Alan Wake II
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Developers | |
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Remedy Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
Epic Games Publishing | |
Engines | |
Northlight | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 27, 2023 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 92 |
OpenCritic | 89 |
IGDB | 88 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Survival horror |
Series | Alan Wake |
Alan Wake | |
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Alan Wake | 2012 |
Alan Wake's American Nightmare | 2012 |
Alan Wake Remastered | 2021 |
Alan Wake II | 2023 |
Alan Wake II is a singleplayer third-person survival horror game in the Alan Wake series.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | Deluxe Edition also available. Not available in Russia or Belarus. |
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Green Man Gaming | Deluxe Edition also available. | |||
Humble Store | Deluxe Edition also available. |
Version differences
- Epic Games Store versions purchased before October 27, 2024 included the Alan Wake Outfit & "Alan's Messenger Bag" Backbling for Fortnite.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Remedy\AlanWake2\renderer.ini |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Remedy\AlanWake2\<user-id>\ |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | 4:3 is also supported. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Cutscene and FMV are letterboxed at 16:9. See See Ultrawidescreen for a fix. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Rendering resolutions up to 8K are supported. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | See for more information. | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Exclusive fullscreen also available. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Referred to as "Texture Filtering" with a Low, Medium, and High settting. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | DLAA and FSR 2 Native. See Anti-aliasing (AA) to disable anti-aliasing. | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | DLSS 3.5, FSR 2.0 DLSS Frame Generation and DLSS Ray Reconstruction available.[1] |
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Vertical sync (Vsync) | As a toggle. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | The game uses the Windows 11 HDR calibration data. | ||
Ray tracing (RT) | Features both software and hardware ray and path tracing.[2] |
Ultrawidescreen
Set ultrawide cutscene restraints[3] |
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FOV
Set custom FOV[4] |
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Anti-aliasing (AA)
Edit the configuration file to disable TAA[5] |
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HDR
Set custom HDR nit peak[6] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | As a slider from 0 to 100. Separate options for general/horizontal/vertical sensitivity. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | As a slider from 0 to 100. Separate options for general/horizontal/vertical sensitivity. | |
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | Haptic feedback and adaptive triggers are supported when connected wired. | |
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes | Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth), , , |
Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, Music, Sound Effects, Dialogue volume sliders. Bass Reduction, Mono Audio and Hyperacusis Filters. | |
Surround sound | Supports Dolby Atmos | |
Subtitles | Speaker Name in Subtitles, Subtitles Background, Small Normal and Large Subtitle Sizes, Signage Subtitles. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
- Subtitles for all languages are out of sync
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish | ||||
Ukrainian |
Issues fixed
Error on first Startup[7] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 12 | DirectX Ultimate feature level 12_2 required. |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | Physx 3.4 | PhysX3_x64.dll in install directory |
Audio | Wwise | Wwise logo shown in startup screens |
Interface | Coherent Gameface | Startup screen for Coherent, and dll files in install directory |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | 11 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel i5-7600K AMD equivalent |
Ryzen 7 3700X Intel equivalent |
System memory (RAM) | 16 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 90 GB SSD | |
Video card (GPU) | Radeon RX 6600 GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB of VRAM DirectX 12.2 compatible | Radeon RX 6700 XT GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB of VRAM |
Other | Only GPUs with DirectX Ultimate level 12_2 are supported[8] |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
References
- ↑ NVIDIA DLSS 3.5: Enhancing Ray Tracing With AI; Coming This Fall To Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Portal with RTX & More - last accessed on 2023-08-29
- ↑ Alan Wake 2 4K NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 World Premiere - last accessed on 2023-08-29
- ↑ Alan Wake 2 - Ultrawide Cutscenes Fix - last accessed on 2023-10-28
- ↑ Verified by User:Rogerl777 on 2023-10-28
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2023-10-28
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2023-10-28
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2023-10-28
- Tested myself as i am using MSI Afterburner.
- ↑ Tweet by the developer regarding supported GPUs - last accessed on 2023-10-23