Hi,
I dont mean to be rude or anything, but if you dont know how exactly DLSS works, here is something that I think you should know.
There's not exactly an on and off switch for DLSS, except there is, but when you turn it on, that is just not it, you have to set the DLSS according to the performance you want.
DLSS runs the game at lower resolution to boos the FPS, and makes up for that lower resolution by upscaling the Frames to the native resolution that you are playing on using AI. You have to manually set the DLSS to either "Quality", "Balanced", "Performance" and "Ultra Performance", as you go towards the Ultra Performance the resolution will keep on decreasing and more upscaling will be required, if you are playing at 1080p, then the ultra performance should run the game at 480p and upscale it to 1080p which will obviously not give you a pleasant experience.
Now in the case of alan wake 2, the game is good but needs more optimization, dont you think that a game should give almost equal FPS at every stage irrespective of whats on the screen. Alan Wake 2's some scenes and level are just too graphically demanding, like the forest scene in the start, I am currently playing this game on my Acer Nitro-5 which has an i7 12650H processor and RTX 3070Ti graphics card, i have around 5-6hours of gameplay. As the game starts, when you complete the first scene, you arrive at the forest and get to look around for clues to a murder, in that forest I got around 18-25fps with every graphics settings maxed out, Ray tracing OFF and DLSS set to Quality(70% of my 2K resolution 1440p), and then you find a cabin, when i got inside the cabin, i got more than 60fps, then again when i head out to the forest, i got 20fps, now this is with ray tracing off.
When i enable the ray tracing, i get around 4-6fps with the same DLSS settings and graphics settings.
I had to search the internet to find which graphics settings impacted most of the performance, and luckily i found
this, it gave me a vague idea of how to set the graphics setting so i get a good experience, and obviously i still had to turn off the ray tracing.
So, RTX 3070ti is a way ahead of rtx 4050, but what it doesnt have is frame generation, which is specifically for RTX 40series, so what i think is that you can set everything on lowest settings and use frame generation to get around 30-60fps depending on whats on the screen OR what scene is on the screen.