In a rare move, Alan Wake 2’s minimum PC requirements have been lowered
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#6K4PQ)
Image: Remedy Remedy is lowering the official minimum system requirements for Alan Wake 2 on PC. The sequel launched in October without full support for Nvidia's GTX 10-series of GPUs because Remedy opted for mesh shading that's part of DirectX 12 Ultimate and not supported by GPUs like Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD's RX 5600 XT.
Now, Remedy has optimized rendering for GPU's that don't support mesh shaders," meaning the minimum GPU requirements now include the GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon RX 5600 XT instead of the more powerful GeForce RTX 2060 and Radeon RX 6600. That's good news for owners of older PC gaming rigs, especially as Alan Wake 2 had some pretty hefty GPU requirements to begin with.
We've been optimizing the PC version of Alan Wake 2,...