The modders of Silent Hill 2 recently released a new custom update that fixes a bug that was affecting the game’s performance on the PC platform. The processor may face crashes when playing this game, which has caused trouble for many players over the past 20 years, and Konami has never released a fix for this. When the game was released in 2001, processors with multiple cores were not common, but these days, these types of processors have long been the norm.
“Silent Hill 2” Civilian Enhanced Edition is under continuous development, adding modern enhancements to the 20-year-old game
The modder who finally decided to fix this problem is from a team of programmers, modders and artists. They are still working on the plan for a private enhanced version of “Silent Hill 2”. For example, through additional modules, the PC version of the classic “Silent Hill 2” can be compatible with more modern computer hardware, and can be played in a wide screen ratio, while improving the picture quality, sound effect and bug fixes.
According to the team, the goal of Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is to add “widescreen viewing angles, high resolution, enlarged fonts and 2D graphics, PlayStation 2-quality sound effects, fog, and shadows to the classic game. , fix post-production effects, and add better controller operations, etc.”
The original “Silent Hill 2” PC version porting quality is poor, full of errors and bugs
Like many works that were ported from the PS2 platform to the PC platform at the time, the PC version of Silent Hill 2 had a lot of bugs and errors, even to the point that the game could not be played at all. Over the years, with the introduction of new PC hardware and operating systems, these poorly ported games have encountered various compatibility problems one after another.
“Silent Hill 2 has been loved by many players and is considered a fairly successful horror game” Ratiocinator, a core participant in the development plan of “Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition”, was interviewed by GameSpot in 2020 Shi said, “For most players who try this game for the first time, they will quickly realize what is special about this game, whether it is the graphic style, art settings, atmosphere, sound effects, character stories, etc. These are the What makes this game so special, it’s also very important that players with modern monitors and hardware experience this game.”
In addition, Ratiocinator also emphasized that the minimum hardware requirements for “Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition” may be 2 to 3 times lower than the console version, and it will not use some of the low-level tricks used by the console version.
The PC version of Silent Hill 2 contained a major bug that caused the game to crash, which could cause the game to crash directly when the streaming sound effects attempted to interact with multi-core processors. The game’s sound effects start to freeze or skip stitches after a few minutes of playing, and eventually crash. In order to solve this problem, players can only manually turn off the core of the CPU to only one left, in order to play “Silent Hill 2” smoothly. Therefore, the Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition team has also spent a lot of painstaking efforts to re-tune the game’s sound engine to improve stability and solve this major problem. Just recently, the “Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition” team also released an update video on YouTube, showing players the latest progress.