Treatment is reducing the official minimal system necessities for Alan Wake 2 on PC. The sequel launched in October with out full assist for Nvidia’s GTX 10-series of GPUs as a result of Treatment opted for mesh shading that’s a part of DirectX 12 Final and never supported by GPUs like Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD’s RX 5600 XT.
Now, Treatment has “optimized rendering for GPU’s that don’t assist mesh shaders,” that means the minimal GPU necessities now embody the GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon RX 5600 XT as an alternative of the extra highly effective GeForce RTX 2060 and Radeon RX 6600. That’s excellent news for house owners of older PC gaming rigs, particularly as Alan Wake 2 had some fairly hefty GPU necessities to start with.
It’s best to now have the ability to play Alan Wake 2 at 1080p / 30fps on the GTX 1070 and RX 5600 playing cards, however in the event you’re nonetheless hanging on to a GTX 1060, you then would possibly even have the ability to get a extra playable body charge now. Digital Foundry bought an early take a look at the brand new Alan Wake 2 patch earlier this week and located some demanding areas on a GTX 1060 now output at 26fps as an alternative of 18fps.
Even trendy GPUs get some efficiency enhancements from this newest patch, with the RTX 4070 seeing almost a 14 % body charge leap, in keeping with Digital Foundry exams. Replace 1.0.16.1 is obtainable for Alan Wake 2 right this moment.
