Resident Evil Upgrades Can Now Be Reversed On PC
Upgrades for numerous Resident Evil games went live after Capcom's Showcase this week, and players quickly found out that it comes with the concession of not being able to choose lower quality settings anymore. That was short-lived, as the company said in a tweet that it received an «overwhelming response» about this and is now reversing course.
«Due to overwhelming response from the Steam community, we've reactivated the previous version that does not include ray-tracing and enhanced 3D audio,» Capcom said. Going forward, both the enhanced and previous versions of Resident Evil 2, 3, and 7 will be available. Capcom also published instructions for how to roll back to the earlier version of each title.
Due to overwhelming response from the Steam community, we've reactivated the previous version that does not include ray tracing and enhanced 3D audio. Click here for further details -->https://t.co/UEh0eX8MEd
Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 7 all received big visual upgrades this week on consoles and PC, with Resident Evil Village getting its own later this year. On consoles this means you can download native Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 versions of each game now, with older versions persisting on older consoles (and, in the case of the PlayStation 5, on newer ones too).
This improvement on PC normally wouldn't be an issue, but there are a couple of reasons why this has caused problems. Firstly, the minimum requirements for each game have now increased, which means you might not be able to play them at all if you were previously just scraping by. The games are also now exclusively using DirectX 12, which is required for features like ray tracing, but means that older Windows support and compatibility
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