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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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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
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. 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

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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.

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It is highly recommended to adjust the default brightness and contrast. Brightness = 4, Contrast = 8, all gamma 1.0 looks fine.
It is highly recommended to set on realtime shadows in the game settings.

Windowed

Instructions

Input settings

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Controller support

A fix is required for the game to properly recognize XInput triggers and right analog stick when assigning controls.
Instructions
XInput Plus replaces the dinput8.dll included in the Wrapper by Nemesis.
Instructions

Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
Only available in the European version.
Japanese
Russian
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

References