Remedy has released a remastered version of Alan Wake on current-gen platforms. Alan Wake Remastered uses the same engine that Remedy used in the original game, and not the Northlight Engine. As such, it’s time now to benchmark it and see how it performs on the PC platform.
For this PC Performance Analysis, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3600Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX580, RX Vega 64, RX 6900XT, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti, RTX 2080Ti and RTX 3080. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 496.13 and the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 21.10.2 drivers.
Remedy has added a few graphics settings to tweak. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Anisotropic Filtering, Shadows, Volumetric Lights, Terrain and View Distance. There are also options for Anti-Aliasing, Motion Blur and Film Grain. Furthermore, the game has an FOV slider, and supports NVIDIA’s DLSS tech.
In order to find out how the game scales on multiple CPU threads, we simulated a dual-core, a quad-core and a hexa-core CPU. And, surprisingly enough, a dual-core CPU can push more than 60fps, even without Hyper-Threading (though we did notice some minor stutters). The game appears to be taking advantage of up to four CPU cores/threads. Additionally, and even though it can scale up to eight CPU cores, the performance difference between a quad-core and an octa-core is non-existent.
At 1080p/Max settings, all of our GPUs were able to provide a smooth gaming experience. Yes, even an AMD Radeon RX580 can provide a silky smooth constant 60fps experience.
At 1440p/Max Settings, our top five GPUs had no trouble at all running the game. However, it’s worth noting that the Vega 64 did not perform that great (as the GTX980Ti was as fast as it). As for 4K/Max settings, our RTX2080Ti, RTX3080 and RX 6900XT provided a constant 60fps experience.
As said, Alan Wake Remastered supports NVIDIA DLSS. However, the DLSS implementation is not that great in this title. This “implementation” has nothing to do with the DLSS version that the game uses (FYI, it uses V2.2.18.0). In other words, you won’t be able to improve the image by simply replacing the DLSS dll file. Below you can find some comparison screenshots between 4K native (left) and DLSS Quality (right). While the DLSS screenshots have less aliasing, they look noticeably blurrier. Even inside the cabin, you can notice how much sharper the native screenshots look.
Performance-wise, DLSS brings a noticeable boost. At 4K/Max settings, we saw a 30% increase. As such, we suggest enabling it only if you have a mid-tier GPU and want to play at really high resolutions. If you can hit 60fps in your native resolution, we suggest disabling DLSS (or using a sharpening filter in order to further sharpen the image).
Graphics-wise, Alan Wake Remastered looks noticeably better than the original version. However, we were really disappointed by the lack of Ray Tracing. Alan Wake came out in X360, so it could benefit from some ray-traced global illumination and ray-traced ambient occlusion effects. Regardless of that, the game looks fine. Remedy has increased the polygons for a number of objects, improved almost all textures, and changed most character models.
All in all, Alan Wake Remastered can run smoothly on a wide range of PC configurations. The game does not require a high-end CPU or GPU for gaming at 1080p/Max Settings. Not only that, but owners of weaker RTX GPUs can use DLSS in order to further improve performance. And even though the remaster is nowhere close to the incredible remasters of Modern Warfare 1&2, it looks better than the original version.
Enjoy!
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Mafia DE isn’t a remaster, it’s a remake
True, removed it.
Johnny Boy is proud that his 3080 can run a 2010 game at 1080p 120 fps.
All the while you’re here with what performance…., or what reasoning….?
Both Cod MW1 and 2 are also remakes, not remasters.
They are remastered in a new engine (that’s their proper description). They are not remakes from the ground up as they use the same scripts, cut-scenes and maps.
Yeah, you have a point. I might use different colors for each GPU (meaning two yellow columns, two green, two red, etc). This will make it easier to read them. Naturally, left will be for minimum framerate and right for average framerate.
Why RXD 6900XT and RTX 2080Ti share the same colors every time?
They don’t. They may appear similar but they are different when you open/view the full image. As said though, I’ll change the colors (one color per GPU).
Yeah it should be better like that
Any way to label the “graph line” itself with the GPU in question? As in have the name of the GPU in the colored line correlating to it’s specific color in the graph?
