Today, Alan Wake Remastered received a new update on PC, fixing a number of community-reported issues, bringing improved DLSS support, and adding HDR to the experience. It's been discribed by the press as "one of the most significant updates" that the game has received since its launch in 2021
Alongside the update, Remedy has published the full list of improvements detailing the twenty four areas of progress, from unlocking 240 FPS to a new opttional modern camera.
You can check out the full list of improvements below....
(Epic Games Store)
Gameplay
- Added a command to skip the intro. (Shoutout to every speedrunner, and anyone on their 67th run of the game just looking to get into the gameplay quicker.)
- The sprint camera no longer activates when pressing the shift button when Alan is next to a wall or exhausted. This could sometimes cause Alan to not be able to move.
- The camera behaves the way it should when Alan is on top of a moving object.
- When loading from a checkpoint, the camera left/right side now resets properly.
- Vegetation moves the way vegetation is expected to when it’s windy or when Alan walks into some trees or bushes. Even above 30 FPS.
- Swapping between weapons takes a regular amount of time now, and not any longer than necessary.
Visuals
- Added HDR.
- Added a new, optional camera style mode. You can use this if you want the game to look a bit more modern. If you prefer to keep a look as close to the original as possible, don’t touch this.
- Unlocked the framerate from 200 FPS to 240 FPS.
- Improved DLSS and fixed grass transparency. Grass is now more pleasing to look at.
- Updated SDR to 10bit – it used to be 8bit. This reduces visible colour banding.
- Improved FOV scaling. (The math was off. Whoops.)
- Improved the way lens flare works. It now fades in/out much more smoothly.
- Improved the DX12 rendering path – this lowers the risk of crashes and glitches.
- Fixed polygonal rendering errors and visible depth buffer issues. This has greatly reduced the amount of visual glitches.
- The videos you could play on in-game TVs used to be affected by display brightness settings. Not anymore – fixed it!
- Fixed the enemies’ dark shield burning effect flare. It looks the way it’s supposed to now.
- In Ultrawide, fixed the enemies’ visual distortion effect looking weaker so that it displays properly.
- In Ultrawide, fixed cutscenes having both pillarbox and letterbox. You can now enjoy cutscenes in native 21:9!
- In Ultrawide and 4:3, fixed FOV and lens flares not scaling properly.
- Fixed DPI awareness where you had to set your display to 100% scaling to not crop the image. You don’t need to do that anymore.
UI
- Added a setting to scale the gameplay UI. It was quite tiny by default – you can now make it bigger.
- Fixed multiple issues related to mouse input
- Fixed it so that custom settings no longer leave multiple settings undefined. You are once again able to customise your settings, and the game will actually remember what you told it.
