IT Home reported on March 6 that Remedy launched 1. of "Wake Killer 2" tonight Beijing time0.16.1 Update Patch, the official tweet said that the developer has been optimizing the PC version of Alan Wake 2, so the minimum PC spec requirements have been lowered.
The patch focuses on improving gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10 Series graphics cards, optimizing rendering for "GPUs that don't support mesh shaders," meaning the minimum GPU requirements are reduced to the GTX 1070 and Radeon RX 5600 XT instead of the previous GeForce RTX 2060 and Radeon RX 6600. with up to 100% faster frame rates.
Alan Wake 2 relies heavily on DirectX 12 Ultimate's mesh shader for rendering, so the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10 Series graphics card doesn't work very well with the game.
According to a report by IT House yesterday, Shumao Society once pointed out in the new ** that the patch launched today will also improve modern ADA graphics cards such as GeForce RTX 4070, but the improvement effect is "not so obvious".
In February, Remedy announced in a press release that Alan Wake 2, released in October last year, had become the company's fastest-growing game to date. Remedy said that by the end of December 2023, 1 million copies had been sold, and as of early February this year, 1.3 million copies had been sold.
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