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Digital Foundry: Resident Evil 4 Switch + Resident Evil Zero + Resident Evil Remake Analysis!
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- Video features Alex Aniel ( cvxfreak )
Resident Evil 4:
- Docked: 900p. Portable 600p.
- No gyro controls
- Switch version employs mip-maps. (Not in any other version)
- Targets 60 FPS.
- Docked stays there pretty often but drops to low 50's in battles/bosses.
- Portable still has some slowdowns but performance is better than Docked.
- John mentions he would have preferred a 30 FPS lock.
Resident Evil Remake:
- Loading times are much longer and you see black screen for 5, 10 seconds after the door animation finishes.
- Docked: 1080p. Portable: 720p (?)
- Some Bad frame pacing (Same as PS4) and occasionally some scenes drop a few frames.
Resident Evil Zero:
- Loading times are longer than the door animations and unlike REmake, the animations pauses mid-way to let it finish.
- Video features Alex Aniel ( cvxfreak )
Resident Evil 4:
- Docked: 900p. Portable 600p.
- No gyro controls
- Switch version employs mip-maps. (Not in any other version)
- Targets 60 FPS.
- Docked stays there pretty often but drops to low 50's in battles/bosses.
- Portable still has some slowdowns but performance is better than Docked.
- John mentions he would have preferred a 30 FPS lock.
Resident Evil Remake:
- Loading times are much longer and you see black screen for 5, 10 seconds after the door animation finishes.
- Docked: 1080p. Portable: 720p (?)
- Some Bad frame pacing (Same as PS4) and occasionally some scenes drop a few frames.
Resident Evil Zero:
- Loading times are longer than the door animations and unlike REmake, the animations pauses mid-way to let it finish.
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Considering that you're constanly going through doors, that sounds pretty bad. Now that I'm used to playing the PC version with the door skip mod I'd have a pretty hard time adjusting to that.
Edit: watched the video, 14 seconds to go through a door... There are lots of instances where you go through several doors in quick succession so yeah, that's not ideal.
Sort of depressing that Capcom wasn't able to get their GameCube ports to run at native res and/or 60FPS. I get that they were ported to MT Framework and have a handful of new effects, but still.
The resolution(s) for RE4 seem a bit weird? They couldn't get this to 1080p/720p docked/undocked? Will probably pick up RE4 at some point, but am thinking I will wait for a sale.
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Whoops. Lemme fix that real quick. Swear it was like that in the description (fixed now on the YT video).
RE4 seems fine, but still disappointing.
All would be forgiven for gyro controls, but that and the price tag make it a skip
It's not really a GC game any longer, though. This is a port of the PS4/XO version.
Ps4 version also has frame pacing issue? Weird. I'm very sensitive about such stuff, never noticed it.
Wow, those wait times between door animations. That sounds absolutely terrible considering the amount of times you enter/exit a room.
And yet it's somehow still missing effects from the GameCube game *cries*
Same here. I'd love to see the differences between all of the versions of RE4.
It's also 10 USD more than any other console version currently in the market ever was.
I think they are both great on PC - also RE4 on PC has the absolutely amazing RE4 HD project.
was looking at getting this down the line but this might kill it for me
1080p30 maybe.
They're the best versions on their own, IMO, but with mods they're definitive.
Man the load times on REmake and RE0 are rough D: Hopefully they can patch those, that'd drive me nuts
Could see myself grabbing RE4 down the line with a cheaper price (especially necessary with the UK price...) and maybe with a Switch Pro style upgrade that could power through frame rate drops
There's also an ESRGAN AI upscale pack for REmake which looks lovely, can't wait to replay REmake+RE4 down the line with the texture mods :D
Though unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to raise the internal resolution above 1920x1440 on either REmake or RE0. At least they both support 60fps, weirdly the only versions to do so.
Could see myself grabbing RE4 down the line with a cheaper price (especially necessary with the UK price...) and maybe with a Switch Pro style upgrade that could power through frame rate drops
There's also an ESRGAN AI upscale pack for REmake which looks lovely, can't wait to replay REmake+RE4 down the line with the texture mods :D
Though unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to raise the internal resolution above 1920x1440 on either REmake or RE0. At least they both support 60fps, weirdly the only versions to do so.
shame, i was expecting perfect 720p/1080p ports. that and the price, not gonna buy these anytime soon.
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And you can install very simple mods to completely eliminate the door animations in REmake and Zero.
Always a plus if you've already played the games before and are OK with skipping those animations.
Capcom, give us a locked 30FPS option for RE4 and fix that damn icon.
....lol these are never getting patched
....lol these are never getting patched
I feel like I'm crazy because I love the door animations in the old Resident Evil games. Not saying the additional loading time isn't a detriment, but it's not hampered my enjoyment of having the Resident Evil remake on the go. I'm about to go confront Wesker in the labs now.
Also very surprised RE4 portable doesn't hit 720p as it looks really sharp undocked.
Also very surprised RE4 portable doesn't hit 720p as it looks really sharp undocked.
Are the long load times in RE:RM just certain doors or every door? The video seems to suggest the former.
Oh and RE:0 wasn't upscaled like RE:RM. They had the original files and were able to re-render the backgrounds at a higher resolution.
Oh and RE:0 wasn't upscaled like RE:RM. They had the original files and were able to re-render the backgrounds at a higher resolution.
It already has in a sense. BC is confirmed for both PS4 library on PS5 and general X library on Next box, both of which mean RE4 will be natively supported on both consoles.
Looks like I'll be getting RE4 on a sale. Honestly weird that these newer ports are missing effects from the GC/Wii(?) versions and not being able to hit native resolutions on an enhanced GC game is...disappointing, to say the least, but I can overlook it if I can at least get a good deal for a portable version
RE4 is not native res in portable mode? That is surprising since game looks very clean and sharp on portable screen.
30 fps option could've been nice for ones that request it but drops are so unsignificant that i don't think the sacrifice is worth it.
30 fps option could've been nice for ones that request it but drops are so unsignificant that i don't think the sacrifice is worth it.
Kind of frustrating that RE4 of all games can't manage 1080p docked, but at least it's a somewhat-stable 60fps
