Capcom is re-releasing DirectX 11 versions of Resident Evil 2, 3, and 7 after criticism

Capcom is making the DirectX 11 versions of Resident Evil 2, 3, and 7 available again for PCs after player criticism. Capcom previously released newer versions of those games, which introduced ray tracing, but therefore also had higher system requirements.

Capcom writes on Steam that the company has removed previous versions of the resident evil 2-remake, Resident evil 3remake and Resident evil 7 available again on Steam after “an overwhelming response from the community.” Users can install the old versions from the Steam settings. Users can right-click on the Resident Evil game in question in their Steam library, select ‘properties’ and go to the betas menu there. In that menu, users can downgrade their game to version ‘dx11_non-rt’.

Capcom released an upgrade for the three Resident Evil games on Steam and current-gen consoles earlier this week. Those updates exchanged DirectX 11 for version 12 on the PC and brought better graphics with ray tracing and improved 3D audio, among other things. As a result, the new versions had higher system requirements and the games no longer ran on older operating systems such as Windows 8. Players therefore complained that they could no longer run the game on their PC. Due to the updates, several mods also stopped working.