Silent Hill 4: The Room
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Developers | |
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Team Silent | |
Publishers | |
Konami | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 9, 2004 |
Silent Hill | |
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Silent Hill 2: Director's Cut | 2002 |
Silent Hill 3 | 2003 |
Silent Hill 4: The Room | 2004 |
Silent Hill: Homecoming | 2008 |
Silent Hill: The Arcade (unofficial port) | 2014 |
Silent Hill 2 | 2024 |
Key points
- Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS, cutscenes at 15 FPS. See High frame rate.
- Only supports DirectInput for controllers, with no true analog support.
- Some of the hauntings from the console version are missing.[1]
General information
Availability
Essential improvements
Silent Hill 4: The Room Wrapper by Nemesis
- A wrapper for the North American version which can:
- Disable cutscene letterboxing
- Change the 15 FPS cutscenes to 30 FPS
- Enable 60 FPS support. Has serious issues:
- Causes Henry to be unable to move in attack stance
- Cannot finish the game because of a game breaking bug during the final boss
- Disable the blur in cutscenes (change all values to 0)
- Change the resolution
- Correct the FOV to widescreen
Silent Hill 4: The Room Widescreen Fix by ThirteenAG
- A D3D8 wrapper which adds some fixes and new features, such as:
- Widescreen support
- Disable cutscene letterboxing
- Correct the UI/ HUD width in widescreen.
- Enabling this option disables shader effects.
- Corrects the cutscenes framerate from 15 to 30
- Disables hardware check before launch
Skip intro videos
Use Silent Hill 4 Widescreen Fix[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\input.ini[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\saves\[Note 1] |
Video settings
- It is highly recommended to adjust the default brightness and contrast. Brightness = 4, Contrast = 8, all gamma 1.0 looks fine.
- It is highly recommended to set on realtime shadows in the game settings.
Windowed
Force windowed[citation needed] |
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High frame rate
Enable 60 FPS support[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Disable blur in cutscenes
Disable blur[citation needed] |
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Fix the flickering screen on Windows 8/8.1
Fix the flickering[citation needed] |
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Input settings
Controller support
- A fix is required for the game to properly recognize XInput triggers and right analog stick when assigning controls.
Fix button assignment[citation needed] |
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- XInput Plus replaces the
dinput8.dll
included in the Wrapper by Nemesis.
Use XInput Plus and Wrapper by Nemesis |
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Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Italian | Only available in the European version. | |||
Japanese | ||||
Polish | Fan translation, download. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation, download. | |||
Russian | Retail only. Patch for digital release here. | |||
Spanish | Only available in the European version. |
Issues unresolved
Poor cutscene shadows
- Shadows looks poor in many cutscenes and the player may want to disable them in the options.
Issues fixed
Game fails to run
- On some systems, even though you meet the requirements to play the game it won't run.
Use Silent Hill 4 Widescreen Fix[citation needed] |
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Bypass initial check[2] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III - 1 GHz AMD Athlon - 1 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce3 Ti ATI Radeon 8500 DirectX 8.1 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ http://www.silenthillmemories.net/sh4/hauntings_en.htm
- ↑ dns/Silent-Hill-4-Wide-Screen-Patch: Silent Hill 4 with Wide Screen support - last accessed on 2017-01-21