Convey out the ground unpolisher

In an odd replace that some are speculating was an accident, Capcom has eliminated the Ray Tracing function from the PC ports of the Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes. Moreover, the Dolby Atmos function was faraway from Resident Evil 3.

The patch rolled out someday over the weekend. This author noticed it and questioned internally what it was for. There have been no patch notes included with it. Studies later got here in of the function removing.

Capcom has mentioned nothing of the change, resulting in a lot hypothesis. I did what you need to by no means do and checked the Steam dialogue boards and instantly regretted it. Whereas there’s a thread that demonstrates how one can revert to the earlier patch and restore the function, a lot of the feedback have been pure hypothesis, dumb jokes, or full disinformation. I adopted up on Reddit, and there, it’s a lot the identical. Nobody appears to know what occurred.

On April 12, Capcom reported that they have been ending assist of the non-Ray Tracing DirectX 11 model. What they meant by that is that the DX11 model will not be receiving updates – you’ll be able to nonetheless entry it if you wish to. Nonetheless, this has led some to take a position that Capcom by accident disabled the DX12 department. Then disputed. The speculation that this was an accident is credible, if solely as a result of Capcom didn’t announce it upfront once they suggested in regards to the end-of-support for DX11. Nonetheless, it looks like it could be very troublesome to only try this by mistake.

Following my playthrough of Resident Evil 4, I reinstalled Resident Evil 2 for an additional go-round. I in a short time turned distracted by different issues, however I discovered the Ray Tracing to be well-implemented and that it ran fairly nicely. Whereas I’m not a fan of Ray Tracing’s efficiency relative to the visible variations it has, it does look extra pure than RE2’s built-in display screen area reflections. I assume I’ll wait a bit to see if one other patch comes by means of the queue, however in any other case, I would simply uninstall it and play it on console as a substitute.

The console variations of Resident Evil 2 and 3 appear unaffected. Resident Evil 7, 8, and 4 all retain their Ray Tracing function on PC. Destructoid will preserve you posted on any feedback by Capcom or reverse within the removing.