Fortnite on PC to get Upgraded Visuals in Chapter 2 Season 7

Fortnite PC players are up for a surprise, as the upcoming Season 7 will bring in an enhanced visual treat, with better graphics and optimal performance

When Chapter 2 Season 7 (v17.00) arrives next week, Fortnite on PC will receive upgraded visuals! While running “Epic” graphics settings on a machine that meets system requirements, gamers will be able to enjoy new and enhanced effects plus improved post-processing features and shadow quality.

Fortnite Season 7 for PC users

Starting with Chapter 2 Season 7, if gamers play with their “Quality Presets” option set to Epic, they will notice both Battle Royale and Creative modes receive a benefit.

These arrive from improved storm and cloud effects, as well as enhanced simulations for smoke and liquid. They can expect cooler-looking explosions, fire, and Slurp effects.

The changes will include improved post-processing features for bloom and lens flares, as well as improved shadow quality.

Upgraded Season 7 coming up

Because of these upgrades, Epic settings will require higher device specifications to run with optimal performance. High settings will become the equivalent of the pre-Season 7 Epic settings, so players’ experience with high settings may change depending on their specifications.

Low and Medium settings, as well as the Performance rendering mode alpha, will remain the same with the release of v17.00, or Season 7.

Fortnite on PC updated requirements

With the upgrades to Epic Quality Presets (“Epic settings”), Fortnite will add a system requirements category for running Epic settings optimally: Epic Quality Presets specifications. The Epic Quality Presets specifications will not replace the Recommended specifications.

Epic Quality Presets specifications

• 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

Unrelated to the new visual changes, the Recommended GPU will become Nvidia GTX 960, AMD R9 280, or equivalent DX11 GPU when v17.00 releases.

Riot is changing the official Recommended OS to Windows 10 64-bit, but players on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8 64-bit can still run Fortnite at optimal performance. The minimum specifications will remain the same.

Recommended specifications

• 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 specifications

• Intel HD 4000 on PC; Intel Iris Pro 5200
• Core i3-3225 3.3 GHz
• 4 GB RAM
• Windows 7/8/10 64-bit