Alan Wake PC Review

Minimum:

• OS: XP / Vista / 7
• Processor: Dual Core AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz / Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz
• Memory: 2GB Ram
• Graphics: DX10 compatible or later 512mb, AMD 3650, 4450, 5550, 6450 or higher / Nvidia 8600GT, 9500GT, GT120, GT430, GT520 or higher
• Hard Drive: 8GB HD space

Recommended:

• OS: XP / Vista / 7
• Processor: Quad Core 2.66 GHz Intel or 3.2GHz AMD
• Memory: 4GB Ram
• Graphics: DX10 compatible with 1GB ram or higher
• Hard Drive: 8GB HD space

Our System

• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• Processor: AMD 955 Black Edition Quad Core @ 3.6Ghz
• Memory: 8GB DDR3 1800MHz
• Video Card: EVGA GTX 660 Ti 2GB

Now this is the interesting part, as you can see it does take a fairly good gaming PC to get this game up and running on it’s minimum requirements, but not so much that most gaming system shouldn’t be able to handle it.

The interesting part is the recommended requirements, requiring a quad core CPU, 4GB ram and a 1GB graphics card, even with my GTX 660Ti and overclocked AMD chip my system was working up a sweat running the game. My frames per second rarely dropped more than a few points below 60, but it certainly made the GPU work hard.

I will point out, this was running at 1920 x 1080, everything dialled up to maximum in Nvidia Control Panel and all features set to their maximum within the games settings menu, including maximum AA and AF.