Remedy has just released the official final PC system requirements for its upcoming horror survival game, Alan Wake 2. These PC specs detail both the game’s rasterized and Ray Tracing/Path Tracing versions.
To play the game in 4K/High Settings, you’ll need a super strong graphics card like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 or AMD Radeon RX 7800XT. That’s with DLSS/FSR Performance Mode, targeting 60fps. So yeah, you’ll definitely need a really powerful GPU for this game.
It’s kind of interesting that Remedy didn’t mention any AMD GPUs for the game’s Path Tracing Mode. So, even if you have a strong AMD GPU like the Radeon RX 7900XTX, it might not provide high framerates for smooth gaming.
In the NVIDIA camp, Remedy recommends an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 for Medium/PathTracing/1080p. This GPU targets a 60fps experience with DLSS 3 Performance Mode. That’s presumably with Frame Generation. For 4K/High/Path Tracing, Remedy recommends an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080.
As we’ve mentioned before, Alan Wake 2 is one of the early games to use DLSS 3.5. DLSS 3.5 introduces Ray Reconstruction which makes games with Ray Tracing/Path Tracing look even better. Unlike Frame Generation, DLSS 3.5’s Ray Reconstruction works on all RTX GPUs, including the RTX 20 series.
Remedy will release Alan Wake 2 on October 27th. For what it’s worth, the team has not provided us with a review code. As such, we won’t have a PC Performance Analysis article at launch. However, we’ll be sure to test the game when it comes out and share our initial performance impressions.
Stay tuned for more!
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Yeah RDNA3 is not going to cut it for Pathtracing. Even if the game supported FSR3 in the future. But what is interesting to me is even with RT low – high the CPU is a 3700X. I thought from many videos in games dealing with RT / and Pathtracing you needed a beefy CPU.
Some beefy specs, I expect this is going to be good
This is so badly optimized the fact that game mostly looks dark and it requires that much VRAM speaks volume how badly the PC port was handled , this is TLOU PC level of bad optimizing
I’m doubtful about the actual game though, sure the graphics probably will be amazing but as we’ve seen this seems to not have much AW in it, it’s just another marxist insertion of certain types into prominent places for no other reason then political/social engineering goals. How many have seen all the tv programs and even political appointees and such of certain types regardless of anything else? They’re everywhere.
It’s so blatant just watch espn and it’s constant pushing of this stuff all over, that annoying stadium volleyball game a while back was likely faf for the cameras only, free tickets all around, paid extras, even cgi “fans”, but we got some commentary from one of those cringey analysts, of that type, about how it’s profitable and makes biz sense to put stuff no one cares about on tv, nah it’s a one way forced thing only, it’s programming.
Now look at gta6 where one protag is totally bizarre trainzflag color wearing weirdo. I’m actually surprised that jubisoft didn’t have a black amazon or isle of lesbos or something in their latest slop. We did get a form of tranzamazon in odyssey if you chose to play as it. Next up for them is an obese tranzy with pink half shave etc lol
Imagine using all your brain to think about something useful lol
This is a site about vgames and vgames ARE HUGE, imagine thinking that analyzing them ISN’T useful. stfu
you are not analyzing, you are just delusional. Pls reply me with more than two lines or i will not gonna read it
STFU
what did you said? I cant understand.
Lol, already deleted the comment?what a snowflake
artards can go beat meat
“actually surprised that jubisoft didn’t have a black amazon or isle of lesbos or something in their latest slop”
isnt that what the new avatar game is?
“it’s just another marxist insertion of certain types into prominent
places for no other reason then political/social engineering goals.”
Yeah, we know you’re talking about the female character who happens to be black. Oh the horror.
Conservative white men never cease to amaze me with their insecurity.
found the redditor
Yeah gamers are mostly male. And not one of them wants to play as a black female character. Oh I’m such a racist for saying that.
People like you are just pathetic communist cucks you make me nauseus with your gayness.
https://media1.giphy.com/media/nsUFnSuJ11pSzZ0IJh/giphy-downsized-small.mp4 https://media3.giphy.com/media/HwcX8NXU7fb0DXAcfZ/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
https://media1.giphy.com/media/zyY30FivJHM5pwpWCv/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
720p – 10fps ultra potato settings pc players https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ae62692da85c2ad3a20c0deacd87360d2d5e81768c9c72f43e941e5e29ad1003.jpg
All these specs have “performance DLSS” enabled pfffffft hahaha
well thats how Nvidia recommends when using DLSS in all of their games
1080p use Quality
1440p use Balanced
4k use performance
8K use Ultra performance
but you can always choose Auto or decide which one you want to use yourself for your preferred fps target.
