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Revision as of 07:00, 9 June 2017

Silent Hill: Homecoming
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Developers
Double Helix Games
Publishers
Konami
Release dates
Windows November 6, 2008
Silent Hill: Homecoming guide on StrategyWiki
Silent Hill: Homecoming on Wikipedia
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

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.
Resolutions above 1920x1080 may have major issues.
Alt+Tab may crash the game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Silent Hill Wiki - A wiki for the series
Silent Hill Memories - Informative site

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Remove film grain

Can also apply Xbox/PlayStation button icons separately.
Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19000/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19000/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Template:Video settings

Video quality can be set to either Medium or High, the latter resulting in slightly better textures and shadows.
Video quality set to High will make the film grain effect more noticeable, but it can be removed.

Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Windowed

Instructions
Instructions

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game crashes randomly

The game may crash in certain areas, such as entering the Shepherd House.
Instructions

Map screen is cropped

Instructions

Loading screen freezes

Instructions

Camera won't stop rotating when using controller

Instructions
Instructions

Some sounds coming out only from the right speaker

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Cutscenes Bink Video

Other information

ENBSeries

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB (XP)
2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD-series
Nvidia GeForce 7800-series
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References