Silent Hill 3
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Developers | |
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Team Silent | |
Publishers | |
Konami | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 31, 2003 |
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 2 | 2024 |
Key points
- The PC version adds improved flashlight lighting and the ability to save at any time during the game.
- Fourteen of Heather's outfits from the PlayStation 2 version are not present in the PC release.[1]
General information
Availability
- The North American physical release had 5 CDs, while the European PC physical release features just one DVD.
- This game is not available digitally.
Essential improvements
Silent Hill 3 Widescreen Fix
- A D3D8 wrapper which adds some fixes and new features:
- Widescreen support (With proper Vert- scaling to hide off-screen characters in certain cutscenes)
- Disable cutscene letterboxing
- Native single core affinity
- Removes the fps fluctuation between 30 and 60 fps
- Correct the UI/ HUD width in widescreen (Through pillar-boxing)
- Removes the safe mode warning when closing the game through Alt-F4
- Fixes image deformation when rendering the game at higher resolutions
- Ability to change the status screen resolution
- Ability to change the depth of field resolution
- Ability to change the real time shadows resolution
- Ability to change the fog complexity
- Enables several SH2 references for new saves, a feature from sh3proxy
Silent Hill 3 PC Fix by Steam006
- A fix which adds new features and fixes some bugs:
- Allow custom window resolutions
- Allow custom rendering resolutions
- Window mode
- Borderless mode (In window mode)
- Window positioning (Useful for borderless mode)
- Fullscreen fix for DirectX 8 on Windows 10
- Use the correct FOV and enable manual control (page up and page down)
- Use the original FOV in cutscenes
- Enable DEP (Data Execution Prevention) on sh3.exe
- Set processor affinity to only use a single core
- Disable the game's safe mode
- Fix the options menu
- Depth of Field Resolution fix
- Shadow Resolution fix
- Inventory Background Resolution fix
- Status Screen Resolution fix
- Disable borders in cutscenes
- Modify the fog effect
- Random 30 FPS limit fix
- Unlock Silent Hill 2 Easter eggs
- Up to 8x multisampling
- Force VSync in fullscreen mode
- Wallhack (F1)
- Disable DirectX Fog (F2)
- Gamma control (F3 and F4)
WSMSH3 by Metallist
- WSMSH3 is an unofficial mod which implements widescreen resolution support for the FMVs.
- The PC version's FMVs have a resolution of the FMVs 512х384 and not support widescreen resolution.
- The WSMSH3 by Metallist improves the quality and upscales the resolution of the FMVs.
Skip intro videos
Delete data from files[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\savedata\[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\savedata\[Note 1] |
Video settings
- Rendering resolution is actually internal framebuffer resolution. Use Widescreen Fix to customize.
- It is highly recommended to set the Brightness Level in-game to 5 to get the most contrast.
Field of view (FOV)
Use FOV Hack[2] |
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Notes
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Input settings
Controller support
- A fix is required for the game to recognize XInput Right Stick, LT/RT, LS/RS and D-pad when assigning controls.
- Force feedback emulation can also be enabled for XInput controllers.
Use XInput Plus[3][4] |
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Audio settings
Mute on focus lost
Set mute in background[citation needed] |
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Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | Fan translation, download. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation, download. | |||
Spanish | ||||
Russian | Retail only. Patch for digital release here. |
Issues unresolved
Forcing anti-aliasing
- If using anti-aliasing (MSAA, at least), the Depth of Field effect becomes corrupted (halos around objects).[citation needed]
- Post-process AA (FXAA, MLAA) works as intended (best compatibility in conjunction with the D3D9-11 wrappers).
Issues fixed
Motion trails
- The light sources affected by bloom leaves long dark motion trails on screen when camera is moving.
Turn off the fullscreen smoothing filter[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Frame rate fluctuation
- Frame rate may fluctuate between 30 and 60 FPS.
- Both solutions won't work properly with a low FPS. Minimal FPS must be at least 50+.[5]
FPS fluctuation fix[citation needed] |
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Force single core affinity[citation needed] |
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Low resolution Depth of Field
Custom DOF resolution[citation needed] |
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Low resolution Shadows
Custom shadows resolution[citation needed] |
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Windows 10 white border
Fix fullscreen issues[citation needed] |
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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, 2000, ME, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon 1 GHz | Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4.7 GB | 6 GB |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce3 Ti AMD Radeon 8500 | Nvidia GeForce4 Ti Nvidia GeForce FX |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX compatible sound card |
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
- ↑ Silent Hill 3 Costumes - Silent Hill Memories
- ↑ Racer_S Hacks | WSGF
- ↑ [REQ] Provide Controller config for Silent hill 2+3 · Issue #191 · ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack - last accessed on 2017-01-21
- ↑ Verified by User:SavvyKat on 2018-10-13
- Tested options for the Right Stick to fix issues regarding the need to use the mouse to use search mode to its full potential.
- ↑ New features · Issue #1 · 07151129/sh3proxy