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Resident Evil Requiem's zombie nightmare runs like a dream on PC

Been a while since I’ve done one of these. Been even longer since I didn’t have a complaint about wonky performance or some manner of debilitating stutter issue to open it with. Nope, Resident Evil Requiem is, on the technical side, a big and shiny blockbuster like they should be made: a good looker and a smooth runner both, almost regardless of graphics card heft. It is, as Capcom promised, the anti-Monster Hunter Wilds. Not a bad shooty-horror game, either.

Here are some settings to make it go ever faster

[A close-up of Leon looking focused in Resident Evil Requiem.]

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom

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by James Archer
Hardware Editor

Published on Feb. 26, 2026

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Been a while since I’ve done one of these. Been even longer since I didn’t have a complaint about wonky performance or some manner of debilitating stutter issue to open it with. Nope, Resident Evil Requiem is, on the technical side, a big and shiny blockbuster like they should be made: a good looker and a smooth runner both, almost regardless of graphics card heft. It is, as Capcom promised, the anti-Monster Hunter Wilds. Not a bad shooty-horror game, either.

Ahead of release tomorrow, I’ve put together a settings guide (see a few scrolls down) that’s what you might call an 'optimised' configuration. Really though, Requiem ticks along nicely enough that this is less about grasping for scraps of framerate and more about simply navigating its extensive, often interlinking graphical choices. More so than previous Resident Evils, Requiem is teeming with PC-specific tools and tricks, from the obvious DLSS and FSR upscalers to Multi Frame Generation (MFG) and full-on path tracing – all of which shows care for the Windows version, but does mean the options menu has more pages than Dune. Still, at least it doesn’t run worse when you walk near a cat.

[Grace burns The Girl with white light in Resident Evil Requiem.]

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom

Resident Evil Requiem system requirements and PC performance

Both minimum and recommended specs are up a bit on 2023’s Resident Evil 4 remake, including a base RAM expectation of 16GB and the explicit ask for SSD storage. These should still be easily meetable in 2026, though. The inclusion of a 6GB GPU in the minimum specs bodes well for enduringly popular 8GB cards, and even the recommended RTX 2060 Super was only a mid-ranger when it was new. In 2019.

Resident Evil Requiem minimum PC specs

OS: Windows 11 (64-bit required)

CPU: Intel Core i5-8500 / AMD Ryzen 5 3500

RAM: 16GB

GPU: GeForce GTX 1660 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB

DirectX: Version 12

Storage: SSD required

Resident Evil Requiem recommend PC specs

OS: Windows 11 (64-bit required)

CPU: Intel Core i7-8700 / AMD Ryzen 5 5500

RAM: 16GB

GPU: GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB / AMD Radeon RX 6600 8GB

DirectX: Version 12

Storage: SSD required

A couple of addendums: one, there obviously isn’t a storage capacity requirement in these, so make sure you have at least 73.33GB to spare. That’s how much a Requiem install eats up, per Steam. And two, you don’t actually need Windows 11, strictly speaking. I’ve played for hours on my stubbornly Windows 10-running personal rig, without issue.

That’s not the only way in which Requiem’s specs play it overly cautious, either. I don’t have any of the specified GPUs in my kit cupboard, but a GTX 1070 – which is older than but roughly on par with the GTX 1660 – had little trouble while nosing around a dust-caked Raccoon City. On the Lowest preset with FSR 3.1 on Quality mode, it averaged a respectable 49fps, and that was with the Leon-fringe-enhancing hair strands setting left on by default. On the visibly better-looking Low, and still with Hair 2 enabled, that average only fell to 47fps.

[Grace points a gun at something offscreen Resident Evil Requiem.]

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom

More modern entry-level GPUs fare well too. Sticking to 1080p, the latest RTX 5050 cruised to 118fps with the Max preset and DLSS Quality, and adding High-quality ray tracing effects only bumped it down to 88fps. Also, whereas fellow RE Engine work Monster Hunter Wilds leaned on frame generation to cover up its performance shortcomings, Requiem lets frame gen be used as it’s supposed to: cranking up visual smoothness in games that are already running well. Still with ray tracing, then, DLSS 4’s MFG got the RTX 5050 all the way up to 217fps on its 4x setting, without adding a particularly noticeable degree of input lag. As frame gen does, heavily, when trying to work with a low base framerate.

Intel’s B580 GPU lacks DLSS 4 support, but still managed good performances even without upscaling. At native-rez 1080p, it ran the Max preset at a slick 74fps, and 54fps with High ray tracing. Cutting RT effects and adding Quality-level FSR also made the B580 viable for 1440p, where it averaged 77fps on the High preset.

Other strong candidates for this resolution include the RTX 4060 (80fps on Max, with DLSS Quality) and the older RTX 3070 (99fps on High, also with DLSS Quality). Or, if you’ve more recently upgraded, the Radeon RX 9070 XT. This ate 1440p alive, combining the Max preset, High ray tracing, and enhanced FSR 4 upscaling for 135fps. It’s a good 'budget' option for 4K, too. Leaving all those other settings unchanged, the RX 9070 XT still managed 81fps at 4K, and dropping the ray-traced stuff saw it climb back up to 110fps.

The only exception to all this happy funtime framerate abundance – other than a single, 30-second stroll down an abnormally busy street in the intro – is path tracing. On an Nvidia RTX GPU, this gets some help from DLSS Ray Reconstruction by default, but even on the mighty RTX 5080 it cuts performance right down. At 4K, with the Max preset and DLSS on Quality, this GPU produced a very tidy 96fps, but swapping RT for PT brought it to just 46fps.

[A busy street in Resident Evil Requiem with Normal ray tracing enabled.]

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