Alan Wake 2 has been one among a handful of video games that hasn’t gotten off to the most effective begin on Sony’s new PlayStation 5 Professional. Picture high quality points, persistent efficiency wobbles, and challenges with the console’s unique AI-upscaling know-how, PSSR have all been famous. A new update for the survival-horror game goals to repair most of those points, a few of which boil right down to disabling PSSR completely.
Alan Wake 2 is the primary sport to permit gamers to toggle PSSR on or off, with the sport falling again to its earlier implementation of AMD’s FSR upscaling when disabled. In most situations, PSSR has been an enchancment over FSR (which makes use of linear scaling versus AI-enchanced upscaling), however Alan Wake 2 has been an outlier. In its evaluation of the sport on PS5 Professional, Digital Foundry noticed points with picture high quality that FSR dealt with higher. It did, nonetheless, observe that PSSR was general a greater resolution.
It is clear then that developer Treatment is giving gamers the choice to resolve for themselves, letting them omit one of many greatest options of the PS5 Professional completely in the event that they select. Included within the patch is a brand new 40fps mode, too, which balances the picture enhancements discovered within the PS5 Professional High quality mode and the fluidity of the Efficiency mode you probably have a show that helps 120Hz.
Additional changes to picture settings have additionally been made to the Efficiency mode to stabilize the body price, whereas different tweaks the to sport’s ray-traced reflections ought to scale back their general noisy presentation. The replace additionally consists of some smaller modifications to DLC content material, in addition to minor fixes throughout all platforms. It is obtainable to obtain now, with the total patch notes listed beneath.
Enhancements and additions
- [PS5 Pro] Added a brand new “Balanced” graphics mode. This mode requires suitable shows that may obtain a 120Hz refresh price. The Balanced mode combines PS5 Professional High quality mode settings together with raytracing with Efficiency mode decision. This mode targets 40fps.
- [PS5 Pro] Barely adjusted visible settings of the Efficiency mode to realize a extra constant framerate.
- [PS5 Pro] High quality and Balanced mode: Adjusted Raytracing settings to realize a much less noisy picture.
- [PS5 Pro] Added an choice to toggle PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision) On/Off.
Fixes
- [The Lake House] Mounted manuscript collectables that confirmed the incorrect web page in Saga’s Thoughts Place.
- [The Lake House] Mounted “Welcome to the Lake Home” video collectable lacking audio.
- Minor fixes and optimizations.