AMD and CAPCOM have reached a partnership to optimize Resident Evil 8, Will support light chase and Fidelity FX special effects

AMD’s event held on March 3, in addition to the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card for the first time, also released a lot of news, such as AMD will deepen cooperation with CAPCOM (Capcom), add CAPCOM PC version of the game Ray tracing function and AMD Fidelity FX special effects to enhance the game atmosphere and visual effects of next-generation games. The first to bear the brunt is "Resident Evil 8", which will be released on May 7, and there are still about two months away from the release date.

According to the page on the AMD website, if you want to enjoy the light pursuit effect in "Resident Evil 8", you need to use a Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card. The requirement for CPU is not high, no matter whether the light chase function is turned on or not, the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 processor can be used. For the time being, it is not clear how "Resident Evil 8" uses special effects. For example, "Resident Evil 3" remade with RE engine supports FidelityFX CAS.

It is currently uncertain whether ray tracing can be enabled with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20/30 series graphics cards. For example, "Godfall" is released as an AMD graphics card exclusive special effects game, supporting AMD ray-tracing function. In the update three months later, the NVIDIA GPU will be added. Related support.

In addition, a Twitter user @AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem broke the news, saying that "Resident Evil 8", "Resident Evil 9", "Resident Evil 2RE", "Resident Evil 3RE", "Resident Evil 4RE", etc. all started development at the same time (Referring to the end of 2018), "Resident Evil 4RE" is likely to be released in 2023. Then he added that "Resident Evil 9" will not be announced earlier than 2024. It is still too early to discuss and there are many variables. In the history of the development of the "Resident Evil" series of games, the entire project has been restarted several times.