Digital Foundry was fortunate to receive access to a new Alan Wake 2 patch, landing on March 6th 2024 – and it’s exceptionally good news for owners of GTX 10-series Nvidia graphics cards based on the Pascal architecture, with substantial performance boosts that make the game viable for play on millions of older systems. Alex takes a more holistic look at how the game has improved since launch, checking out general performance and UI enhancements, before delivering the good news for owners of older Nvidia hardware.
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00:00 Introduction
00:58 Game Menu Improvements
02:01 Perf Improvements on Modern GPUs
03:05 Perf Improvements on GTX 10-Series Pascal GPUs
04:07 GTX 1060 Legacy Perf Problems
04:50 GTX 1060 Perf Improvements
06:13 GTX 1070 Perf Improvements
06:35 GTX 1080 Perf Improvements
07:04 GTX 1080 Ti Perf Improvements
07:43 Baseline GPU Recommendations For Alan Wake 2
09:32 GTX 1080 Ti vs… PlayStation 5?
10:23 GTX 1080 Ti vs RTX 2070 Super/RTX 3060/RTX 4060
11:00 Other Non-Mesh Shading GPUs Tested
13:00 Suggested Improvements
15:12 Conclusions
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Except gtx 1630😅
Rx 580 8gb 😮💨😮💨😮💨
Having played the game with pathtracing i agree its a good looking game but i have no idea why digital foundry especially Alex are going on constantly like its the 2nd coming of christ.
I feel like RE4 remake still looks and runs better than whats on offer here.
Anyone know how this performs on the asus ROG ally?
i just finished the gasme on my 4gb vram gpu… textures were muddy after 2 minutes into the game… and right after im done remedy released a new patch after 6 months. fkuc remedy man
nvidia marketing finished and remedy remove artificial fps downscaler for pascals
(freezing sound is the fail, cause it not about gpu performance)
It's a shame that the game is not that great.
good. we need to continue to stop buying new gpus to play new games, it'll force more game developers to do this.
finally my GTX 1070 back in life
Performance updates and support for older generations from Remedy are very welcome. Maybe they are not fully owned by Microsoft.
Testing the 16-Series would have been nice.
Let’s hope the devs watch this and fix the new issues.
So the game was badly optimized after all.
So you tried out *Super Nintendo resolutions but you never lowered the other settings? Your "PS5 Perf Settings" don't seem to be particularly low. Evidently they entail nice shadows, very high res textures, high quality ambient occlusion and motion blur just to name a few obvious things. I get that you want the comparison with PS5 for all GPUs, but the segment about "what is the lowest GPU you can now play this game on?" would warrant going all low on the settings just one time.
dose TITAN V benefit from it？
At 2:49 is that the 4070 or the 4090? The voiceover says 4090 but the screen shows 4070
i play this game with GTX 1070, Vulkan patch + FSR 3.0 Frame gen, got 40-70 fps until I reach watery, only 18-30 fps. watery is the heavier in the entire game.
This video is proof that devs are releasing terrible ports with 99% of them just walking away at launch. I praise Remedy for doing the right thing.
Any improvements on Rtx 2080?
Me looking at my rx 5600 xt now that it's available in the minimum requirements with the recent optimization update:
Me: We are back!
GPU: We are SOOO BACK!
Digital foundary intro is very professional that one day some phub websites will use it professional
Comeon I don't have a VPN
I use nvidia p40ties for machine learning. They are based on a 1080ti. It's still very powerfull.
6gb GTX 1060 is still great for an extreme budget
I love the game but mine 7900xtx microsutters lot during mine play trouhs. If I put 4k game lock 30fps but if I use fsr quality it work normaly. I played 1440p and I love it
Vulkan also supports mesh shaders, since 2022. So this is not a “directx 12 ultimate” feature, this is a feature in general, and API which is provided by the modern graphics APIs.
Fantastic effort by both Remedy and DF!
How much it would increase on a 4070 Super at 1440p?
Hopefully it should in turn allowed more people to enjoy our game = our game's sales were really bad, we really need people with old GPU to buy the game ASAP.
dont know where fps on 1080ti, i installed patch and test, 15-25 fps like release
OK patch is installed and I seem to be getting about the same performance as before on my 4070 Super
GTX 1080 Ti 💪legendary gpu
Is it possible for me to run this game on 1050 ti laptop with fsr3 ?
time to redo another performance alan wake 2 video guide for everyone 😀
What about shimmering and gainy shadows ???
Rip rx 580☠️. Gotta change to atleast 1060
What about rDNA 2 GPUs like rx6600
Hello guys. Can I run it on Rx580 8GB now? Before update it wasn't possible. I saw 5fps during gameplay in some videos. Thank you for answer.
I ''upgraded'' from a 1070 to a 4060 ti. So, seeing it handle that game about as well as my new fangle piece of crap can… It kinda hurts.
Pascal was way too good
1080 ti is king again
And yet Control still turns to mud textures if you play for more than 30 minutes…
I just can't trust Remedy until they actually fix that.
What about steam deck?
Epilepsy warning at 9:10 onwards.
DF aint what it used to be…
is the rtx 3050 still enough?
if the game supported FSR 3 + Frame Generation it could easily match it.
This game has terrible writing and it's a walking simulator.
Incrível como as RDNA1 mesmo tendo primitive shaders não mudaram quase nada em desempenho.
hope every one of you a good RTX 4070 + awesome 2k gaming monitor 😀