Alan Wake 2 [PC, PS5, XBSX|S] 17th october 2023
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Alan Wake 2 Reviews
Alan Wake 2 is rated 'Mighty' after being reviewed by 19 critics, with an overall average score of 92. It's ranked in the top 0% of games and recommended by 94% of critics.
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92 opencritic
The digital foundry video dropped on PS5.
Quality is 4k with internal res of 1270p30
Performance is 1440p with internal res of 847p60
Both modes stick close to their targets but there are a few areas with performance issues (27+ on quality, 50+ on performance)
Outrage cycle of 480p was bogus. Who knew?
Quality is 4k with internal res of 1270p30
Performance is 1440p with internal res of 847p60
Both modes stick close to their targets but there are a few areas with performance issues (27+ on quality, 50+ on performance)
Outrage cycle of 480p was bogus. Who knew?
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Alan Wake 2 PC im PCGH Tech-Test: Todschicke Grafik dank Northlight-Engine und Pathtracing [Update]
Benchmarks von Pathtracing, Raytracing und Rasterizing: Wie schneiden Grafikkarten in Alan Wake 2 ab? Und wie lautet das PCGH-Fazit?
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Lol. This is why we wait for the games to actually come out instead of losing our shit based on a recommended specs chart.
This week has been hilarious. There are a bunch of people that produced youtube videos telling people not to buy Alan Wake 2 just based on the recommended specs chart. Those people should be publicly humiliated.
Looks similar to Control. Will be a lot of room for performance optimization here. I remember control had some settings with big performance hit and not a huge visual increase. Volumetrics was one, I think?
Image quality comparison tool here https://www.techpowerup.com/review/alan-wake-2-performance-benchmark/5.html
It doesn't matter. I promise, people will not learn. The next major PC release will have people taking the requirements charts as gospel all over again, without fail. PC gamers seem to have some bizarre mental block when it comes to this that prevents them from learning to not take them seriously and to just wait for the game to come out to find out about performance. It's wild.
Game requires a lot of VRAM if you're ray tracing.
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Alan Wake 2 Performance Benchmark Review - 30 GPUs Tested
Alan Wake 2 is out soon, with incredible graphics, but demanding hardware requirements, too. There's forced DLSS/FSR, but we show you how to tweak the config files to get native back. In our performance review, we're taking a closer look at image quality, VRAM usage, and performance on a wide...
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Suprisingly AMD cards don't get completely destroyed in pathtracing, as they do in Cyberpunk.
They are using "pathtracing" only for indirect lights. Guess this helps a lot. Direct lights are using raytracing and can be used alone. That is different to Cyberpunk.
I see where you're trying to go with that and please don't conflate people who take detailed recommended requirements sheets like the one provided here as a genuine indicator of real world performance with people who complain about a games performance based on those requirements sheets. They are entirely unrelated viewpoints.
Going back to our earlier discussion on spec sheets, we can in fact see that the published Alan Wake requirements are a pretty reasonable indicator of how the game will run at those settings. Whether someone thinks that is a good or a bad thing is a different conversation entirely.
A fuck Lot of perf IS gained by going to Low Post Processing - which is what PS5 does too
One interesting note in the review is they mention certain settings are not exposed in the game but you can edit the config file to get better fidelity.Game requires a lot of VRAM if you're ray tracing.
Alan Wake 2 Performance Benchmark Review - 30 GPUs Tested
Alan Wake 2 is out soon, with incredible graphics, but demanding hardware requirements, too. There's forced DLSS/FSR, but we show you how to tweak the config files to get native back. In our performance review, we're taking a closer look at image quality, VRAM usage, and performance on a wide...
I've seen people mentioning that for example 1080p->4k upscaled doesn't have as good performance as native 1080p because DLSS/FSR2 have a performance hit, but I was just assuming it was because post processing is done after upscale and probably has a big hit on its own.
Guess we'll have to wait for his video tomorrow. If you set the preset to custom you can just toggle post processing between high and low.
One other odd thing I noticed in TPU's benchmark data...
4060Ti 16GB beating all the other cards has to be from the extra 4GB of VRAM.
Odd to see the 7700XT hanging in tough though, as if it's not running into VRAM pressure the way the other cards are, especially since AMD cards tend to use more VRAM for the acceleration structures and such when raytracing. I wonder if this title has the same issue a lot of recent ones do, where if you change settings 'on the fly' without restarting the game it uses extra VRAM over what it normally would?
Fun to see the 2080Ti beating the 3080 10GB at 1440p too, that extra 1GB of VRAM's coming in clutch.
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4060Ti 16GB beating all the other cards has to be from the extra 4GB of VRAM.
Odd to see the 7700XT hanging in tough though, as if it's not running into VRAM pressure the way the other cards are, especially since AMD cards tend to use more VRAM for the acceleration structures and such when raytracing. I wonder if this title has the same issue a lot of recent ones do, where if you change settings 'on the fly' without restarting the game it uses extra VRAM over what it normally would?
Fun to see the 2080Ti beating the 3080 10GB at 1440p too, that extra 1GB of VRAM's coming in clutch.
Alan Wake 2 Performance Benchmark Review - 30 GPUs Tested
Alan Wake 2 is out soon, with incredible graphics, but demanding hardware requirements, too. There's forced DLSS/FSR, but we show you how to tweak the config files to get native back. In our performance review, we're taking a closer look at image quality, VRAM usage, and performance on a wide...
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