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Revision as of 15:48, 8 February 2016

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Silent Hill 2: Director's Cut
Silent Hill 2: Director's Cut cover
Developers
Team Silent
Publishers
Konami
Release dates
Windows December 2, 2002
Silent Hill 2: Director's Cut on Wikipedia
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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

Can only run stably on a single core. Use Modern Compatibility Fix (if North American version) or sh2proxy (if European Director's Cut version). It is recommended to use the latter.
The PC version adds improved flashlight lighting, the ability to save at any time during the game, swap weapons without opening the menu, and a movie gallery.
The atmospheric fog and the shadowing are much simpler and less refined than the PlayStation 2 version.[1]
Locked to 30 FPS. Requires .exe modification to run at 60 FPS.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Released on 3 CDs.
Windows
There are two versions, the North American version and 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

sh2proxy

Silent Hill 2 running at 1920x1080
Silent Hill 2 running at 1920x1080

A D3D8 wrapper for the European Director's Cut version which allows:

  • Custom resolutions and widescreen
  • Windowed and borderless windowed mode.
  • Fixes anti-aliasing and processor affinity.
  • Allows you to use a high resolution without slowing down transition speeds.

After installing sh2proxy, you can download this optional alternate executable which disables cut-scene letterboxing: http://www.mediafire.com/download/1mm2v1ioiob6fxb/sh2pc_letterboxfix.zip

Modern Compatibility Fix

Allows higher resolutions and easier anti aliasing application (at the cost of some glitches). Only use this for the North American version.

Instructions
Selectable resolutions do not go up all the way to 4K, enabling GeDoSaTo or Nvidia DSR does not affect the list. Selecting a higher resolution than your monitor's crashes the game.

Remastered corrected widescreen FMVs

All-in-one archive: Google Drive

Note: "ending.bik" may need to be renamed "end.bik", or you may receive a "insert a disc" message in the ending.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Video settings

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60 FPS

Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

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May require DirectSound3D restoration software to restore hardware-accelerated 3D sound functionality on Windows Vista and later.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Russian

Issues unresolved

Flashlight illuminates objects and monsters behind James

  • There is a minor flashlight glitch where the flashlight will illuminate objects and monsters behind James - there is no known fix.

Issues fixed

Weird lines across the screen

Instructions

Missing textures

Disables depth of field, motion blur and minor lighting effects.
Instructions

Windows 10 fullscreen with borders

Instructions
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
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

References