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Silent Hill 2: Director's Cut

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Silent Hill 2: Director's Cut
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Developers
Team Silent
Publishers
Konami
Release dates
Windows December 2, 2002
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Key points

Can only run stably on a single core. See sh2proxy.
The atmospheric fog and the shadowing are a lot simpler and less refined than the PS2 version.[1]
Max resolution is 1600 x 1200 and aspect ratio is 4:3. sh2proxy makes 1920 x 1080 16:9 and above possible.
Locked to 30 FPS.

General information

Silent Hill Wiki - A wiki for the series
Silent Hill Memories - Informative site

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
The Director's Cut edition is the only version available on PC that includes the extra scenario Born from a Wish along with an extra UFO ending.
Released on 3 CDs.

Essential improvements

sh2proxy

Silent Hill 2 running at 1920x1080
Silent Hill 2 running at 1920x1080

A D3D8 wrapper for the European Director's Cut version which allows:

  • Custom resolutions and widescreen
  • Windowed and borderless windowed mode.
  • Fixes antialiasing and processor affinity.
  • Allows you to use a high resolution without slowing down transition speeds.

Remastered corrected widescreen FMVs

  • All-in-one archive: MEGA

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Save game cloud syncing

No save game cloud syncing information; you can edit this page to add it.

Video settings

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Input settings

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Controller support

Xpadder works with Silent Hill 2, and may fix any annoyances in the controls. A pre-made profile can be found here.

Audio settings

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May require DirectSound3D restoration software to restore hardware-accelerated 3D sound functionality on Windows Vista and later.

Issues fixed

Weird lines across the screen

Instructions

White textures

Install sh2proxy, add to local.fix file in notepad:

HACK DX_CONFIG_USE_VERTEX_SHADERS 0

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon - 700 MHz
Intel Pentium - 700 MHz		 AMD Athlon - 1 GHz
Intel Pentium - 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.8 GB 2.3 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible 		64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

References