Silent Hill 2: Director's Cut
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Developers | |
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Team Silent | |
Windows | Creature Labs |
Publishers | |
Konami | |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 2, 2002 |
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
- Silent Hill 2 PC comes with improved flashlight lighting, a quick-save function, real-time weapon swapping and a movie gallery.
General information
- Silent Hill Wiki - A wiki for the series
- Silent Hill Memories - Informative site
- Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition Installation Guide
Availability
- There are two versions: the North American version and the European Director's Cut version. If the title screen lacks "Director's Cut" on it, it's the North American version. Both versions include the extra scenario Born from a Wish along with an extra UFO ending.
Essential improvements
Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition
- Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is a collection of unofficial mods which implement widescreen resolution support, add PlayStation 2 quality audio and fog that were missing from the PC version, improve controller support and much more.[1]
Silent Hill 2 Audio Enhancement Pack
- The PC version's audio is compressed and lacks detail in comparison to the PlayStation 2 version.[2]
- The Audio Enhancement Pack replaces the PC version's audio files with the original, higher quality PlayStation 2 ones.
Silent Hill 2 FMV Enhancement Pack
- The PC version's FMV videos were re-encoded in Bink format and run at 30FPS instead of 60 on PlayStation 2.[3]
- The FMV Enhancement Pack improves the quality and upscales the resolution of the FMVs.
Silent Hill 2 HD Collection Voice Pack
- This replaces the original voice acting with the new voices from the Silent Hill HD Collection release.[4]
- The HD Voice Pack includes and integrates the Audio Enhancement Pack and FMV Enhancement Pack for its audio improvements.
Silent Hill 2 PC Fix by Steam006
- A fix which adds new features and fixes some bugs.
- Do not use this fix if you plan to follow the Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition installation method.
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 1] |
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keyconf.dat
stores input bindings. -
language.ini
stores language settings. -
options.ini
stores gameplay and volume settings. -
settings.ini
stores video and audio settings.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\data\save\[Note 1] |
Video settings
Change noise effect resolution
Change IncreaseNoiseEffectRes[5] |
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Input settings
Controller support
- Analog triggers and vibration on XInput controllers won't function without workarounds.
Fix triggers and vibration[6] |
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Audio settings
- May require DirectSound3D restoration software to restore hardware-accelerated 3D sound functionality on Windows Vista and later.
Localizations
- Use Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition to restore the language selection in the options menu.
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Arabic | Fan translation, download. | |||
Simplified Chinese | Fan translation, download. | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | Fan translation, download. Includes a widescreen patch. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation, download. | |||
Russian | Fan translation by «HomeTown.ru / Ashigaru». | |||
Spanish | ||||
Indonesian | Fan translation, download. |
Issues unresolved
Issues when playing the game at 60 FPS[7]
- The intensity/effectiveness of the motion blur is reduced by half.
- The bullet casing sound effects for the handgun and shotgun glitch out.
- Camera speed movement fix (
PS2CameraSpeed
) moves twice as fast. - Animation for James transcribing notes onto his map is twice as fast.
- James' inner monologue (immediately upon exiting the hospital) may run twice as fast now.
- Water animates/moves quicker in all areas (James rowing on the lake, water in the labyrinth, etc) and drains twice as fast during the RPT Apartment boss fight.
- The flames in Angela's staircase move twice as fast now.
- The flashlight dies out twice as fast in the prison bug room.
- The "ritual" prison monster's footsteps happen way too fast.
Issues fixed
Music fades randomly and sound loops
- The game can only run stably on a single core.
Limit the game to one CPU core[citation needed] |
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Game hangs at startup
- On Windows 7, having single core affinity enabled through Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition may prevent the game from running.
Disable SingleCoreAffinity on Windows 7[8] |
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Clicking or popping sound effects
Use IndirectSound[9] |
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Textures appear as solid white surfaces
Use WhiteShaderFix[10] |
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"Insert a disc" message in the ending
Rename ending.bik[11] |
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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 |
Make James run without slowing down
Apply unlimited stamina hack[12] |
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Disable background fog
Disable fogging[13] |
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Add icon to executable file
-
sh2pc.exe
may have no icon set by default.
Set icon with Rcedit[14] |
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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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 |
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 2: Enhanced Edition - Installation Guide
- ↑ Silent Hill 2 Sound Comparison (PC vs PS2) - YouTube
- ↑ DF Retro: Silent Hill 2 - Horror Perfected on PS2/Xbox/PC/PS3
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4L3KiqpgQU&t Voice Comparison]
- ↑ Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition - Configuration Examples
- ↑ Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition - Update Video #3 - YouTube
- ↑ Side effects playing the game at 60 FPS · Issue #28 · elishacloud/Silent-Hill-2-Enhancements
- ↑ Troubleshooting · AeroWidescreen/NFS-SH-WidescreenFixWiki Wiki
- ↑ Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition - Installation Guide
- ↑ Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition - Installation Guide
- ↑ Silent Hill 2 Director's Cut PC Ending Troubles : silenthill
- ↑ Silent Hill 2 stamina fix · Issue #344 · ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack
- ↑ DxWnd / Discussion / General Discussion:Silent Hill 2: no sound on alt-tab
- ↑ SH2 Options/Inventory Font Resolution · Issue #375 · ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack