Silence - The Whispered World 2

The Whispered World
The Whispered World	2010
Silence - The Whispered World 2	2016

General information

Official Forum

Official Support Website

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Released in Germany. Includes soundtrack on CD and a poster
GamersGate
Gamesplanet
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Microsoft Store		Xbox Play Anywhere, Xbox Game Pass for PC
Steam

A demo is available from GOG.com and Steam.

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Name	Notes
Artbook
Soundtrack

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Daedalic Entertainment GmbH\Silence\Settings\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Daedalic Entertainment GmbH\Silence\Savegames\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video settings[edit]

In-game graphic settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Only supports 16:9 aspect ratio. Otherwise letter- and/or pillarboxed.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Fullscreen option is borderless. See Unity.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		As part of the quality presets.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Disabled on the lowest quality preset.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input settings[edit]

In-game control settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging		Once plugged in, the controller has to be enabled in the options menu.
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

In-game gamepad layout menu
In-game keyboard/mouse layout menu

Audio settings[edit]

In-game audio settings

In-game language and subtitle settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Game is paused on focus lost which stops any sounds and music. Only exception being the main menu.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German
Polish
Simplified Chinese
French
Italian
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Greek

Issues fixed[edit]

The Official Support Website has a list of known problems and solutions.

Long loading times[edit]

Long loading times on screen changes could be caused by Vsync. Try disabling it in the graphics menu and make sure not to force it through your GPU control panel to see if anything changes.^[2]

VR support[edit]

3D modes	Native	Notes
vorpX		G3D, Z3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
OpenGL	2
Shader Model support	3.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Dual-Core 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Intel HD 5000 DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 ATI Radeon HD 7900

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.7
Processor (CPU)	Dual-Core 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Intel HD 5000	Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 ATI Radeon HD 7900

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS	12.10 LTS, 14.04 LTS
Processor (CPU)	Dual-Core 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Intel HD 5000	Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 ATI Radeon HD 7900

Notes

↑ Unity engine build: 5.3.6p7^[1]

References

↑ Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-03-19
↑ Verified by User:Waschbär on 2017-05-26

[2] Unity engine build: 5.3.6p7^[1]

[engineversion-1] Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-03-19

[3] Verified by User:Waschbär on 2017-05-26

[Note 1]

[2]

[1]

Developers

	Daedalic Entertainment
Engines
	Unity 5^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows	November 15, 2016
macOS (OS X)	November 15, 2016
Linux	November 15, 2016