Even a number system would be beneficial in discerning which card is in question.
I greatly disagree with the smooth gaming experience, my rtx 2080 and 8700k at 1080p gives stutters at random, and always when panning the camera around with a controller there is small stutters too, its super annoying, and when riding the ferry the camera was rubber banding back and forth when talking to the old guy at the front, the devs better patch this buggy remaster
In fact,for me,with RTX 3070 Ti and Ryzen 5800x at 1440p is a stutter-fest….really,really bad…it’s almost unplayable,whatever graphical settings I choose.
Don’t know, we haven’t experienced any stutters with both the NVIDIA and the AMD GPUs.
impossibile…stai sbagliando qualcosa….alimentazione nel pannello di controllo nvidia su prestazioni massime
massimo framerate nell ultima voce del pannello controllo 3d
impostazioni avanzate grafica da home di pannello controllo windows devi accendere il primo switch
alimentazione computer su game turbo una cosa del genere
se hai gsync vsync off, framerate senza limiti o limite del monitor
di solito questo risolve la gran parte dello stutter
in caso…latenza su ultra pannello nvidia e disabilita multithread
Ma com’è possibile? ho provato di tutto,l’unica cosa,siccome ho g-sync e monitor a 144 hz,ho impostato un limite di 140 fps per evitare tearing…eppure ho severi stuttering e cali improvvisi,ed è l’unico gioco che si comporta così!
forse vuoi dire 120? 140 lo hai impostato da pannello nvidia? togli tutto metti solo 144 hz e prova
E’ un limite forzato da me a 140…se si ha un monitor g-sync per non avere tearing bisogna impostare manualmente un limite di 4 o 5 frame al di sotto degli herz del proprio monitor…cmq ho provato a togliere ogni limite,ma la situazione non cambia e anche l’utente John_Croft a quanto pare ha gli stessi problemi….poi è il primo gioco in cui il frame rate sale e scende di continuo anche se sto fermo impalato con la telecamera….e il frame pacing è una continua altalena
togli il multihtreading dal pannello nvidia sezione 3d
chiudi tutte le app che potrebbero occupare la cpu
in alternativa siccome il motore è vecchio metti il framerate a 60 e prova vsync off on
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straight up your a*se
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as long as you dont make fun of my culture, because you were making nasty fun, im very mild, on behalf of 56 million italians
How I see you mad typing…
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Pensi di offenderci con questa immagine stereotipata?
Noi italiani siamo orgogliosi di essere ITALIANI…e siamo fieri del nostro modo di parlare e gesticolare….ma l’Italia non è solo pasta,pizza e mandolino!
Vieni a farti un giro in Italia e ti innamorerai della nostra terra e tradizione…
E’ evidente che tu non sia mai stato in Italia!
Do you think you offend us with this stereotypical image?
We Italians are proud to be ITALIANs … and we are proud of our way of speaking and gesturing …. but Italy is not just pasta, pizza and mandolin!
Come and take a tour in Italy and you will fall in love with our land and tradition …
It is evident that you have never been to Italy man… https://media1.giphy.com/media/K0we7uwgYfbiA0lIjA/giphy.gif
My grandpa IS italian, you dipshlt! Maybe I know more from your country than yourself.
Shut the fk off,ignorant…
parliamo inglese mi sembra ridicolo ma….how is the framerate now?
Va un pò meglio,dopo che ho impostato “prestazioni elevate” per l’eseguibile di AW nelle opzioni di Windows.
It gets a little better, after I set “high performance” for the AW executable in the Windows options.
With a name like that you must be some sand people, right? Go sell stuff on the street and leave me alone, mate!
ahhaha this comment also shows how ignorant you are and that you don’t understand anything about Italy and Italian!
Er Libanese is a character from a film / TV series produced in Italy!
I’m 100% Italian …. the only sand here,is in your brain!
Dude, apart from Argento, the only kind of movie Italy knows how to do is p*rn.
So, why would I know about this cr4p anyway?!
i doubt, lets close this incident please, there are more sites where italians are in large number and the other users tolerate brief exchanges in our language, you all foreign users are taking it too personally, how effective is my attempt to troubleshoot his framerate issue in english if we are both native italians?
