Alan Wake 2 PC Requirements Are Frightening Gamers This Halloween

pczone.co.uk:

If there’s a perfect new game to play this Halloween, it’s Alan Wake 2.

The highly anticipated title from Remedy Studios takes Alan’s already complex story in new and mind-bending directions, with thought-provoking puzzles and tense Resident Evil-style gameplay.

Geeks aren’t so much talking about the game’s complex and overlapping storylines with Remedy’s other franchises but the gloriously advanced graphics showcasing the studio’s latest Northlight game engine.

Real-time path-traced lighting and reflections, mesh shaders and scarily realistic motion capture of human faces are some of the tricks we’re being treated to this Halloween by the good folks from Espoo, Finland.

It’s not the gloomy Pacific Northwest setting, jump scares or next-gen graphics that are freaking PC gamers out about the game, though. It’s the minimum system requirements needed to play it in the first place.

To meet the minimum spec for basic 1080p 30fps gaming, you’ll need an i5 7600K or equivalent CPU, RTX 2060 graphics card, and at least 16GB RAM. Ouch.

For anything approaching the glory that is fully path-traced lighting and reflective surfaces, gamers must have a long hard look in their misty rasterised mirrors and ask themselves: Can I justify spending hundreds of pounds on upgrading my rig to enjoy this game as intended?

If internet forums are anything to go by, the standard answer to this soul-searching question is: err, fuck no.

Read the spec sheet below and learn your fate:

To be fair to Remedy, given the enormously advanced nature of the game’s graphics engine, you would expect to need pretty modern hardware to get the best out of it.

Low or medium settings, the common presets the consoles are using, may sound bad, but given the prowess of the