Capcom Backlinks On Reactions To Resident Evil 2 PC Update

Capcom recently shared its next-generation update for Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 7, adding features such as ray tracing and 3D audio to games. This update gave PS5 and Xbox Series versions to those who owned the games on PS4 and Xbox One, and those who played these games on PC also benefited from the same update for free.

However, the update to Resident Evil 2 received a lot of reactions, with hundreds of comments pouring in on the news page on Steam. This was due to the fact that the minimum system requirements of the game had changed. If you look at the before/after table below you can guess the reason for the reactions:

Operating system

Before:WINDOWS® 7, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT required)
Next:WINDOWS® 10 (64-BIT Required)

DirectX

Before:Version 11
After:Version 12

Graphics Card

Before:NVIDIA® GeForce® GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x
After:NVIDIA® GeForce® GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon™ RX 460

In other words, this update that Capcom required would cause those with DX11 graphics cards or other players who met the minimum system requirement of the game to be unable to play the game. They even exaggerated and said, “If you don’t want the update to be made, start Steam in Offline Mode every time, because once the update is done, you won’t be able to go back to the old version, even if you uninstall the game.”

Following the reactions, Capcom stepped back in this idea and announced that they would keep the new generation version of the game and the old generation version on Steam at the same time. “Due to the overwhelming backlash, we reactivated the old version, which didn’t include ray tracing and 3D sound,” Capcom said. It will be possible to return to the old version by entering the features section of the game and selecting the “dx11_non-rt” option from the BETAS tab. To switch to the new version, it will be necessary to select “None” in the BETAS tab.