Resident Evil 9, officially titled Resident Evil Requiem, released on February 27, 2026, and quickly became the fastest-selling entry in the franchise’s history. Built on Capcom’s RE Engine, it follows FBI agent Grace Ashcroft as she investigates a string of deaths tied back to the ruins of Raccoon City, shifting the series’ focus away from Ethan Winters after Resident Evil Village. On PC, the game has become one of the more actively modded RE Engine titles since launch, and REFramework has been at the center of that.
Current REFramework support status
REFramework already supports Resident Evil Requiem, and support has been maintained continuously since shortly after release. That said, “supported” comes with an asterisk worth understanding before you install anything.
Requiem ships with an unusually heavy stack of protections for a single-player game: Denuvo, VMProtect, Capcom’s own anti-tamper system, SteamStub, and standard Steam DRM are all present at once. Capcom’s anti-tamper layer specifically checks for signs of memory modification, which is exactly what REFramework needs to do to hook into the game. The practical result has been a repeating cycle since launch: Capcom ships a patch, the patch updates the anti-tamper layer, REFramework stops working until it’s updated to match, and the developer pushes a fix, usually within a few days. This has happened more than once in the months since release, and there’s no strong reason to expect it to stop.
What this means for you is straightforward: always grab the latest build from the official nightly releases rather than an older cached copy, especially right after a game update. If the game crashes immediately after the RE Engine logo following a Requiem patch, that is the known symptom, and the fix is almost always waiting for or grabbing an updated REFramework build rather than something wrong with your own setup.
What actually works right now
A few things are worth knowing about Requiem specifically, since they differ slightly from older RE Engine titles.
Film grain cannot be disabled from the game’s own settings. Requiem forces a film grain and noise post-processing effect that has no in-game toggle. This is one of the most commonly installed Lua scripts in the community right now, precisely because there’s no other way to turn it off.
Free camera, FOV, and ultrawide support work the same way they did in earlier titles. These are part of REFramework’s built-in feature set rather than anything game-specific, so if you’ve modded a previous RE Engine game before, this part will feel familiar.
VR support exists but is a community addon, not a built-in REFramework feature. A separate VR mod, distributed through Nexus Mods rather than bundled with REFramework itself, adds motion controller support, positional tracking, and haptic feedback for compatible headsets. It depends on REFramework being installed first and is updated on its own schedule, so version mismatches between the two are a real possibility if you update one without the other.
DualSense adaptive trigger and haptic support is also a separate community script, not something REFramework provides out of the box. It layers on top of the base installation the same way the VR support does.
Installing REFramework for Requiem
- Download the current REFramework build for RE9 specifically, since builds for other games are not interchangeable.
- Extract
dinput8.dllinto the game folder, in the same directory asre9.exe. - Launch the game normally and press Insert to open the REFramework menu once you’re past any loading screens.
- If the game crashes on launch, check whether Requiem received a patch recently. If it did, you likely need a newer REFramework build than the one you downloaded.
Avoid running other DLL injectors or overlays alongside REFramework during your first launch, since conflicts between injection-based tools are a common source of crashes that get mistakenly blamed on REFramework itself.
A note on multiplayer and online features
Requiem’s core campaign is single player, and REFramework use there follows the same general pattern as other RE Engine titles: client-side visual and camera mods carry little practical risk, while anything that would need to interact with online components or leaderboards deserves more caution, since Capcom’s enforcement approach for online-adjacent features has not been fully tested by the community at the scale older titles have seen. If Requiem’s post-launch content adds a competitive or connected mode down the line, treating REFramework the same way you would in a game with ranked online play is the safer default.
Performance considerations
Requiem is a demanding game on PC even without mods, and free camera or VR use adds further load on top of the base game. If you notice a drop in frame rate after installing REFramework or any of the community scripts above, disable them one at a time rather than all at once to isolate which addition is actually responsible. The film grain removal script in particular is lightweight and rarely the cause of a slowdown, while the VR addon is the heaviest of the commonly used community mods simply because of what it has to render.
Conclusion
Resident Evil Requiem is a fully released, commercially successful game with active REFramework support, not an upcoming title with speculative compatibility. The framework itself provides the same core toolset it always has: free camera, FOV control, ultrawide fixes, and a Lua scripting layer, while VR and advanced controller support come from separate community addons built on top of it. The one real complication specific to this title is Capcom’s aggressive anti-tamper stack, which has caused repeated short-lived compatibility breaks after game updates since launch. Keeping REFramework current, especially right after a Requiem patch, is the single most useful habit for anyone modding this game.