Recently, the developers behind Cities: Skylines II warned about performance issues, a concern that was already hinted at when the PC requirements were announced. It’s a worrying trend for many recent major PC releases. Minimum and recommended specs are getting increasingly higher, leading me to wonder how much developers really care about optimization on PC. The lack of optimization on PC might be explained by the fact that many of these games are cross-platform and primarily designed for consoles.
Nonetheless, if you’re planning to play Alan Wake 2 on PC, you may want to take a look at the requirements below. As @NikTekOfficial puts it, “An RTX 3070 is starting to become low-end real quick.” Alan Wake 2 heads to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on October 27, 2023. Relive the events from the first game here.
Alan Wake 2 PC Requirements
Minimum:
- Graphics Preset: Low
- Resolution: 1080p
- FPS: 30
- 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:
- Graphics Preset: Medium
- Resolution: 1440p
- FPS: 30
- 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
Ultra:
- Graphics Preset: High
- Resolution: 2160p
- FPS: 60
- 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:
- Graphics Preset: Medium / Ray tracing low
- Resolution: 1080p
- FPS: 30
- 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:
- Graphics Preset: Medium / Ray tracing medium, Path tracing on
- Resolution: 1080p
- FPS: 60
- 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:
- Graphics Preset: High / Ray tracing high, Path tracing on
- Resolution: 2160p
- FPS: 60
- 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
