Resident Evil Village benefits from ray tracing support

Well, here’s a nice surprise. Resident Evil Village has ray tracing support, AMD announced tonight at its RX 6700 XT reveal event. They only showed a brief snippet of the game’s ray tracing in action when they were introduced, but from the look of things we can expect to see some beautifully traced reflections on the polished floors of his mansion. and maybe also ray-traced shadows.

The real question, however, is whether the towering majesty of the game’s main villain, the enormous Lady Dimitrescu, will also be treated with some pretty ray-traced highlights. After all, great vampires aren’t supposed to have thoughts, are they? And if that isn’t going to give us accurate 9 foot 6 inch reflections of this woman who is taller than a real ostrich, then really, what’s the point?

I’ve asked AMD for more details on this important conundrum, but in the meantime, here’s the clip in question so you can see for yourself how brilliant these ray-traced mansion floors will be when the game launches on May 7.

Again, there are few details on what type of PC you will need to run Resident Evil Village with ray tracing enabled, but judging by the AMD recommended specs, it looks like it will be quite. the beast in the old frame rate department. AMD currently recommends its top-of-the-line RX 6800 XT for playing with ray tracing enabled, with a fairly basic Ryzen 5 1600 processor, but for all we know that could be playing the game at 4K on maximum settings. , as AMD doesn’t mention anything else regarding the game’s wider resolution or quality settings. When it comes to gaming without ray tracing enabled, AMD currently recommends an RX 5700 XT graphics card and the same Ryzen 5 1600 processor. .

It’s also unclear whether ray tracing support for Resident Evil Village will also be available on Nvidia RTX cards at this time. I imagine that will be the case, given that AMD’s ray tracing gubbins are all based on open source technologies like Microsoft’s DirectX Ray Tracing technology rather than special proprietary AMD elements, but at the same time , Nvidia has not yet made a formal announcement on this matter. until there.

Still, I’m excited for the prospect of more ray tracing games coming to PC – now let’s hope AMD gets its rival DLSS technology, FidelityFX Super Resolution, ready in time for the Resident Evil Village release on the 7th. May, otherwise there’s’ It’ll be way more than my stomach stirring when Lady D starts chasing me through these super reflective hallways.