Resident Evil 4 Remake PC - It's Got Issues - Optimised Settings - DF Tech Review 

I’d have been laughing for the next 10 minutes. Even just imagining that situation is fucking hilarious to me.

I expected better from this dev. But I still didn't pre-order. Glad I didn't.

@@guybrushthreepwood8174 Why? They've made multiple games with this engine and they have ignored the issues for years. Why expect better from a dev that has proven they aren't going to address issues like this?

@@Rhetorical346 as long people are stupid enough to buy, it will not stop

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@@ebridgewater lol thanks, fixed. I'm totally blaming my autocorrector even though I don't remember if that was the case

I was just thinking the same.

It’s probably a headache for them right now based on early criticism of the performance.

It's bad don't buy it.

Alex will lose his mind 😂 I already feel for him in advance. The last of us in pc is a MESSSS!!!!!

Still building shaders 😂

Hair strands in general is probably my fav visual setting in recent memory!

@@ShikiRyougi05 whenever Leon and Ashley are outside it looks like a wig. It barely moves and its super weird and opaque. Especially when its raining...

@@r.o.6180 spec issue

@@r.o.6180 that's just on consoles

hair strands off looks terrible. like the anti aliasing doesnt apply to hair, or it doesnt scale with resolution. looks like a ps1 game.

SSR have been in games for quite some time by now and people never even mentioned its downsides at all until Nvidia started selling their "real" lighting. I understand them though, they're a corporation, and if selling bullshit makes money, they'll do it.

Timmy fancy to meet you here. Glad you are doing fine.

Miss your videos, man! Hope you're doing well!

@@lehto56 Bro Hug

I just figured it was ray-tracing, since a lot of games run terribly with it or have weird issues, so I just turned it off when I started having crashes and it instantly solved my problem.

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ROMCOM is a masterpiece hot boi

omg it's the yoga ball guy

And it looks like the digital zoom of an old nokia lol

That's because the scope is a true scope, unlike most video game scopes that zoom in the entire game view, the re4 scopes actually render the game a second time at a lower resolution, allowing the view inside the scope to be zoomed in while the view around it is not. You can tell because the scope actually displays a lower lod and framerate than the world still visible around its edges. The same thing is done in escape from tarkov and players complain about scopes tanking framerate in that game as well.

@@robertewans5313 I guess that's cool from a technical standpoint but personally I don't care how the scope zooms as long as the screen gets zoomed in. A sniper is a sniper and I'll hit more shots if the games framerate doesn't tank.

@@robertewans5313 Was just about to mention EFT. So many people not in the know.

@@onceyougozach2607 Then have fun playing Socom on Ps1. Or the CoD shitfest. The rest of us want to move on to a more realistic use case.

Maybe that is why it ran fine for me but I wasn't even looking for flaws

Which DLSS version you used? I tried 3.1.11 and it had a TON of ghosting.

Sadly. It breaks the rifle scope. 😔

@@lautaro3365 Use DLSS version 2.5.1. DF actually specifically recommended that version for the exact same reason on their Half Life RT video, and it's the same thing on REFramework

@@tyisafk I tried using it but still had some ghosting with the reticle. Any other stuff I could do or is this just the best it can be at the moment?

​@TarnishedGaming85 If you mean the resolution is lower when using the scope, that happens anyways.

Correct. That is the solution!

Cyberpunk 2077 has the same issue. Enabling DLSS causes specular highlights to flare up in the exact same manner and to fix it you need a mod to disable bloom, as there is no menu option for that.

I was wondering why these people's eyes are flickering in the story cutscene, thanks, but it doesn't remove all, some still have the specular highlight problem, damn now I have to choose between bloom effect or more FPS...

Exact same here. Was playing Ray tracing and hit the rain section in the village and it tanked my pc then got consistent crashes. Just decided to go without Ray tracing for the rest of the game, a little disappointing but overall the game was absolutely amazing.

Glad to see I wasn't the only one with bad performance in that section. I'm playing on a 2022 Legion 5i with RTX 3060 140w and 12700H. I have every setting maxed out at 1440p except for textures at 3GB and RT off, 60 FPS cap. That's the only area in the game when the weather ramps up where I felt my system was struggling. Everything else was fine.

Did you leave SSR on or off?

@@jzea5605 I set the rain to low which pretty much fixed it for the most part. I've tested that area of the game on an RTX 2070 (non-super) and Intel A750. The Intel VERY MUCH struggled here even on the RE4 optimized driver. With the rain on high and regular use of a scope (The scope is very problematic on Intel GPUs for some reason), I was seeing mid-20 fps, and around the 40s on my RTX 2070. Most of the time the game runs great on both GPUs, maybe 5-10% better on Intel depending on scenario, but some of those areas just unnecessarily destroy performance.

