Dead Island 2 arrived on April 21, dropping you in the middle of "Hell-A" — a zombie apocalypse take on Hollywood and its surroundings. It's also an AMD-promoted game, with support for FSR 2, FidelityFX Super Resolution 2. That's AMD's upscaling algorithm that competes against DLSS, only without any special hardware requirements as it will work on just about any graphics card. We've tested the game on many of the best graphics cards to see how it performs and what settings might be best on a variety of GPUs.
There are some caveats of course, like the AMD-promoted aspect. That usually means a game has been tuned more for AMD GPUs, and in this case it leaves out any form of ray tracing or support for the competing DLSS and XeSS upscalers. But at least all of the GPU companies have issued Game Ready drivers for Dead Island 2, so let's cover the settings and see how it runs.
Note that this is a companion piece of sorts to our Redfall PC benchmarks article. That's an Nvidia-promoted game that also uses Unreal Engine, so we've got a Team Red versus Team Green competition of sorts. And both games have received relatively lukewarm reviews so far, unfortunately.
