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However, some settings are more intensive than others—shadows at high, for example, come with a big performance hit despite not having a hugely noticeable improvement in graphics.

Kanda, who has been with Capcom since 2002 and has worked on the last several Resident Evil games, also credited MetalFX, Apple’s graphics upscaling architecture, for allowing the graphically ...