Alan Wake II will be available on the Epic Games Store on October 27, 2023, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Understandably, video game graphics technology has advanced since Alan Wake’s initial debut on the lowly Xbox 360 in 2010.
However, if you want to play Remedy Entertainment’s eagerly anticipated return to Mr. Wake’s awful reality on PC, you’ll face an equally unfortunate reality: You’ll need a powerful setup.
But there is some good news: if you haven’t upgraded your PC in a while, Alan Wake II provides an excellent opportunity to reassess what’s on your computer and what might be worth investing in.
Alan Wake 2 System Requirements
Alan Wake II may be at the top of the graphic demands right now in 2023, but specs like this will become the new standard (if they aren’t already) for AAA gaming in the 2020s.
Hey PC gamers! Here you have a full list of PC system requirements for Alan Wake 2.
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Minimum System Requirements
- Video Card: GeForce RTX 2060 or Radeon RDX with 6 GB VRAM
- Processor: Intel i5-7600K or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Hard Drive Space: 90GB SSD
So the machine you installed in 2017 and haven’t actually upgraded isn’t going to cut it at the bottom of the options.
Granted, an i5 7600K isn’t an awful CPU requirement (it’s what I had on my previous system), but you’ll need at least an RTX 2060 equivalent card, and that’s for low graphics settings.
And you’re still expected to have supersampling via DLSS—or FSR2…which, while better than FSR1, looks too melty, in my opinion.
Furthermore, the RAM and storage requirements of 90GB on an SSD (you should not, under any circumstances, be playing modern video games on your computer with an old-school spinny HDD) may indicate that the rig that’s gotten you through the last few years of gaming without many upgrades may not be up to Remedy’s return to Alan Wake.
The good news is that the 16 GB of RAM and storage requirements remain consistent.
Recommended System Requirements
- Video Card: GeForce RTX 2060 or Radeon RDX with 8 GB VRAM
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, or Intel equivalent
- Memory: 16 GB RAM or higher
- OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Hard Drive Space: 90GB SSD
So, if you want to be above low graphical settings, you’ll need a beefier CPU/GPU combination. RAM will remain at 16GB, which is the absolute minimum that any good gaming computer should have today (but maybe consider 32GB? You deserve it…), and Remedy still expects you to employ DLSS in this case.
Older Generations of Graphics Cards Are Being Abandoned in the Rain
As if those PC prerequisites weren’t enough, it appears that players still using the dependable Nvidia GTX 10-series or AMD RX 5000-series GPUs will be unable to play Alan Wake 2.
In a now-deleted post, user @newincpp, a Remedy Games developer, stated that these card families do not show on the studio’s official specs table because they do not enable mesh shading.
Mesh shaders were introduced with the release of DirectX 12 Ultimate in 2020, with the goal of replacing existing vertex and geometry shaders and streamlining rendering for developers.
This implies that many older cards are incompatible with Mesh shaders because the process relies on a computer GPU to function. So yet, no developer has abandoned prior development procedures in the name of universal compatibility. Remedy, on the other hand, is going all in on the next generation.
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