#system requirements

Edit after release: The game is playable even on a HDD, I can confirm this myself. There even is a setting to compensate for the lack of reading speed (although some textures still take some time to load sometimes). In their launch preparation post Larian say they "highly recommend" playing with a SSD, though. I am very glad it's not a hard requirement!

Minimum spec BG3 run

This screen can last up to a minute

Judgmental Bald Gale, with his swollen head looks me right in the eyes

"Press the damned HDD mode button

Thanks to my own tendency to hoard hardware, and a little help from some friends, I have confirmed that the Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee demo runs smoothly on:

A Win7 Dell laptop from 2011 with 4GB RAM

Win10 Desktop PC with dedicated GPU that was a really solid build in 2016 and is still quite serviceable for most needs

MacOS Mojave on a MacBook Pro Intel 2015

MacOS Big Sur on a MacBook Air M1 2020

every other MacOS/Windows computer people have tested on so far

I'm currently working on a Linux build to have another friend test that, but from that Win7 laptop alone I think it's pretty safe to say that this should run on just about anything. The application window is fully resizeable for any screen size, and the game will always render the 4:3 gameplay correctly with black bars on the side as needed. It can also be expanded to fullscreen.

Here’s a nice little piece of news bound to defrost your icy heart: Remedy has officially lowered the system requirements for Alan Wake 2 on PC. “We’ve been optimizing the PC version of Alan Wake 2, and as a result the minimum PC system requirements have been lowered.” said Remedy on X. Previously on Alan Wake 2’s system requirements, the game needed at least an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD…