864p to achieve 60fps

Entertainment Toolstudio behind
Alan Wake 2told how his game will work in
PlayStation 5 Pro. This game is labeled as a “PS5 Pro Enhanced” game. That is, it has been improved to take advantage of the performance improvements that make it possible to upgrade the PlayStation 5 Pro hardware.

Well, Remedy just stirred up a hornet’s nest. Cause? PS5 Pro can’t even move the game in native 4K resolution at 30 frames per second. Moreover, to take the game to 4K at 30fps, you actually need to upscale. Full HD+ rendering resolution.

Here’s what Alan Wake 2 offers PlayStation 5 Pro users

Alan Wake 2 quality mode allows PlayStation 5 Pro to run the game at this resolution 4K@30fps with ray tracing. Although, of course, it is used for this purpose scaling technologywhich quickly means they are not true (native) 4K. Thanks to upscaling technology, the game actually runs at resolution 2176 x 1224 pixelswhich is a far cry from the 3840 x 2160 pixels of 4K.

Through PSSRthis resolution is upscaled to 4K, attempting to lose the minimum possible quality but maintaining high performance by rendering the game at a lower resolution. Although, of course, we’re talking about 30 frames per second. So it’s no surprise that they’re boasting about offering “4K” with ray tracing when performance is even as low as 30fps. resorting to scaling.

“Thanks to ray tracing effects, world details in Alan Wake 2 can be seen more accurately than before on console, and the image is more stable in difficult lighting situations.” The study showed.

“We’ve always wanted to bring cutting-edge visuals to our games, but it’s always a balance between frame rate, image quality, technical and hardware limitations, development resources and what we want to achieve in the game.” “.

And that’s what happens when you want 60fps smoothness.

The funniest thing happens when we talk about Alan Wake 2’s performance mode on PlayStation 5 Pro, which promises: “4K at 60 fps“. Graphics quality is the same as in PlayStation 5 quality mode. However, to achieve 60 frames per second, the game is rendered at HD+ resolution
1536 x 864 pixels which is then upscaled to 4K using the same technology. The technology to keep in mind is very similar to NVIDIA DLSS or AMD FSR.

As context, original PlayStation 5
offered improved 4K resolution (2160p) with AMD FSR 2 based internal resolution 1270p. In performance mode, the initial resolution
it was 847p upscaled to 1400p (2K). So we see that the new console is essentially using the same native rendering resolution.

“PS5 Pro Performance mode provides significantly higher output resolution and more visual detail compared to the base PS5. “Pro has improved overall image stability, fog, volumetric lighting and shadow accuracy.”