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Silent Hill 4: The Room

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Silent Hill 4: The Room
Silent Hill 4: The Room cover
Developers
Team Silent
Publishers
Konami
Release dates
Windows September 9, 2004
Silent Hill 4: The Room on Wikipedia
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Silent Hill 2 2024

Key points

Gameplay locked to 30 FPS, cutscenes locked to 15 FPS. Requires Wrapper by Nemesis to change the frame rate.
Max resolution locked to 1280x960. Requires mod to increase to widescreen 1920x1080 or 1920x1200. FMVs are stretched, though there are not a lot of FMVs in the game anyway.
Only supports Dinput for controllers and default bindings are awkward. Controls should be adjusted. No true analog support.
It is highly recommended to adjust the default brightness and contrast. Brightness = 4, Contrast = 8, all gamma 1.0 looks fine.
Shadows looks poor in many cutscenes and the player may want to disable them in the options.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows

Essential improvements

Wrapper by Nemesis

A wrapper for the North American version which can:

  • Disable cutscene letterboxing
  • Change the 15 FPS cutscenes to 30 FPS
  • Disable the blur in cutscenes (change all values to 0)
  • Change the resolution
  • Correct the FOV to widescreen
  • Enable 60 FPS support (experimental)
Known bugs:
  • Causes Henry to be unable to move in attack stance

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Video settings

Silent Hill 4 in widescreen HD.
Silent Hill 4 in widescreen HD.
300px
Cheat Engine. Note the two ticked red checkboxes in the bottom left which freeze the FOV values.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Japanese
Russian
Italian
Possibly only available in certain European versions.

Issues fixed

Resolution locked to 400x300

Go to the game's folder, locate CheckSpec.dll, and rename or delete it.[citation needed]

Screen Flickering on Windows 10

This issue is no longer present after updating to Windows 10 1511 Build 10586. Use this fix if you run earlier build of Windows 10.
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98/ME/2000/XP
Processor (CPU) Pentium III - 1GHz
AMD Athlon - 1GHz
System memory (RAM) 256MB RAM
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce 3 Ti
ATI Radeon 8500
DirectX 8.1 compatible

References