Alan Wake Coming to PC

kearneybobs · 17-02-2012 2:47pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

So is this out yet?

A little dig at MS hehe

Yup. It's out and the Collector's edition can be gotten off of GreenManGaming for as little as €20.50 i think. I bought mine off of Gamersgate.com which are selling the Collector's edition for €27.99 but since I signed up for an IGM prime trial I bagged myself a further 15% off of purchases on Gamersgate. Cost me €23 (plus earned some blue coins too). Looking forward to getting into it.

You can find the code for the greenmangaming offer in the gaming bargain thread.

Zero-Cool · 17-02-2012 2:49pm

I don't do a lot of PC gaming cuz of my stupid laptop spec but am mad to play this, looks like my kinda game. I must run a sys requeirements lab test when i get home.

Star Lord · 17-02-2012 2:53pm

kearneybobs wrote: »

You can find the code for the greenmangaming offer in the gaming bargain thread.

Is it just me, or is Alan Wake gone from that site now? :eek:

kearneybobs · 17-02-2012 3:00pm

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Is it just me, or is Alan Wake gone from that site now? :eek:

Yup, it seems like it. MAybe they were getting TOO much traffic and Steam weren't happy? I jest, but you never know. Thankfully I bought mine off of Gamersgate last night and since it uses Steamworks, it has to be registered with Steam.

Chairman Meow · 17-02-2012 4:01pm

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Is it just me, or is Alan Wake gone from that site now? :eek:

They ran out of keys, apparently. Should get some more soon hopefully. I picked mine up right before they ran out! For 20 quid you cant say no. It looks stunning, im running it at the moment on my PC in work, which is old and fairly ****ty. Cranked everything up to max, lol 15 FPS. On medium tho its like 30 FPS. Cant wait to give it a bash on my proper gaming PC at home.

Alan Wake by Brerlappin, on Flickr

Star Lord · 17-02-2012 4:29pm

Definitely looks better than the xbox version. Wonder how my 5770 card will handle it!

Zero-Cool · 17-02-2012 4:32pm

I just have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650. wish i could throw a better graphics card into the latop.

Chairman Meow · 17-02-2012 5:08pm

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Definitely looks better than the xbox version. Wonder how my 5770 card will handle it!

I took those screens on a geforce 9600GT..seriously low end stuff by todays standards. Id say the 5770 should be fine if youre not going for 1080p maxed out

Star Lord · 17-02-2012 5:11pm

My monitor is 1440x900, so a little below 1080, but happy to scale that back a little to get a decent result!

kearneybobs · 17-02-2012 5:12pm

Gonna try out my GTX 275 later with Q6600 OC'd to 3.0GHz @1440x900. Hopefully I can max it out on that. Spose I'll find out later.

Chairman Meow · 17-02-2012 5:19pm

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

My monitor is 1440x900, so a little below 1080, but happy to scale that back a little to get a decent result!

Yep i took those at 1440x900 too, so if the 5770 is more powerful than the 9600 (i dont know off the top of my head) you should be fine.

edit

5770 isnt mentioned in the benchmark, but if its comprable to the 5870, youre golden

Gummy Panda · 18-02-2012 4:41pm

I'm reading it runs like a dog. Not buying. Stick of buying games that have awful optimisation.

PogMoThoin · 18-02-2012 4:55pm

Runs v sweet for me at 1920x1200, can max it with full AA and Vsync (Quad @3.8Ghz and 6870). Great game, glad I'm finally getting to play it in all it's glory. The console cinematics really show up how much lower the details are on consoles.

Getting the time to play games these days is my biggest issue

kearneybobs · 18-02-2012 5:52pm

I can max this out at 1440x900 on my GTX 275, Q6600 @3.0GHz. Runs like butter for almost the entirety of my couple of hours playing it.

Star Lord · 18-02-2012 6:42pm

kearneybobs wrote: »

I can max this out at 1440x900 on my GTX 275, Q6600 @3.0GHz. Runs like butter for almost the entirety of my couple of hours playing it.

