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Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

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This page is for the original 2000 port. For the Sourcenext port, see Biohazard 3: Last Escape (Sourcenext). For the remake, see Resident Evil 3 (2020).

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis cover
Developers
Capcom
Publishers
Japan, North America Capcom
Europe Eidos Interactive
China Ubisoft China
Russia Akella
Release dates
Windows June 16, 2000
Reception
Metacritic 71
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Survival horror
Art styles Pre-rendered graphics, Realistic
Themes Contemporary, Horror, North America, Zombies
Series Resident Evil
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Resident Evil 4 Ultimate HD Edition 2014
Resident Evil HD Remaster 2015
Resident Evil Zero HD Remaster 2016
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Resident Evil 2 (2019) 2019
Resident Evil 3 (2020) 2020
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Resident Evil Village 2021
Resident Evil Re:Verse 2022
Resident Evil 4 (2023) 2023

Key points

Higher resolution backgrounds (PC uses 640x480, while PS1 uses 320x240).
The only version of RE3 with instantaneous transitions between pre-rendered backgrounds instead of half a second delays. Also natively allows the player to skip the door loadings by pressing the map button during them. In addition, there are now automatic door skip cheats for the PSX and Gamecube versions.
Capped at 30 FPS.
Suffers from PSX's shakey polygon/vertices effect (the same effect can be produced on the original RE2 Version when running in software mode) due to low-precision vertex transformation.
Press F2 to access the in-game options menu and F9 to quit the program.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Resident Evil 3: Restoration Project

Replaces low quality cut scenes and audio with higher quality versions. The English voiceover was ported from the PSX version. Its quality is much higher than that of PC version. And the music is replaced with files from the official OST.
Replaces old low resolution cut scenes with higher quality uncut versions.
Removes Japanese subtitles on some cut scenes.
Replaces voice over and music files with lossless versions.

Resident Evil 3 Environmental Graphics Mod

Increases the saturation and contrast of the backgrounds, while adding some bloom.
It also addresses some bugs. Can be used with the mod above (install after the Restoration Project).

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\bio3.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
This is the default path used by the game. The save file location can be determined by the user.

Video

Launcher/in-game video settings.
Launcher/in-game video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Kept in 4:3 aspect ratio.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

In-game keyboard settings.
In-game keyboard settings.
In-game gamepad settings.
In-game gamepad settings.

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
Russian
Translation, requires Resident Evil 3 Classic REbirth. There are also voiceovers (need to unpack to game folder and run Install.bat).
Spanish

Issues fixed

Lines across the entire screen

Disable Texture Correction in the game options[1]
Disable anti-aliasing in the GPU control panel

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Glide
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.1 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. The game's README file