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Alan Wake II
Alan Wake II cover
Developers
Remedy Entertainment
Publishers
Epic Games Publishing
Engines
Northlight
Release dates
Windows October 27, 2023
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Survival horror
Series Alan Wake
Alan Wake II on IGDB
Alan Wake II on MobyGames
Alan Wake II on Wikipedia
Alan Wake
Alan Wake 2012
Alan Wake's American Nightmare 2012
Alan Wake Remastered 2021
Alan Wake II 2023

Alan Wake II is a singleplayer third-person survival horror game in the Alan Wake series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Deluxe Edition also available. On first launch received error message saying game could not connect to servers to activate, and to turn off any 3rd party overlays. Turning off afterburner fixed this. Afterburner works after first launch
Not purchasable in the Russia and Belarus.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
Epic Games Launcher
Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Humble Store
Epic Games Launcher
Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows

Version differences

Epic Games Store versions purchased before October 27, 2024 included the Alan Wake Outfit & "Alan's Messenger Bag" Backbling for Fortnite.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Remedy\AlanWake2\renderer.ini

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Remedy\AlanWake2

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
4:3 is also supported.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Cutscene and FMV displays at 16:9. Use the m_bUnlockAspectRatio flag to unconstrain cutscenes aspect ratios.
4K Ultra HD
rendering resolutions up to 8k are supported.
Field of view (FOV)
m_fFieldOfViewMultiplier sets the FOV multiplier value, defaults at 1. Can be modified in the config file. May need to change a setting periodically to trigger the change. The game is designed to be played with the default FOV.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
listed as "texture filtering" with a low, medium, and high settting
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FSR 2 or DLSS on supported cards. Can be utilized as anti-aliasing if set to native resolution (FSRAA/DLAA) in the Render Resolution option. See Anti-aliasing (AA) to disable anti-aliasing.
High-fidelity upscaling
DLSS 3.5, FSR 2.0
Features DLSS frame generation and ray reconstruction[1]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
off by default
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
The game uses the Windows 11 HDR calibration data. Windows 10 users can override the peak brightness calibration with the m_fHDRMaxOutputNitsOverride renderer config setting. Set m_bPreferScRGBHdr to true for 16bit output.
Ray tracing (RT)
Features path tracing[2]


Anti-aliasing (AA)

Edit the configuration file to disable TAA
  1. Navigate to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the renderer.ini file in a notepad.
  3. Edit the following line as follows and save the changes:

"m_eSSAAMethod": 0

To disable the leftover sharpening filter, edit the following line as follows: "m_fSSAASharpening": 0.0

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
"Master volume", Music volume, Sound effects volume, Dialogue volume, Bass reduction, Mono audio, Hyperacusis filter (audio filter that decreases frequencies above 1kHz, for users who experience discomfort from high frequency sounds)
Surround sound
Supports Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
show speaker name, subtitles background option, 3 sizes, and subtitles for "signage" when looking at certain in game items
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Subtitles for all languages ​​are out of sync
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Ukrainian

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 12 DirectX Ultimate feature level 12_2 required.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Physx 3.4 PhysX3_x64.dll in install directory
Audio Wwise Wwise logo shown in startup screens
Interface Coherent Gameface startup screen for Coherent, and dll files in install directory

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10/11
Processor (CPU) Intel i5-7600K
AMD equivalent
System memory (RAM) 16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 90 GB SSD
Video card (GPU) Radeon RX 6600
GeForce RTX 2060
6 GB of VRAM
DirectX 12.2 compatible
Other Only GPUs with DirectX Ultimate level 12_2 are supported[4]
A 64-bit operating system is required.


References