When developing Dying Light 2 for PC, Techland has decided to use ray tracing extensively, partnering with Nvidia to make the most effective use of their RTX technologies on compatible hardware.

Dying Light 2 will feature support for ray-traced reflections, global illumination and shadows to enhance the detail of the game's post-apocalyptic world. Beyond that, Dying Light 2 will support Nvidia's DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) technology to provide " a massive performance boost without sacrificing image quality".

Techland has also confirmed that Dying Light 2: Stay Human will be playable on day-1 through Nvidia's Geforce Now service with ray tracing and DLSS enabled. This will work for both the Steam and Epic Games Store versions of Dying Light 2.

As a cross-generation game, Dying Light 2 should be a highly scalable title on PC. If the game needs to be playable on older hardware like Xbox One and PlayStation 4 at playable framerates, the game's PC version should scale down to fairly low-end hardware configurations on the platform. That said, given this game's support heavy support for ray tracing, Dying Light 2 should require a high-end gaming PC to run at its highest settings.

Below is a video that showcases Dying Light's use of ray tracing on PC. It is unknown whether or not Dying Light 2 will support ray tracing on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S.