Many players are now wondering about the performance of Alan Wake 2 on Steam Deck.
Alan Wake 2 will be an Epic Game Store exclusive, at launch. While you can get Epic Games on Steam Deck, it is a bit of a task. You need to get Epic Game Store and do some tweaking with the compatibility layer.
If you want to know the best Alan Wake 2 settings for Steam Deck, this article can definitely help you.
Alan Wake 2 Steam Deck performance
Since the game isn't released yet, it is not very easy to provide specific information on Alan Wake 2's performance on the Steam Deck.
However, looking at the Alan Wake 2 system requirements, it is definitely possible to make some informed guesses about its future Steam Deck performance. From the available information, it seems that the minimum requirements to run the game might indeed be quite high.
Still, with a bit of adjustment and fiddling around, and the hardware specifications of the Steam Deck, which includes a custom AMD APU with a quad-core Zen 2 CPU, an RDNA 2 GPU, and 16 GB of RAM, it should be capable of delivering a decent enough performance for Alan Wake 2.
While specific frame rates and graphical settings cannot be accurately predicted without official information, it is highly likely that it will be possible to run Alan Wake 2 on the Steam Deck, at least as far as it is playable.
However, in order to have some more precise performance details, it is essential to await official benchmarks and specifications, following the release of Alan Wake 2.
Alan Wake 2 Steam Deck best settings
Considering Alan Wake 2 will be all about a mysterious world to explore, along with some spooky surroundings, we expect it to deliver some powerful lightning effects too. Indeed, a too high level of detail might be a little problematic for the Steam Deck.
Here are some of the best Alan Wake 2 Steam Deck settings that you can try:
- FPS Limit: 60
- Refresh Rate: 60
- Half-Rate Shading: Off
- TDP Limit: 10
- Filter Scaling: Linear
- GPU Clock: Disabled
- Proton Layer: Proton 8.0
- Graphics: Low settings
Naturally, it is useful to keep in mind that these Steam Deck settings are purely speculative right now, and they will be updated later.
Also, the suggested settings above are not fixed or permanent. It is a good idea to try different things, even before setting the graphics to low. You can try different effects, and disable a specific single thing in order to see how the performance on the Steam Deck is affected.
In order to keep up to date with all the latest news about Alan Wake 2, along with its release on Steam, take a look at Remedy's Twitter account along with the official Alan Wake 2 account.