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
Silent Hill 2: Director's Cut 2002
Silent Hill 3 2003
Silent Hill 4: The Room 2004
Silent Hill: Homecoming 2008

Key points

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS, cutscenes at 15 FPS. See Wrapper by Nemesis.
Widescreen resolutions are not supported. See Wrapper by Nemesis.
Only supports DirectInput for controllers, with no true analog support.
Some of the hauntings from the console version are missing.

General information

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

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail

Essential improvements[edit]

Wrapper by Nemesis[edit]

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. Has minor 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

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System Location
Windows

Save game data location[edit]

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saves

Video settings[edit]

Silent Hill 4 in widescreen HD.
Silent Hill 4 in widescreen HD.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use Wrapper by Nemesis or sh4tool (run as administrator).
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Use Wrapper by Nemesis or sh4tool (run as administrator).
Field of view (FOV)
Use sh4tool (run as administrator).
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)
60 FPS
Use Wrapper by Nemesis. Has minor issues.
120+ FPS
It is highly recommended to adjust the default brightness and contrast. Brightness = 4, Contrast = 8, all gamma 1.0 looks fine.

Windowed[edit]

Set with D3D8 Wrapper[citation needed]
  1. Download D3D8 Wrapper.
  2. Extract to the installation folder.
  3. Edit d3d8.ini.
  4. Set ForceWindowedMode to 1.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse deceleration present.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Only supports DirectInput for controllers and default bindings are awkward. Controls should be adjusted. No true analog support.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Additional information
Button prompts Input settings icon - Generic Controller.svg
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
For XInput controllers see Force feedback driver for XInput.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls
BGM and SE
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English
Italian
Only available in the European version.
Japanese
Russian
Check here
Spanish
Only available in the European version.

Issues unresolved[edit]

Poor cutscene shadows[edit]

Shadows looks poor in many cutscenes and the player may want to disable them in the options.

Issues fixed[edit]

Resolution locked to 400x300[edit]

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

System requirements[edit]

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