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Alan Wake PC | Tech, performance and information thread
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Sadly, this is incorrect
Heh, well this is the internet afterall ^^ so what are you gonna do I guess.
On another note, as someone who knows nothing about mods and such in general I have two questions :
1) What determines whether or not a game is "modfriendly"? Or right out doesn't allows mods of any kind.
2) Is AW a modfriendly game?
Angelus Errare
Banned
I doubt it's mod friendly, then again it's only been available for 2 days.
Random, I downloaded D3Doverrider, doesn't seem to work right for me, the GUI never shows up. So I fiddled around with NvidiaInspector and realized it has both a vsync option and framerate limiter! I honestly never noticed the framerate limiter and I'm always in NvidiaInspector
Random, I downloaded D3Doverrider, doesn't seem to work right for me, the GUI never shows up. So I fiddled around with NvidiaInspector and realized it has both a vsync option and framerate limiter! I honestly never noticed the framerate limiter and I'm always in NvidiaInspector
plagiarize
Banned
yep. that's about how it was on the 360 too. i think the game data itself on 360 was even smaller. about 2.5 GB if memory servers correctly. interestingly, more than half of that was episode one.
AndyMoogle
Member
D3DOverrider never starts properly if I have Chrome running. Once I shut down Chrome, it works as intended. After that I can start up Chrome again without any interference.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I was ecstatic when I read that they had to go with real time cutscenes for Night Springs due to XBLA size restrictions. The PC release for that will certainly benefit.
Oh, nice.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Ooh, Petri is from Remedy? Is the
first cut-scene with Nightingale where Alan does the mad shoot-dodge moves around slo-mo bullets a Max Payne homage?
jim-jam bongs
Member
Oh okay, well if he doesn't know I think I'll just assume that it was an homage. There are a heap of places which remind me of Max Payne actually, though I think that's because of the brown-haired protagonist who can't stop commenting on his environment.
The Janitor
Member
Constant 60 fps Vsynced at max settings, 1080P
plagiarize
Banned
it absolutely was. other homages include McCaffrey reading the two manuscript pages from Alan Wake's noir novel (the ones you get in Episode 2) in his Max Payne voice. a cute 'Mira was here' piece of graffiti in one of the bathrooms in one of the DLC episodes ('Mirrors are more fun than people' Mira from Address Unknown). Sam Lake pulls the face on a TV show.
i'm sure there are more.
anyways. time for Episode 4
What is Night Springs?
Alan Wake: American Nightmare game is happening inside one of the Night Springs episode. At least they are marketing it that way.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
American Nightmare, I just couldn't remember that.
This game is so much better with the HUD disabled. There is no minimap, so you have to find your way by following visual cues (usually a distant source of light, which is brilliant) rather than following the yellow dot. You have to check your ammo count manually, and your clip count isn't displayed, so if you don't pay attention you might run out of ammo at inopportune times. And of course, there is no unnecessary clutter getting in the way of the sexiness. All it needs is a way to check battery count, and it would be perfect.
Short Bio: I'm one of the founders at RMD. Death Rally, Max Payne 1 and 2 were my babiesI don't think Petri is at remedy any longer, I remember something about him going to Rovio ( if it's the same Petri
. On Wake, I was the Creative Director on the project (and responsible for the original concept and direction with Sam), but after 13 years at RMD I built myself a partial exit and spent some time with the family back in 2009 or so. Got drawn back into the game industry pretty quickly and also contributed again when Wake 360 was shipping. I'm currently leading Rovio's gaming unit and mostly directing anything Angry Birds. I'm also still on Remedy's Board of Directors and participate on high level only (and yeah, I love game industry
.Incidentally, someone has logged on to RMD's Facebook pages as "Mr. Scratch" and is actually posting pretty good stuff that's 'in character' - It's not in-house (or at least neither Sam or Mikki admits it) and we're trying to figure out who that is? If it's anybody here, please own up.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mr-Scratch/278518452218665
Agreed. I love it with the HUD disabled. You can check your ammo by pressing the d-pad if you're playing with a controller. I'm glad the prompts aren't turned off with the HUD like in a lot of games. Like, I love Crysis 2, but always forget when I'm supposed to be doing a QTE because it's turned off.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Damn it, I wish that cut-scene Alan knew the things that jim-jam Alan knows from reading manuscript pages.
