Remedy Entertainment’s upcoming survival horror sequel Alan Wake 2 is gonna go live in 48 hours so let’s see what you can do to prepare in the meantime.
Created to support the full suite of NVIDIA’s ray tracing goodness, each diminishing light source will be more immersive and dispersed with realism thanks to the dark areas emphasizing the importance of your flashlight lighting the path ahead.
As a result, the performance will be quite taxing but thanks to Frame Generation, Ray Reconstruction, and Super Resolution, even playing in 4K cranking all graphic settings to the max, one can get as much as 120FPS if running the best in class GeForce RTX 4090.
As for the 1440p and 1080p-focused cards, NVIDIA is saying either continue using the fully-maxed settings and play at about 80FPS or tone down a bit and enjoy up to 190FPS of buttery smooth action.
Lazy to go through every toggle? Then pick one of the available presets for an easy start.
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Ray Tracing Presets |
Low | Medium |
High |
|
Path Tracing In Use |
None | Partial (1 bounce, RT AO on last hit) |
Full (3 bounces, RT AO on last hit) |
|
Path Traced Indirect Lighting Quality |
OFF | MEDIUM |
HIGH |
|
Ray Traced Direct Lighting |
ON | ON |
ON |
|
Ray Traced Transparency |
LOW | HIGH |
HIGH |
What if you don’t use Ray Reconstruction (Or unable to do so)? Then these fallbacks will be flicked on.
| NRD Direct Lighting Denoising Quality | LOW | HIGH | HIGH |
| NRD Indirect Lighting Denoising Quality | N/A | MEDIUM | HIGH |
Since the game cannot be played entirely without using an RTX GPU (which means any GTX 10 series and below are out of the gate), perhaps it is time to grab the latest RTX 40 series card.
The latest promotion where buying a standalone GPU or prebuilt systems containing the following models will net you a free digital copy of the game.
- GeForce RTX 4090
- GeForce RTX 4080
- GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
- GeForce RTX 4070
- GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
- GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU
- GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
On a side note, Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure, and Shadows of Doubt have received simple DLSS performance upgrades today.
The GeForce Game Ready Driver optimized for Alan Wake will be made available for download tomorrow.
