Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is a project of enhancement packages that makes the PC version of Silent Hill 2 (2001) compatible with modern hardware and playable in widescreen aspect ratios, while improving visuals, audio, and bugs. Examples of what Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition provides are:
- High definition game resolutions
- Widescreen (16:9) camera fixes
- Upscaled fonts, videos, and images
- 60 FPS mode with high framerate fixes
- Restored soft shadows and audio quality
- Restored fog and post-processing effects
- Improved controller/mouse support
- ...and much more
Made by a collaborative team of programmers, modders, and artists, Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition provides a definitive Silent Hill 2 (2001) HD experience.
Browse the media below to see examples of the many improvements and enhancements in action.
Spoilers for Silent Hill 2 are present in the content below.
Learn more about the fixes and enhancements our project offers by viewing our project update videos.
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All Versions vs Enhanced Edition
Revitalized Assets
Certain environment assets have been revitalized, such as turning the flat, 2D tree textures into 3D assets for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Revitalized Assets
Certain environment assets have been revitalized, such as adding missing details to the inside of James' car for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Revitalized Assets
Certain environment assets have been revitalized, such as adding missing window details for this room for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Revitalized Assets
Certain environment assets have been revitalized, such as turning the flat, 2D balcony rail texture into a 3D asset for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Upscaled Full Screen Images
Full screen images have been upscaled or lovingly recreated by hand in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition, making them the highest quality versions to date.
Upscaled Full Screen Images
Full screen images have been upscaled or lovingly recreated by hand in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition, making them the highest quality versions to date.
Upscaled Full Screen Images
Full screen images have been upscaled or lovingly recreated by hand in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition, making them the highest quality versions to date.
Upscaled Full Screen Images
Full screen images have been upscaled or lovingly recreated by hand in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition, making them the highest quality versions to date.
Revitalized Flashlight Reflection
Flashlight reflections are restored throughout the town at night, but this reflection is also integrated into the apartments, hospital, prison, labyrinth, and hotel—making them reflections only seen in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Revitalized Flashlight Reflection
Flashlight reflections are restored throughout the town at night, but this reflection is also integrated into the apartments, hospital, prison, labyrinth, and hotel—making them reflections only seen in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Revitalized Water Effects
The water effects have been given special attention to have their visuals distort and refract what's underneath for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Revitalized Water Effects
The water effects have been given special attention to have their visuals distort and refract what's underneath for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
High Resolution Font
A high resolution font makes for improved legibility and presentation for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Vanilla PC vs Enhanced Edition
Restored Soft Shadows
Soft shadows are restored for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Restored Self Shadows
Dynamic objects receiving shadows upon themselves is restored for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Restored Depth-of-Field Blur
Post-processing effects, such as the depth-of-field blur, are restored.
Restored Motion Blur
Post-processing effects, such as motion blur, are restored.
Restored Lighting Bloom
Post-processing effects, such as pseudo light blooms, along with shadow levels, are restored.
Restored Fog
Fog complexity, density, and speed is restored for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Restored Specularity
Specularity is restored. This gives "shininess" to things such as character eyeballs, Pyramid Head's helmet, Maria's skirt, etc.
Restored Flashlight Reflections
Flashlight reflections are restored. These reflections can be seen across store windows throughout the town at night.
Lighting Adjustments
Lighting levels have been restored to their original values to correctly brighten environments and dynamic objects.
PCSX2 vs Enhanced Edition
Scaled Cutscenes
Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition scales cutscenes to match their original 4:3 horizontal compositions when played in widescreen, up to a 16:9 aspect ratio. This hides any visual anomolies when played in widescreen.
Scaled Cutscenes
When playing in widescreen, scaled cutscenes hide incorrect visuals such as "frozen" characters you were never meant to see, that are supposed to be just out of frame.
Softer Shadows
Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition maintains softer shadows at higher rendering resolutions.
Restored Fog Effects
Fog complexity, density, and speed is restored for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Per-Pixel Lighting
Per-pixel lighting creates round and smooth lighting effects, as seen in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Preserved Environment Visuals
For Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition, chunks of the environment stay visible when the camera is close to them, when played in a widescreen aspect ratio.
Camera Adjustments
Stationary cameras have been adjusted in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition to prevent the camera from clipping into walls at certain angles when playing in widescreen, up to a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Maintain Image Aspect Ratio
Full screen images maintain their original aspect ratios, when played in widescreen, for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition. This prevents image stretching/distortion.
Maintain Menu Aspect Ratio
Menus maintain their original aspect ratios, when played in widescreen, for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Texture Mapping
Correct texture mapping is accounted for in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Increased Draw Distance
The front draw distance for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is increased to hide the environment loading into frame. (Images brightened to better illustrate.)
Minimum
OS: Windows 7 1
Processor: Newer than 8 years old
Graphics: Newer than 8 years old
Graphics Type: Dedicated graphics card 2 with 2 GB VRAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space 3
Recommended
OS: Windows 10 1
Processor: Newer than 5 years old
Graphics: Newer than 5 years old
Graphics Type: Dedicated graphics card 2 with 4 GB VRAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space 3
The system requirements above are estimates based for 1080 resolution gameplay. Newer hardware may be required if playing at higher resolutions (such as 4K) or if using certain forms of anti-aliasing.
1 Compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
2 A dedicated graphics card is recommended as integrated graphics cards may likely experience slowdown when using visually demanding features for the game, such as anti-aliasing, restored fog effects, or HD resolutions, due to it sharing system memory for graphics processing. Learn more about the differences between integrated and dedicated graphics cards.
3 Approximate storage space needed for both Silent Hill 2 PC and Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition files.