Golden trophy?
I'm keeping my eyes peeled
Did you see that golden trophy?
Golden trophy?
I'm keeping my eyes peeled
How far have you gotten? There's a "golden trophy" of something related to Max Payne in a bookshelf . This is maybe hmm 30-40 min into the game?
jim-jam bongs
Member
Start of episode 5 now. I'm likely to do a Nightmare run so I'll look for it then
Start of episode 5 now. I'm likely to do a Nightmare run so I'll look for it then
Then you missed it son!
In case you really want to know there's
a golden trophy of (Max's) two berettas on the bookshelf in Alan's house
*rumble rumble*
brain_stew
Member
I guess it ties into the "grass draw distance" comment but the LOD and draw distance sliders don't appear to do anything for me and this is after several tests/comparisons.
I also noticed they copied a lot of the names from Max Payne's credits.
brain_stew
Member
Huh, I figured it was DX10 given the requirement of a DX10 GPU in Steam and the fact that they've got MSAA so well integrated despite supposedly having several render targets. You're right, tesselation (especially of the environment imo) is the only major things its missing in terms of effects atm.
Honestly, the fact that they've managed to create this on such a crummy and antiquated API as DX9 is even more impressive.
brain_stew
Member
It ran at an utterly abysmal resolution and yet still had serious issues with tearing and dropped frames. They completely overshot the performance aims of the game creating a product that simply was not fit for purpose. If you can't get your game running at a reasonable resolution and sans tearing on the host platform then it should be reworked but the fact that the 360 wasn't able to run the game properly has worked out well in the end for those of us that have waited. Its left us with an even more visually impressive game.
The shift in gameplay direction would have happened regardless of the platform and it was a positive change anyway.
theinfinityissue
Member
Hey, loving the game so far, but when the action really kicks up my fps goes straight down the toilet. My pc is around 4 years old, so I've got all the settings bottomed out (and it still looks pretty damn good). I thought I saw someone mention disabling motion blur to get more fps, but I don't see an option to do that in graphics menu. How does?
haha first thing I noticed, honestly
So oddly satisfying. Just like the pill bottles sound from Max Payne.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Hmm... Don't really like the sound of that. I've been checking GMG all day waiting for them to get more keys, guess I'm back to waiting until Sli is working since that pretty well dashed my confidence of it for sure getting fixed. Still hopeful it will. But, I'll wait now.
Knowing zero about how shit works, I don't get why it's working for crossfire, but sli is fucked and may be too difficult to fix.
theinfinityissue
Member
Thanks, that seemed to work wonders. Surprisingly, I kind of miss it though. Maybe.. maybe it's time to start thinking about building a new pc.
One sound from Alan Wake that always comes back into my mind is the silent moan you hear when you reveal the yellow markings with your flashlight.
What are your specs? a 570 is enough to play 60 fps max ( with minor tweaks ) settings at 1080p. SLI isn't really needed.
edit : also, fyi , according to this post - nvidia are already on the case.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
560 ti's. I want my 60FPS maxed out damnit! I already bought the game for 360 when it first came out, loved the shit out of it. So yeah, I can be patient. As soon as Sli is fixed I'll jump on it. Maybe I'm taking that post (PetriRMD's) too harshly or it was worded badly, that just deflated my confidence.
plagiarize
Banned
just took a break to post this...
I agree, most of the pics of AW that are posted make me go " oh is that downsampled ?" but nope, native AW looks amazing.
AcceptableGhost
Member
So is it possible to hit 60FPS on this reliably? It isn't that unoptimized right? I was planning on picking this up sometime down the road (never played the DLCs).