Alan Wake 2 pc requirements... Sheesh

[Arthur]

RX6600 here, according to the sheet, it'll only be able to handle the game at 1080p, low settings, FSR2 quality and targetting freaking 30fps. Insane.

EDIT: Aight it actually runs pretty well :) The requirementes were slightly exaggerated. At 1080p (native) and low settings, I get around 58-60fps in the lighter areas, and around 40 in the most demanding ones (forests and such). With FSR turned on in quality mode, its pretty much never below 60 in the forests and 80 in some other areas.

I compared low and high settings in several instances and I barely noticed anything different, even the performance didn't get that much worse, so it feels like high settings, if anything, were made with longevity in mind. Obviously the big difference here is with ray-tracing, which I didn't use because they tank the fps, but the game still looks gorgeous without it.

Its good, guys! And its not poorly optimized at all, its just demanding, but still runs very well on my entry level GPU! My only performance issues were when going in and out of certain menus, there's a bit of stuttering, but I heard those happen with the console ports as well, so maybe it'll be fixed in a patch.

[WolfEisberg]

Given the visuals of the game, the system requirement makes sense.

[animal_PLANET]

Itll be fine. It has FSR 2. Requirements are never 100% accurate either. I am quite sure I will be able to run this game at 1440p on Ultra.

Here are full requirements:
https://twitter.com/alanwake/status/1715412623468970091/photo/1

[Arthur]

Originally posted by WolfEisberg:

Given the visuals of the game, the system requirement makes sense.

Still, looks like 90% of the PC userbase won't be able to play this in at least 1440 high settings. Not sure making games with future hardware in mind is a good idea.

[Arthur]

Originally posted by animal_PLANET:

Itll be fine. It has FSR 2. Requirements are never 100% accurate either. I am quite sure I will be able to run this game at 1440p on Ultra.

Here are full requirements:
https://twitter.com/alanwake/status/1715412623468970091/photo/1

Yeah, but I don't know if you noticed, every single one of those presets have FSR enable by default. For example, it says a 3060 can handle it at 1080p, medium, 30fps... If you have DLSS on. Without it, you'd get even less fps.

[animal_PLANET]

Originally posted by Arthur:

Originally posted by animal_PLANET:

Itll be fine. It has FSR 2. Requirements are never 100% accurate either. I am quite sure I will be able to run this game at 1440p on Ultra.

Here are full requirements:
https://twitter.com/alanwake/status/1715412623468970091/photo/1

Yeah, but I don't know if you noticed, every single one of those presets have FSR enable by default. For example, it says a 3060 can handle it at 1080p, medium, 30fps... If you have DLSS on. Without it, you'd get even less fps.

DLSS 3.5>FSR2. So using Quality to performance will vary for both, but DLSS will def have better FPS/quality.

They also dont list any intel CPU after the first basic requirement. So that isnt really much to go by. If you feel you wont be ok just wait until gameplay vids are up.

Pretty crazy the spec sheet already has a quarter million views. Lots of people looking forward to this on PC. Good to see.

[WolfEisberg]

Originally posted by Arthur:

Originally posted by animal_PLANET:

Itll be fine. It has FSR 2. Requirements are never 100% accurate either. I am quite sure I will be able to run this game at 1440p on Ultra.

Here are full requirements:
https://twitter.com/alanwake/status/1715412623468970091/photo/1

Yeah, but I don't know if you noticed, every single one of those presets have FSR enable by default. For example, it says a 3060 can handle it at 1080p, medium, 30fps... If you have DLSS on. Without it, you'd get even less fps.

DLSS/FSR2 are technologies to allow greater graphics fidelity to be used. Just like any other new graphical technology that has ever been created, it eventually becomes a part of base usage, like shaders, transform and lighting, bumb mapping, and so many other graphical technologies.

[joliet_jane]

I have an AMD Radeon 6600 8GB and even when I bought it, it was considered a "budget" GPU. I accept that I need to upgrade or accept lower settings.

It's the burden of PC gaming power. On console you get what you get so there's no worries. But on PC, you have the power to go bigger, but for a price.

[flat_Lander1]

Imagine requiring rtx 3070 for medium settings and DLSS PERFORMANCE at 1080p wtf is this

[Arthur]

Originally posted by WolfEisberg:

Originally posted by Arthur:

Yeah, but I don't know if you noticed, every single one of those presets have FSR enable by default. For example, it says a 3060 can handle it at 1080p, medium, 30fps... If you have DLSS on. Without it, you'd get even less fps.

DLSS/FSR2 are technologies to allow greater graphics fidelity to be used. Just like any other new graphical technology that has ever been created, it eventually becomes a part of base usage, like shaders, transform and lighting, bumb mapping, and so many other graphical technologies.

Yeah, at the cost of the image looking blurry and having artifacts. It is not an enhancements, there are downsides to the visual fidelity.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Beefy reqs. Anyway, im not going to get it, but will be interesting to see the performance analysis by Digital Foundry.

[WolfEisberg]

Originally posted by Arthur:

Originally posted by WolfEisberg:

DLSS/FSR2 are technologies to allow greater graphics fidelity to be used. Just like any other new graphical technology that has ever been created, it eventually becomes a part of base usage, like shaders, transform and lighting, bumb mapping, and so many other graphical technologies.

Yeah, at the cost of the image looking blurry and having artifacts. It is not an enhancements, there are downsides to the visual fidelity.

At least with DLSS 2 images don't look blurry, artifacting is very rare. Not unusual for DLSS to reconstruct to look better than native.

[Boolitzz]

Bruh, them specs looks outrageous, can you imagine what console gamers are gonna be seeing on release?

[Arthur]

Originally posted by Boolitzz:

Bruh, them specs looks outrageous, can you imagine what console gamers are gonna be seeing on release?

Probably native 1080p, roughly equivalent to medium/high settings, and maybe low RTX if we're generous. Not even kidding.

[Dosto]

I have a 3080 but i bought it on Xbox Series X. I don't want anything related to Ecrap so i really don't care for its requeriments, I hope the game ins't a flop.

[animal_PLANET]

Originally posted by Arthur:

Originally posted by Boolitzz:

Bruh, them specs looks outrageous, can you imagine what console gamers are gonna be seeing on release?

Probably native 1080p, roughly equivalent to medium/high settings, and maybe low RTX if we're generous. Not even kidding.

Xbox series S will most likely be sub par 1080p at locked 30. Either 720p or 900p. I dont think it will have RT either. Itll be impressive if it does.

I mean, AW had very low resolution and it still looked really good. Im sure Remedy will do the same here though.