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Alan Wake 2 will soon receive an important patch that will improve the compatibility of the game engine with older GPU architectures that did not support Mesh Shading. When the game released last year, it required Mesh Shading support to run at the desired level of performance. In fact, this resulted in older cards such as the GTX 10 series not providing a good gaming experience.
Mesh Shaders allow game developers to process polygons with more power and control, Videocardz reports. This was a necessary update to traditional vertex shader geometry, given that modern games will soon be drawing billions of triangles across the entire screen. Future games will only become more visually demanding, so this technology is essential for cutting-edge visual effects.
Currently Mesh Shading is only supported at the DirectX12 Ultimate level, that is, it works on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20+, AMD Radeon RX with RDNA2+ and Intel Arc GPU GPUs. The technology does not work on GeForce GTX 10 series video cards. These video cards are still quite popular despite their age. A future Alan Wake 2 update will bring optimizations for these maps.
Although the game could be run on GPUs that do not support DX12U, the game would show a message that it does not support Mesh Shading and the game would run at very low performance.
With the new patch, gamers can expect a performance increase of 45% to 100% according to Digital tests Foundry:
Walking in the forest scene in Alan Wake 2 (1080p, FSR2 quality, PS5 Performance Preset):
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- GTX 1060: ~45% increase in FPS (frames per second)
- GTX 1070: ~57% increase in FPS
- GTX 1080: ~85% increase in FPS
- GTX 1080 Ti: ~100% increase in FPS
- RX 580: crashes
- RX 5700 XT: ~2% increase in FPS
In general, the more powerful the GPU, the greater the boost gamers can expect from this patch. The GTX 1060 can exceed 30 FPS on average with the patch, but it is still not recommended to use it for an optimal gaming experience. Instead, Digital Foundry has concluded that the GTX 1070 is the base GPU compatible with this game.
The new patch does not yet have a release date. There are still some things that Remedy (the developer) could improve, such as allowing gamers to lock the frame rate with more options or adding AMD FSR3 with frame generation integration.
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