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Silent Hill: Homecoming

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

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS. Can be fixed.
The game has severe sound issues on all PC configurations and all sound systems types. Can be fixed.
Resolutions above 1920x1080 may have major issues. Can be fixed.
The game may crash when using Alt+Tab ↹ in fullscreen.[1] See Windowed.

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
GamersGate
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

Essential improvements

Unknownproject's Patch

A patch that fixes the majority of the problems this game faces.
Instructions[2][3][4][5][6]
  1. Download Unknownproject's Patch.
  2. Extract p123.zip to <path-to-game>\Bin\.
  3. See the bottom of the download page for the password.
  4. Overwrite the original file when prompted.

Notes

Turn on Vsync via GPU settings if you have any trouble.

Silent Hill Homecoming PC Fix by Steam006

A fix which adds new features and fixes some bugs
Install[citation needed]
  1. Start the game normally and set the resolution of your monitor in the options menu. Exit the game.
  2. Copy all the files to <path-to-game>\Bin\
  3. Configure the width and height and other options in Silent_Hill_Homecoming_PC_Fix.ini.
  4. Start the game with Silent_Hill_Homecoming_PC_Fix.exe.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Engine\default_pc.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\Engine\vars_pc.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\Engine\binds_pc_mjs.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19000/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %PUBLIC%\Public Documents\Silent Hill Homecoming\shv_save.bin
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19000/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings. Video quality can be set to either Medium or High, the latter resulting in slightly better textures and shadows.
In-game video settings. Video quality can be set to either Medium or High, the latter resulting in slightly better textures and shadows.

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Widescreen resolution

Set custom resolution[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Engine\.
  2. Open vars_pc.cfg.
  3. Change ScreenResHeight= and ScreenResWidth= to the desired resolution.

Windowed

Force windowed[7]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Options and enable Expert mode.
  3. Click on Edit and Add.
  4. Set the path to <path-to-game>\Bin\SilentHill.exe.
  5. Set the desired window position and size.
  6. Set Desktop if you want borderless fullscreen windowed.
  7. Click on the Hook tab, and change the injection mode to Debugger mode.
  8. Click on the Input tab.
  9. Set Cursor visibility to Hide.
  10. Set Cursor Clipper to On.
  11. Click OK, then File and Save.
Edit secondary config[8]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Engine\.
  2. Open vars_pc.cfg.
  3. Change FullScreen=true to FullScreen=false.

Film grain

Remove film grain[9]
  1. Download and run SHHPatcher.
  2. Select the Remove Film Grain option.

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

High frame rate issues

When the game is running above 30 FPS, the blood decals/pool that come out from enemies disappears very quickly.

Issues fixed

Game crashes on Alt+Tab

Run the game in windowed mode[10]

See Windowed.

Game crashes randomly

The game may crash in certain areas, such as entering the Shepherd House.
Change the resolution to 1920x1080 or lower[11]

Map screen is cropped

Change the resolution to 1920x1080 or lower[11]

Loading screen freezes

Enable/disable admin mode[citation needed]

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Fullscreen mode defaults to 60 or 100 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.[1]
Set screen refresh rate[10]
  1. Install Special K by following the Unofficial Special K Guide.
  2. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
  3. Open <path-to-game>\Bin\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\SilentHill.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used.
  4. Change RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 under [Render.FrameRate].

Camera won't stop rotating when using controller

Restart your PC or log out/in[citation needed]
Modify file[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Engine\
  2. Open binds_pc_mjs.cfg.
  3. Change:
setbind 0 COMMAND_CAMERA_X       MOUSE      0 AXIS_X          -1.0 1.0 1.0
setbind 0 COMMAND_CAMERA_Y       MOUSE      0 AXIS_Y          -1.0 1.0 -1.0
setbind 0 COMMAND_CAMERA_Z       MOUSE      0 AXIS_Z          -1.0 1.0 1.0
to:
setbind 1 COMMAND_CAMERA_X       CONTROLLER 0 AXIS_RX         -1.0 1.0 1.0
setbind 1 COMMAND_CAMERA_Y       CONTROLLER 0 AXIS_RY         -1.0 1.0 1.0
setbind 1 COMMAND_CAMERA_Z       CONTROLLER 0 AXIS_Z          -1.0 1.0 1.0

Some sounds only come out of the right speaker

Change speaker settings[citation needed]
  1. Go into audio manager.
  2. Change speaker settings to surround sound 5.1.

Alternatively, a "Headphones" setting might resolve this issue as well.

If this does not work, you will have to download a sound patch for the game, see below.

Fix sounds in the game[citation needed]

This game does not support any speaker configuration other than 5.1, that's to say you will need to patch the game in order for it to work if the workaround above didn't help.[12]

  1. Download this file: http://www.mediafire.com/file/wzux85diw1e02nw/Silent+Hill+Homecoming+BIG+Sound+FIX.exe
  2. Install it.

This should work in most cases. If you are using Stereo systems then you will need to do the following:

  1. Install the patch linked to above.
  2. Install this special sound dirver that will make it so that the game think the system is runnning on 5.1: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ra64c1l437taxia/Razer_Surround_Driver_v1.05.26.exe
  3. Config the sound settings for your pc after the install.

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

Install ENBSeries[citation needed]
  1. Download ENBSeries version d11 patch.
  2. Extract file vars_pc.cfg to <path-to-game>\Engine\ (replace old one).
  3. Extract all other files to <path-to-game>\Bin\
  4. It's strongly recommended to never set quality level to High in the video options.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 2 GB
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 1.2 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/19000/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (19000) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References