Silent Hill 2 receives major PC improvements with patch 1.04
Silent Hill 2’s first PC update delivers some major changes
Blooper Team has released patch 1.04 for their remake of Silent Hill 2, bringing some major improvements to the game on PC. For starters, the game now supports AMF FSR 3.1.1 and Nvidia’s DLSS 3 Frame Generation technologies. Additionally, stuttering issues for the game have reportedly been fixed.
Steam Deck users can enjoy Silent Hill 2 with improved performance and optimisation for Valve’s mobile gaming hardware. A new option to “enable/disable HZB culling” has also been added to address stuttering on AMD and Intel GPUs. Sadly, Blooper Team has not revealed which option prevents stuttering on these graphics cards.
Overall, PC gamers should now have a better experience playing Silent Hill 2, thanks to patch 1.04. Frame Generation, either through DLSS or AMD FSR 3, is a great addition. Furthermore, today’s update also adds some gameplay changes. Full patch notes for update 1.04 are available here.
PATCH 1.04 CHANGELOG:Technical– Reduced visual glitches when using the latest version of NVIDIA DLSS.
– Added an option to enable DLSS frame generation in the menu when using DLSS for supersampling.
– NVIDIA Reflex is now active when DLSS frame generation is enabled.
– Added support for AMD FSR 3.1.1.
– Added an option to enable AMD Fluid Motion Frames in the menu when using FSR 3.1 for supersampling.
– Updated Intel Nanites to support upcoming driver updates.
– Improved performance and optimization for Steam Deck.
– Fixed stuttering issues related to sky map generation.
– Added an option to enable/disable HZB culling to fix stuttering on some AMD/Intel GPUs.
– All graphic settings should be saved locally.
In time, we expect Blooper Team to release more updates for the PC version of Silent Hill 2. Currently, it is unknown what else the developer has planned for the game. Hopefully, there will be further performance optimisations and further work to prevent stutters on PC.
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