The Resident Evil 2 PC improve will deliver it, together with Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 7, in keeping with current-gen consoles by including ray tracing and different enhancements – however it’s additionally altering the system necessities. After the patch goes reside, the survival horror sport will not help DirectX 11 drivers and can solely be playable on DirectX 12, Capcom mentioned in a brief replace on Steam.
It is going to tweak a couple of different system necessities as nicely. The minimal specs will not embody Home windows 7 and eight.1 (64 bit). You’ll want Home windows 10 (64 bit) or Home windows 11. Resident Evil 2 at the moment helps Nvidia GeForce RTX 760 and AMD Radeon R7 260x, however after the replace, you want no less than GeForce RTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 460.
Capcom gave no indication when it expects the replace to go reside, however some eagle-eyed web customers have already noticed the franchise’s updates on Sony’s servers. It’s triggered a little bit of hypothesis that they could arrive someday after the writer’s June 13 summer time showcase.
Beforehand, Capcom mentioned the PC updates that can deliver “cutting-edge options together with ray tracing, excessive body fee and 3D audio” are deliberate to launch someday after the console patches launch.
The enhancements are what Capcom already carried out in Resident Evil Village on PC, and it’s in all probability not the final time we’ll see a Resident Evil sport with greater minimal specs both.
Resident Evil 4 Remake is being developed solely for next-gen {hardware}, which suggests the PC necessities will in all probability be a good bit greater as nicely.
Thus far, there’s no phrase but whether or not Resident Evil 3 Remake and Resident Evil 7’s specs are additionally altering.
And naturally, in the event you’re taking part in on Steam Deck, then the spec modifications gained’t matter, although early indications are that Resident Evil isn’t among the many hottest video games on Valve’s handheld anyway.
