Alan Wake 2 is a little over two years old now, but it remains Remedy’s best showcase of how it can continue to produce stunning graphics that are unlike anything we have seen in the industry. Even our review had nothing but praises, but this level of fidelity means that only the most powerful graphics hardware could run the title at respectable framerates. Enable path tracing and watch that FPS counter tank massively, so it is a surprise for us to see an M4 Max MacBook Pro owner demonstrate the non-native version of the game running buttery smooth on his machine.
Redditor says that enabling frame generation and MetalFX upscaling helped the M4 Max achieve an average of 80FPS in Alan Wake 2
A person with the username oyskionline posted on Reddit that he has a 14-inch MacBook Pro featuring a M4 Max with a 14-core CPU and a 32-core GPU. Using CrossOver, he was able to fire up Alan Wake 2, but less than half a year ago, the Redditor says that the game would not run. This claim suggests that CrossOver has had a ton of optimizations during this period, but if Remedy can bring Control to Apple Silicon Macs, there is no reason why Alan Wake 2 cannot be ported either.
Moving to the performance statistics, the M4 Max MacBook Pro could obtain 80FPS in the game, with the person stating that the internal resolution was set to 1,800 x 1,169, with visual settings set to high. MetalFX upscaling was set to Balanced, and frame generation was enabled. Since NVIDIA’s Frame Generation technology cannot be implemented in Apple Silicon Macs, it is likely that AMD’s FSR 3 Frame Generation mod was used. Also, in case you did not notice, path tracing is not enabled in the image above, which would severely tank the framerate.
In our RTX 4090-powered gaming laptop, the image below shows what the FPS counter looks like with path tracing and Frame Generation enabled. While we are not comparing the M4 Max with a mobile RTX 4090, it is impressive to see how far Apple’s chipsets have come. What is even more astounding is that Alan Wake 2 can reach this level of performance while not running natively on an M4 Max MacBook Pro. Hopefully, we get to witness more visually breathtaking titles arrive for the platform.
In the meantime, Apple can try to reduce the prices of its higher-end MacBook Pro models, as these are ludicrously expensive machines. Assuming the technology giant still has ambitions to create a dent in the gaming laptop space, this is one area where it needs to focus.
News Source: Reddit
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