Alan Wake 2 PC Re-Tested: Massive Perf Boost on GTX 10-Series 'Pascal' GPUs

Digital Foundry was fortunate to receive access to a new Alan Wake 2 patch, landing on March 6th 2024 - and it's exceptionally good news for owners of GTX 10-series Nvidia graphics cards based on the Pascal architecture, with substantial performance boosts that make the game viable for play on millions of older systems. Alex takes a more holistic look at how the game has improved since launch, checking out general performance and UI enhancements, before delivering the good news for owners of older Nvidia hardware.

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00:00 Introduction
00:58 Game Menu Improvements
02:01 Perf Improvements on Modern GPUs
03:05 Perf Improvements on GTX 10-Series Pascal GPUs
04:07 GTX 1060 Legacy Perf Problems
04:50 GTX 1060 Perf Improvements
06:13 GTX 1070 Perf Improvements
06:35 GTX 1080 Perf Improvements
07:04 GTX 1080 Ti Perf Improvements
07:43 Baseline GPU Recommendations For Alan Wake 2
09:32 GTX 1080 Ti vs... PlayStation 5?
10:23 GTX 1080 Ti vs RTX 2070 Super/RTX 3060/RTX 4060
11:00 Other Non-Mesh Shading GPUs Tested
13:00 Suggested Improvements
15:12 Conclusions