https://tpucdn.com/review/alan-wake-2-performance-benchmark/images/performance-1920-1080.png
In other games not using advanced current gen featuresets, the 5700XT performs equal to the RTX 3060 or 2070 Super.
So yeah, while it starts, it’s basically unplayable on this card. Turing, RDNA1’s older competitor, is still going strong.
For the fps that are being delivered, i really do not think the game is that good looking. Maybe its different tastes but the game looks unoptimized given the performance vs graphics.
I’m not completely sold on the art direction either. It’s not bad, but it doesn’t appeal to me as strongly as other games. I think Control is more attractive.
In the case of AW2 I think it’s more of a case of diminishing returns, like say you can look at the difference between 99% and 99.9% realistic as just a 0.9% improvement, or you can look at it as a reduction from 1% to 0.1% non-realistic, where the difference there is an order of magnitude.
I get where you’re coming from… Graphically it doesn’t look that much better than RE4 Remake, yet it performs substantially worse. However that is the nature of diminishing returns.