Game news This incredible video game rated 89% becomes uglier and thus allows more players to discover it!
After long weeks of waiting, Remedy has finally improved its latest hit and thus allows more players to discover their game in exchange for some graphical compromises.
Released almost 13 years after the first opus, Alan Wake II certainly won over early fans, but also disappointed more than one player while Remedy’s software required more than solid PC configurations to be able to run decently. It’s quite simple, unless you have at least an RTX 2060 or RX 6600 graphics card, the software was simply unplayable. And even with such hardware, the experience was quite indigestible, with poor graphics quality, regular framerate drops and various display or sound bugs.
A saving optimization
It was only recently that the studio finally addressed this problem by providing the game with a major graphics optimization update. If we note little improvement in the highest graphics settings with the best hardware available, we nevertheless see that Remedy has done a lot of in-depth work to be able to make its game accessible to as many people as possible by offering significant performance gains. to the most modest configurations. The studio has just proposed an update aimed at “optimizing rendering for GPUs that do not support mesh shaders”. On the latest generations of GPUs, mesh shaders offer an unrivaled level of detail, but are rather demanding. From now on, as long as we are ready to make a few compromises, the software is playable at 30 FPS on PCs equipped with 10 series graphics cards. And the more powerful the CPU, the better the performance will be, as detailed by Digital Foundry in her latest video dedicated to this update 1.0.16.1.
This update should encourage players who have abandoned the game to restart it, but also allow more players to discover this survival horror gem. Alan Wake II is a real hit that only Remedy has the secret to. The title was even in the running for game of the year at the last Game Awards ceremony. In essence, Alan Wake II is a must-play that you absolutely must discover, which is now even more accessible than before. Enough to motivate yourself before discovering the software’s DLCs planned soon.