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Alan Wake 2: how does PS5 Pro handle one of the best-looking games of this generation?
Alan Wake 2 is most of the most technologically impressive video games, so the PS5 Pro version should impress, right? Alex + Oliver discuss PS5 Pro vs PS5.
The PS5 Pro version adds in the RT reflections missing on the amateur PS5, which are most evident on surfaces like water or glass and look significantly more realistic than the hybrid SSR and SDF solution on the base console, with fewer visual errors and less noise. | Image credit: Digital Foundry As well as being a great game in its own right, Alan Wake 2 also provides a good opportunity to compare PSSR with DLSS at similar settings and internal resolutions, something we've only been able to do with Insomniac titles like Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart before now. Interestingly, the denoiser here seems a bit more reactive with less temporal weighting, so while it fails heavily in the wooden surfaces in the lodge on PS5 Pro, but better handles the reflections of the moving mascots versus PC running without ray reconstruction.
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