Topic on Talk:Alan Wake II
The map textures taking a sec to load in every time is a known thing. I've seen it happen the exact same way on streams where the streamer has a extremely high end PC, or any gameplay I've watched of the PC version. All of them have that thing where the map textures take a sec to load in. IDK if it dose the same thing on PS5 or Xbox, but the map textures don't load any quicker those higher end PC's than on mine (8700K, RTX 3080, PCI-E 3.0 NVME SSD). It's not awful but def a noticeable thing.
I know sometimes, not always but sometimes those flashes are to mask loading, it will basically keep looping/playing until its done loading. And yea when it's doing it for that reason and basically not as a jump scare it will stutter, for me it's very minor, like a split second. Doesn't effect gameply because it happens while the video is playing. So far it seems they only use it for that to load small areas since obv it will prob be quick. Keep an eye out for the spinning circle thing in the top right when it happens.