Alan Wake 2 Update 1.2.10 Adds FSR 4 and Frame Generation on PC

The Alan Wake 2 update 1.2.10 released today adds AMD FSR 4 upscaling and FSR Frame Generation to the PC version, three years after the game shipped without either. The same patch goes out on console as version 1.200.009 on PlayStation 5 and 1.2.0.10 on Xbox Series X|S, where it carries the bug fixes but none of the new graphics options.

What the Alan Wake 2 update 1.2.10 changes on PC

FSR 4 is not a toggle you hunt for in a submenu. Remedy says it switches on automatically on supported GPUs whenever you pick FSR Super Resolution as your upscaler, so the setting you already use quietly becomes the newer algorithm on hardware that can run it. On cards that cannot, the existing FSR path stays in place.

FSR Frame Generation is the opposite: it is a separate entry in the graphics settings, and it only appears on supported GPUs. If you do not see it, your card is not on the list. That matters for anyone who has been running the feature through third-party injectors, because the official implementation replaces a workaround the PC community has leaned on for a long stretch of this game's life.

The third PC change is the least visible and possibly the most useful. Opacity Micromaps and Shader Execution Reordering — two ray tracing acceleration features that were effectively Nvidia-only in this game — now run through the Agility SDK. Routing them that way opens them to multiple GPU vendors instead of one.

The fixes that land on every platform

Three fixes ship to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S together:

• Cinematic audio sync. Remedy describes these as lingering desync issues during cutscenes, present on all platforms rather than one.
• New Game Plus soft lock. The Crossbow Cult Stash could block access to the Lighthouse in New Game Plus. That one stranded people mid-run, and it is fixed.
• Quick Slot crash. A potential crash when using Quick Slots under specific circumstances is resolved.

Remedy also lists minor additional fixes without itemising them, which is the usual shorthand for changes too small to name. There is no new story content here, and nothing in the notes touches the Night Springs or The Lake House expansions.

Which platforms and which version number to look for

The version numbering is different on each platform, which is the part that trips people up when they check whether their copy actually updated. On PC it is 1.2.10. On PlayStation 5 the download shows as 1.200.009. On Xbox Series X|S it is 1.2.0.10. All three are the same update.

There is no Switch or Switch 2 version of Alan Wake 2 to patch, and the PS5 Pro enhancements Remedy added earlier are untouched by this release. Console players get the fixes only — FSR 4 and FSR Frame Generation are PC features, tied to desktop GPU support rather than to the game.

Why an upscaler patch this late still matters

Alan Wake 2 remains one of the heaviest games to run on PC, particularly with path tracing enabled, and it has spent its whole life as a benchmark title people use to torture-test new hardware. Adding a current-generation upscaler and official frame generation to a 2023 release changes what mid-range and older AMD cards can do with it, rather than simply making a fast machine faster.

It also follows a pattern across this month's patches. Crimson Desert's update 1.18 spent part of its notes fixing FSR Frame Generation problems, and ARC Raiders update 1.42.0 shipped with platform-specific issues still open. Upscaling and frame generation have become the parts of a PC patch worth reading first.

For Remedy, this is housekeeping ahead of a bigger release. The studio's next game, Control Resonant, has gone gold and its physical edition has slipped to October 15. If you are weighing whether your rig can handle any of it, our GPU-by-GPU shader performance testing is a rough guide to where the frame-rate cliffs sit on older cards.

The update is live now. Restart your launcher or console if it has not pulled automatically.