“Examine the final system requirements carefully, and adjust your machinery for a trouble-free connection to the Noosphere,” GSC tweeted.
GSC provides four graphics presets here: low; medium; high; and epic, as well as a target resolution and FPS for each. The high graphics preset is what GSC calls recommended, and provides 60fps gameplay at 1440p.
For that high graphics preset, you’ll need a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti / RTX 4070 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU and 32GB of RAM. Low and medium require 16GB of RAM and less powerful GPUs.
All graphics presets, however, require 160GB of SSD storage, which is a significant footprint worth bearing in mind if you’re planning on playing.
Meanwhile, GSC confirmed Stalker 2 will feature upscaling options for DLSS and FSR. Specifically, Stalker 2 launches with DLSS 3 and Reflex, which means GeForce RTX 40 Series gamers can activate DLSS 3 with Frame Generation and Super Resolution from day-one, accelerating performance.
Stalker 2 PC system requirements:
Low (1080p / 30fps):
- CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB / Intel Arc A750
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 160GB SSD
Medium (1080p / 60fps):
- CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super / RTX 4060 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 160GB SSD
High (1440p / 60fps):
- CPU: Intel Core i7-11700 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti / RTX 4070 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
- RAM: 32GB
- Storage: 160GB SSD
Epic (4K / 60+ fps):
- CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF / AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 / AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- RAM: 32GB
- Storage: 160GB SSD
Stalker 2 has suffered a number of understandable delays, most recently in July when the game was due out in September. Ukrainian studio GSC said at the time that the extra two months would give the developers the chance to fix “unexpected anomalies”, aka bugs.
GSC has been vocal about the challenges the studio has faced getting the post-apocalyptic PC and Xbox Series X and S shooter up to scratch after a mixed reaction to its debut public showing last year.
At gamescom 2023, GSC addressed what some had called a “downgrade” sparked by Stalker 2’s then latest gameplay trailer. At the time, GSC told IGN it was still targeting a visual quality and level of polish suggested by Stalker 2’s eye-catching 2021 trailer despite the horrendous conditions suffered by the staff amid the war with Russia.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].