Plays well maxed out on my 5770 too at 1600x900

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Great game, glad I'm finally getting to play it in all it's glory. The console cinematics really show up how much lower the details are on consoles.

The cinematics use better character models etc... but it's just compressed video, and too compressed tbh. They looked better on the telly box, but the rest of the game looks better on the PC!

Chairman Meow · 18-02-2012 9:07pm

Have to say, maxed out this looks absolutely stunning on my PC. Puts the console version to absolute shame. Its ****ing beautiful in motion

Alan Wake by Brerlappin, on Flickr

Star Lord · 18-02-2012 11:32pm

Noticed some unusual effects on the edges of some of the large overhead lights:

AlanWake 2012-02-18 18-16-20-53 by DamoElDiablo, on Flickr

Otherwise, the game looks stunning!

AlanWake 2012-02-18 18-16-00-54 by DamoElDiablo, on Flickr

AlanWake 2012-02-18 18-27-47-68 by DamoElDiablo, on Flickr

Some nice comparison shots on PC gamer, like for like.

Petrol station: Xbox360 PC

Town: Xbox360 PC

Mine: Xbox360 PC

Skerries · 19-02-2012 8:36pm

Chairman Meow wrote: »

5770 isnt mentioned in the benchmark, but if its comprable to the 5870, youre golden

5770 is the equivalent of a 4870 unfortunately

Chairman Meow · 19-02-2012 10:03pm

Skerries wrote: »

5770 is the equivalent of a 4870 unfortunately

My 4870 runs it on close to max @ 1680x1050, 30fps

Professional Griefer · 19-02-2012 11:24pm

Completely missed this when it came out before.

Should i pick it up for the ole xbox now? It is pretty cheap.

I could get it for the PC, but I won't be home much until college is proper done and finished, and I have my xbox here with me.

Star Lord · 20-02-2012 1:00am

Skerries wrote: »

5770 is the equivalent of a 4870 unfortunately

I'm running an i5 750 on Windows 7 64bit, 4GB RAM, with a MSI 5770 Hawk 1GB.
Running Alan Wake on max settings at 1600x900 and frame rate is goes between 31 and 45 or so.

Ciaran500 · 20-02-2012 10:32pm

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-20-alan-wake-pc-makes-money-back-in-48-hours

Shocking news just in, make a good PC port and you can make money, more after the weather.

danthefan · 20-02-2012 11:13pm

Ciaran500 wrote: »

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-20-alan-wake-pc-makes-money-back-in-48-hours

Shocking news just in, make a good PC port and you can make money, more after the weather.

I would say the price of the game had a huge bearing on the sales. If it was €50 like other new releases on Steam I wouldn't have touched it with a barge pole.

kearneybobs · 21-02-2012 11:22am

danthefan wrote: »

I would say the price of the game had a huge bearing on the sales. If it was €50 like other new releases on Steam I wouldn't have touched it with a barge pole.

Exactly. The fact that it was launched at such a reasonable price made me want to buy it even more. And I did. Mind you, I got it as cheap as I pretty much could have (€23). Really happy that they did make their money back already. I do like the addition of the qr codes too, sticking it to Microsoft, although they could have been implimented a little better rather than have them on the wall of his apartment!

Kiith · 21-02-2012 2:11pm

Hopefully Rockstar will see the apparent success of this and give us Red Dead Redemption on the pc. By god i'd love that.

gizmo · 21-02-2012 3:18pm

Kiith wrote: »

Hopefully Rockstar will see the apparent success of this and give us Red Dead Redemption on the pc. By god i'd love that.

I doubt it unfortunately. The money Remedy have made back is the budget for the PC port, a figure which would be much higher for a technologically more advanced, non-linear open world game like RDR.

On top of this the recent L.A Noire port was neither well done nor well received so I don't think they'll be too enthused.

Trevor451 · 21-02-2012 4:59pm

Rockstar and PC gaming just don't go well together anymore I'm afraid

Even if they did port Red dead redemption to PC, expect it to be horribly optimised, contain spyware (DRM) and look horrible.

Alan Wake Coming to PC

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