While we collect your feedback in the "Post your issues here" thread, I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce some tips & tricks that may help alleviate some of the in-game performance issues you may be facing.

First of all, please check the Minimum and Recommended system requirements as outlined on the store page. This is very important as it has quite an impact on how the game will perform on your system.

Users with Recommended or better specs should be able to maintain 60fps with most, if not all of the bells and whistle features enabled with relative ease while maintaining 1920x1080 or better (the ‘better’ part really depends on your GPU specs).

Those users with Minimum specs or slightly above will need to consider toning down some of the video options in order to maintain proper in-game speed.

Systems not meeting the Minimum requirements aren’t tested or officially supported, but the tips and tricks outlined here should help.


Anti-Aliasing (OFF 2X, 4X, 8X) – AA is the single biggest killer of your GPU’s rendering performance. If you’re experiencing slow-downs and/or audio synch issues, lower it to 2X or turn it OFF completely. The difference between 2X and 8X in particular is not that big of a leap in terms of visual fidelity, especially if the screen resolution is above 1080P.

Screen Resolution (variable) – this is another area that has huge implications on your video rendering performance. Try lowering it 1280x720 (or whatever lowest resolution option your WIndows support) as a baseline and work your way up if you don't see any performance issues.

Shadow Quality (Low, Medium, High) – While the visual effect in-game seems relatively benign, this actually has a significant impact on your system’s rendering performance. Those experiencing slow-downs and audio synchronization issues should consider lowering this setting. Start with the lowest and work your way up to find the sweet spot.

Frame Rate (30fps, 60 fps) – If none of the aforementioned tweaks doesn't solve your slow motion or audio synch issues, it may be an indication that your system is unable to maintain both video rendering and proper in-game speeds. You may need to switch to the original game’s 30fps mode in order to maintain proper gameplay speeds.

Motion Blur (ON, OFF) – Haven’t experimented much on this feature in terms of performance impact, but the general consenus from the community seems that this should be left off regardless of whether you have performance issues or not. It adds a full-screen motion blur effect, so any fast-moving objects or quick shift in scenery will cause the screen to blur a bit.

Texture Quality (Original, HD) – Provided your GPU has ample onboard memory, the impact should be fairly minimal even if you choose HD textures. That said, it’s another area to experiment if you have lower than minimum specs, including but not limited to onboard/integrated GPU.

Post Process (OFF, 1, 2, 3) – This option applies different screen filter effect such as monotone, classic horror, and high contrast (that’s just me giving it names instead of using numbers). I don’t believe this has any noticeable impact on the game’s rendering performance, but you may want to turn it off just to be safe. The general consensus, however, is to keep it OFF from a visual quality perspective.

Anisotropy (0, 2, 4, 8, 16) – Important Note: Anisotropic filtering option is only available in config.ini. This option changes the texture filtering level which essentially reduces the level of detail for objects that are further away from the player character. Lowering the number will reduce the texture fidelity, but this may help increase performance for PCs that are at or below minimum system requirements.


config.ini can be found in C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\Documents\My Games\Capcom\RE4\
*Replace xxxxxxxx with your Windows login name

Those with switchable GPU setups such as NVIDIA’s Optimus Technology[www.nvidia.com] and AMD’s Switchable Graphics Technology[www.amd.com] can refer to HaydenK’s excellent guide which I’ve pinned on the forum.

Basically, you need to ensure the NVIDIA/AMD’s 3D control panel is specifically assigning the discrete, high performance GPU to Resident Evil 4’s executable (bio4.exe). Both platforms apparently defaults to the low-performing integrated GPU at the moment. The default assignment should change in the future when both vendors update their drivers to recognize RE4’s executable. We’ll also reach out to AMD/NVIDIA so they’re aware of this issue.

The game itself isn’t optimized for multi-GPU setups. Some may work, some may not as it hasn’t been tested with those configurations. If you’re seeing significant performance issues with the game despite having equal or better specs than recommended, you may want to experiment by disabling SLI/Crossfire as it may be causing compatibility issues.

This goes without saying, but it is highly recommended you update the video card drivers to the latest official release.

NVidia/GeForce driver: http://www.geforce.com/drivers
AMD/Radeon drive: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download


Please continue posting any new issues you run into in the “Post your issues here” thread. The more detailed information we have about your system, the better chance the dev team will be able to isolate and reproduce the issue.

While we’re not responding to each query since it’s a data collection thread, rest assured we’re monitoring and compiling each report so the development team can take a look at.

We don’t have a specific release window on a patch at this time, but we’re definitely cooking one up for release. We’ll let you know once we have more information. Please stay tuned.

-wbacon