Konami Digital Entertainment and Screen Burn Interactive’s survival horror game, Silent Hill: Townfall, is now available for PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs and the Steam Deck.
Before we delve into the best settings for the PC version of Silent Hill: Townfall, 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: Townfall 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 Options
- Windowed Mode: Borderless Windowed
- Resolution: As per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Upscaling: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
- V-Sync: Off on a display that doesn’t support VRR/G-Sync (set to your target refresh rate if screen tearing is bothersome)
- Frame Rate Limit: As per the max refresh rate o your display or preference
Graphics Options
- Fog Quality: High
- Texture Quality: Ultra
- Reflections: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Global Illumination: Medium
- Post-Processing: Medium
- Ray Tracing: On
- Motion Blur: As per your preference
How Does Silent Hill: Townfall Run On Steam Deck?
Display Options
- Windowed Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution:1280 x 800
- Upscaling: AMD FSR
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
- V-Sync:120 Hz
- Frame Rate Limit: 240 (cap at 30 via the system settings)
Graphics Options
- Fog Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low
- Reflections: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Global Illumination: Low
- Post-Processing: Low
- Ray Tracing: Off
- Motion Blur: Off
As seen in the above video, Silent Hill: Townfall tends to dip below the target frame rate of 30 fps on the Steam Deck using the lowest possible graphical settings, but mostly remains in the high 20s. It does occasionally drop into the low 20s or lower during asset streaming. As such, we consider the game to be mostly playable on Valve’s handheld device.
