Last week, Remedy announced that despite not planning for it, the studio had managed to find a way to squeeze in a Performance mode for Alan Wake 2 on Xbox Series X and PS5, but didn't mention anything about Series S.
The tone of the messaging appeared to suggest that an Xbox Series S Performance mode was a very unlikely prospect, and that's now been confirmed by the developer in a statement to Game Informer.
However, while the Xbox Series S might be missing out on that dedicated Performance mode, it's worth pointing out that Remedy built Alan Wake 2 "from the beginning as a 30FPS experience focusing on visuals and ambiance".
In other words, it might even be preferable to play Alan Wake 2 on Xbox Series X in the 30FPS mode, as that's the way it was always intended to be experienced. It'll be interesting to see how all three consoles stack up when the game arrives later in October - the release date is Friday, October 27th.
What are your thoughts on this? Let us know down in the comments section below.
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The game will be running at just 30fps on PS5 and Series X by default no matter what...what else is there to downgrade through a performance mode?
It would be a whole different story if you could switch between 30fps and 60fps to to increase image resolution.
Is the S just proportionately weaker and can't handle it... or are developers just not putting the time and effort needed to optimise for it specifically. The debate rages on...
In fairness there have been developers on both sides of it. But what it clear is that in having an additional SKU to develop for Microsoft have added to developer workloads.
Nothing wrong with that as long as the game works well.
@themightyant the series s is definitely a lot weaker but at least series s owners are getting the game I suppose that's why the series x is miles better it's futureproof I mean can anybody see the series s running hellblade 2 at all nevermind at 30fps that's going be interesting
@MasterPlayerOne not sure what you mean? They’ve confirmed PS5 and X will have a ‘60’ fps mode.
@Lup that's exactly how I feel as well.
@themightyant
The Series S is definitely slower.
CPU:
Series X- 8cores at 3.8ghz
Series S- 8cores at 3.6ghz
About 5.3% slower.
Not bad. Time for the real differences though:
GPU:
Series X- 12.15 Teraflops
Series S- 4 Teraflops
The S is 67% slower.
RAM:
Series X- 16GB
Series S- 10GB
Oooh. Even worse at 37.5% less RAM.
And finally RAM speed.
Series X- 10GB at 560 GB/s, 6GB at 360 GB/s
Series S- 8GB at 224 GB/s, 2GB at 56 GB/s.
Series S has 60% slower high speed RAM.
Series S has 84% slower low speed RAM.
@InterceptorAlpha @Dan1283 To be clear I said proportionately weaker. i.e. can the Series S handle games at 1080-1440p at similar settings to what the Series X handles up to 4K, as it was designed to.
It doesn't need to have the same RAM, GPU etc. do do this as 4K is much more computationally expensive, but it does need to be scaled down in the right areas.
We've seen many games where series S handles this just fine and many where it doesn't. We've had several developers state the Series S is fine and it's developers fault for not getting the most out of it. We've had others that say it's underpowered for doing that, especially that the memory bandwidth is lacking, which in SOME specific cases (like Baldurs Gate 3 coop) may be an issue but not in others.
@Fenbops : the game was built with a 30fps structure, meaning its "60fps mode" is not native so expect plenty of performance issues.
I don't think it's normal, if the developers don't want to sell the game in proper quality on the Xbox Series S, I basically won't buy a raw product. What the developers originally planned at 30 fps is generally nonsense in modern times, and then this explains the lack of performance on the Xbox Series S, but does not justify the developers ...
@MasterPlayerOne true it was built with 30fps in mind they’ve stated that. Maybe the cutbacks they had to make to get the game running on Series S allowed them to realise they can run the game at 60 with similar settings on stronger hardware. We shall see.
It's a £250/$300 machine, a stable 30fps is fine.
@Alcatraz1763 Get used to it as the SS is going to get more heavily downgraded games and missing features the other versions have as time goes on.
@DennisReynolds By the way, I have to get used to it, I am a consumer and I have the right to the proper quality of the product, otherwise I will not buy the game. Cyberpunk, Fortnite, and other games work great on Xbox series s. Why should we tolerate the crookedness of developers? Maybe if players started ignoring projects of this quality, the games would be better.
So? The Hound is playing Alan Wake now?
will it be on gamepass?
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