RE2R and RE3R - RT Patch Talk.
SOME THOUGHTS = 06-15-2022.
Checked out the Upgrade patches for Resident Evil 2 Remake & RE 3 Remake. Some thoughts.
My specs are as follows on my desktop: i7 10700KF; 16 GB RAM; 8gb VRAM on RTX 3070; 1TB SSD; 2TB HDD.
Performance can be a total mess, if you try to push it. The game already could eat up a lot of VRAM without RT before-hand, but it's even more demanding now if you have RT and stick that on. You're going to want likely around 12-14GB of VRAM to max these games out at every setting, even at 1080p - so yes, this is now even more of a VRAM hog than WD: Legion, for crying out loud. Unreal.
Sticking most stuff at High on 1080p with FSR On at Quality Mode - BTW, DLSS is NOT supported w/ this patch. Also threw on a 60fps lock ad turned off Shadow Cache, which those two altogether were able to stop the performance instability; roller-coaster-like & huge performance drops & rises; micro-stutters; and annoying problems of that sort.
Of course, it ran fine w/ RT Off on my system - and for many, that still might be the way to go if you want high framerates above 60fps.
Good luck w/ this patch, for those trying to run this; especially w/ RT On.
MORE THOUGHTS = 06-16-2022:
I don't know why Capcom thought it was smart to release a RT-Upgrade Patch, force it on all Steam-users, all here without any sort of fallback back for the Non-RT versions. The system requirements b/t those versions are MUCH different - and the changes are HUGE here.
And RT games ain't the easiest to run either - they're VERY demanding, even w/ RT hardware.
Even for me w/ RT-hardware here, it took be quite a bit to get RE2R & RE3R w/ the new RT-Patch running even well on a RTX 3070 with 8GB VRAM. About an hour or so at least of messing around & testing. This patch is a resource hog & I'd need 12-14GB VRAM to run this stuff properly at max settings - this is more brutal than WD: Legion (which wants around 10-11 GB VRAM) at max. I had to do all kinds of stuff to get it to a stable 60fps.
The old versions w/ No RT - could easily get RE2R Old-version at 100fps+. Old version runs fantastic.
At least they (Capcom) listened, brought back old Non-RT versions for all 3 games & let people be able to get the old-version; you just have to dig into your Steam Library options for each game and find it over in BETA section.
