Fortnite gets visual upgrades in v17.00, PC system requirements revealed

Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7 is just around the corner and with the update being so close, Epic Games is slowly releasing some new details on what can we expect from it.

And there is some great news for those of you who play Fortnite on PC, as the game will get a set of visual improvement once v17.00 arrives next week.

According to the announcement, PC players will now be able to enjoy "new and enhanced effects" and "improved postprocessing features and shadow quality."

What this exactly means?

Fortnite PC visual improvements v17.00

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Once Chapter 2 Season 7 launches, if your Fortnite "Quality Presets" option is set to Epic, you will immediately notice improvements across the board, both in Battle Royale and Creative modes.

New visual improvements will bring enhanced storm and cloud effects and increase the quality of simulation for smoke and liquid.

In practice, this means better-looking explosion and fire effects, as well as cooler Slurp stuff!

Additionally, Chapter 2 Season 7 will bring improved postprocessing features for bloom and lens flares and much better-looking shadows.

Starting with v17.00, High settings will become the equivalent of the pre-v17.00 Epic settings.

Fortnite Epic PC system requirements

Along with the visual updates, Fortnite will get official "Epic" system requirements for the first time, due to a demand for better device specifications.

Epic requirements are only needed if you want to run the game on the Epic Quality Presets settings, with the best possible graphics available.

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Asides from the new "Epic" system requirements, there are some slight changes for "Recommended" specifications as well. The recommended GPU will become Nvidia GTX 960 or AMD R9 280

You can check out below PC system requirements for each of these three categories.

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

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