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[RoadHazard]

I'm finally going to get to play this game, been waiting for the physical release which is out this week.

So, I understand that on PS5 at launch neither mode was very good. Has this improved with updates? I almost always go with Performance unless it looks absolutely terrible. But if Performance is very unstable (like 45-60fps) or blurry while Quality is a stable 30 I'd probably go with the latter.

And yes, I know this game will probably be much improved on Pro, but I'm not buying one of those for $1,145 (that's literally what it will cost with the disc drive here in Sweden, it's absolutely ludicrous).

 

[Luipadre]

Unless you playing it on the Pro, go for quality in this game

 

[mayham2199]

Had a friend tell me to do quality and we both always go performance.

 

[RoadHazard]

Unless you playing it on the Pro, go for quality in this game

The Pro costs about as much as a house here in Sweden, so no.

 

[Skifi28]

The peformance mode looks shockingly bad at points where half the screen is just white flickering pixels and despite that it still can't maintain 60 fps in big chunks of the game. Not recommended unless they changed something in the last couple of months.

 

[TrueLegend]

The Pro costs about as much as a house here in Sweden, so no.

Are you serious. Do you mean rent or actual house?

 

[LastBattle]

I played it in quality mode on Series X and found it to be decent in terms of frame rate. At lease I adjusted to it pretty quickly.

 

[existensmaximum]

Are you serious. Do you mean rent or actual house?

It costs 1200USD/1050EUR with the disc drive.

PS, he may have used sarcasm but yeah it's insanely expensive. Our houses are too tho..

 

[SJRB]

You could just, you know.. try both and see which one you like more?

 

[RoadHazard]

You could just, you know.. try both and see which one you like more?

Yeah, but I kinda hate switching. Especially from 60 to 30, always feels so bad. So if I already know Performance mode is trash I'll just never try it.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Play on pc and have both....

Sorry that's my knobhead post for the day out the window.

Sell your house and get a pro?

 

[Maddoxswe]

Are you serious. Do you mean rent or actual house?

No he's not serious

 

[RoadHazard]

Play on pc and have both....

Sorry that's my knobhead post for the day out the window.

Sell your house and get a pro?

It's not that I couldn't afford a Pro, I just can't justify spending quite that much on a console. It's literally twice what I spent on my standard PS5.

 

[Skitso]

I played in performance at few weeks after launch and it was mostly fine. If I remember correctly, the first forest area was worst performance wise, and even that is mostly fine-ish with occasional random drop to maybe 55fps. I play on a 83" OLED and the game looked fine even on that. Sure, the image is a bit soft and there are some flickering issues, pixellated reflections etc. But as a whole, the game looks fantastic even in performance mode. Can't wait to see how it looks like with the Pro. (That cost 950€ here in Finland too, but I couldn't resist )

 

[Calverz]

Even with pssr it’s not hitting 60fps or higher?

 

[xrnzaaas]

I finished the game in the performance mode and it didn't run bad or look horrible. Sure the console struggled in some areas, but it wasn't catastrophic like playing Control on base PS4.

 

[Gaiff]

The Pro costs about as much as a house here in Sweden, so no.

Those are some affordable houses. Lucky you.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Always Quality.

 

[Sw0pDiller]

The Pro costs about as much as a house here in Sweden, so no.

Then i'll move to sweden this weekend!

 

[Giallo Corsa]

I played in performance at few weeks after launch and it was mostly fine. If I remember correctly, the first forest area was worst performance wise, and even that is mostly fine-ish with occasional random drop to maybe 55fps. I play on a 83" OLED and the game looked fine even on that. Sure, the image is a bit soft and there are some flickering issues, pixellated reflections etc. But as a whole, the game looks fantastic even in performance mode. Can't wait to see how it looks like with the Pro. (That cost 950€ here in Finland too, but I couldn't resist )

I mean, I wouldn't call a game that :
- Has framerate drops
- Has soft/blurry image quality
- Has flickering
- Has pixel crawling
- pixelated reflections

...to look "fantastic"

They really tried but, this, on consoles is a shit-show since everything is brought down by the technical deficiencies and it's a shame.

