Remedy Entertainment has revealed the official PC system requirements for its upcoming psychological thriller Alan Wake 2. Players will need a powerful rig to utilize the game's graphics features fully.

Remedy has provided detailed performance targets for various hardware configurations and graphical settings. For a medium-quality 1080p experience without ray tracing, the developer recommends an RTX 3070 paired with a Ryzen 7 3700X. This should deliver 60 FPS.

Those who want to enable ray tracing effects will find the game more demanding as for low ray tracing at 1080p/30 FPS, an RTX 3070 is suggested as the minimum. But the game taps directly into Nvidia's RTX 4080 for higher-quality ray tracing with path tracing. Even then, DLSS upscaling must be used in Performance mode just to maintain 60 FPS.


Alan Wake 2 is due for release on October 27 for the PC as an Epic Games Store exclusive, along with the Xbox Series X|S and the PlayStation 5. Remedy also decided to make Alan Wake 2 a digital-only game release early.