Alan Wake 2 Update Lets You Disable The PS5 Pro’s Most Defining Feature
Alan Wake 2 has been one of a handful of games that hasn’t gotten off to the best start on Sony’s new PlayStation 5 Pro. Image quality issues, persistent performance wobbles, and challenges with the console’s exclusive AI-upscaling technology, PSSR have all been noted. A new update for the survival-horror game aims to fix most of these issues, some of which boil down to disabling PSSR entirely.
Alan Wake 2 is the first game to allow players to toggle PSSR on or off, with the game falling back to its previous implementation of AMD’s FSR upscaling when disabled. In most instances, PSSR has been an improvement over FSR (which uses linear scaling as opposed to AI-enchanced upscaling), but Alan Wake 2 has been an outlier. In its analysis of the game on PS5 Pro, Digital Foundry observed issues with image quality that FSR handled better. It did, however, note that PSSR was overall a better solution.
It’s clear then that developer Remedy is giving players the option to decide for themselves, letting them omit one of the biggest features of the PS5 Pro entirely if they choose. Included in the patch is a new 40fps mode, too, which balances the image enhancements found in the PS5 Pro Quality mode and the fluidity of the Performance mode if you have a display that supports 120Hz.
