Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7 drops next week. Coming with the new season, Fortnite gets a graphics upgrade.
In a post on their website, Epic Games states that with Chapter 2 Season 7 (V17.00) there will be upgraded visuals. When running “Epic” graphics settings on a PC that meets the system requirements, you will receive enhanced effects, improved postprocessing features and shadow quality. The Epic preset for Battle Royale and Creative mode will have improved storm and cloud effects and enhanced simulations for smoke and liquid. Epic states that will will allow for “cooler-looking explosion, fire and Slurp effects!”. Epic also states the changes will include improved postprocessing features for bloom and lens flares as well as improved shadow quality.
These improvements will require higher specs from your PC. High settings will become the equivalent of the prior Epic settings. Low and medium settings will remain the same. So what are the new requirements?
For Epic Quality, the recommended specs are:
- Nvidia GTX 1080, AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT or equivalent GPU
- 4 GB VRAM or higher
- Intel Core i7-8700, AMD Ryzen 7 3700x or equivalent
- 16 GB Ram or higher
- NVMe Solid State Drive
- Windows 10 64-bit
The recommended specs for Fortnite will remain the same:
- Nvidia GTX 960, AMD R9 280 or equivalent DX11 GPU
- 2 GB VRAM
- Core i5-7300U 3.5 GHz
- 8 GB Ram
- Windows 10 64-bit
Minimum specs:
- Intel HD 4000 on PC; Intel Iris Pro 5200
- Core i3-3225 3.3 GHz
- 4 GB Ram
- Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
Some of these enhancements have already made their way to the Xbox Series X and PS5 already. Epic has also stated that Fornite will move to Unreal Engine at some point in 2022 so I am sure more graphics upgrades are sure to come! Lets us know your thoughts on Fortnite gets a graphics upgrade in the comments below or over on twitter!
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