Remedy Entertainment has released its Alan Wake 2 PC system requirements showing a wide range of options but also what is needed for path tracing. Alan Wake 2 launches next week on October 27 and according to the newly announced system requirements, looks to be a GPU-intensive game even at 1080p/30 FPS. The minimum recommended GPU for 1080p is either a GeForce RTX 2060/Radeon RX 6600 while using DLSS/FSR2 in quality mode. Remedy Entertainment suggests a GeForce RTX 3070/Radeon RX 6700 XT for 60 FPS, using performance upscaling modes. Cranking things all the way up to 4K/60 FPS and using ray tracing with path tracing will require at least a GeForce RTX 4080 using the DLSS performance setting.
The 30 FPS Experience
The developers have previously stated that Alan Wake 2 was designed to be a 30 FPS “experience” so it should come as no surprise to see such a low framerate listed in the requirements. However, it is a bit of a surprise to see that even at 1080p/30 FPS, a combination rarely seen in modern games, PC owners with graphics cards from just two generations back may have a challenge in playing the game without lowering settings.
Pre-orders for consoles and PC are available via the official Alan Wake 2 website.
About Alan Wake:
“Alan Wake went missing in 2010. He was a bestselling writer based in New York City. On a vacation in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Alice Wake, he came face to face with a force of supernatural darkness. It brought Wake’s writing, a horror story, to life. He fought this dark presence and managed to banish it back to where it came from, a nightmarish dark place hidden under a caldera lake outside the small town of Bright Falls. Wake wrote an ending to his horror story and with that freed his wife from the darkness under the lake but became trapped there himself.”
“Alan Wake is not dead, although he has wished he was many times. For 13 years he’s been a prisoner in the Dark Place, where his nightmares, his fears, and his stories manifest as reality around him. For 13 years, he has been fighting to stay sane and write a story that would change reality around him in order for him to escape. So far, he has failed.”