When it launched final October, Alan Wake 2 was famous as an excellent follow-up to its cult Xbox 360 predecessor. Visually, it was one thing to behold. Nevertheless, being fairly a graphically demanding recreation meant individuals with older {hardware} have been omitted—till now.

Not too long ago, Eurogamer was given unique entry to an upcoming patch for Alan Wake 2 which goals to optimize the sequel for previous-gen graphics playing cards. Particularly, the replace will put give attention to making the sport appropriate with Nvidia GTX 10-series GPUs, powered by the Pascal structure.

In a benchmark check, a Digital Foundry video discovered that, as soon as the patch begins rolling out on March 6, these with GTX {hardware} ought to see some fairly vital upticks in efficiency.

It’s not a cure-all, although

At present, the likes of the GTX 1060 (which is the fourth most used GPU on Steam) don’t assist mesh shaders, one thing AW2 makes use of for higher visible acuity. Nevertheless, the brand new patch ought to repair this.

The video above reveals that framerates do enhance, boosting general efficiency by round 45%, even up as a lot as 85% for the likes of the GTX 1080.

Nevertheless, the aforementioned 1060 remains to be not totally appropriate for the sport to run at a good price. Whereas Digital Foundry noticed will increase from 15 to 25 frames on common (because of the removing of mesh shaders) in dense areas, this nonetheless falls wanting what most avid gamers anticipate as of late, which is 30fps on the very minimal.

There additionally look like no optimizations for the AMD equal, the RX 580, a card that got here out in 2017. On condition that Group Crimson is now not supporting this GPU, it’s in all probability not in Treatment’s finest pursuits to make Alan Wake 2 appropriate with this (and far older) {hardware}.