Friday, October 20th 2023
Alan Wake II System Requirements Released, Steep RT Requirements Due to Path Tracing
Alan Wake II by Remedy Entertainment promises to be the year's most visually intense AAA title. The publisher put out the various tiered system requirements lists that highlight just what it takes to max the game out. As with most publishers these days, the company put out separate lists for RT and non-RT experiences. The common minimum requirements across all tiers include 90 GB of SSD-based storage, Windows 10 or Windows 11, and 16 GB of main memory. At the bare minimum, you'll need a quad-core Intel Core i5-7600K or comparable processor. For all other tiers, Remedy recommends at least an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent processor (which would mean at least a Core i7-10700K), or an 8-core/16-thread processor that's as fast as the 3700X.
The bare minimum GPU requirement calls for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or Radeon RX 6600. With this, you can expect 1080p @ 30 FPS, and can use the "quality" setting with DLSS 2 or FSR 2. The non-RT "Medium" list, is either 1440p @ 30 FPS or 1080p @ 60 FPS. For 1440p @ 30 FPS, you'll need a GPU at least as fast as a GeForce RTX 3060 or Radeon RX 6600 XT. 1080p @ 60 FPS requires at least a GeForce RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6700 XT. The "Ultra" non-RT preset with 4K @ 60 Hz, which is the best experience you can possibly have without ray tracing, demands at least a GeForce RTX 4070 or Radeon RX 7800 XT. Ray tracing is a whole different beast.
The "Low" ray tracing tier, which is medium raster graphics settings with low ray tracing, for 1080p @ 30 FPS, demands at least a GeForce RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6800 XT. The "Medium" ray tracing tier, which is medium raster graphics settings with medium ray tracing and path tracing enabled, for 1080p @ 60 FPS gameplay, demands at least a GeForce RTX 4070. There's no AMD Radeon GPU with the ray tracing performance of an RTX 4070 in its price-range, so Rockstar didn't recommend an AMD option. The "High" ray tracing preset, which combines high raster graphics with high ray tracing, and path tracing; for gameplay at 4K with 60 FPS; requires a GeForce RTX 4080.
The bare minimum GPU requirement calls for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or Radeon RX 6600. With this, you can expect 1080p @ 30 FPS, and can use the "quality" setting with DLSS 2 or FSR 2. The non-RT "Medium" list, is either 1440p @ 30 FPS or 1080p @ 60 FPS. For 1440p @ 30 FPS, you'll need a GPU at least as fast as a GeForce RTX 3060 or Radeon RX 6600 XT. 1080p @ 60 FPS requires at least a GeForce RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6700 XT. The "Ultra" non-RT preset with 4K @ 60 Hz, which is the best experience you can possibly have without ray tracing, demands at least a GeForce RTX 4070 or Radeon RX 7800 XT. Ray tracing is a whole different beast.
157 Comments on Alan Wake II System Requirements Released, Steep RT Requirements Due to Path Tracing
Nothing here makes sense, no wonder people in r/nvidia are roasting them to hell
2023 strikes again.
If medium RT enables "path tracing" by default, then with this game here, we have a repeat of what was happening with PhysX 12 years ago. Enabling medium or higher PhysX settings on AMD cards was turning any game in low single digit slideshow. Nvidia is trying again with Path Tracing to make competing cards look inferior.
If it's not the best looking game of all time it's an unoptimized mess.
now i see why it's on Epic... where the trash belongs to.
really hate how DLSS/FSR is intergrated in this chart... just not have that and instead state the equivalent res its actually running at then....
so instead of saying you can do 1080p with DLSS quality, just say its 900p.
and instead of saying you can do 4k with DLSS performance, just say its 1080p.
Playing Alan Wake II is on my schedule for 2033 ...
I'm confident that the 2033 hardware will run it like a charm ! :)
Although, Alan Wake is one of my favourite games of all times, so I might make an exception with AW2, and put it on the top of my list. :)
CPU requirements are surprisingly reasonable. Now to wait for launch, and see what's real.
I imagine that the low settings will still look great, but as for the rest, what the fuck is this? You're telling me that someone with a 3080 class gpu won't be able to play at a native 1440p60? I genuinely feel betrayed by remedy, fucks sake man. And the game is also perma exclusive to the egs, to rub salt on the wound I guess