Following in the footsteps of the very successful Resident Evil 2 Remake we see Nemesis and the rest of the crew follow and we dig into the Resident Evil 3 PC Performance from CPU cores, APIs, to graphics cards visual quality and resolution. Packing the same Reach For The Moon engine that powered the RE2 remake we are treated to improvements over that engine in this explosive follow up. If you're in search of a review of the game feel free to see what Nathan had to say about it in his review.

Minimum System Requirements

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating systemOS: WINDOWS® 7, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT Required)Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4460 or AMD FX™-6300 or betterMemory: 8 GB RAMGraphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x with 2GB Video RAMDirectX: Version 11

Testing Methodology

Resident Evil 3 Remake is another one of those fun titles to test, since it doesn't have a built-in utility. Because of this, we had to set up a benchmark course that was repeatable. Thankfully, just like when we looked at Devil May Cry V, I found a good long cutscene that performed in line with the other portions of the game I played through. Interestingly I later learned that it was the same as the opening cutscene usable in the game Demo. The test ran for 2 minutes using the Maximum preset. Much like RE:2 Remake, the game engine claims to call for much more VRAM than it will use while playing so it might be worth changing things around if you find performance a little iffy. Volumetric Lighting seems to be one of the most impactful settings in this one.

Once we had the results from 3 runs, after discarding an initial burner run for loading purposes, we took the average of average frame rates as well as the 99th percentile results from the run. We report our performance metrics as average frames per second and have moved away from the 1% and .1% reporting and are now using the 99th percentile. For those uncertain of what the 99th percentile is, representing is easily explained as showing only 1 frame out of 100 is slower than this frame rate. Put another way, 99% of the frames will achieve at least this frame rate.

Test System