Death Stranding 2 Official Specs Suggest It'll Run Great on Most PCs

Death Stranding 2 isn't adjacent a twelvemonth old, but the PC mentation is already connected the mode successful conscionable a mates of weeks. When it launched connected PS5, it was 1 of the astir beauteous games connected the platform, and portion that would usually mean it's benignant of hard to tally connected PC, the strategy requirements are forgiving.

Unlike immoderate caller PC launches, Sony released antithetic prime standards for its minimum and recommended strategy requirements, which should assistance pin down what to expect erstwhile you effort to tally the crippled connected your PC. For instance, the minimum spec calls for either an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 oregon an AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT, which should tally the crippled astatine 1080p with debased settings, astatine 30 fps.

If you privation to max retired the game, though, you're going to request a spot much hardware, but it's inactive beauteous reasonable. The recommended spec calls for an RTX 3070 oregon a Radeon RX 6800, and volition tally the crippled astatine 1440p with the High prime preset astatine 60 fps. Not bad.

I went up and listed each of Sony's recommended PC specs below, but arsenic agelong arsenic you person a comparatively modern PC, the crippled should beryllium capable to tally flawlessly onj your machine. Nixxes, the workplace handling the PC larboard has besides added a "portable preset" which should marque it tally smoothly connected PC handhelds similar the Steam Deck oregon the Xbox Ally X.

Humble Requirements

Even astatine the precocious end, Death Stranding 2's strategy requirements are beauteous humble by today's standards. While the GeForce RTX 4080 seems similar a lot, support successful caput that this is apt for maxing retired the crippled astatine 4K, which you precise overmuch don't request to do.

Keep successful caput that the minimum spec is calling for a GTX 1660, which was a low-end paper erstwhile it came retired successful 2019, and that was astir 7 years agone now. I won't cognize precisely however this crippled performs until I'm capable to tally it connected my ain hardware, but the wide scope of GPUs being represented present apt means that the crippled is incredibly scalable.

It's besides important to enactment that adjacent connected the PS5 Pro, Death Stranding 2 did not usage ray tracing, which means the higher graphics settings are going to beryllium a batch much approachable than different caller AAA games – unless, of course, ray tracing is added to the PC version. Luckily, Nixxes is besides adding enactment for DLSS, XeSS, FSR and Guerilla's Pico upscaler, truthful you should beryllium capable to find immoderate mode to boost your performance.

Death Stranding 2 launches connected PC March 19th, truthful astatine slightest we won't person to hold excessively agelong to spot however it performs.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra