SILENT HILL 2: Silent Hill 2 Optimization & Known Fixes

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Silent Hill 2 (2024) is a very new game so these settings are subject to change and may not work for your setup specifically. Here I am aiming for graphics that will provide the best experience on any system that meets the specification requirements provided by Bloober and Konami. This section is based on community input and just testing on my own, the below settings are what I found to be the best. If you disagree please comment respectfully and let me know so I can test more!

Due to the nature of how new this game is some of this information is absolutely subject to change based on new updates, I will try my best to periodically update but I WILL miss things. Please leave a comment if you know of a fix I missed, know a correction to one of my fixes or have some insight to provide on my settings.

Screen Mode – Leave this on “Fullscreen” unless you have a reason to use Borderless
Resolution – Personal preference
Raytracing – Off
Frame Rate Cap – Unlimited
VSync – Off
[Ultrawide Users] Panini Projection – Personal preference, I use off
Supersamping – FSR 3.0 is recommended but if you have DLSS you can use that
[Supersamping] Preset – Generally speaking this is preference, but I use “Performance” since FSR 3.0 doesn’t rip quality for me. The more to the left the more performance you will get.
Renderer Quality Preset – Custom
Graphic Mode – Default

Anything not listed under here can generally be left at High or Medium without much issue. If you are on an absolute potato machine and the entirety of this guide is not working I’d mess with those.
SSR – Off
Shadows Quality – Low. Can lead to a 35% performance gain with minimal visual difference.
Shaders Quality – Low. Can lead to a 7% or so performance gain with minimal visual difference.

For some reason, Bloober deemed it unnecessary to add an FOV slider. I personally do not have much of an issue with this as I am an Ultrawide user and that comes with it’s own pseudo FOV slider.

However, I understand many desire this so I am including it here. The odds of getting banned are slim to absolute none but in the extremely rare off chance it happens I am not responsible.

1. Download Unreal Engine 5 Unlocker[kemono.su]
2. Open the unlocker, run the game, add the executable to the app, and inject DLL.
3. Use the Tilde (~) key to open the console, this is normally located over your left TAB button (or set it to a different button under the Configuration menu if you are using a European keyboard).
4. In the console, type “fov 100” (without quotations) or any number of your choice, then hit Enter.

Similarly to other modern third-person games with lots of post-processing effects (e.g. A Plague Tale: Requiem, Jedi: Survivor, Black Myth: Wukong), when you rotate the camera, there is a very noticeable and distracting, white halo/ghosting/fringing effect around the playable character. Here’s how to fix it.

1. Navigate to where your config is saved. This is normally C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\SilentHill2\Saved\Config\Windows
2. Open Engine.ini in Notepad or Notepad++
3. Copy the code below to the end of the ini file and save it.

[SystemSettings]
r.SceneColorFringe.Max=0
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.motionblurquality=0
r.Distortion=0
r.DisableDistortion=1

The game doesn’t have built-in frame generation support, but Unreal Engine 5 does, at least for FSR.

You can enable FSR frame generation by following these steps.

1. Navigate to where your config is saved. This is normally C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\SilentHill2\Saved\Config\Windows
2. Open Engine.ini in Notepad or Notepad++
3. Copy the code below to the end of the ini file and save it.

[SystemSettings]
r.FidelityFX.FI.Enabled=1.

4. Select the “FSR 3.0 Supersampling” option under Display & Graphics.

The game has locked framerates in cutscenes.

You can unlock framerate in cutscenes by following these steps.

1. Download “Silent.Hill.2.Remake.FPS.unlocker.v[x].zip” here[github.com].
2. Unpack to \SHProto\Binaries\Win64\ inside the game folder.

The game has borked cutscenes for ultrawide monitors (suffer from this myself).

You can fix this by following these steps.

1. Download “Silent.Hill.2.Remake.widescreen.v[x].zip” here[github.com].
2. Unpack to \SHProto\Binaries\Win64\ inside the game folder.

If you reached the end of the guide but couldn’t find the fix you are looking for I am sorry. Please leave it below and I will look into including it in this guide. Like all of my optimization guides, I want this to be a consistently up-to-date master guide for optimization and fixes for this game.

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