Alex Bataliya of Digital Foundry was extremely disappointed with the quality of Resident Evil Village on PC, noting that the developers need to further polish the PC version of the horror.
It all starts with the main menu, where the options in the graphics settings can be scrolled only with the mouse wheel – this is slow and extremely inconvenient. What’s funnier is that when you connect a gamepad, navigation is noticeably faster. Moreover, the ESC button cannot be used to exit back – only the right mouse button. But this is rather a petty quibble.
Then they start more serious: the implementation of Variable Rate Shading, when the quality of objects in dark places is reduced to increase performance, leaves much to be desired. The decrease in quality is noticeable even in general shots in well-lit sections.
The difference is very big – a lot of ladders appear, and the resolution seems to drop noticeably
With ray tracing, the situation is better, but there is something to complain about – even at the highest settings, reflections work in a quarter of the original resolution without the ability to raise their quality.
In addition, when ray tracing is enabled in some scenes, lighting causes artifacts – this is also true for consoles.
Anti-aliasing is another problem – on consoles it works better even with checkerboard rendering (which can be enabled on PC as well). At fair 4K on PC, the version for the new generation consoles looks worse due to abundant artifacts – especially in the shadows.
Optimal graphics settings – with the highest quality level with good performance. They are almost one-to-one repeating the approximate settings for the Xbox Series X.
Batalia also noted performance problems when ray tracing was turned on – in certain scenes, when changing locations, the game may freeze, and when Dimitrescu’s daughters, or rather their flies, appear, the frame rate can be approximately halved.
When comparing game performance to the Xbox Series X, it appears to be on par with the RTX 2070 Super.
Although DF were disappointed with the PC version of Resident Evil Village, PC players themselves – many of whom are unlikely to plan to include ray tracing, with which the game has major problems – received the new product extremely warmly. There are about 95% positive reviews on Steam.
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