Resident Evil 2 (2019)

Introduction

Resident Evil 2 Remake is a Singleplayer survival horror game developed and published by Capcom. It is part of the Resident Evil series and a remake of the original 1998 game of the same name, chronologically takes place two months after the event of Resident Evil remake.

It was released on January 25, 2019. A demo of the game is also available.

On June 14, 2022, Capcom rolled out a update for the game in which raytracing and 3D audio were added, but the same update had also removed the option to use DirectX 11, forcing players to use DirectX 12. After complaints of worse performance, a beta branch was made available to use the older version of the game. The same update also breaks many mods made specifically for older version of the game, requiring many modders to update their mods to be compatible with the latest version. Enabling Shadow Cache may increase performance by 33%.

Resident Evil 2 (2019)

Developers
	Capcom
Publishers
	Capcom
Engines
	RE Engine
Reception
Metacritic	91
OpenCritic	92
IGDB	91
Resources
	PCGamingWiki
	Codeweavers

macOS Compatibility

Method	Rating	Notes
Native	Perfect	Runs buttery smooth at 120 FPS with HDR.
Compatibility layer
CrossOver	Perfect	Playable with CXPatcher. Runs perfect using CXPatcher with D3DMetal and MSync Turned On, FPS around 110-120 and sometimes falls at 90 when there is much to render. Only encountered small lighting issues but they are disappearing fast.
Wine	Playable	Game Porting Toolkit - Crashes periodically every 10-30 minutes but runs smoothly with 40-60 FPS on medium-high settings. UPDATE: they say the DX11 version works fine, but I didn't check (you can switch to the DX11 version in Steam version settings)
Virtualization
Parallels	Runs	Set to the lowest settings (except resolution 1400x900), the menu runs at 60 fps, maybe even 120 fps. The framerate in-game can reach up to 2 fps.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
App Store

See PCGamingWiki for Windows and/or Linux availability.