Silent Hill 2 PC - Patch 1 04 - Overview and Performance Tested - Stil a stuttering mess!
I take a quick look at the latest patch of Silent Hill 2. I am in no way qualified to talk about this, however this port, despite the high quality of the game is atrocious especially with that asking price, hence I am keeping a close eye on mods and potential patches to see if Bloober will alleviate the dreadful performance. I will not even touch the SteamDeck performance because its still atrocious.
Video Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
03:42 - Disclaimer
03:49 - Graphic Settings + Frame Generation DLSS to FSR3 explained.
05:29 - Neely's Tested(Various Settings + Frame Gen On/Off + Traversal Stutter)
13:19 - Apartments Starting Area Tested(FrameGen ON + OFF)
16:50 - Starting Area to Silent Hill run + Crash.
TLDW:
Somethings have been fixed such as ghosting on leaves, the traversal stuttering is still bad, as is the overall framerate, this game needs FrameGen desperately to maintain any semblance of a decent framerate in starting areas. FrameGen can result in crashes.
SteamDeck starting area ran at sub 30FPS. On the absolute lowest settings, as I moved into the town it eventually went up to 40 ish.
CPU:
Intel Core i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
COOLER:
Corsair iCUE H150i Elite Capellix
GPU:
NVIDIA RTX 3080 ASUS STRIX OC
RAM:
G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB (4x8GB) 3200MHz DDR4
MOTHERBOARD:
ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E - Intel DDR4 ATX Motherboard
STORAGE:
KINGSTON SHSS37A240G (SSD)
Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB (SSD)
WDC WD10EZEX-00WN4A0 - 1TB
ST1000DM003-1ER162
WD - 2TB
WD Black - 6TB
CASE:
Corsair CC-9011073-W W Graphite Series 760T V2 Windowed Full Tower ATX
PSU:
Corsair HX 750 Platinum
MOD:
https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/738
Use the above mod if you are using an Nvidia GPU and want to use DLSS with AMD FrameGen.
Grab the files from the universal version.dll and drop them into steamapps\common\SILENT HILL 2\SHProto\Binaries\Win64