A couple of days ago, Capcom released the Chainsaw Demo for Resident Evil 4 Remake on PC. As such, we’ve decided to benchmark it on our main PC system, and share our first PC performance impressions.
In order to capture the following gameplay footage, we used an Intel i9 9900K, 16GB of DDR4 at 3800Mhz, and NVIDIA’s RTX 4090. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, and the GeForce 531.26 driver.
Resident Evil 4 Remake will have A LOT of graphics settings. Moreover, it will have ray-traced reflections (something that the demo already supports).
At Native 4K/Max Settings and with Ray Tracing, our NVIDIA RTX4090 was able to run the game smoothly. For the most part, the demo was running with framerates between 90-110fps. At the end of the video, though, we can see our Intel i9 9900K bottlenecking the RTX4090, even at 4K. Now the good news here is that this dated CPU can still maintain framerates over 70fps. Moreover, you can get a significant performance increase if you simply disable the game’s Ray Tracing effects.
Anyway, this may be the last game in which we’ll be using our Intel i9 9900K. You’ll learn more about this in the coming days (hopefully next weekend).
Enjoy the following video and stay tuned for more!
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Controls once again feels crappy, the same problem was in the other TPP games (RE2, RE3) and FPP (RE7, RE8)
Controller sticks are super slow, you need to bump sensitivity to around max level to have like similar ~5/10 sens like in other game.
Or you can bump up acceleration sensitivity but then, this will broke your muscle memory.
Keybinds on M&K are bad, mouse feels off.
Leon sprint speed is a joke, he feels to heavy.
Maybe you don’t remember RE4 classic and RE5,but these controls are as original as possible,heavy and bad,it’s Resident Evil survival horror where 50% of the horror experience are the controls…or maybe you are new to the series,but controls like this are since RE was born.
This ?
Well said!
Newbies as allways knows Sh*te ?
Go play COD kiddo
Also i forgot to mention,if you are used to FPS games like Call of duty,CS:GO,etc…those are arcade games designed to feel fast and have no weight,only response time/fps,that is why shooters are meant to be played in 120fps 60fps minimum.
RE series are more realistic aproach.
Do this experiment at home,go outside with a backpack filled till you have extra 20kg,fill your left or right pocket with extra 1kg,add some working boots and do a sprint,now take off all and sprint,you’ll see the difference.
Controls feel slow and stiff,it was intented this way,RE games can be played at 30fps while competitive shooters can be enjoyed only from 60fps and above,also no matter how many weapons or ammo you have in Call of duty your walk,run, aim speed is the same.
“Anyway, this may be the last game in which we’ll be using our Intel i9 9900K”
Finally congrats!
Thought exactly the same after several discussions with John here. ?
Congrats! On a 7900X and a 4090 I’m getting 115+ fps, so you will definitely notice the difference
Long overdue…glad finally the upgrade!
I get ~65fps in the outside area beginning, and 95+fps indoors on a 5950X + 3090TI
With FSR2(Quality) get a ~25% performance boot, but I feel FSR blurs distant details, and sharpens closer elements. I wish it had DLSS2 support…DLSS2 looks amazing in Quality/Ultra Quality mode almost always imho
About damn time for a CPU upgrade – whitch we said forever by now!
I must say, this looks slightly worse than RE8 and significantly more demanding.
Excellent, getting my RTX 4090 next week.
another 9900k bottleneck
Well done! that’s how must run all the games
native cause you’re paying more than 1000 dollars
reescalation which is fake 4k is for 200 consoles not for 1000+ dollars gpus
Should be 180 FPS. This is a PS4 game.
It’s the hair setting. For some reason that’s even more heavy than ray tracing. With it turned off, my FPS went up by like 50%!
RE Engine Magic!
Fun facts: My potato pc was able to run resident evil 7 game in 60fps, RE Engine is greatest creation by capcom
lol no its not, have u look at the games interactivity level ? Resident evil games are extremely linear and str8 forward, take for example Resident eveil 3 remake, all objects are static in nature. You can’t destroy 90% of the objects in the game. Older games have better environment interactivity then RE engine games
Runs good using my 7900 XTX / 3700X at 4K. Maxed out RT On. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0d9a7a7adb7c2e3e99538de8c3dc001a9f3c3b9a71f2bcc17fe251129691ac84.jpg
3dvcach is the sh*t.
It really doesn’t look very good, just average.
Playing this 150% at 4k and raytracing without TAA and it looks fantastic…but only if you can go that high with the resolution. TAA and FSR is horrible and makes anything really blurry.
new CPU: AMD 7950X3d
90fps at 4k native doesnt sound that much more impressive considering the cost.
It runs at like 50-60 for me in the first 5-10 minutes on a 3080/5800x3d system.
Very annoying the game doesnt have DLSS as FSR sucks.
Also character models look good but also weird at the same time. Like Leon just doesnt feel like Leon. Its like controlling a random emo.