Resident Evil Village does not officially support DirectX 11. It was designed exclusively for DirectX 12 to leverage modern features like Ray Tracing and improved CPU multithreading. The Shift to DirectX 12
The primary reason to toggle the launch options for DX11 is raw performance. The DX12 version of Village is notorious for stuttering on mid-range cards and suffering from shader compilation hiccups. In contrast, the DX11 build is rock solid. resident evil village directx 11