Same. I would actually turn on fsr2 really quickly so I don't have input lag in those sections. It would get pretty sticky feeling when it would drop. The 1% lows I was seeing were close to 30s. Felt pretty rough.

All I did to fix it was turn off bloom. Didn't get that anymore and finished the game today

Should be expected at this point. The 200 IQ move here is to wait a year or two for the sales and the patch fixes.

Or play the 2005 version with the HD Project fan patch wait for a sale after the game has been fixed if you still want it. There is no excuse at this point as all the numbered Resident Evil games have had PC releases from the beginning.

you can do what Alex does if you invest an hour or couple of hours.

Crashed once for me, but definitely had low 20s in the castle level. Scariest thing in that game honestly.

Dif hardware of course but for me on my 3080 turning off RT stopped all crashing. I can run with everything else maxed out. Got about 7 hours playtime with no crash. Then I tried running it with RT set to medium and it crashed in 10-15 mins.

​@@sean8102The game gets a lot more demanding when ashyley is on screen in the village area. I lost around 40-50fps.

Saw the same thing with a 1660 6GB

I'm running a GTX 1070 and my frames dip to 54 in the village defense scene. My card has 8GB VRAM. I'm surprised your much newer card tanked that hard compared to mine, although im only running at 1080p.

It's far more notable if using a Scoped or Laser Sight Attachment

Also the textures look a bit weird as internal resolution goes down, they look grainy, kinda like oversharpened. I fixed it by using DLSS Tweaks and setting a custom resolution ratio for DLSS. Now textures look better but I don't get the usual performance boost so yeah, native DLSS support is much needed in this game. Btw, you can fix scope by disabling motion blur.

​@@winstonblue9422 It's because REFramework doesn't change the LOD Bias, you need to change it manually with Profile Inspector

I have also done that but did not fix textures looking grainy. Maybe I messed up something in the profile inspector I dunno. But thanks.

@@clipper9580 You were right. The thing is, The value needed was much lower than what was recommended in the reddit thread. I set a value of -3.0000 for a custom 0.72 DLSS ratio and now the game looks perfect. Huge thanks!

I've been using the DLSS mod on a 3080 10gb and the only time i'm not near 100fps+ is the village when it's raining and super refractory/shiny. 1000% recommend it. It looks better than native cause it's so much smoother looking. This is at 3840x1600 resolution as well.

@@softlock231 Don't forget you can use DLSSTweaks and force DLAA or set a custom resolution for better quality. I like DLSS at 80% render scale instead of 66.7%.

People were tripping out about vram but literally shows that even over vram limit it runs perfect as long as rt is off lol

@@softlock231 Is that on Quality/Balance/Performance/Ultra Performance settings for DLSS?

I have the same card , i can run the game perfect, everything high some max and at 6gb texture, is on red but zero crashes , looks amazing but ray tracing must be off , the minute i turned RT on even at lower settings it starts crashing very bad . But overall is a beautiful graphical game , a masterpiece

Who the fuck would play on a steam deck? Dudes....steam deck is not cool and you're not "more mature" for buying a steam deck over an OLED Switch. You are better off buying a PS5 over a Steam Deck and the price difference is not huge. You steam deck kids are hilarious. Your little low-end hand held PC trying to run AAA graphics intense games where you end up sub 30fps with 40 minutes of battery life. If you want a real handheld, buy a Switch OLED. You'll get 5-7 hrs of battery life out of it (way more than you need) and the games look good enough and it's not as massive and bulky and the OLED screen is WAYYYYY SUPERIOR to the steam deck. Anything else, just buy a PS5 for 500 bucks and enjoy gaming in 4k with ray tracing. It's not that expensive. Steam Deck is a major disappointment. A lot of you got scammed into thinking you were going to basically have a super powerful Switch. Nope, you got a low/mid range handheld crappy PC screen that has to be tethered to an outlet to get any real playtime out of it because the battery doesn't match the wattage output of the system. Trashy product.

It definitely seems like it would be unintended behaviour. Especially the thing where different display resolutions completely change the resolution of certain textures at different cache sizes, that's just weird. You wouldn't design that setting to work this way intentionally, not unless your goal was to confuse people lol.

Same here! 3080 too so even beefier than yours, still getting those drops in that section

That section tanks the console versions too. It's the only section that really does.

If you fire up a performance overlay you'll probably notice that your gpu is barely doing any work. I had 40-50% utilization during that section of the game.

@@Doi4in yes pretty much the same with my card, I've test the area with multiple settings and my GPU gets like 70% unless I use a scope, after that my frames just die to the mid 30s and 99% of GPU

@@TheRodss yep if i use a scope my performance is cut in half instantly. its jarring on a 3070 at 1440p

RT and the hair settings suck in this game. I hope Capcom updates RT later on.

