Alan Wake 2 Has Lowered Its Minimum PC Requirements

After Alan Wake 2 launched final 12 months with a demanding set of PC necessities, the workforce at Treatment Leisure have put some work into optimizing the title so extra computer systems will have the ability to run it. The brand new necessities are in impact now, as of Alan Wake 2’s newest replace 1.0.16.1.

Working Alan Wake 2 on minimal settings, which is able to run the sport on the low graphics preset at 1080p and 30fps now solely require a Geforce GTX 1070, Radeon RX 5600 XT, or higher card. The patch notes for the replace notice that the lowered GPU necessities come from “optimized rendering for GPUs that don’t assist mesh shaders,” which means the opposite system necessities stay unchanged. Minimum settings will nonetheless require an Intel i5-7600K equal CPU and 16GB of RAM.

The brand new replace has modified solely Alan Wake 2’s minimal PC necessities, so any gamers who need to run ray tracing or greater graphics presets and body charges probably will not discover any distinction from the replace.

It is an uncommon transfer for video games to have their minimal PC necessities lowered after launch, with many as a substitute having necessities raised as updates add content material and make the techniques extra demanding. Disco Elysium is one other sport that notably lowered its minimal PC necessities with the discharge of the Working Class replace in 2020, the identical 12 months as Fortnite opened as much as much less highly effective PCs with the addition of Efficiency Mode.