Alan Wake 2’s hefty system necessities shocked many PC players once they had been introduced final 12 months. The necessities famous that you simply wanted a minimum of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or an AMD Radeon RX 6600 GPU to run the sport at 1080p / 30 frames per second (FPS), with no help for older GPUs resembling Nvidia’s GTX 10-series. Roughly 4 months after its launch, Remedy has launched a brand new patch that lowers the minimal PC system necessities and permits older PC gaming rigs to run the sport.
Remedy posted the brand new system necessities, which you’ll be able to try under, to X/Twitter alongside the discharge of replace 1.0.16.1.
The minimal necessities now name for a minimum of a GTX 1070 or an RX 5600 XT graphics card. As beforehand famous by Remedy, if in case you have both GPU, along with the opposite minimal specs that stay unchanged, you may run the sport at 1080p / 30FPS.
As Remedy talked about in the patch notes for Alan Wake 2 update 1.0.16.1, the developer has “optimized rendering for GPUs that do not help mesh shaders.” The GTX-10 collection lacks mesh shader help, which is a kind of code that permits sport builders to course of polygons with extra energy and management, enabling issues resembling larger element. This ends in a detail-rich in-game surroundings however leaves older PC gaming rigs within the mud.
But, even when you do not have an RTX 1070 and are rocking an RTX 1060, which remains to be one of many prime 5 most-popular GPUs PC customers are utilizing as of a Steam February 2024 hardware survey, you’re going to get a barely higher efficiency than you probably did at launch, as Digital Foundry’s Alex Battaglia pointed out in his recent retesting of Alan Wake 2 running GTX-10 series cards. Whereas the GTX 1060 nonetheless didn’t run 30FPS, Battaglia found that the GTX 1060 bought a efficiency enchancment, with some demanding areas now placing out 26FPS as a substitute of 18FPS.
In IGN’s Alan Wake 2 evaluation, we stated: “Alan Wake II is an outstanding survival horror sequel that makes the cult-classic unique look like little greater than a tough first draft by comparability.”
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