davis.anthony
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It's not something I've noticed in AW2.
Alan Wake 2 [XBSX|S, PC, PS5] 17th october 2023
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It's not something I've noticed in AW2.
And I feel like between John and Alex from DF, they would have mentioned something too if it happened to them, but they didn't.. so I dunno.
I've seen a couple other people mention the same issue though so I don't believe it's just me. I don't get it.
So I have a question granted I haven't read every post in this thread but they all seem to be about how this game looks, but how does it play, is it any good ?
ps: there was some talk in this thread about games stores, well it's worse than you think.
I bought StarWars Squadrons on Epic because it was on sale, so I launch the Epic store to run the game, the game then launches Origin because it's an E.A game, then it launches Steam because the game uses SteamVR
So 1 game 3 different games stores....
ps: there was some talk in this thread about games stores, well it's worse than you think.
I bought StarWars Squadrons on Epic because it was on sale, so I launch the Epic store to run the game, the game then launches Origin because it's an E.A game, then it launches Steam because the game uses SteamVR
So 1 game 3 different games stores....
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Silent_Buddha
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Just go to the Steam forum for the game, oh wait... OK, just go to the EGS forum for the game, oh wait...
Regards,
SB
I like it. Typically i do not play horror games but after 15 hours it was the right decision to try AW2. Gameplay is very simple like the GotG game from Eidos Montreal. It's all about the story, the characters, the atmosphere.
davis.anthony
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It plays very different to the first game but I do like it.
And it's been a long time since played a game with this level of atmosphere.
And it's been a long time since played a game with this level of atmosphere.
GhostofWar
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Could it be the gpu downclocking during the the video playback then when the game cuts back in stuttering while the gpu gets it's ass back into gear? Not really the same issue but when playing starfield I noticed when I would hit escape and go to the menu to pause it when I came back the gpu/cpu had dropped into a low power state (only sitting on around 30 watts each) after hitting esc to get going again the game would stutter a bit as everything boosted back to high power mode.
I've only just had a chance to watch this on a large screen and while there are clear trade offs with both FSR Q and DLSS UP in the street video to the extent that I couldn't pick a clear winner, in the trees shot DLSS UP is clearly the winner by a significant margin. Not just in the trees which is really obvious but also in the chain link fence behind. It's pretty bonkers that that can be the case. Perhaps these are hand picked scenes and FSR can look better in other scenario's (I don't have the game to test myself) but based on this alone I'd say DLSS Performance is very likely to look at least as good, and probably better than FSR Balanced. DLSS Ultra Performance might even be a fairer comparison there which would have a massive impact on the level of GPU you need for an equivalent experience across NV, AMD and Consoles.
davis.anthony
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And the crazy thing is the loading speed isn't particularly impressive and is perhaps the one thing that lets the rest of the technical side down.
Video is weird. Those peaks are not that interesting. If you load 1 GB/s for 20ms you're loading 20 MB of data. The average is a lot more interesting. Don't know if 250-300 MB/s is on the high or low side for next gen games.
What's not interesting about loading 20MB of data in 20ms? 1GB/s is still 1GB/s no matter how you break it down.
davis.anthony
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It is a high number compared to other games but I imagine a lot of it is due to the mesh shading culling and loading objects in the forest.
It's something I'd like to see explored a little more in this game. I've seen the comparisons which show a well equipped PC as being a bit slower than the consoles, but I think they may have been at maximum details which potentially means more texture data and certainly the requirement to build a BHV which the consoles wouldn't have to deal with.
Load times at PS5 matched settings would be interesting.
The average is probably telling in terms of what kind of drive you'd need to run the game. The instantaneous numbers might not be relevant. Say you need to load 20 MB off the disk. The disk will just load the file as fast as possible, but it could be the case that the data is not used immediately and a much slower drive would handle the game fine.
GhostofWar
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I think that's around what the ue5 demos were averaging, it makes me also realise I don't think anyone in any of the tech focuses reviews checked disk use for some of the recently released games (aveum/lotf/ark/robocop)
davis.anthony
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Another screen shot - The game could do with some more sharpening being applied, hopefully Remedy add a slider via a patch.
Alan's hair is particularly difficult as even DLAA struggles with it in motion.
Alan's hair is particularly difficult as even DLAA struggles with it in motion.
You can change it via the config file:
davis.anthony
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I've done that but it's not quite enough.
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