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New Alan Wake 2 Drivers 10/30/2023 (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Didn't see these being discussed.

I got a decent little 10% or so performance bump on my 7900XTX. Just a guess obviously but benchmarks on youtube seem to bear that out as well.

I might be insane, it's probably a placebo or a setting I changed, but I feel like FSR2 Quality looks less aliased now. I noticed a lot before but just played 2 hours and didn't notice it at all. Like I said, probably a placebo, but you never know.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Maybe it was on native FSR which is very shimmery. Aliasing with FSR quality on the other hand is quite good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The shimmering is awful in this title. Not gonna play until AMD fixes it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes the native mode using FSR2 as the AA method is broken. I've also noticed this problem in other games that support Native FSR2 such as Forspoken. Not sure how that is possible when it is supposed to be just AA on the edges of polygons.

AMD seriously needs to sort this issue ASAP since that is the main reason why Xess and DLSS always look better in motion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

do you mean this? https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-23-20-17-05-alan-wake-2 its oct24

is there a new version from oct30?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What drivers? I've not seen any new drivers for a couple weeks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

there was post here linking to said drivers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alan Wake is actually playable with 7800XT with Path Tracing, but only in Alan Wake segments that gives 50fps. The forest are tanks the framerate below 20fps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Forest section seems very unoptimized - it doesn't look all that complex nor visually striking and yet - it's most taxing scenery in the game by all means - RT, non RT, all rendering sub-components are stressed AF there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No it's not. It's just intense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

intense in what? Redundant rendering that adds nothing to presentation? That's what unoptimized means, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Foliage is insanely hard to render in general, tons of transparencies and very, VERY fine detail combined with complex geometry, especially if the foliage isn't static and "moves". So then to that if you add any tracing of rays...? Good bye

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Shame they didn't put xess in so people without RTX GPU can play without constant shimmering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

is this better than the latest preview driver?