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After Six Months on Consoles, the Resident Evil 7 Demo Finally Hits PC

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With just over a month to go until launch, you can finally try out Resident Evil 7 on your PC.

For the last six months, you could download and play the Resident Evil 7 demo, titled The Beginning Hour, on PS4 and Xbox One. Over that time, Capcom has patched the demo multiple times, adding new areas, changing up existing areas, and even adding a new end card. All of these changes must have gotten the demo to where Capcom wanted it, because it’s now been made available on PC.

Over on NeoGAF, Capcom’s senior director of digital platforms, William Bacon, has revealed the full list of graphics options that PC players will have access to. You can see a screenshot of the options menu at the front of the gallery below. Here’s the list of options included:

  • Screen Resolution: Up to 3860×2160
  • Refresh Rate: supports 144hz monitors including Nvidia G-Sync
  • Display Mode: Full screen, Windowed, or Borderless Window
  • Field of View
  • Frame Rate: 30, 60, or Variable (uncapped)
  • V-Sync: On or Off
  • Rendering Method: Normal or Interlaced
  • Resolution Scaling: 0.5X to 2.0X, 1.0X is 100%
  • Texture Quality: Very Low to Very High
  • Texture Filtering: Very Low to Very High
  • Mesh Quality: Low to Very High
  • Anti-Aliasing: FXAA, TAA, FXAA+TAA, or SMAA
  • Motion Blur: On or Off
  • Effects Rendering: Low, Medium, or High
  • Depth of Field: On or Off
  • Shadow Quality: Very Low to Very High
  • Dynamic Shadows: On or Off
  • Shadow Cache: On or Off
  • Ambient Occlusion: Off, SSAO (Variable), SSAO, or HBAO+ (Nvidia-specific)
  • Bloom Effect:On or Off
  • Lens Flare: On or Off
  • Volumetric Lighting Quality: Off, Low, or High
  • Reflections: On, Off, or Variable
  • Subsurface Scattering: On or Off
  • Chromatic Aberration: On or Off
  • Color Space: SRGB and BT.709

You can head over to Steam and download the 3.2 GB demo now. If you want to be sure your PC is up to the task, you can find the system requirements right here. Resident Evil 7 is set to release on PC, PS4, and Xbox One on January 24, 2017.

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