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
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

Key points

Game must be installed on the main drive. See Issues fixed.

30 FPS cap. See High frame rate.

Some of the "hauntings" from the console version are missing.

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.[citation needed]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use Silent Hill 4 Widescreen Fix

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			The GOG version supports Widescreen Resolutions. Use Silent Hill 4: Wrapper by Nemesis or Silent Hill 4 Widescreen Fix for retail version.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD			Native for the GOG version. Use Silent Hill 4: Wrapper by Nemesis or Silent Hill 4 Widescreen Fix for the retail version.
Field of view (FOV)		Use sh4tool.
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Forcing through GPU driver can cause visual glitches.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Forcing through GPU driver can cause visual glitches.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS		30 FPS cap 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 1.0.

Windowed

Force windowed
Download and run DxWnd. Click on Edit, then Add. Set the name and executable path. Set the window position and size. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed. Click on Input tab, set Cursor Clipper to On. Click OK, then File and Save.

High frame rate

Enable 60 FPS support
Download Silent Hill 4 Wrapper by Nemesis. Copy Nemesis 60FPS contents to the installation folder. 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

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

Fix the flickering screen on Windows 8/8.1

Put the D3D8to9 DLL by crosire in the game folder.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Mouse deceleration present.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller 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.

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 the Target Program to SILENT HILL 4.exe Go to DirectInput and check Enable DirectInput Output Assign LT/RT to Button 11/12 Assign right stick to Z Rot / Z Axis Click Apply, this will install a DLL file in the installation folder

XInput Plus replaces the dinput8.dll included in the Wrapper by Nemesis.

Use XInput Plus and Wrapper by Nemesis

Clean up the game installation folder to its initial state: delete all DLLs besides checkdx.dll, drc.dll and dsetup.dll Open the Wrapper by Nemesis archive, extract Nemesis 60FPS or Nemesis Wrapper folder to the game installation folder (based on your preferable framerate) and rename it to scripts Delete the dinput8.dll and rename sh4w.dll to sh4w.asi in the scripts folder Download the latest Ultimate ASI Loader, extract dinput8.dll, rename it to d3d8.dll and place it to the game installation folder Now you can install XInput Plus

Alternatively, the GOG version can be launched through Steam as a non-Steam game. Steam Input's community controller configurations can then be used.

Alternative: Use Steam Input
Add 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.

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.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese				Fan translation, download.
French
German
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.
Turkish				Fan translation, download.

Issues unresolved

Poor cutscene shadows

Shadows look poor in many cutscenes. Disabling them in the options menu is recommended.

Issues fixed

Game closes itself briefly after launching

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

Install game on the main drive of the computer

Game fails to run

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

Use Silent Hill 4 Widescreen Fix

Bypass initial check
Open the folder where the game is installed. Rename CheckSpec.dll to something else or delete the file.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Mods

Silent Hill 4: The Room Wrapper by Nemesis

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

• Change the resolution
• Correct the FOV to widescreen
• Disable cutscene letterboxing
• Changes FPS in cutscenes to run at 30 instead of 15
• 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)
• Pause background will render at native resolution.

Notes

Not required for the GOG-version as it natively supports Widescreen-Resolutions.

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.
• Changes FPS in cutscenes to run at 30 instead of 15.
• Correct the UI/ HUD width in widescreen.

Enabling this option disables shader effects and makes some UI elements look strange.

• Disables hardware check before launch.

Notes

Not required for the GOG-version as it natively supports Widescreen-Resolutions.

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 ratio without the 2Dfix option of the ThirteenAG patch. Can work with ThirteenAG Widescreen Fix/GOG version. Without the 2Dfix option you can now use the ThirteenAG fix without losing any shaders along with the correct aspect ratio of FMV.

Notes

Converted from the PS2 version.

Doesn't support aspect ratio other than 16:9.

Silent Hill 4 PC Fix by Steam006

A fix which adds new features and fixes some bugs found within the game.

GOG version support added in version 1.5.0.

When prompted for a password during installation, type in pcgw.

Adding a Windows Security exception may be necessary for moving DLLInjector.exe.

Instructions[citation needed]
Copy all the files to <path-to-game> Configure options in Silent_Hill_4_PC_Fix.ini. Start the game with DLLInjector.exe.

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