Just remember the highest fps doesnt always gives you butter smooth gameplay but a flat stable frametime does.
So many options and tweaks !
Oh the beauty of PC gaming !
You clearly omitted the 3070 needed for Medium settings at 1080p60, DLSS Performance.
Not that the requirements make any kind of sense.
Apparently the 30% faster 3080/4070 can do 4K60 at DLSS Performance and High Settings, which is waaay bigger of a jump than just 30% difference, but oh well.
DLSS 3.5 frame generation is the answer to that mystery.
This game requires DLSS 2/FSR to run and it requires DLSS 3.5 to run decently.
That’s just Remedy for you… Quantum Break, a game from 2016, doesn’t even run that good on a GTX 1060 if you don’t enable the “upscaling” option in the graphic settings when the recommended GPU is a GTX 970
I can’t imagine the average PC gamer or reviewer even knows what is going on anymore.
They started calling every game that is not raytraced, rasterized. Rasterisation is simply the projection of 3D data in the form of a 2D raster, raytracing does this step too.
The term has nothing to do with lighting, non-raytraced games shade anything that moves with lambert and phong shading (or some variation of them like blinn-phong and half-lambert). Everything that doesn’t move tends to have baked lighting. Rasterisation has nothing to do with this since it is simply the projection of the image on a 2D raster, it has nothing to do with the lighting model.
If games are defined by their lighting model, non-raytraced games should be called lambert-phong games, not rasterized, rasterisation is not a lighting model.
It is clear after 2 minutes of listening to outlets like DigitalFoundry, that these outlets themselves don’t understand any of this. The fact so many viewers just accept these terms that make no sense, indicates the average PC gamer has no idea what is going on anymore.
1080p, 30fps on LOW requires an RTX 2060.
And on medium you need an 8 core CPU.
This better be the best looking game ever made to justify that.
With DLSS on quality remeber. Can’t even target 30 fps without it ON.
oh jeesh, I hadn’t even noticed that
Barely runs on any hardware WITHOUT RAYTRACING. Then gets even worse with ray-tracing. LMAO train wreck confirmed.
People said the same thing about Battlefield 3 back in 2013…
you know, because of directx 11
I RUN ALL GAMES MAXED 1440P 60 FPS becuasei have a monster pc so it will be no problem.
MAX SETTINGS 1440P 60 FPS ON MY MONSTER PC
RYZEN 7 1700
RX 6700XT 12 GB RED DEVIL
16 GB DDR4 3200MHZCL15
MP 600 2TB WRITE:4950MB/S READ:4250MB/S
DELLP2416D 24” 2560X1440 60 HZ IPS!
Damn, that’s a rocket alright!
But can it play Wolfenstein 3D?
it can yes.
Are you mentally deficient? The chart clearly shows 6700XT is to be used with FSR2 PERFORMANCE at MEDIUM settings at 1080P, which means not only are you not even close to max settings (especially since this doesn’t even include RT), you’re upscaling from 540P, which is 14% of the resolution of native 1440P.
I mean I bought 4070 for the lulz the week it came out. Might as well start writing crap about my garbage mid-tier build here.
lol at least you’re a generation ahead of me and my dinky ‘lil 3060 Ti, but you’re not gloating about it like “shredder” here
and i am here with my little 2070 thinking well if minimum is garbage i can always buy a ps5 … graphics cards are going beyond my wallet
We both got shagged from behind by NVIDIA and at least we know it :)).
I wanted something power efficient (AMD ain’t it) and got that at least.
But the price wasn’t right.
Well it’s not like AMD is a WHOLE lot behind Nvidia in terms of efficiency, but they’re way behind in terms of features and ray tracing performance. They’re usually late to the party too (just look at how much later the 7800XT launched VS the 4070).
As for the pricing, everything just sucks. For most people, they’re better off getting last generation cards from the used market. This is what lack of competition and soy consoomerism does.
