PC version of Resident Evil Village got the promised patch with performance improvements and AMD FSR support

The publisher Capcom announced the release of the previously announced Resident Evil Village patch for the PC version of the horror shooter via their microblog and the official Resident Evil website.

Recall that following last week's Digital Foundry whistleblower piece, Capcom promised to release an update that will fix the game's performance issues on PC. We are talking about the stuttering at the time of the death of the enemies and noticeable drop in frame rate when meeting with the daughters of Lady Dimitrescu. As hacker Empress found out, these failures are the result of Denuvo working in conjunction with Capcom Anti-Tamper v3. According to the list of fixes for the released update, the developers made changes "to optimize anti-piracy technology." Judging by the first reviews, the slowdowns have indeed disappeared.

Also the patch adds support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), an open source alternative to NVIDIA DLSS, to Resident Evil Village. Resident Evil Village graphics settings allows you to choose a mode from "Performance" to "Ultra Quality". Video of one of the first tests of FSR performance in the game is attached above. Resident Evil Village debuted on May 7 this year on PC (Steam), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and Google Stadia. By mid-July total sales of the game reached 4.5 million copies.

PC version of Resident Evil Village will get ray tracing and AMD FidelityFX support

AMD's Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Graphics Scott Herkelman confirmed two important features for the PC version of Resident Evil Village during the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card presentation. It became known that the upcoming Capcom horror PC will receive support for ray tracing and AMD FidelityFX & ; a set of AMD tools to improve image quality. According to Herkelman, thanks to the mentioned features the PC version of Resident Evil Village «demonstrates the limits of the possible with ultra-realistic graphics based on RE Engine».

We've partnered with Capcom to utilize raytracing and AMD FidelityFX to enhance the atmosphere and next-generation visuals in Resident Evil Village. We can't wait to play #REVillage on May 7th. pic.twitter.com/VgSZiPlJvz & ; Radeon RX (@Radeon) March 3, 2021

The fact that Resident Evil Village is capable of ray tracing has been known since the release of the Maiden demo on PS5. As the experts noted Digital Foundry, the effect is weak on the Sony console, and the reflection resolution is not too high. Resident Evil Village release is expected on May 7 this year for PC (Steam), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S. Pre-order collection began shortly after the release date was announced.