Hold onto your flashlights and flare guns, thrill seekers – Remedy‘s announced a February launch window for the PC version of Alan Wake, as well as the minimum system specs required to run it without anything… unexpected happening.

Also, the game won’t be using Games For Windows LIVE, so that’s good news.

According to the post over on the official forums, the PC specs include:

• OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
• PROCESSOR: A dual core processor is required:
• AMD: Athlon X2 2.8GHz
• Intel: Core 2 Duo 2GHz
• MEMORY: 2 GB
• HARD DRIVE: 8 GB
• VIDEO CARD:DirectX 10 compatible or later with 512MB RAM
• AMD: ATI Radeon 3650, 4450, 5550, 6450 or higher (per series)
• NVIDIA: GeForce 8600GT, 9500GT, GT120, GT430, GT520 (per series)
• SOUND CARD: DirectX 9.0c compatible
• INPUT: Mouse and keyboard, Xbox360 controller also supported

To run the game at “solid” settings, Remedy recommends “a modern quad-core CPU and a graphics card with around 2000 in 3DMark Graphics Score”, and “a top of the line graphics card and CPU” if you want to dial everything up to 11.

Source: Alan Wake forums