I never said I had any problems with you speaking your language, which I find lovely, I might add. You, on the other hand (no pun intended), became very emotional the moment I post the hand. Why so bvtt-hurt?
Don’t get offended, but this came to my mind when I saw this message 😛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbvYeLxMKN8
why would i speak english when the conversation is of interest only to an italian native speaker?
Maybe you should speak your language on a Italian website, not a website where all people speak english. Or try to at least.
the point is this was a quick help to the fellow italian, why shall i create a language barrier between me and him when neither of us is a native english speaker? its so silly….there was nothing important for rest of users in the text was intended to troubleshoot his framerate
Im glad you dont speak English with another Italiano, don’t do it.
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John,io ti stimo e mi piacciono molto i tuoi articoli,ma mi offendo se è questo ciò che ti viene in mente leggendo la mostra discussione,perchè rainswan ha capito che io sono italiano grazie al mio nickname,e ha risposto in italiano semplicemente perchè l’argomento che abbiamo trattato era solo di nostro interesse….non credo che possa interessare ad altri…quindi la prossima volta che accade una cosa del genere,cerca di capire…
John, I respect you and I really like your articles, but I am offended if this came to your mind, because rainswan understood that I am Italian thanks to my nickname, and he replied in Italian simply because the topic we dealt with was only of our interest …. I don’t think it will be of interest to others … so next time something like this happens, try to understand .
That line came to my mind WITHOUT the “m’f*cker” word, so you shouldn’t be offended (I just couldn’t find anything closer to that for a GIF). Jokes aside though, this is an English-only website so let’s keep it that way. I mean, you all know I’m Greek but I don’t write in Greeklish or Greek to our Greek readers ;). Just imagine if everyone starts writing (and now I’ll take it one step further, cursing) in their native language. So, English only guys, please.
That line came to my mind WITHOUT the “m’f*cker” word, so you shouldn’t be offended (I just couldn’t find anything closer to that for a GIF). Jokes aside though, this is an English-only website so let’s keep it that way. I mean, you all know I’m Greek but I don’t write in Greeklish or Greek to our Greek readers ;). Just imagine if everyone starts writing (and now I’ll take it one step further, cursing) in their native language. So, English only guys, please.
I have latest driver and bios on my X570 Tomahawk,paired with 32Gb of Patriot Viper at 3600 mhz…my system is excellent in every other game…
controller? oof. A half-consoletard. Sorry you’re not going to PC masterrace heaven
I dont need your sorry, if i prefer a controller for some games thats my choice, and saying pc master race is childish
If you say that Alan Wake is a bad game, you don’t understand anything about video games my friend … and you don’t understand anything about PC hardware either … the RTX 2080 is more powerful than your 3060 by at least 20% …
Force negative lod bias to fix blurry dlss
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Is this working for other games as well? Is this better then sharpening for dynamic lower resolutions or low texture quality ?
Any dlss game that doesn’t have correct lod bias set by devs
Yes, but I don’t recommend going below -1.5. Any more and distant and low angle textures will shimmer; it’ll be like turning off anisotropic filtering.
Thanks ! I’ll try this in the future!
It runs like a*s on my system. With my 3070 Ti I can only reach around 75 FPS at 1440p, which is ridiculous.
This junk is suffering from low GPU usage:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/q2253b/incredible_low_fps_on_the_remastered/
I have this problem as well. This game has no problem dropping to 60 FPS on 3070 Ti at 1440p, while GPU usage barely goes above 50%. CPU is not fully used either.
The things more important to me are the horrible bloom effects with the flares/flaregun, you can barely see where to go it’s so bad and from other reviews it seems that it was fixed in this version. Remedy loves flashes/flashing in their games back to max payne 2, it’s obnoxious to some. Game is so dark that the graphics upgrades seem negligible imo. One is what 35gb and the pc gog version original is 9gb installed, enough for me to pass on this version. But I’m glad to see that my rig will get a locked 60 at 2k.
stfu
are you brasilian?