Alan Wake 2 Update Adds PS5 Pro Enhancements and Fixes Bugs - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 December 2024 / 2,486 Views
Remedy Entertainment has released the latest update for Alan Wake 2.
The update mainly adds new enhancements to the game on the PlayStation 5 Pro including a new Balanced graphics mode, slight adjustments to the Performance mode to give a more consistent framerate, adjusted the Raytracing settings to achieve a less noisy image, and added an option to toggle PSSR.
🛠️ lan Wake 2 has received an update for all platforms.
This update contains improvements and additions for the PlayStation 5 Pro version of the game, including an added option to toggle PSSR on and off.
Full update notes: www.alanwake.com/story/alan-w...
— Remedy Entertainment (@remedygames.com) December 16, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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Read the patch notes below:
- PlayStation 5 (1.200.007)
- Xbox Series (1.2.0.7)
- PC (1.2.7)
Improvements and additions
- [PS5 Pro] Added a new “Balanced” graphics mode. This mode requires compatible displays that can achieve a 120Hz refresh rate. The Balanced mode combines PS5 Pro Quality mode settings including raytracing with Performance mode resolution. This mode targets 40fps.
- [PS5 Pro] Slightly adjusted visual settings of the Performance mode to achieve a more consistent framerate.
- [PS5 Pro] Quality and Balanced mode: Adjusted Raytracing settings to achieve a less noisy image.
- [PS5 Pro] Added an option to toggle PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) On/Off.
Fixes
- [The Lake House] Fixed manuscript collectables that showed the wrong page in Saga’s Mind Place.
- [The Lake House] Fixed “Welcome to the Lake House” video collectable missing audio.
- Minor fixes and optimizations.
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A toggle to turn off PSSR?? Isn't that feature one of the biggest reasons you spent an extra $200 on??
Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't see how it it could not have a performance cost, so an option to toggle it off for (slightly?) slightly worse visuals but slightly improved performance might be worth the trade-off for some people. I don't know the details, so this is just speculative, of course.
Yep but clearly its not being implemented/working so well with games with lots of raytraced features. Turning it off should be optional in all PS5 Pro supported games until it's universally providing a clear upgrade to image quality without downsides.
Definitely a fault on Sonys side that PSSR is seemingly not ready to tackle all kinds of post prodction workflows. But developers should really be making the judgement calls on their side and selecting whatever feature set offered by the Pro that gives the best upgrade. Guerilla games for example decided not to feature PSSR
Funny thing is that in Alan Wake 2 pssr still is a clear upgrade vs no pssr. at least in the new patch. there's some noise but that's not nearly as noticable as the artifacts in motion without it.
Essay Pro