Silent Hill 4: The Room

Silent Hill 4: The Room

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

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

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. 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

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

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

Video settings

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

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

Input settings

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
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		For XInput controllers see Force feedback driver for XInput.

Audio settings

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

Poor cutscene shadows

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

Issues fixed

Resolution locked to 400x300

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

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