Silent Hill 4: The Room

Silent Hill 4: The Room

Developers
	Team Silent
Publishers
	Konami
Release dates
Windows	September 9, 2004
Reception
Metacritic	67
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Survival horror
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Horror, North America
Series	Silent Hill

Silent Hill
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

Silent Hill 4: The Room is a singleplayer cinematic camera survival horror game in the Silent Hill series.

The PC version lacks the soft shadows and some of the "hauntings" from the PlayStation 2 version.

General information

Silent Hill Memories - Informative site

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM v5 DRM.
GOG.com		Port of the European PC version.

Essential improvements

Silent Hill 4 PC Fix by Steam006

Adds new features such as widescreen resolutions, cutscenes at 30 FPS, restored PS2 brightness levels, restored hauntings and fixes some of the bugs found within the game.

Instructions
Download the ZIP file and copy the contents to <path-to-game>. Configure options in Silent_Hill_4_PC_Fix.ini (Optional). Run the game from SILENT HILL 4.exe. Notes Password: pcgw

Silent Hill 4: The Room 16:9 FMV Pack by CataBridge

A modified in-game video pack that lets you watch the FMVs in 16:9 Widescreen without the 2Dfix option of the ThirteenAG patch.

Without the 2Dfix option you can now view the FMVs in 16:9 Widescreen without losing any effects.

Recommended to be used with Steam006's Fix.

Instructions
Download the archive here. Copy the contents to the game directory and overwrite files when prompted. Notes Compatible with the GOG version. Converted from the PS2 version.

Skip intro splash screens

Should not be combined with Steam006's Fix.

Use Silent Hill 4 Widescreen Fix by ThirteenAG

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\input.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\saves\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Native for the GOG version. See Widescreen resolution for retail versions.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD			Native for the GOG version. See Widescreen resolution for retail versions.
Field of view (FOV)		Use sh4tool.
Windowed		Present in the GOG version. See Windowed for retail versions.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Present in the GOG version (2x-16x).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Present in the GOG version (MSAA 2x-8x). Could cause issues with how objects are rendered, causing lines to appear over them.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Present in the GOG version.
60 FPS		30 FPS cap for gameplay in retail and digital releases. 15 FPS cap for cutscenes in physical release. See High frame rate.
120+ FPS

Recommended in-game settings: Brightness = 4, Contrast = 8 and all gamma to 1.0.

Widescreen resolution

Most of these fixes are included in Steam006's Fix.

Silent Hill 4: The Room Widescreen Fix by ThirteenAG

A D3D8 wrapper which adds some fixes and new features, such as:

• Widescreen support.
• Disabling cutscenes letterboxing.
• Cutscenes at 30 FPS instead of 15 FPS.
• Disabling hardware check before launching.
• UI/HUD width correction in widescreen.

When enabling this latter option, shader effects are disabled and makes some UI elements look strange.

Silent Hill 4: The Room Wrapper by Nemesis

A wrapper for the North American version which adds some fixes and new features, such as:

• Ability to change the resolution.
• FOV correction in widescreen.
• Disabling cutscenes letterboxing.
• Cutscenes at 30 FPS instead of 15 FPS.
• Disabling blur in cutscenes (change all values to 0).
• Pause background will render at native resolution.
• 60 FPS support. Experimental; Has serious issues.

Not compatible with the GOG release.

Windowed

Use DxWnd
Download and run DxWnd as administrator. Click on Edit, then Add. Set name and executable path. Set Acquire admin caps. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed. Click on Mouse tab, set Mouse Clipper to On. Click OK, then File and Save. Run the game directly from DxWnd.

High frame rate

Enable 60 FPS support
Download Silent Hill 4 Wrapper by Nemesis. Open the 7z file and go to Nemesis 60FPS. Copy the contents to the game directory. Notes 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 blur in cutscenes

Instructions
Install Silent Hill 4: Wrapper by Nemesis. Edit sh4w.ini and change all blur values from -1.0 to 0.0.

Fix screen flickering on Windows 8/8.1

Use d3d8to9
Download d3d8to9. Copy d3d8.dll to the game directory.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Mouse deceleration present.
Mouse sensitivity		Can be adjusted via Steam006's Fix. But the X and Y axis have different speeds/sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		Can be adjusted via Steam006's Fix. But the X and Y axis have different speeds/sensitivity.
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Controller support

Controller support was fixed in the GOG version.

For retail copies, a fix is required for the game to properly recognize XInput triggers and right analog stick when assigning controls.

Fix button assignment[citation needed]
Download and run XInput Plus. Set Target Program to SILENT HILL 4.exe. Go to the DirectInput tab and check Enable DirectInput Output. Assign LT/RT to Button11/12. Assign Right Stick to Z Rot/Z Axis. Click Apply and a DLL file will be added to the game directory.

Use XInput Plus and Wrapper by Nemesis

Go to the game directory and delete all DLLs besides checkdx.dll,drc.dll and dsetup.dll. Download the Wrapper by Nemesis. Extract the Nemesis 60FPS or Nemesis Wrapper folder to the game directory and rename it to scripts. In the scripts folder, delete dinput8.dll and rename sh4w.dll to sh4w.asi. Download the latest Ultimate ASI Loader. Extract dinput8.dll, then rename it to d3d8.dll and move it to the game directory. Install and use XInput Plus as described above in "Fix button assignment". Notes XInput Plus replaces the dinput8.dll included in the Wrapper by Nemesis.

Use Steam Input
Add the game to Steam as a non-Steam game. Path to executable is <path-to-game>\SILENT HILL 4.exe. Launch through Big Picture mode. Check the community-made configurations for an applicable set of bindings. Notes Alternatively, the GOG version can be launched through Steam as a non-Steam game. Steam Input's community controller configurations can then be used.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		BGM and SE
Surround sound		Dolby Digital 5.1. May get up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		Set Dolby Digital in-game and use DSOAL to get HRTF.
Royalty free audio		An optional scene when the player is looking through door's viewfinder features a copyrighted sound effect of "Spanish or Italian Couple Yelling at Each Other, Through Thick Wall Perspective" which part of The Hollywood Edge Sound Effects Library and gets flagged on Twitch.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese				Fan translation. Download.
French				European retail and GOG only
German				European retail and GOG only
Italian				European retail and GOG only
Japanese
Polish				Fan translation by grajpopolsku. Download. (no diacritics). A version with diacritics made by different authors is available here.
Brazilian Portuguese				Fan translation. Download.
Russian				Retail only. Patch for digital release here.
Spanish				European retail and GOG only
Turkish				Fan translation. Download.
Turkish				Neewest Fan translation. Download.

Issues fixed

The game closes itself immediately after launching

White screen shows up twice, but no logos are visible when they should be. The game closes itself immediately after.

Install the game on the Local Disk (C:)

The game fails to run

Some systems that meet the technical requirements may still fail to run the game.

Use Silent Hill 4 Widescreen Fix by ThirteenAG

Bypass initial check
Go to the game directory. Delete or rename CheckSpec.dll.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Modifications

Silent Hill 4 Randomizer

Instructions
Download Ultimate ASI Loader and extract its contents. Rename dinput8.dll to dsound.dll and move it to the game directory. Download Silent Hill 4 randomizer and extract its contents. Move data and scripts folders to the game directory. Go to the scripts folder, open randomizer.ini and set RestoreHauntings to 0 if using Steam006's fix. Notes Not compatible with retail copies.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz or AMD Athlon	Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti ATI Radeon 8500 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1b compatible	Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 64 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible