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Upcoming Alan Wake 2 patch drastically improves GTX 10-series performance
Alan Wake 2 was one of the most visually stunning games of 2023 - but also one of the most demanding for older hardware…
Owing to its use of DX12 Ultimate mesh shaders, the game could run on older hardware but often delivered an unplayable experience, especially on Nvidia's GTX 10-series GPUs built on the Pascal architecture. Other higher end Pascal Generation GPUs though can manage much more and there's grounds for optimism that the GTX 1080 Ti in particular could deliver a PS5-style upscaled 1440p experience on equivalent performance mode settings. There are other non-performance based improvements added since launch too, such as a much more meaningful graphics options screen, which includes more detail on what the various settings do, along with very helpful preview images.
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