I loved the game (PS5) but it gave me flashbacks of the PS360 era where games would be marred by terrible resolutions, AA, tearing, dubious framerates etc etc - like the hardware wasn't exactly up to snuff/couldn't cope with some games.

 

[Emet_bp]

So.. That's either Swedish PS5s Pro are made of gold... or you have very cheap houses there in Sweden

 

[Bojji]

Even with pssr it’s not hitting 60fps or higher?

It is in performance mode (that apparently uses base PS5 graphics mode settings) but with no RT and with internal ~800p resolution (reconstructed to 4k using PSSR).

Always Quality.

What is dumb is they completely forgot (like most devs) that 40fps is possible, why not make 40fps mode with RT and internal 1080p res?

 

[Radical_3d]

It costs 1200USD/1050EUR with the disc drive.

PS, he may have used sarcasm but yeah it's insanely expensive. Our houses are too tho..

I’ve rented in Malmö for 1.200€ so still cheaper than a house. Go buy a Pro you cowards.

 

[DenchDeckard]

It's not that I couldn't afford a Pro, I just can't justify spending quite that much on a console. It's literally twice what I spent on my standard PS5.

I'm in the UK and the same as you. BUT, I am well aware of my privileged position when it comes to PC gaming so that assists in my decisions. I get a lot of free stuff, pc components wise and I'm just in the process of securing a small form factor build for my front room. So I wont need the pro until some big first party exclusives launch.

 

[existensmaximum]

I’ve rented in Malmö for 1.200€ so still cheaper than a house. Go buy a Pro you cowards.

Oh my rent is only half of that. Still wouldn't buy a Pro though.

 

[Kupfer]

I'm finally going to get to play this game, been waiting for the physical release which is out this week.

So, I understand that on PS5 at launch neither mode was very good. Has this improved with updates? I almost always go with Performance unless it looks absolutely terrible. But if Performance is very unstable (like 45-60fps) or blurry while Quality is a stable 30 I'd probably go with the latter.

And yes, I know this game will probably be much improved on Pro, but I'm not buying one of those for $1,145 (that's literally what it will cost with the disc drive here in Sweden, it's absolutely ludicrous).

Same 'problem' here, so nice thread. I'm getting the game today and will play it over the weekend.

Since I spent the last 100 or so hours in Kingdom Come: Deliverance with 30fps AND a low resolution, I’m going to play AWII in performance mode. For me, a low resolution is not as much of a turn-off as a low frame rate.

I'm sure it’s definitely playable that way.

 

[HeWhoWalks]

I'm in the UK and the same as you. BUT, I am well aware of my privileged position when it comes to PC gaming so that assists in my decisions. I get a lot of free stuff, pc components wise and I'm just in the process of securing a small form factor build for my front room. So I wont need the pro until some big first party exclusives launch.

Being able to afford any non necessity is a privilege. In that regard, the Pro is no different than a monster PC.

 

[adamsapple]

Unless it has been notably patched up since last year, stick to the Quality mode on PS5, the performance mode there drops a lot.

 

[Radical_3d]

the Pro is no different than a monster PC

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Is it though?

In that context, no it isn’t (why you chose to remove the biggest part of the post is anyone’s guess).

They are both needless and costly.

 

[kaizenkko]

I mean, I wouldn't call a game that :
- Has framerate drops
- Has soft/blurry image quality
- Has flickering
- Has pixel crawling
- pixelated reflections

...to look "fantastic"

They really tried but, this, on consoles is a shit-show since everything is brought down by the technical deficiencies and it's a shame.

I loved the game (PS5) but it gave me flashbacks of the PS360 era where games would be marred by terrible resolutions, AA, tearing, dubious framerates etc etc - like the hardware wasn't exactly up to snuff/couldn't cope with some games.

lol

Alan Wake 2 is not the best optimized game, but I'm sure that it have great visuals for the most part of people who played it. You guys are extremely exaggerated, the game don't looks like 360/PS3 at all.

