Resident Evil Village Ray Tracing to require AMD RX 6800 XT GPU

Resident Evil Village Ray Tracing to require AMD RX 6800 XT GPU

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Resident Evil Village Ray Tracing

Resident Evil Village is just two months and two days from its planned May 7 release date. Earlier this week, during the launch event of its GPU RX 6700 XT, AMD revealed that it has partnered with CAPCOM to add AMD Fidelity FX lightning and effects tracking features to the PC version of the game.

According to this page on the AMD website, however, Resident Evil Village will actually require an AMD RX 6800 XT GPU to perform its lightning tracking capabilities. The CPU requirement (AMD Ryzen 5 1600) is very low, on the other hand, and remains the same with or without ray tracing.

Resident Evil Village will support AMD FidelityFX and Ray Tracing on PC

It is unclear whether NVIDIA users will be able to enable ray tracing on their GeForce RTX graphics cards at launch. Godfall, for example, released its ray-traced reflections as an exclusive for AMD graphics cards, which lasted three months before the last update added support for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX GPUs. We also don’t know exactly what Fidelity FX effects will be implemented in Resident Evil Village; Resident Evil 3 (powered by RE Engine, as well as the new game) supported FidelityFX CAS, however.

A few years after the terrible events of the critically acclaimed Resident Evil 7 biohazard, the new storyline begins with Ethan Winters and his wife Mia living peacefully in a new location, free from their previous nightmares. The moment they are building a new life together, tragedy befalls them once again.

Main features:

  • First person action – Players will take on the role of Ethan Winters and experience each battle closely and terrifying chases from a first-person perspective.
  • Combat – You must use various weapons and items against aggressive opponents and add tools to your artillery for situations outside of battle.
  • Resource management – Keeping track of your healing and ammo items is extremely important for survival terror. Stay well-stocked for the battles to come.
  • Familiar faces and new enemies – Chris Redfield used to be a hero in the Resident Evil series, but his appearance in Resident Evil Village apparently involves him in sinister motives. A series of new opponents who inhabit the village will hunt Ethan relentlessly and hinder his every move as he tries to make sense of his new nightmare.

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