Ready yourself for Alan Wake 2's release this Friday with one way being getting a new GPU alongside a free copy of the game
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
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.
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.
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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.
