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Sometimes after a death, there are some FPS drops. Restarting the game via steam solves the issue, also not dying.
2-3 crashes in total
The game is completely playable. I finished it together with bonus material and didn't noticed any issue
Locked to 60fps/60hz, using Medium settings. Also playing at slightly lower resolution with FSR to native (2 sharpness). Has 16:10 support.
Only played an hour or so on Deck, this game is better on the big screen with headphones. When I tried it out in the past, it would crash randomly, but I didn't run into that this time.
TDP limited to 10w
Zero issues, no stability problems, I played it start to finish on an OLED. 10W TDP, holds 60FPS no problem.
Works out of the box
A couple crashes, but I remember it also doing that on Windows, I think it's just because it's an older game rather than due to Proton
I played start to finish with no problems and no tinkering required. The DLC episodes also work fine. Great if you're looking for a good story.
Amazing game that works straight out of the box. 60FPS with good quality visuals, easy to read text, minimal issues overall
Very rare crackle coming out of sleep (only happened twice)
2 crashes in a single 12h playthrough.
A great game, I only had 1-2 hard crashes and tiny audio issues in my entire playthrough.
You can get this running at native resolution (1280x800) with custom graphic settings inside. Here is what I used
- antialiasing: 4x
- FXAA quality: high
- anisotropic filtering: 4x
- Shadow quality: medium
- SSAO quality: low
- background quality: high
- godray quality: off
- volumetric light quality: low
- draw distance: 15/20
- lod distance: 14/20
- grass distance: 10/20
I had easily 60FPS locked so you can even boost these if you want to play around.
crashing on startup on the best cases
Heroic
tried through heroic versions 7, 8, 9 of WINE GE and Proton GE. Using steam, tried with Proton 7, 8, 9 and experimental and various tinkers through winetricks to no success. Possibly a hardware problem though, if I could guess.
no way to make this game work in my setup. The errors where in the realm of shaders
40Hz
Maxed out settings with 40 FPS cap
Cap to 40hz to improve battery life a bit
Battery life is not great, but the game works perfect
Use Proton 8.0-5
d3dcompiler_47 installed otherwise it wouldn't launch the game
Cloud save from epic didn't detect. Had to reset the save path and let it reassign it then allowed to download the save.
Removed motion blur with https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2161-alan-wake-motion-blur-disabler/
Game crashed on me 3 times during the first 2 hours of gameplay, did not happen after and everything was smooth sailing.
After the last crash I had in the game everything ran like butter, Idk if it was due to shaders or something, but was able to get longer sessions after putting some time in. I only used the VectorBlur.obj in the link above to only get rid of camera motion blur.
DXVK latest
Game would crash on launch with no errors on Proton 8 and with a 'Function "tex2D" is not defined' error on Proton 7.
After some trobuleshooting i found out I had to manually install Steamworks Common Redistributables from the steam tool library. The game has been working flawlessly since.
textures flickering/graphical glitches
After testing various configurations and versions of Proton in Heroic Games (including ProtonGE), only Proton 7.0 displayed the graphics correctly in Alan Wake Remastered (Epic Games)
5-10 crashes throughout the main story playthrough. Never at the same places, crashes seemed random
Used DaniMayCry's settings on the "Waking up to a Nightmare" level.
Game would crash ocassionally but restarting the game always fixed the issue.
I didn't tinker anything. Not even the launch options.
You can get a pretty stable 60fps with some dips with these settings:
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Fullscreen: Windowed
- Vsync: Off
- HUD: Enabled
- Antialiasing: 4x
- FXAA Quality: High
- Antisotropic Filtering: 8x
- Shadow Quality: High
- SSAO Quality: High
- Backdrop Quality: High
- Godray Quality: High
- Volumetric Light Quality: High
- Draw Distance: Max
- LOD Distance: Max
- Grass Distance: Max
Proton Experimental
I have the game from the epic game store, so I installed it using the Heroic Games launcher... I had the "g_mlocaltoclip" problem, that I could solve using installing DXSETUP.exe and vcredist_x64.exe, as explained in the link provided... After that, the game works perfectly and it is a real pleasure playing it on the steam deck...
Medium, 30 fps, 8w
VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv RADV_PERFTEST=nggc,nosam RADV_ZERO_VRAM=false
Split second pink fullscreen pixelation when an FMV loads in-game
Notes are for Alan Wake Remastered on EPIC, running DX12/VKD3D
had the "g_mLocalToClip" issue at the beginning. Then suddenly (while I made Age of Empires II DE installed and added PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to take a look at the logs) the required DirecX packages got installed. Since then, the game's working.
Last review of this game i told it is little buggy but when you switch to proton 7.0.6 version it runs like its a native linux game
proton 7.0.6
You just have use wine or bottles for the installer to work when installed open steam and add this game as non steam game in compatability change the proton version to 7.0.6 . It is amazing how smooth and great it runs like linux native. I wanted to play this game since alan wake 2 is right around the corner .
You just have to install the game via wine and add this to NON steam game with proton exprerimetal enabled
This happen rarely but has happended at least once or twice a week
This game is amazing i was excited for Alan wake 2 . So i started playing this game , i cant recommend it enough
The deck handles ultra settings with 60 fps and almost no dips! Light in the game may seem blocky but that's how it was originally made, that's not an artefact. With 30 fps it's barely noticeable.
40fps / 40 hz + TDP 10
The Steam Deck can run the game at max graphics, but you will get a fluctuating fps between 48-60 depending on whats happening. Lock it to 40 fps / 40hz for stable fps + better battery life, and TDP = 10.
with max graphics and the fps cap, you are looking at around 3hs battery.
don't know about the other comments but for me, Proton runs perfect without any issues so far, same thing like the Max payne games, it runs great and you can alt+tab with no problem
Made the back grip "run" which made it easier to dodge attacks while keeping your thumbs on the sticks.
Changed refresh rate to 40 Hz and the frame rate to 40 fps in the steam deck menu. The game runs very smoothly and you get more battery life.
Great game on the Steam Deck
