Alan Wake 2 will run on unsupported graphics cards, kinda

Now that Alan Wake 2 is out, we’re seeing a variety of dialogue over how the sport runs, given the excessive bar it units in your gaming {hardware}. We’re now seeing that Alan Wake 2 can run on older, unsupported GPUs, simply, don’t anticipate it to be greater than a really fairly slideshow.

We’ve already examined the best Alan Wake 2 settings for efficiency and located that our testing rigs nearly acquired acceptable outcomes regardless of housing an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070. This is probably not one of many best graphics cards in the marketplace anymore, however it greater than cleared the Alan Wake 2 system requirements.

Daniel Owen has taken to his YouTube channel to run his personal testing with a lot stronger {hardware}, nonetheless, earlier than the true testing started, he ran a brief take a look at on the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070. Sure, you learn that proper, a GTX 1070.

Earlier than the sport booted, it warned that the GPU getting used was lacking a key function – mesh shaders – and the sport can be unlikely to run as anticipated. Pushing previous this warning, the sport begins and you may play, simply at 20 fps on the low international preset. Surprisingly, upon bumping the worldwide settings to Excessive, the sport continues to push via, dropping additional frames however nonetheless wanting superb visually, so long as you’re not shifting.

Granted, this was working at a local 1080p decision with no DLSS, because the GTX sequence doesn’t assist it, however when enabling FSR 2 and dropping the render decision to 720p, efficiency does bump fps into the mid-20s, however with little stability. Going even additional with the render decision to 540p really sees a drop again all the way down to the excessive teenagers.

In the end it’s nice to know that Alan Wake 2 hasn’t been utterly locked away from customers with older GPUs, simply don’t anticipate to have the ability to get any acceptable efficiency out of them.

Try our Alan Wake 2 review to see what we considered the sport, and you may as well browse the best horror games on PC to get your self in the appropriate state of mind.