Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is an ongoing project of enhancement packages that makes the PC version of Silent Hill 2 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:
Made by a collaborative team of programmers, modders, and artists, Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition provides a definitive Silent Hill 2 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 we're implementing by viewing our project update videos.
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Soft shadows are restored for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Dynamic objects receiving shadows upon themselves is restored for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Post-processing effects, such as the depth-of-field blur, are restored.
Post-processing effects, such as motion blur, are restored.
Post-processing effects, such as pseudo light blooms, along with shadow levels, are restored.
Fog complexity, density, and speed is restored for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Specularity is restored. This gives "shininess" to things such as character eyeballs, Pyramid Head's helmet, Maria's skirt, etc.
Specularity is restored. This gives "shininess" to things such as character eyeballs, Pyramid Head's helmet, Maria's skirt, etc.
Lighting levels have been restored to their original values to correctly brighten environments and dynamic objects.
Full screen images have been AI-upscaled or lovingly recreated by hand, making them the highest quality versions to date.
Full screen images have been AI-upscaled or lovingly recreated by hand, making them the highest quality versions to date.
A high resolution font makes for improved legibility and presentation.
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.
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.
Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition maintains softer shadows at higher rendering resolutions.
Fog complexity, density, and speed is restored for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
Per-pixel lighting creates round and smooth lighting effects, as seen in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
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.
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.
Full screen images maintain their original aspect ratios, when played in widescreen, for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition. This prevents image stretching/distortion.
Menus maintain their original aspect ratios, when played in widescreen, for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition. And a high resolution font makes for improved legibility and presentation.
Correct texture mapping is accounted for in Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
The front draw distance for Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is increased to hide the environment loading into frame. (Images brightened to better illustrate.)
OS: Windows 7 1
Processor: Newer than 8 years old
Graphics: Newer than 8 years old
Graphics Type: Dedicated graphics card 2
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space 3
OS: Windows 10 1
Processor: Newer than 5 years old
Graphics: Newer than 5 years old
Graphics Type: Dedicated graphics card 2
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.