I've finished AW1. Just wondering if this is a prerequisite if one wants to understand the lore.

My god where do I start? The original was a masterpiece, especially for the time. Graphics were great, characters were well written, story was deep and silent hill like. Sure the voice acting could be a little cringy, sure the combat got a bit repetitive at the end game but this? Oh my god. This has to be the WORST voice acting I have ever heard out of a non indie project, other than the one girl named Emma, most just sucked because the writing was bad. All 3 NPCs were oversexed bond girl types that had...

Every video I watch online people are playing this at like 70+ fps, why tf is it locked to 30 for me???

I've only played for a little over an hour, but I've already had two CTDs. No error message, no nothing, just suddenly back on my desktop. It's like the game closed itself randomly. Considering that I'm just coming from almost 40 hours in the original Alan Wake, an older game that didn't give me a single problem, I find this particularly odd. Is anyone else experiencing this/know how to fix it?...

is this relevant/canon to play before Alan Wake 2?