The Resident Evil 2 PC improve will convey it, together with Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 7, according to current-gen consoles by including ray tracing and different enhancements – but it surely’s additionally altering the system necessities. After the patch goes reside, the survival horror sport will now not assist DirectX 11 drivers and can solely be playable on DirectX 12, Capcom stated in a brief replace on Steam.
It’s going to tweak a number of different system necessities as effectively. The minimal specs will now not embrace Home windows 7 and eight.1 (64 bit). You’ll want Home windows 10 (64 bit) or Home windows 11. Resident Evil 2 at present helps Nvidia GeForce RTX 760 and AMD Radeon R7 260x, however after the replace, you want at the very least 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 precipitated a little bit of hypothesis that they could arrive someday after the writer’s June 13 summer time showcase.
Beforehand, Capcom stated the PC updates that may convey “cutting-edge options together with ray tracing, excessive body price 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 solely for next-gen {hardware}, which implies the PC necessities will most likely be a good bit greater as effectively.
Up to now, there’s no phrase but whether or not Resident Evil 3 Remake and Resident Evil 7’s specs are additionally altering.
And naturally, if you happen to’re enjoying 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.
