming rig is ready for the intense zombie-slaying action.
Featured Dead Island 2 Promo
Image: Deep Silver

The upcoming action-packed Dead Island 2, which promises a unique mix of horror, dark humor, and over-the-top zombie-slaying, is set to take players on a wild ride through a hellish vision of Los Angeles, dubbed “HELL-A.” The game’s exhilarating first-person, action RPG experience allows players to explore a stylish, vibrant, and zombie-infested city, while meeting larger-than-life characters and evolving into the ultimate Zombie Slayer. With its intense, visceral combat system, players will be able to choose from a variety of weapons and tactical options to decimate the undead hordes.

Dead Island 2 is scheduled for release on April 21, 2023, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. To help gamers prepare for the impending launch, the developers have revealed the PC system requirements, ranging from minimum to ultra settings.

Dead Island Screenshot
Image: Deep Silver Dambuster Studios

Dead Island 2 PC System Requirements

These are all based on the Windows 10 OS, and you will need to have 70GB of storage available for the game.

Minimum

  • FPS: 1080p – 30 FPS
  • CPU: AMD FX-9590 or Intel Core I7-7700HQ
  • Memory: 10 GB
  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 480 or GEFORCE GTX 1060

Recommended

  • FPS: 1080p – 60 FPS
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X or Intel Core I9 9900K
  • Memory: 16 GB
  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT or GEFORCE GTX 2070 Super

High

  • FPS: 1440p – 60 FPS
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X or Intel Core I5-12600KF
  • Memory: 16 GB
  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT or GEFORCE GTX 3070

Ultra

  • FPS: 4k – 60 FPS
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X or Intel Core I7-13700K
  • Memory: 16 GB
  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT or GEFORCE GTX 3090

Along with these requirements, they answered a variety of commonly asked questions in the announcement. Dead Island 2 will not support cross-play or key and mouse support on consoles. However, the game will feature cross-gen support and a co-op story mode for up to three players. Although English is the only audio option, subtitles and other in-game text will be available in numerous languages, including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, Polish, Czech, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

Dead Island 2 Screenshot
Image: Deep Silver Dambuster Studios

Console FPS counts are 60 FPS for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and 30 FPS for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Dead Island 2’s PC version supports various controller layouts, a streamer mode blocking licensed music, customizable HUD elements, and DirectX 12. The game also supports AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution (FSR2) and AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening but does not support performance-boosting software.

Shaun Savage

Shaun Savage

Shaun Savage is the founder and editor-in-chief of Try Hard Guides. He has been covering and writing about video games for over 9 years. He is a 2013 graduate of the Academy of Art University with an A.A. in Web Design and New Media. In his off-time, he enjoys playing video games, watching bad movies, and spending time with his family.

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