Resident Evil 2 and 3 Without RTX on PC; Capcom's Mistake Fixed by Gamers [UPDATE #2]

In June 2022 Resident Evil 7 and remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 have received a next-gen update - both on consoles and PC. PC gamers, however, had a problem with it. Some of them claimed that the patch destabilized the game's performance, and that the visual boost - the patch added ray tracing, among other things - was barely noticeable.

Capcom listened to the community and did not remove the original versions of the three games, although it initially intended to do so. Player satisfaction did not last forever, however.

Confusion over ray tracing

Last Wednesday, the Japanese announced the end of support for RE7, RE2 and RE3 in DirectX 11 versions - so those without ray tracing or 3D sound, offered only with DirectX 12. Two days later, gamers on Steam noticed, that freshly released updates removed ray tracing from remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 3.

Did Capcom make a mistake?

To what end did Capcom do this? Probably by accident - or at least it's hard to come up with another explanation. Perhaps they wanted to remove the original versions. Either way, over the weekend the problem was not fixed. It can be expected that the developer will respond in the coming days.

Players have a solution

So it is now officially possible to play only the "old versions" of RE2 and RE 3. Unofficially... well, the fans - specifically, Steam user by the handle gex581990 - have already found a solution. Wanting to run these titles in ray tracing mode, you need to:

• create a shortcut to the "Steam.exe" file;
• edit its path like this:

• completely close the Steam app, and then restart it using the shortcut you created;
• in the console username displayed next to it, type:

• place the contents of the downloaded game folder (its location will be displayed in the console) where the title was installed, first removing all files from the original folder.

Resident Evil 2

January 25, 2019

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