Alan Wake (1) Performance Issues

[Fonlee]

Second time playing through this on a newer pc this time (5600x, 6700xt) and I'm experiencing really bad performance that i didn't have before on my older pc. Especially in the police station in chapter 2, having high shadows setting on causes fps to dip to about 40fps (1440p).

Anyone had similar performance issues or know what is happening?

[bizarre]

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[Fonlee]

Originally posted by bizarre:

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dust in the pc? i dusted the whole thing the other week

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me too, 20 fps on max settings, game requiring minimum 512mb video card and i have 8gb videocard... i have rx 580 with R7 5700x

[GodisanAtheist]

Playing on a 5800x3d and 6800xt and not having any performance issues on AW1 OG @ 1440p/144hz.

Granted I'm jumping back and forth between an older 5600x/980ti PC and the one listed above, but both are running the game like absolute butter at high settings.

Can't imagine why you'd be having performance issues unless something was running in the background. Have you tried turning off Steam Overlay etc?

[BEEP!]

Do not play this game on high settings unless you have something like a 3080 & up it's just not worth the performance hit and low settings to high settings is such a small difference you might as well play on low settings I have a RX6800 and I play on low settings with FSR quality to make sheer I never drop below 60fps but it gets close I'm playing at 1440p I would play at 1080p but upscaling at 1080p looks terrible and I still can't hold 60fps at all times at 1080p without upscaling.
If you want that 60fps just keep it at low settings it still looks great either way the only thing I have maxed are textures because that doesn't effect performance for me and I have enough Vram.

[Fonlee]

Originally posted by GodisanAtheist:

Playing on a 5800x3d and 6800xt and not having any performance issues on AW1 OG @ 1440p/144hz.

Granted I'm jumping back and forth between an older 5600x/980ti PC and the one listed above, but both are running the game like absolute butter at high settings.

Can't imagine why you'd be having performance issues unless something was running in the background. Have you tried turning off Steam Overlay etc?

Nothing running in the background afaik, and I've given the game high priority in task manager. Fps drops only happen when i'm looking in a certain direction, elsewhere is 200+fps but sometimes even if i stand completely still facing one specific direction it drops to about 40

[Fonlee]

Originally posted by Fonlee:

Originally posted by GodisanAtheist:

Playing on a 5800x3d and 6800xt and not having any performance issues on AW1 OG @ 1440p/144hz.

Granted I'm jumping back and forth between an older 5600x/980ti PC and the one listed above, but both are running the game like absolute butter at high settings.

Can't imagine why you'd be having performance issues unless something was running in the background. Have you tried turning off Steam Overlay etc?

Nothing running in the background afaik, and I've given the game high priority in task manager. Fps drops only happen when i'm looking in a certain direction, elsewhere is 200+fps but sometimes even if i stand completely still facing one specific direction it drops to about 40

GPU and CPU utilisation are both nowhere near full (30-40%) when the drops occur which makes it extra odd

[Fonlee]

Originally posted by 1080puktra:

Do not play this game on high settings unless you have something like a 3080 & up it's just not worth the performance hit and low settings to high settings is such a small difference you might as well play on low settings I have a RX6800 and I play on low settings with FSR quality to make sheer I never drop below 60fps but it gets close I'm playing at 1440p I would play at 1080p but upscaling at 1080p looks terrible and I still can't hold 60fps at all times at 1080p without upscaling.
If you want that 60fps just keep it at low settings it still looks great either way the only thing I have maxed are textures because that doesn't effect performance for me and I have enough Vram.

You talking about alan wake 2?

[Fonlee]

Originally posted by hanako:

me too, 20 fps on max settings, game requiring minimum 512mb video card and i have 8gb videocard... i have rx 580 with R7 5700x

oof, when i had an i5 6500 w/ gtx 1060 3gb i remember it working flawlessly, no idea what the problem is :(

[BEEP!]

Originally posted by Fonlee:

Originally posted by 1080puktra:

Do not play this game on high settings unless you have something like a 3080 & up it's just not worth the performance hit and low settings to high settings is such a small difference you might as well play on low settings I have a RX6800 and I play on low settings with FSR quality to make sheer I never drop below 60fps but it gets close I'm playing at 1440p I would play at 1080p but upscaling at 1080p looks terrible and I still can't hold 60fps at all times at 1080p without upscaling.
If you want that 60fps just keep it at low settings it still looks great either way the only thing I have maxed are textures because that doesn't effect performance for me and I have enough Vram.

You talking about alan wake 2?

Yes I misread and being dyslexic doesn't help.

[Fonlee]

Originally posted by 1080puktra:

Originally posted by Fonlee:

You talking about alan wake 2?

Yes I misread and being dyslexic doesn't help.

No worries, thanks for the help anyway :)

[animal_PLANET]

AMD drivers are probably the issue. Id make a profile and disable all the fancy not needed junk.

Hyper RX, Anti lag, boost, etc., should all be disabled. Just run with basic driver settings and see if it helps.

Played this on a Radeon HD 6700 Crossfire, GTX 690, GTX 1080Ti SLI, and RTX 3080. No issues.

[Fonlee]

Originally posted by animal_PLANET:

AMD drivers are probably the issue. Id make a profile and disable all the fancy not needed junk.

Hyper RX, Anti lag, boost, etc., should all be disabled. Just run with basic driver settings and see if it helps.

Played this on a Radeon HD 6700 Crossfire, GTX 690, GTX 1080Ti SLI, and RTX 3080. No issues.

Thanks for the suggestion, but i already do that haha

[animal_PLANET]

Originally posted by Fonlee:

Originally posted by animal_PLANET:

AMD drivers are probably the issue. Id make a profile and disable all the fancy not needed junk.

Hyper RX, Anti lag, boost, etc., should all be disabled. Just run with basic driver settings and see if it helps.

Played this on a Radeon HD 6700 Crossfire, GTX 690, GTX 1080Ti SLI, and RTX 3080. No issues.

Thanks for the suggestion, but i already do that haha

Hmm, Have you tried DDU or AMD driver removal tool before installing display driver? Older driver?

Clean boot?

Have you checked windows is fully up to date? No insider, preview, or optional updates.

Updated DirectX 9.0c?

Are you using Windows 11? Did you upgrade from 10 or clean install?

Checked for motherboard BIOS update? If so, default settings and than apply the update. Once updated successfully, make sure RAM is set up properly enabling XMP or AMD equivalent.

[Mingdug]

I get 60 fps at just below 4k using Nvidia Image Scaling with my RTX 3060 so its super weird you're barely getting 40 fps at 1440p since your card is literally more powerful.

Try using something like Rivatuner to check to see if your GPU and CPU are being fully utilized. Maybe also try turning down the LOD detail distance slider to half-way see if that helps at all.