Resident Evil Village PC - August 10th Patch - Ryzen 5 3600 & RTX 3060 Ti | Memory Leak issue

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Published on August 11, 2021 2:20:03 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8CYafQd_jI

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Resident Evil Village (2021)

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Greetings, everyone.

Today we’re testing the August 10th Update for Resident Evil Village that Capcom just released. You can check the patch notes here: https://www.residentevil.com/village/us/topics/update/

My previous video for RE Village with the DRM Fix patch: https://youtu.be/NkJsBZjYZaA
And check here for the August 24th patch testing video (with side by side comparison with this patch): https://youtu.be/QkXBjydngkc

My current PC specs:

-CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (stock settings) with Coolermaster Hyper 212 Black RGB (w/2 fans, push-pull).
-Mobo: MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC.
-GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC and WHQL driver 471.41.
-RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT (2x8GB) CL16 DDR4@3200 Mhz.
-Storage: PNY XLR8 CS3030 1TB NVMe (O.S. and game), Samsung 750 EVO 500 GB.
-Case: Fractal Design Meshify S2 (Intake: 2x140 Front, 1x120 Lower Front - Exhaust: 1x140 Rear, 1x120 Top/VRM Area).
-PSU: Corsair RMx 650W 80+ Gold.
-O.S: Windows 10 Pro 64bit (v.21H1).
-Monitor: AOC AGON AG251FG 1080p-240Hz.

Some timestamps:

00:00 - [1080p]Max Settings, Raytracing OFF, Pre and Post-Patch side by side comparison (Dimitrescu's Daughters Cutscene)
02:21 - [1080p]Max Settings, RT ON, Pre and Post-Patch side by side comparison
04:51 - [1440p DSR]Max Settings, RT OFF, Pre and Post-Patch side by side comparison
06:58 - [1440p DSR]Max Settings, RT ON, Pre and Post-Patch side by side comparison
08:55 - [4K DSR]Max Settings, RT OFF, Pre and Post-Patch side by side comparison
11:05 - [4K DSR]Max Settings, RT ON, Pre and Post-Patch side by side comparison
13:21 - [1080p]Max Settings, RT ON, Pre and Post-Patch side by side, Cassandra's flies encounter
16:08 - [1080p]Max Settings, RT ON, FidelityFX Super Resolution test
20:42 - FSR-Performance vs 0.5 Image Quality (Resolution Scale), side by side (and zoom)
21:07 - FSR-Performance vs Interlaced Rendering (Checkerboard), side by side (and zoom)
22:27 - Memory Leak issue, when switching graphics settings in game, Low FPS issue
25:39 - Memory Leak in action, easy to reproduce

This patch is supposed to add “processing optimizations” to improve performance, and make the game more stable, while also adding fine-tune adjustments to AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR).

But in this patch I’m also experiencing serious Memory Leak issues, that I hadn’t seen since the game released. When the game launched, if we adjusted certain settings while in game, we could get stuck in a low performance state caused by a memory leak in the game, and we had to leave the game to the main menu, and change settings there.

That issue was resolved, at least for me, in the previous patch but, unfortunately, it seems the very same issue is back for this August 10th update, which is a shame.

I can perfectly reproduce the issue by just switching the internal Resolution Scale in the game (the Image Quality setting) and, as we can see in the video, the System RAM allocation reported by Rivatuner shoots up even to my maximum available, 16 GB, at times. The game can then get stuck at lower FPS than expected and, sometimes, the only way to fix it is to restart the game.

When it comes to performance differences compared to the previous patch from July, there are barely any, only at 1080p resolution and with Raytracing disabled we can see a small difference, but when things get GPU bound, which is easy to achieve (enabling RT, increasing resolution), the differences are basically non-existent.

All in all, the game performs well enough except when we make the mistake of changing some settings in game, then the memory leaks may happen, and they need to fix this, it was better in the previous update, from my experience.

As usual, I hope this can be useful to any of you, and I’ll see you next time : )

#ResidentEvilVillage #RTX3060Ti #Ryzen3600

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