Ray-tracing radical, Turok technophile, Crysis cultist and motion-blur menace. When not doing Digital Foundry things, he can be found strolling through Berlin examining the city for rendering artefacts.
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission.Alan Wake 2 was one of the most visually stunning games of 2023 - but also one of the most demanding for older hardware. Owing to its use of DX12 Ultimate mesh shaders, the gamerun on older hardware but often delivered an unplayable experience, especially on Nvidia's GTX 10-series GPUs built on the Pascal architecture.
In a run through the forest in the first chapter, the upcoming patch increased performance by an impressive 45 percent - an impressive boost bearing in mind the lack of mesh shader hardware support. Pascal GPUs actually fared even worse in Saga Anderson's Mind Place and with the new patch, there's an almost 3x performance multiplier. Curiously, as you move up the Pascal stack of GPUs, the performance increases with the new patch rise still further.
It's also fair to say that the patch is only going to benefit 10-series users. The RX 580 was the GTX 1060's nemesis back in the day, but Alan Wake 2 still has big performance problems and crashing issues. It doesn't help that AMD itself has given up on driver support for both Polaris and Vega architectures.
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