Silent Hill 2 is out now on PC, and not only is it a phenomenal re-envisioning of the 2001 original, but it's also a hell of a looker. Running on Unreal Engine 5, this is some of Bloober Team's finest work yet, and it delivers the single most convincing rendition of the sleepy town of Silent Hill ever seen before.

This type of graphical fidelity does not come cheap, however. If you've had any prior experience with Unreal Engine 5, specifically, then you likely know that this engine is a bit of a hit and miss in terms of performance. Between excessive stuttering (that raw performance cannot fix) and overall poor optimization practices, games built on UE5 look great and are terrifying to run. To that end, this short performance guide may come in handy for you, too.

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Silent Hill 2 Remake PC Performance & Specs

First things first, then, here are the minimum and recommended hardware specs for Silent Hill 2 Remake.

Minimum Hardware - Low/Medium @ 1080P/30 FPS

Recommended Hardware - Medium @ 1080P/60, High @ 1080P/30

A steep ask, especially since these are 1080P recommendations we've got here. Make no mistake: Silent Hill 2 is a great way to test your system's stability and bottlenecks, and if you're not particularly keen on relying on upscaling, you're not going to have a great time. Bloober Team recommends that we use some manner of upscaling for 4K gameplay for sure, and this goes doubly so if you choose to enable some of the game's ray-tracing features.

Silent Hill 2 Remake FPS Tweaks: Try These Out!

Obviously, you're going to want to fiddle around a bit with Silent Hill 2 Remake's in-game settings menu to get an optimal playing experience. We recommend doing away with ray-tracing of any sort and enabling DLSS/FSR if at all possible. Silent Hill 2 handles upscaling reasonably well, and using Quality or Ultra-Quality modes isn't going to massively degrade image quality here.

On this front, however, we also advise that you update the in-game DLSS/XeSS versions using these links:

Doing so is going to both increase the image quality and improve its performance by a small margin.

We've also seen reports of people being able to get rid of micro-stuttering by disabling  the HAGS (Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling) option on your PC, though this hasn't had a great effect on our testing setup. It's certainly worth a shot, regardless.

The bit that's had the biggest effect on our testbench performance is hidden here, in the unofficial UE5 .ini optimizations. You want to download the linked Engine.ini file and use it to replace the one found at \AppData\Local\SilentHill2\Saved\Config\Windows. While your mileage may vary, we've had excellent results here, and we highly recommend giving it a shot.

Of course, you're going to want to back up any game files you fiddle around with - just in case.

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Silent Hill 2 is out now on PC, and not only is it a phenomenal re-envisioning of the 2001 original, but it’s also a hell of a looker. Running on Unreal Engine 5, this is some of Bloober Team’s finest work yet, and it delivers the single most convincing rendition of the sleepy town of […]