Alan Wake 2 System Requirements – Minimum, recommended & ultra PC specs

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An FBI agent stands at the entrance to a town in Alan Wake 2

Alan Wake 2’s system requirements for PC can be a little demanding, but Remedy has taken steps to ensure the game runs on as many computers as possible. Here are the minimum, recommended and ultra PC specs that will give you high FPS and resolution.

Alan Wake 2 is one of the most beautiful games you can play right now, and this spooky, ambitious sequel has turned a lot of heads since its release last October. And with such a high level of graphics come some equally demanding hardware specifications.

If you’re a PC player who wants to continue the writer’s story, you’ll want to know what the PC system requirements are needed to run the game.

Without further ado, here are the minimum, recommended, and ultra PC specs for Alan Wake 2.

Alan Wake 2 PC system requirements

An FBI agent explores the woods in Alan Wake 2The recommended specs for Alan Wake 2 are significantly higher than expected.

While Alan Wake 2 originally required an RTX 2070 Super or Radeon RX 6600 to run, Remedy has recently made optimization improvements that allowed them to reduce the minimum spec requirements. On low settings, players will need at least a Geforce GTX 1070 or a Radeon RX 5600 XT in the GPU slot. Here are the requirements to run Alan Wake 2 at all levels.

Minimum specs (1080p/30fps, low graphics preset)

HARDWAREREQUIREMENT
OSWindows 10/11 64-bit
RAM16 GB
CPUIntel i5-7600K or AMD equivalent
GPUGeForce GTX 1070 / Radeon RX 5600 XT, 6GB VRAM
Storage90 GB SSD
HARDWAREREQUIREMENT
OSWindows 10/11 64-bit
RAM16 GB
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
GPUGeForce RTX 3060 or Radeon RX 6600 XT, 8GB VRAM
Storage90 GB SSD
HARDWAREREQUIREMENT
OSWindows 10/11 64-bit
RAM16 GB
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
GPUGeForce RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6700 XT, 8GB VRAM
Storage90 GB SSD

Ultra specs (2160p/60fps, high graphics preset)

HARDWAREREQUIREMENT
OSWindows 10/11 64-bit
RAM16 GB
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
GPUGeForce RTX 4070 or Radeon RX 7800 XT, 12GB VRAM
Storage90 GB SSD

Low Ray Tracing specs (1080p/30fps)

HARDWAREREQUIREMENT
OSWindows 10/11 64-bit
RAM16 GB
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
GPUGeForce RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6800 XT, 8GB VRAM
Storage90 GB SSD

Medium Ray Tracing specs (1080p/60fps)

HARDWAREREQUIREMENT
OSWindows 10/11 64-bit
RAM16 GB
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
GPUGeForce RTX 4070, 12GB VRAM
Storage90 GB SSD

High Ray Tracing specs (2160p/60fps)

HARDWAREREQUIREMENT
OSWindows 10/11 64-bit
RAM16 GB
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent
GPUGeForce RTX 4080, 16GB VRAM
Storage90 GB SSD

Those are the complete list of requirements for anyone looking to play Alan Wake 2. For more content on the game, check out our guides below:

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