Dune: Awakening Launches in Advanced Access with Very Positive Reviews on Steam, Where Nearly 100,000 Players Have Paid to Give It a Try

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By Peter Brosdahl

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Excitement for the release of Dune: Awakening has been building since its 2022 reveal, and things are looking good for the June 10 launch. Funcom’s survival MMO entered Advanced Access on Steam this week for those wanting to get a taste of the $49.99 game before its official launch, and almost 100,000 players stepped up to give it a try. Surprisingly, most have had good things to say about the game, giving it a Very Positive (currently 85.65%) ranking on Steam.

Funcom has stated that it is providing daily updates to the game, so players needn’t worry too much if servers are down. There was a brief outage today that left some wondering what was happening, and the developer posted via its channels that it was simply performing server maintenance.

While not all reviewers are satisfied with the game, the majority do give it praise for its design and immersiveness. General complaints are usually related to graphical issues and server downtimes while patches are being rolled out. NVIDIA has already released a new driver for the game, which supports many of its latest RTX features. Funcom has also announced that private servers went up on June 5th.

Per NVIDIA:

“Out of the box, Dune: Awakening includes support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and NVIDIA Reflex, which reduces PC latency by up to 50%. And via NVIDIA app, DLSS Super Resolution can be upgraded to our enhanced transformer AI model, for even better image quality.”

NVIDIA states owners of a GeForce RTX 5070 could see nearly 200 FPS using DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation at 4K with max settings. A similar setup with a GeForce RTX 5090 could go over 330 FPS at 4K. At 1080p, an RTX 5060 Ti could achieve over 270 FPS using the same settings.

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Peter Brosdahl
As a child of the 70’s I was part of the many who became enthralled by the video arcade invasion of the 1980’s. Saving money from various odd jobs I purchased my first computer from a friend of my dad, a used Atari 400, around 1982. Eventually it would end up being a lifelong passion of upgrading and modifying equipment that, of course, led into a career in IT support.

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