The most important new online game that may debut this week is Alan Wake 2. Treatment Leisure”s long-awaited sequel to its horror-themed third-person recreation is launching for the Xbox Sequence X and S consoles, the PS5 console, and the PC by way of the Epic Video games Retailer.
Forward of the launch, NVIDIA is exhibiting off the visible results the PC model of Alan Wake 2 could have when operating on its GeForce RTX playing cards, and on its 40 Sequence of GPUs particularly. In a weblog submit, NVIDIA states the sport will assist full ray tracing and DLSS 3.5 on these GPUs.
NVIDIA states:
In Alan Wake 2, full ray tracing cranks the standard of ray-traced results to 11. Clear and opaque reflections recreate their environment at full decision, heightening immersion. Oblique and direct mild bounces as much as 3 times, whereas methods corresponding to Display screen Area Reflections, Display screen Area Ambient Occlusion and rasterized International Illumination are unified right into a single algorithm, enabling the rendering of naturally lit locales with better element and realism.
The sport”s assist of NVIDIA”s DLSS 3.5 expertise will, mixed with ray tracing, provide PC players with GeForce RTX Sequence 40 GPUs assist for the sport”s Ray Reconstruction graphics characteristic:
In Alan Wake 2, flickering lights abound, and with Ray Reconstruction enabled their totally ray traced lighting is extra responsive, and the standard of the lighting is noticeably extra correct and real looking, significantly enhancing the general expertise.
The brand new Recreation Prepared Driver for NVIDIA”s GeForce GPUs that may add assist for Alan Wake 2 is scheduled to be out there for obtain after 6 a.m. Pacific time (9 a.m. Jap time) on October 26, a day earlier than the sport launches. Treatment has already revealed the PC {hardware} necessities for the sport.
Treatment has additionally introduced on its X (formerly Twitter) account that preloads for each the Xbox and PlayStation variations of Alan Wake 2 must be out there proper now. The file sizes for the preloads are about the identical for all three platforms, with the PS5 at 85 GB, the Xbox model at 82 GB, and the PC port at 86 GB.
