Alan Wake 2 is out this week and if you’re picking the game up on PC then you’ll need to have a pretty hefty build to run the game. Remedy has already revealed that Alan Wake 2 won’t support any NVIDIA 10-series GTX and AMD RX 5000 series GPUs. That’s because the game requires hardware with mesh shader support and these GPUs, and any previous models, don’t have this tech.
So if you’re an owner of these cards, you’ll need to upgrade to something new before launching the game. However, even if you’re running something newer, and have the best possible PC build on the market, Alan Wake 2 is going to stress test your hardware and ask the most out of it. Remedy recommends that all players, regardless of even owning an RTX 4080, enable some sort of upscaling in Alan Wake 2.
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Upscaling in Alan Wake 2 ranges from Quality to Performance by the look of things. So there’s room to move about depending on your setup. The game also supports NVIDIA’s latest DLSS 3.5 and Ray Reconstruction. It also supports path tracing which is the latest form of ray tracing seen only previously only in Cyberpunk 2077.
Basically, Alan Wake 2 is a demanding game and you’ll need to keep this in mind before jumping in later this week. Here are the PC system requirements.
Alan Wake 2 PC System Requirements
Minimum – Low graphics preset, 1080p/30FPS:
- GPU: GeForce RTX 2060/Radeon RX 6600
- VRAM: 6 GB
- DLSS/FSR2: Quality
- CPU: Intel i5-7600K or AMD equivalent
- RAM: 16 GB
- OS: Windows 10/11, 64-bit
- Storage: 90 GB SSD
Recommended – Medium graphics preset, 1440p/30FPS:
- GPU: GeForce RTX 3060/Radeon RX 6600 XT
- VRAM: 8 GB
- DLSS/FSR2: Balanced
- CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
- RAM: 16 GB
- OS: Windows 10/11, 64-bit
- Storage: 90 GB SSD
Recommended – Medium preset, 1080p/60FPS:
- GPU: GeForce RT 3070/Radeon RX 6700 XT
- VRAM: 8 GB
- DLSS/FSR2: Performance
- CPU: Rozen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
- RAM: 16 GB
- OS: Windows 10/11, 64-bit
- Storage: 90 GB SSD
Ultra – High preset, 2160p/60FPS
- GPU: GeForce RTX 4070/Radeon RX 7800 XT
- VRAM: 12 GB
- DLSS/FSR2: Performance
- CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
- RAM: 16 GB
- OS: Windows 10/11, 64-bit
- Storage: 90 GB SSD
Ray-tracing Low – 1080p/30FPS:
- GPU: GeForce RTX 3070/Radeon RX 6800 XT
- VRAM: 8 GB
- DLSS/FSR2: Quality
- CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
- RAM: 16 GB
- OS: Windows 10/11, 64-bit
- Storage: 90 GB SSD
Ray-tracing Medium with Path Tracing on – 1080p/60FPS
- GPU: GeForce RTX 4070
- VRAM: 12 GB
- DLSS/FSR2: Quality
- CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
- RAM: 16 GB
- OS: Windows 10/11, 64-bit
- Storage: 90 GB SSD
Ray-tracing High with Path Tracing On – 2160p/60FPS
- GPU: GeForce RTX 4080
- VRAM: 16 GB
- DLSS/FSR2: Performance
- CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
- RAM: 16 GB
- OS: Windows 10/11, 64-bit
- Storage: 90 GB SSD
