Alan Wake 2’s hefty system necessities shocked many PC avid gamers after they had been introduced final yr. 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 equivalent to Nvidia’s GTX 10-series. Roughly 4 months after its launch, Treatment has launched a brand new patch that lowers the minimal PC system necessities and permits older PC gaming rigs to run the sport.
Treatment posted the brand new system necessities, which you’ll be able to take a look at beneath, 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 Treatment, when you have both GPU, along with the opposite minimal specs that stay unchanged, you’ll be able to run the sport at 1080p / 30FPS.
As Treatment talked about within the patch notes for Alan Wake 2 replace 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 equivalent to higher element. This leads to a detail-rich in-game setting 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 identified in his current retesting of Alan Wake 2 operating GTX-10 collection playing cards. Whereas the GTX 1060 nonetheless did not 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 excellent survival horror sequel that makes the cult-classic unique look like little greater than a tough first draft by comparability.”
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