 

[Represent.]

The way the game is marketed and advertised because it’s how it’s supposed to be seen/played…. Quality

 

[tommib]

Always quality.

 

[Vick]

The way the game is marketed and advertised because it’s how it’s supposed to be seen/played…. Quality

I'm genuinely interested in how you're going to approach TLOU games looking better at 60fps than Fidelity 4K.

Will you still select Fidelity, or play them both looking and playing their best at 60fps? Meaning that once you're done with them you're likely never, ever going to be able to play at 30fps again?

 

[Radical_3d]

In that context, no it isn’t (why you chose to remove the biggest part of the post is anyone’s guess).

They are both needless and costly.

Oh. I get it now. Reading is hard.

 

[K' Dash]

Everything below 60fps looks like a slideshow to me, but I’m doing Quality for this and SH2.

 

[Salmon Snake]

I played it using performance mode. It had some shimmering and drops here and there, but I can't do 30 fps anymore.

 

[Kupfer]

drops

drops

drops

Does the performance mode drop below 48fps or does PS5 VRR its job?

 

[adamsapple]

Does the performance mode drop below 48fps or does PS5 VRR its job?

Per the DF testing, it's hovering around the 50~ line almost through the entire Cauldron Lake area (1/3rd of the game). Any time it goes below 48, the VRR will stop.

30 is at least more consistent.

 

[Kupfer]

Per the DF testing, it's hovering around the 50~ line almost through the entire Cauldron Lake area (1/3rd of the game). Any time it goes below 48, the VRR will stop.

30 is at least more consistent.

I know the theory, but does it actually drop below 48fps, and if so, does it happen regularly?

 

[Rush2112]

My favorite setting for this game is the Fuck Epic Store setting.

 

[adamsapple]

I know the theory, but does it actually drop below 48fps, and if so, does it happen regularly?

In their video, it goes down maybe a couple of frames. Mostly hovers at or around 50~52 mark so technically it will be within the VRR window most of the time.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

Play it on performance.

 

[DanielG165]

Quality. It’s a slow-paced, atmospheric game that wants you to engage with its story more so than straight up action sequences. You’ll have the best overall experience and presentation with Quality mode here.

 

[Kupfer]

In their video, it goes down maybe a couple of frames. Mostly hovers at or around 50~52 mark so technically it will be within the VRR window most of the time.

I'll be fine then I guess.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

lol

Alan Wake 2 is not the best optimized game, but I'm sure that it have great visuals for the most part of people who played it. You guys are extremely exaggerated, the game don't looks like 360/PS3 at all.

Reading, how does it work ?
Nowhere did I say that it looks like a PS360 game ffs, just that it reminded me of the technical deficiencies most games during that gen had.

Also, it's not about "optimization" man, these consoles just couldn't handle the game's whole shebang/technical aspects , it's obvious that something had to give since it's a prettyyy heavy game even on PC.

Cheers

Edit : I guess that those that say that they'll play it on quality mode don't have OLED TVs with their inherent sub-60fps judder

 

[Kvally]

lol

Alan Wake 2 is not the best optimized game, but I'm sure that it have great visuals for the most part of people who played it. You guys are extremely exaggerated, the game don't looks like 360/PS3 at all.

The visuals isn't the problem. It's the game play and characters.

 

[scydrex]

I think would go with quality with a PS5 or even the pro. It's a slow pace game so 30fps should be fine.

 

[proandrad]

The performance mode looks awful but I also couldn’t stand the 30fps mode as is. Since the game doesn’t require quick inputs, I played on quality mode and turned on motion interpolation. The input lag was bad but I rather have the fluid motion.

 

[TheKratos]

The Pro costs about as much as a house here in Sweden, so no.

I'm buying 10 houses then.