I will see when ipaly it but until now there is not not even one game that i cant run maxed 1440p 60 fps. About FSR i said i use it in games who have ray tracing so since this has ray tracing i will use it to run max graphics and max ray tracing 1440p 60 fps like i do in all games.
Thank you for confirming that your reading comprehension is practically non-existent.
Let us walk through this STEP-BY-STEP so that you actually understand why this isn’t possible for you.
Now, where does your 6700XT lie on that table? Medium. Does medium mean the exact same thing as maximum? I think even you know that the answer. If you don’t, try being a big boy and look up these two words in a dictionary. I know it might be a big task but I believe in you! You can do it! No, you can’t? Alright fine I’ll tell you, but just this once ok? The answer is… NO THEY’RE NOT THE SAME YOU IMBECILE.
Also, look at where the word “medium” is. Do you see ray tracing written anywhere on top? No? Correct, it’s not there! You know what that means? That’s right, the 6700XT is to be used for medium settings WITHOUT RAY TRACING!
Moving on, what is the resolution to be used with the 6700XT? Table says… 1080P. Is 1080P the same, higher, or lower than 1440P? I know math is hard, but you can do this! That’s right, 1080P is LOWER! Good job!! …You utter moron.
And for DLSS/FSR2 what does it say? Performance! Now this part might be really hard for you, but you should try looking up on the internet what it means when the performance setting is used with FSR2. But if you’re too dumb to do even that (which you obviously are), it will run at one quarter the resolution. In the case of 1080P, that will be 540P.
And now, looking quickly at the CPU, they’re saying you need a 3700X, which is about a 25% faster than your MONSTER 1700. Doing some maths (which you’re not capable of either so I’ve done it for you) you’ll get maybe 48FPS on that CPU of yours.
So, putting it all together, YOU HAVE NO CHANCE OF PLAYING THIS GAME AT MAX SETTINGS AT 1440P/60FPS EVEN WITH FSR2. https://media4.giphy.com/media/5MtOIdkHhxPFu/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
we will see the bcnahmarks in few days. But icant beleive one of the best gpus in 2021 that until now i play all games maxed 1440p 60 fps that suddently they will release a new game that will run only on medium. Also FSR 3 comes soon.
“One of the best GPUs in 2021” dude it’s a mid-range GPU from last generation, it didn’t really best anything except for maybe price/performance charts after several price drops.
And I don’t think AW2 will get FSR3. Even if it does, using fake frames to get to 60FPS will look and feel HORRIBLE. It’s going to be a blurry, smeary, pixelated mess that’ll feel bad to play due to the added input lag. Honestly, just lock your FPS to 30, grab a controller and play the game. Otherwise you’re going to be sacrificing way too much to get a steady 60FPS.
“One of the best GPUs in 2021” dude it’s a mid-range GPU from last generation, it didn’t really best anything except for maybe price/performance charts after several price drops.
And I don’t think AW2 will get FSR3. Even if it does, using fake frames to get to 60FPS will look and feel HORRIBLE. It’s going to be a blurry, smeary, pixelated mess that’ll feel bad to play due to the added input lag. Honestly, just lock your FPS to 30, grab a controller and play the game. Otherwise you’re going to be sacrificing way too much to get a steady 60FPS.
lul you have a little monster in your room 😳
a very powerful monster.
stfu
you are jealous of mine monster.
Oh God not you again. You’re the same dude from the Steam forums who keeps roleplaying as Shredder from TMNT and keeps claiming that you have experienced no stuttering ever in your entire life on your PC lol. Also, your CPU is old.
Iam the one true SHREDDER. Have we talked on Steam? What is your name there?
I am Krang and I’m taking you to Dimension X.
I see there are many Krangs on steam . Which one of them is you? what is your photo ?
No no, I’m actually the real Krang. I am a brain with a face inside a giant robot suit.
but how can i find you who is realy you on steam?
I don’t play video games. I am evil and only care about taking over earth whenever I get the Technodrome working.
No one cares which PC you have here. Go post your PC spec sheet on Reddit or Twitter.
Shredder, can I ask you something?
Did your parents accidentally drop you on your head a lot when you were a baby?
What question is this? Of course not! Also, what is your name on steam?
