Capcom Quietly Withdraws Ray Tracing From Resident Evil 2 And 3 Remakes

Capcom has quietly removed ray tracing support from Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes and Resident Evil 7 with no official notice or response.

[SullysCigar]

How strange.

[2moda5gamer]

Didn't it suck though?

[myfathersbastard]

Yeah it wasn’t great. Not terrible, but not great either. I ended up turning it off. Game seemed to look and run a tad bit better without it.

[Smellsforfree]

There were a lot of weird artifacts in the floor reflections without RT on. I hardly noticed it, but it is there if you look closely especially around your character.

[Dandalandan117]

I've yet to encounter a game wherein ray tracing mattered or was mind-blowing. As of the moment, it's nothing but small details which you would only notice when you look for it but not when you're actually playing the game.

[Sm311M3Fart]

The difference it’s noticeable in RE2, haven’t tried RE3 yet. Lightning it’s much better in RT, but the frame rate it’s bad.

[Bathyj]

The best I've seen was in Spider-Man and ratchet and Clank. (I'm not a PC gamer)

I really enjoyed it as I love little details and stopping to notice them, but I would not sacrifice 60 frames a second for Ray tracing. I've only used it when I can have both.

[Shane Kim]

Cyberpunk was also good. But the way the frame rate dropped was like, no thank you.

[Dandalandan117]

Ratchet is still on my pile of backlogs but hopefully I'll get to play it soon.

Yeah most of us would prefer performance because it's something that you would actually notice during gameplay.

[TiredGamer]

I initially played Ratchet with Performance RT + VRR, thinking I was getting this amazing visual upgrade. On a whim, I switched to normal Performance mode (no RT), and I actually liked the screen-space reflections better, and the resolution is higher to boot. RT at this stage of its life is so minimalistic that I prefer the more striking (albeit less accurate) visual punch of old-school SS reflections in the game, as they are actually very well done in their own right.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Check out Cyberpunk’s latest patch

[Lexreborn2]

Ray tracing is a branded resource hog that gives a shallow reason to overcharge on graphics cards with 0 benefit. Immersion isn’t enhanced most implementations of it and I always turn it off

[1nsomniac]

Rubbish. That’s like saying given the choice of watching your favourite film on VHS or hi-def blu-ray. There’s no real benefit to watching the blu-ray.

If you have the correct spec equipment it’s a far superior experience.

[Lexreborn2]

Not the same at all; I have a 3080 which easily handles Ray tracing, but it is NOT a transformative experience whatsoever in any game. But, it certainly ranks the performance, going from 120 to 90 and not looking better than before.

I’m just not sold on the function whatsoever

[1nsomniac]

So people can’t really see above the 90’s that’s why screens above 120 are a scam. Hyper sensitive people can potentially see in the low 100’s.

So you’re saying you can play with all the fancy RT bells and whistles maxed out at 90fps. Yet you choose not to because you believe playing with extra frames that you can’t see is preferable and it looks no different with RT…. Hmm something doesn’t sound quite right.

The entire selling point of RT is that it increases immersion. That’s literally it’s root benefit. It makes the scene more lifelike because, well that’s how light works in real life…

Completely agree that it’s a resource hog. And it’s not really appropriate for the most part on current consoles. But for hi spec PC’s it clearly offered a superior experience. To say it doesn’t is just not being honest. Re play your favourite game but turn down your graphics settings to their lowest options and see if you still enjoy the game in the same way. It’s an easy test to prove how graphics themselves improve physical gameplay.

[JEECE]

Yep I've seen a few demonstrations where it looks really good running on top end PC hardware, but in practice all it has been for me is a framerate killer.

[SullysCigar]

Totally agree. Great for tech demos, generally bad for games, once the performance hit is factored in.

[Bobertt]

That's cause most games don't use full raytracing. Portal RTX is one with full raytracing but even a 4090 runs it at like 25fps. Ray tracing just isn't useful for games right now. The performance would be better off going to more assets on screen, destructible physics, or better textures.

[Mr Logic]

You haven't seen it in action. Consoles are weak and most of the time it's BS like RTAO, reflections at best. Minecraft path tracing, Metro Exodus, and the new CP2077 Overdrive are the games that demonstrate what can be done.

[Stanjara]

These games don't need it. Screen space reflections are still pretty good.

[CobraKai]

Seems like it’s unintentional. Also seems that it’s only pc that’s affected.

[paulust2002]

Wondering if a similar issue in res evil 4 as that was causing hard crashes for me, even though well under gpu usage. See if that quietly gets removed to

[Blaze929]

Ray-tracing on consoles configs this gen just ain't strong enough to be 100% across the board. Maybe next

[Binarycode]

Possibly they are looking at producing a better version of it. It needs a lot of work.

[got_dam]

That's kind of a bummer. Finally have a pc that would run it with ALL the bells and whistles. Was curious what it looked like with Ray tracing. I have cyberpunk and the visual differences are noticeable, but it runs like shit. My computer crushes the required specs. Think it's just still poorly optimized. Anyone have a suggestion for a game that has good Ray tracing implementation?

[Aussiesummer]

Would be good if they went back in and added a better version of it, I doubt that'll happen, but stranger things have.

[Viljong]

But why i dont uderstand.