Alan Wake 2's Demanding PC Specs Draw Criticism, Require High-End GPUs for 1080p 60FPS
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Alan Wake 2's high minimum PC specs to achieve 1080p 60FPS are under scrutiny, with only an estimated 7% of Steam users able to reach it.
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The game requires an RTX 3070 or RX 6700 XT to hit 1080p 60FPS without ray tracing enabled.
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Many are unhappy, as the specs lock out those with aging but still decent GPUs like the GTX 10-series.
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The requirements are partly due to new rendering techniques like mesh shaders, which aren't supported on older GPUs.
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PC ports of major games are increasingly running into issues reaching high fps and resolutions, even on powerful hardware.