If you are a typical follower of Remedy, the Dev that produced Control in 2020, you would be quite familiar with the high demands of their titles on PC. Following significant drops in system requirements of Quantum Break in 2016 and Control, in 2019, recent title in Alan Wake 2 has suffered the same fate where there has been a drop in system requirements on PC after the lastest update. In this case, the new patch allows older GPU’s to run the game a bit better. Although Quantum Break and Control quite older titles, much attention should be paid toward the game’s system requirements and updates.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Gamers were “upset” with the high and heavy system requirements of Alan Wake in its debut year. To run the game at barely, 1080p @30fps, gamers were required to have an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or an AMD Radeon RX 6600, this was a chaos for gamers with older GPU’s. In response to this absurd situation, Remedy released a new patch where a greater chunk of the system requirements has been chopped off. Let us take a look at some of Remedy’s previous works, their release dates and how they are faring now on some of today’s GPUs. When we take a popular title like Control, and take it into perspective, even players feel a bit largish gameplay and feels quite heavier on the PS4 on its first release. Some players even argued that Control was meant to be a next gen console title, yet it has been released on the PS4. It even totally quite unplayable on GPUs like the gtx 660, gtx 760 and gtx 960. Although Remedy stated it categorically on all their platforms the sysytem requirements ie, both minimum and recommended. But then new on the ground among PC gamers was that the minimum requirement could only enable you launch the game and not to actually play and enjoy. On the PS4 console, players feel a major largish gameplay when there is a combat scene where you fight enemies all across the screen. Nonetheless, Control is a very good game that is being recommended but however, players must be fully prepared in terms gears in order to enjoy. If PC gamers wants to enjoy ray tracing as well, then they might as well spend fortunes. Nvidia even posted that it Control has 17 graphical settings in ray tracing settings, this tells you a lot about how high Remedy scales its graphics. We can also equally talk about Quantum Break when it comes to high end graphical demanding games. Remedy, within the first four months of releasing Quantum Break had various complains on how the game is outperforming their PC. The game never launched on the PS4 till now. And whiles the Xbox version was just fine, PC gamers had big trouble playing the game. Interestingly, PC gamers still needs to update their gear in oder to play Quantum Break @60 fps maximum settings. Taking all these prevous works by Remedy into consideration, I think it is a calculated attempt by them to make their last for at least a decade and still firing.
The new system requirements was posted on the Remedy Official twitter page.
