Alan Wake gets PC patch this week

The PC port of Remedy’s survival horror Alan Wake is due a patch later this week, the developer has announced.

As detailed on the game’s official forums, the update will fix various bugs.

Here’s the full changelog:

• Fix problems of game not moving forward / triggering properly after videos. (Workaround: avoid pressing space or enter when those videos trigger, restarting the chapter helps)
• Nvidia tree flicker – if we manage to catch it. We are doing our best.
• Unofficial support for 640×480 and 800×600 resolution through command line
• Fix that blur occasionally gets re-enabled even if -noblur specified
• Add “rigidcamera” command line option for those who are sensitive to our current mouse/camera controls
• Add possibility to bind mouse buttons 4 and 5
• Fix that the Developer Video Commentary volume is more sensible
• Fix that Localized cinematic audio volume is not too loud and adjustable
• Fix that going to menus during a cine skips the cinematic when you return to game
• Fix that controller ruble works even without weird workarounds of enabling it with keyboard
• Prevent binding controller keys and thus preventing weird problems
• Real Traditional Chinese translation for added PC strings. Apologies for the current Simplified Chinese in menus
• Better CPU thread assignment for 3-Core AMD machines (smoother gameplay)

A second patch will follow next week, including the following changes:

• Fix crashes when using alt-tab during loading
• Solve “File IO Failure” issue when unable to write to My Documents
• Somehow offer Latin-American Localizations through Steam
• Hopefully add a free camera for those who want to explore the world
• We’ll try to get SLI support in but can’t promise that yet…
• Continue sorting out other problems users have been having

Finally, Remedy mentioned a number of other tweaks are also planned but it “hasn’t been evaluated how much work these are, and we continue to prioritise based on feedback.” These issues include:

• Solve Cursor Key / Numpad assignment issues
• Remember camera side preference (tab key)
• Improve Stereoscopic 3D
• Longer grass draw distance option
• “Low Performance Mode” improvements