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Alan Wake

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Alan Wake was originally an Xbox 360 game which has now been ported to the PC by the original developers Remedy. Reports have come in that some people are experiencing poor performance on PC.

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Availability

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Version Differences

Alan Wake is available on GOG.com, DRM-free and with some bonus content. It's also available on Steam and GamersGate with Steamworks DRM (Steam Cloud and Achievements).

Collector's Edition

Collector's Edition includes 130-page illustrated PDF Book and a full soundtrack.

  • Alan Wake Files PDF is kept:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Alan Wake\Alan_Wake_Files
  • Soundtrack is kept:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Alan Wake\Soundtrack

Issues and Fixes

Mouse Acceleration

Mouse control employs mouse acceleration and smoothing. With patch 1.03, -directaiming command line parameter was added, which removes all mouse acceleration (enables also -rigidcamera automatically).

Keyboard and Mouse Binding

  • Enter key cannot be bound.

Fix: edit the file:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\[steam id?]\108710\remote\keybinds.xm

Keycodes are "MF1" (without E0 prefix).

Commentary Audio Volume

The volume for audio commentary is uncomfortably high, with no way of changing it. The 1.02 patch modified it to be "more sensible".

Alt+Tab Causes Crash

Alt+Tab causes a crash, although it is possible to use the Windows key to come out of the game.

Trees Flicker After Alt+Tab During Day Scenes

This glitch is related to NVIDIA videocards, confirmed on latest patch(1.02).

Stuttering Frame Rate When Game Starts

If you're experiencing extremely low frame rates (1 FPS or less) as soon as the game starts, make sure your graphics card is configured to heed application settings for FSAA/FXAA rather than overriding them.

"No World Loaded" message is visible on screen

This is due to corrupted download. Please use the Steam Client's "Verify Integrity of Game Cache", which can find in Alan Wake / Properties / Local Files.

Graphical Tweaks

Field of Vision

A slider is natively supported. However, there is no numerical value on the slider. The developer has stated the scale is between is ~0.8-1.2.[1].

Multimonitor Support

Alan Wake supports 3x1 EyeFinity configurations only. The 5x1 and 3x2 configurations are not supported.

On Windows XP, NVIDIA nView Span mode will not work. It is recommend using the 'extend desktop' display option instead[2].

SLI and Crossfire Support

Remedy reports that multi-GPU configurations are not well-supported, and recommends switching the option off. However, SLI support is a 'high priority' on Remedy's update roadmap, which states that it may be added sometime after the second patch [1].

There is a Crossfire profile which increases performances by approximately 70% [2].

Antialiasing

Antialiasing cannot be switched off as an option, as the game is designed with 2XMSAA as a minimum.

Blur Effects

The commandline option -noblur will disable all blur effects. See this thread on the official Alan Wake forums for a tweak to only disable motion blur.

Save Game Data

Folder Location

Windows 7: 

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Remedy\AlanWake

Windows XP: 

C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\My Documents\Remedy\AlanWake

The save game folder also contains resolution.xml, which controls screen resolution, as well as debugging information, and is regenerated if not found.

Cloud Support

Steam Cloud

Alan Wake supports Steam Cloud for save game data.

  • Folder location:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\108710\

Controller Support

The PC version uses the same control scheme as the Xbox 360 version, and as such is fully compatible with an Xbox 360 controller.

Command Line Options

Commands are entered from the Steam launch options. Right click on the Alan Wake in Steam Library, click Properties, click Set Launch Options. Then enter one or more of the following commands.

Command Notes
-h Screen height (e.g. -h720).
-w Screen width (e.g. -w1280).
-window Force windowed.
-novsync Disables v-sync.
-showfps Shows frame rate counter.
-forcesurround Forces 5.1 speaker mode.
-forcestereo Forces stereo speak mode.
-nosound Disables sound.
-cleancloud Deletes save games and settings for Alan Wake from Steam Cloud.
-noblur Disables the in-game vector blur.
-locale=xx Forces a selected locale (this can be changed in Steam game settings).
-rigidcamera Modifies mouse aim behavior.
-directaiming Removes all mouse acceleration, also enables -rigidcamera.
-nativekeys Fixes windows language bar or input language disappearance.
-developermenu Unlocks all episodes and allows you to play at Nightmare difficulty without completing the game first on lower difficulties.
-freecamera Pressing the right thumb stick enables/disables freecamera mode.

System Requirements

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Notes

  1. ↑ Best FOV
  2. ↑ Alan Wake page on Widescreen Gaming Forum