Alan Wake 2: Thanks to optimizations: PC requirements now lower

Alan Wake 2 has been available since last fall and is impressive. Anyone who hasn’t been able to play until now because their PC wasn’t as powerful can now take another look. Thanks to optimizations, the minimum system requirements have now been lowered.

This is what Remedy Entertainment said in a social media post Twitter respective X have spoken out and confirmed that the minimum system requirements for Alan Wake 2 are officially lower than when the game was released. Accordingly, the game has been optimized further over the past few months so that the lower requirements could be achieved.

With the release of the new update 1.0.16.1, a new graphic was published showing the lower requirements; You can find these in the social media posting in this message.

Specifically, you now only need a GeForce GTX 1070 or Radeon RX 5600 XT as a GPU, so you can now get started more easily with an older setup. With these options, Alan Wake 2 should still run at 30 fps at 1080p resolution. Of course, more powerful computers still lead to better performance. Anyone who was already good at gaming can expect an even smoother gaming experience on the PC thanks to the optimizations.

Alan Wake 2 is considered one of the better games of last year, which is why it was nominated for Game of the Year at the prestigious The Game Awards 2023; However, it was Baldur’s Gate III that ultimately brought home this award. Nevertheless, the title also turned out to be a commercial success for Remedy, with Alan Wake 2 ultimately becoming the studio’s fastest-selling title ever. By the beginning of February 2024, 1.3 million copies of the game had been sold over the counter.

Far from Alan Wake, Remedy continues to rely on the Control franchise. The developer only bought this back in full from publisher 505 Games last week, which cost 17 million dollars. Remedy can now develop its own vision completely independently of Control.