“The monster PC meme with R7 1700 and the 1440p60 screen continues”. It’s been several years now.
monster PC : a small kitten compared to my Godzilla like ( CAPSLOCK ALERT!!)
THESE ARE MINE
1440P SAMSUNG ODYSSEY G7 MAX SETTINGS 120/144 FPS
4K : avg. 120 and higher
RYZEN 7 7800X3D
RTX 4090 24GB
32 GB DDR5 5600MH
WD sn850X WRITE: 7300MB/s READ: 6600MB/s
Bragmode out.
Have a happy game experience!
I don’t understand ppl complaining the specs are too high or that they are because the game is probably badly optimised. This is path tracing my dudes, it’s about the future of gaming, of course you can’t run it on your 3060. I think it’s good that there are game where people with high-end hardware can reallly use their cards. Otherwise, 95% of games I just overkill with my setup.
Because they forget that whenever new tech is used,that tech will run better on later Hardware,for example Quantum Break runned like SH*t when released on GTX 1080,but now on a RTX4090 with a Very good CPU and all,runs with over 100fps 4K native ultra settings.
There are videos on YouTube showing that.
No sh*t a 4090 can run the game that way, that’s called brute forcing the performace issues, The game does look good I agree, but a 3070 for 1080p DLSS performance (540P in reality) is ridiculous.
You know why,because both Nvidia and Amd stopped at making GPU brute force powerfull,instead they sell same hardware with minimal tweaks but with better software.
So instead having,say from 8gb 256bit 1ghz prev GPU generation model to 16gb 512 2ghz and so on…an GTX 1080ti has same almost same amount of ram,bit’s and freq as the newer models,but with better software.
See Intel Core I9 13900K specs vs 14900K specs…same is for all tech(phones,gpu-s,TV’s etc),because they need to sell to make investors happy(stock market) not you the user,but the client(stock buyer).
Unless we have an RTX5080 with double the specs of an 4080,this trend of buying new GPU on every 2years aprox. is good,for them,not for you.
Imagine buying a GPU that will last you 10 years, with max settings in games,Native 4K,is possible but is not profitable.
How do you think Nvidia makes money? when you find the answer to this question you’ll know why between Ps4 and PS5 was only 1 refresh(ps4pro) but in GPU’s were 3 refreshes starting with GTX 700(PS4 release date) ending with RTX 3000(PS5).
Mate, you might not focus on requirements because of your overkill setup, but they recommend an RTX 3070 for 1080p medium with DLSS performance (540p upscaled) with no Ray Tracing, let alone Path Tracing.
This sh*t better look like the next Crysis for this kind of requirements.
my R7 7800X3D and RTX 4090 are ready !
sorry couldnt help it – This is because of John.
My rig is armed, ready and able. Bring on the MADNESS!
i called mine “John Papadopoulos” due to his RTX 4090 can run game X in 4K60fps articlespam
Hold on! An RTX 3070 / RX 6700 XT will only do 60 FPS at 1080p MEDIUM settings (no RAY TRACING) with DLSS/FSR2 in performance mode (essentially 540p).
Firstly, 1080p with DLSS/FSR2 in performance mode looks like absolute garbage and secondly, there is no game on this planet that looks “that” good to justify those requirements. From what I have seen in the trailers, this game doesn’t have “that” level of graphics.
RTX 3070 / RX 6700 XT will easily do 60FPS at 1080p HIGH settings (DLSS/FSR2 on quality mode) on practically 99% of games out there.
If you want better graphics stop being such a peasant and git gud pc
If you want to practice better hygiene, stop using your hand to wipe your a**
The chart shows the 4070 to be used at quality dlss with ray tracing medium, not performance as you mentioned John. In any case this is probably still without frame generation I suspect as there are several cards on that chart that do not support frame gen. Time will tell.
It have denuvo protected denuvo inside and crypto miner for bullets you shoot. There is really no other explanation…
Remedy was the god of crappy running average looking games. Obviously it has become even worse.
They haven’t provided you with review code because you are a retarded fa**ot John Papadopoulos
Time to upgrade your GPUs like back in 2007 when Bioshock was shaders model 3 only, then 2013 when Battlefield 3 was directx 11 only… etc…
This is a Directx 12 ultimate only game !