Konami’s remake of its classic survival horror game, Silent Hill 2, is now available on PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for the Silent Hill 2 remake on PC, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Silent Hill 2 Remake Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
DISPLAY & GRAPHICS
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Ray Tracing: Off
- Frame Rate Cap: Unlimited on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, otherwise with target frame rate set according to preference
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
- Supersampling: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else AMD FSR
- Supersampling Preset: Quality
- Anti-Aliasing: TXAA
- Resolution Scalability: 100%
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: High
- Shaders Quality: High
- Effects Quality: Low
- Separate Translucency: On
- Lens Flares: Low
- Global Motion Blur: Off
- SSAO: On
- SSR: On
- SSS Quality: Low
- Image Sharpening: as per preference
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
DISPLAY & GRAPHICS
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Ray Tracing: Off
- Frame Rate Cap: Unlimited
- VSync: Off
- Supersampling: AMD FSR
- Supersampling Preset: Performance
- Anti-Aliasing: TXAA
- Resolution Scalability: 66%
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low
- Shaders Quality: Low
- Effects Quality: Low
- Separate Translucency: Off
- Lens Flares: Low
- Global Motion Blur: Off
- SSAO: Off
- SSR: Off
- SSS Quality: Low
- Image Sharpening: as per preference
As seen in the video above, mostly dropping the graphical settings to their lowest allows the Silent Hill 2 remake to generally run in the 25 to 30 fps range during gameplay. In order to get a relatively consistent frame time delivery, set the frame limit to 30 fps via the Steam Deck overlay.
