Alan Wake 2 Excels On Consoles; PC Will Run "As Good As It Can"

Remedy's Director of Communications, Thomas Puha, said in his X post that Alan Wake 2 has been performing perfectly on consoles.

[Zenzuu]

Good stuff.

GPU prices continue to get ridiculous, especially here in Australian. 4080/7900xtx costs nearly 2k while the 4090 is pushing close to 3k.

Given the now the never ending rise of inflations, I'll most likely just play it on my PS5. Even if it doesn't perform perfect, it'll still be running the game a lot better than my PC setup. Still on the good old 1080 Ti...

[Sonic1881]

I don't even think a 1080 TI would be able to run it.

[Zenzuu]

Yeah, I'm suspecting won't be able to run it well.

[BeRich233]

"AW2 will only support Mesh Shaders, meaning the GTX 1080 Ti and the RX 5700XT are out of the picture despite being more powerful than the RTX 2060"

[BeRich233]

update! the game will work on a 1070 but u get a message saying it doesn't support all features. It runs at 1080p @16fps on low settings.

[Crows90]

The 1080Ti can probably run it. Im able to run any game this gen on a 2060 laptop gpu. Actually playing Lies of P at a constant 60fps...greatly optimized game that one.

[Si-Fly]

What resolution is that laptop though?

[Number1TailzFan]

Picked up a 4090 for just over £1300 when the very codes were active, only a bit more than a 4080 here so was a no brainer for that price.

[babadivad]

4080 was a rip off.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Most 4090's are hovering at the $3000 to $3200 price point, they've actually come down in price.

[GoodGuy09]

This year is just full of absolutely trash pc ports lol.

[ProjectVulcan]

Alan Wake 2 isn't one of them though, it seems closely built around Nvidia's PC technology rather than bolted on later. Everything is pretty much within expectation.

It runs fine on PC. Pretty scalable. It's only when you try and turn everything to maximum, enable path tracing which the consoles don't do at resolutions the consoles don't do are you looking at a highly demanding game that'll live through a couple of GPU generations as a good benchmark.

Ultimately PS5's highest visual mode runs high/medium settings, 1270p natively and 30FPS. No ray tracing.

You're getting a similar experience with something like an RTX3060/2070 Super, albeit they have DLSS which is a lot better at image scaling than FSR on console.

You do need a GPU made since 2018 to run the game at all, but then you need a console made since 2020 too so eh.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

My 4070 ready…I hope

[Minute Man 721]

It should be

[Petebloodyonion]

But PC scalability wasn't an issue unlike Series S according to Thomas Puha

“Series S, the CPU is pretty much the same as on Series X,” Puha said. “But the GPU is an issue. It really is. And then, having less memory is a pretty big problem. And we often get, ‘okay, you make PC games, surely you know how to scale.’ Well, memory is not a problem on PC. It really isn’t. And that’s one of the struggles when you talk about resolution and framerate."
"It’s a lot easier to scale on the PC because of memory, and it’s not like there’s one super PC and one weaker PC."

https://www.ign.com/article...

Well I guess it must be Xbox's fault

[Crows90]

So you dont know what youre talking about then...

[Petebloodyonion]

Well perhaps you could explain to me then since this dev went on record about the Serie S GPU memory being quite a problem but they still managed to get that 30 fps/1080 visual on Series S.
Yet here we are with a tweet saying on PC it's gonna run as well as it can (that's reassuring) with PC configs that destroy Serie X and PS5...

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Talk about a clickbait trash headline…

[Rainbowcookie]

Funny that digital foundry speculated otherwise.

[--Onilink--]

The headline is pure misleading clickbait

The actual quote is that there are plenty of people to make sure that the PC version will be as good as it can be (in reference that he only worked in checking the console versions)

“ have more than enough folks to drive the PC quality to as good as it can be.”

[Rainbowcookie]

Thanks ... I saw the comments and didn't want to give my click. 🙏

[Shiore2u]

If you can tolerate 30FPS default and variable resolution artifacting that can unfortunately be construed as excelling.

[jesujohn]

As Good As It Can.. your mileage may vary

[jznrpg]

That’s inherent to PC setups. Different Gpu, CPU’s , Ram,and storage will all have different results in any game.

[jznrpg]

T

[VincentVanBro]

Can't wait to play this when my 14900k & rtx 4090 system comes in November.

[MasterChief3624]

well. As WELL as it can.