The Resident Evil 2 PC improve will carry it, together with Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 7, in step with current-gen consoles by including ray tracing and different enhancements – but it surely’s additionally altering the system necessities. After the patch goes stay, the survival horror sport will not help DirectX 11 drivers and can solely be playable on DirectX 12, Capcom stated in a brief replace on Steam.
It’ll tweak just a few 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 not less than GeForce RTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 460.
Capcom gave no indication when it expects the replace to go stay, however some eagle-eyed web customers have already noticed the franchise’s updates on Sony’s servers. It’s brought about a little bit of hypothesis that they could arrive someday after the writer’s June 13 summer season showcase.
Beforehand, Capcom stated the PC updates that can carry “cutting-edge options together with ray tracing, excessive body charge and 3D audio” are deliberate to launch someday after the console patches launch.
The enhancements are what Capcom already applied in Resident Evil Village on PC, and it’s most likely not the final time we’ll see a Resident Evil sport with greater minimal specs both.
Resident Evil 4 Remake is being developed completely for next-gen {hardware}, which implies the PC necessities will most likely 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, when you’re taking part in on Steam Deck, then the spec adjustments received’t matter, although early indications are that Resident Evil isn’t among the many hottest video games on Valve’s handheld anyway.
