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.
You
should
now
be
able
to
play
Alan
Wake
2
at
1080p
/
30fps
on
the
GTX
1070
and
RX
5600
cards,
but
if
you’re
still
hanging
on
to
a
GTX
1060,
then
you
might
even
be
able
to
get
a
more
playable
frame
rate
now.
Digital
Foundry
got
an
early
look
at
the
new
Alan
Wake
2
patch
earlier
this
week
and
found
some
demanding
areas
on
a
GTX
1060
now
output
at
26fps
instead
of
18fps.
Even
modern
GPUs
get
some
performance
improvements
from
this
latest
patch,
with
the
RTX
4070
seeing
nearly
a
14
percent
frame
rate
jump,
according
to
Digital
Foundry
tests.
Update
1.0.16.1
is
available
for
Alan
Wake
2
today.
Original author: Tom Warren
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