I'm playing the game with a controller on a Ryzen 7700x and 4090 with a 144hz VRR screen and the microstutter is very noticeable to me, it's not just because you're on a fixed refresh display. It really doesn't feel especially smooth. The latency is ridiculous too, I can hit a basically locked...
FWIW Techpowerup's conclusion supports this theory.
"The settings menu of Alan Wake 2 has a long list of options for performance tuning, but there will be a ton of drama around the forced upscaling. Yup, you can't render at native. There's only options for "DLSS" and "FSR"—nothing else. Both...
Well, I tried reinstalling the game and deleting the roaming data, this time not touching the Direct Storage DLLs or anything else, and it still does it. Sometimes changing a graphics setting after dying will fix the performance, and sometimes it won't. No idea what's going on lol.
I'm not sure what's going on, but the game's performance tanks for me now after I die as you can see in the video (playback is choppy but you can see the framerate on the RTSS overlay). When I first load up the game it runs well using Alex's optimized settings with DLSS Performance, but after...