Capcom has heavy partnership with AMD, they have NEVER added DLSS to any of their resident games after more than 2 years )all their games use FSR) so our only way to use it is with framework (and trust me, it's absolutely worth it the game looks much better than native and higher fps than FSR itself lmao)

@@doomslayer8985 They should just break up the partnership then. You dont partner up with companies using inferior technologies such as FSR which is absolute garbage.

@@EldenLord. they never will, tbh FSR is garbage compared to DLSS just simply use mods to add DLSS and you are good to go

No patch is gonna fix your issue. You simply have rather insufficient VRAM. And it’s been confirmed already that two sections of the game tank really hard (the main section of the village at night and raining) and I doubt it’ll get resolved but those sections thankfully aren’t long.

I also have a 2060 and I understand it's a dated GPU, but I feel like this game looks abnormally bad compared to how much resources it needs. I'm running it on nearly lowest settings to really get stable framerate and a lot of the textures literally look like something out of PS2. This PC runs Doom Eternal maxed out or Forza Horizon nearly maxed out or Death Stranding maxed out on 1080p and those games look miles better than RE4R. Regardless I'm loving the game, it's very enjoyable, but the performance is really terrible. I'll try these optimized settings, maybe that will help.

@@invisuu6280 well it’s no surprise a game at lowest settings looks bad… however I will say this game does run abnormally bad for it to not look much (if at all) better than RE8 or even DMCV.

@Bestgameplayer10 it must have been a bug as I reloaded it and it played fine. 😅

​@@Bestgameplayer10 besides the night village area what's the other one?

Interesting, im on a r7 3800x, and a 3080, and only notice a drop of about 10 fps off my locked 144 at 1440p. My biggest drops have been in the castle/island areas in the most chaotic areas, and even then they were at most down to 120's. max with no rt.

What happened?

@@dukenukeman not enough of this

Likewise.

Dlaa shits on everything tbh.

The image is horrifically unstable otherwise is why, uniquely so with RE engine games. 7 doesn't just have aliasing if you disable the aa, the game straight up wobbles. I've never seen it before in other games. They use that TAA/FXAA combo by default because they need both to stabilize the image completely. It shouldn't be that way, but it is, and why I have no idea. RE Engine is an odd duck.

TAA and FXAA used individually or in combination make it look like you smeared Vaseline all over your screen. I much prefer a bit of aliasing to not being able to see anything because of the blur.

You didn't experience ghosting images with TAA turned on?

not really 😞

@@mr_wildschwein 🤦

Agreed. Best pc port in a long time. Finally happy with how the performance should be on my 3080

There’s always that one guy that feels like he has the need to tell everyone how well a game runs for him despite evidence from everyone else. Cope on full tilt.

@@NotCharAznable Thanks for your opinion! It was super valuable!

@@NotCharAznable ??? This is the best running port in a minute dude 😂

@@NotCharAznable With everyone else, are you refering to the less than 3% of people that had actual errors on the game? Theres definitely problems and I will not deny that, but if you say a minority is the majority then thats not a good point. Want to see an actual bad port? Try The Last of Us Part I. Want to see another bad port? Try Wild Hearts and Wo Long Fallen Dynasty Want to see a slightly worse port? Try Hogwarts Legacy. Literally the best port of the year, I would even say in the last two years. Even Dead Space has port issues and it involves more than just graphics, it can brick your save file.

And then there's the 6700xt just chilling with 12GB...

@@speng5821 I just wished amd kept up to date with productivity features and I'd skip over in a heartbeat. I do 3d art, vfx, and some gamedev like stuff and amd simply can't keep up. For games alone it's a no brainer

@@speng5821 whats your point? The 8gb 3070 still outperforms it 9/10 times.

but he justed showed that 8gb is not a problem even if you go over vram limit in this game lol. Rt is the only thing thats fucks it because its bugged

@@matkorkes1304 you still have to lower settings. RT isn't bugged, the Vram counter is bugged to only be relative to RT on. Why buy a powerful RT capable card if you have to turn down settings and turn off RT just because there's no memory? I already have to turn down settings on my 2060 super, not to save performance, but to save vram. A 4070 has the exact same amount!

RT is such an overrated gimmick honestly. SSR algorithms got much better over the years that unless you stop your character and pan the camera around instead of playing the dam game you will hardly notice. The performance tradeoff is simply not worth it and as AB pointed out RT can in some instances like this game introduce other artifacts and IQ issues so the costs outweigh the benefits with RT. RT never immersed me more in a game than not having it turned on. I wish devs focused less on RT and more on actually optimizing the damm thing