How to increase FPS in Resident Evil Village. How to achieve stable frame rates on a weak PC

 

Resident Evil Village trades the Baker family's grim ranch for the Gothic Dimitrescu Castle and its surroundings. It's one of the prettiest games of the year right now, especially if you have a ray-traced graphics card. To get the best performance out of Resident Evil Village, you can refer to this guide to best settings for what to turn on and what to turn off. We also prepared settings for weak PCs.

The good news is that Village uses the RE Engine, which is still fairly new in terms of game engines, debuting in 2017. It has already been used on PC and consoles in other Capcom games includingDevil May Cry 5 ,Monster Hunter Rise and recent remakesResident Evil 2 and3.

This means Village works pretty well on most platforms, which also means you don't need the very best graphics card to run the game. You can just use the preset settings and start playing right away, or tinker a bit to get the picture and performance that suits you best.

Ready presets

Instead of the usual low to high presets, Resident Evil Village offers six options to choose from. They all pretty much do what the title says. They are provided with descriptions to help you select the correct one for your system. However, you will have to choose from the main menu, since the game will not allow you to change presets while in the process of shooting opponents.

• Recommended - sets all parameters automatically depending on the available video memory on your video card. Takes up 5.78 GB, but does not always provide optimal settings;
• Performance - Disables ray tracing and reduces requirements without compromising image quality. This preset is for those experiencing frame rate issues or using a GPU with 4GB or less VRAM;
• Balance - average result, balances graphics and performance, 4–8 GB of video memory is recommended. Installs 4.82 GB VRAM;
• Graphics Quality Priority - Top notch image quality, no ray tracing. The preset uses 5.78 GB;
• Ray tracing is only for those with a compatible graphics card. The preset takes up 5.71 GB and has a big impact on frame rates;
• Max. - sets all parameters to maximum. Requires 12.212 GB, which is more than most graphics cards on the market.

Prioritizing graphics quality works well for most modern gaming PCs. "Max." Is an option that high-end graphics cards like the RTX 3090s, Radeon RX 6800s and RX 6800 XT will be able to pull, as the settings menu indicates that the size of the video memory exceeds 12.2 GB - this is more than the RTX 3080.

Graphics settings for a powerful PC

Using the graphics priority preset as a basis, here are a few tweaks you can make to get the best picture for Resident Evil Village:

• Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080;
• Refresh rate: 60.00 Hz (143.8 Hz for more modern monitors);
• Frame rate: variable;
• Vertical sync: off;
• Rendering mode: normal;
• Image quality: 1;
• FidelityFX CAS: on;
• Anti-aliasing: TAA;
• Texture quality: high 2 GB;
• Texture filtering quality: ANISO 16x;
• Mesh quality: high;
• Diffuse Shading: Fidelity FX CACAO;
• Screen space reflections: on;
• Volumetric lighting quality: high;
• Subsurface scattering: incl .;
• Shadow quality: maximum;
• Contact shadows: incl .;
• Shadow cache: on;
• Glow: on;
• Glare: on;
• Granularity: incl. or off;
• Depth of Field: On;
• Lens distortion: on

Graphics settings for a weak PC

If you want to increase the frame rate, then you need to switch the rendering mode to interlaced, as this can lead to a few extra frames per second. But the image quality is significantly degraded, so you can try using the normal one.

There is also almost no difference between low, medium and high reflections, so you can improve them if you can handle the possible slight drop in frame rate.

These settings will help fix lags and improve overall performance.

• Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080;
• Refresh rate: 60.00 Hz;
• Frame rate: variable;
• Vertical sync: off;
• Drawing mode: normal (or interlaced. Check which one gives the best result);
• Image quality: 1;
• FidelityFX CAS: on;
• Anti-aliasing: FXAA + TAA;
• Texture quality: high (2 GB). Lowering the value will not affect performance;
• Texture filtering quality: high (ANISO x16);
• Mesh quality: maximum. Lowering the value will not affect performance;
• Diffuse Shading: SSAO;
• Screen space reflections: off;
• Volumetric Lighting Quality: Medium;
• Subsurface scattering: off;
• Shadow quality: low;
• Contact shadows: incl .;
• Shadow cache: on;
• Glow: incl. Doesn't affect performance;
• Glare: incl. Doesn't affect performance;
• Grit: Off Doesn't affect performance;
• Depth of Field: Off Doesn't affect performance;
• Lens distortion: incl. Doesn't affect performance.