4K, ray tracing, performance and more discussed by the team.
In the wake of the surprise ‚drop‘ of the Resident Evil Village ‚Maiden‘ demo for PlayStation 5 …
4K, ray tracing, performance and more discussed by the team. In the wake of the surprise ‚drop‘ of the Resident Evil Village ‚Maiden‘ demo for PlayStation 5 last night, the Digital Foundry team sat down to talk about their impressions of the new demo. John Linneman and Alex Battaglia are joined by series expert Alex Aniel, author of Itchy, Tasty: An Unofficial of Resident Evil. The result? The video embedded on this page! Image quality makes for a good portion of the discussion, where the PlayStation 5 delivers a full 3840×2160, with Capcom deploying RE Engine’s excellent checkerboard-style image reconstruction technology to render up from a lower base resolution. It’s one of the more impressive implementations, looking very, very close to actual native rendering. The handling of materials and rich geometry in evidence in the demo also impressive, as does the HDR solution. In fact, the game doesn’t quite have the same punch viewed in standard SDR – blacks are quite as black as you feel they should be, while HDR mode makes a huge difference here.
