The modding workforce behind Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Version have lastly managed to repair a sport crashing bug that is been round for 20 years.
Konami has fairly famously by no means given Silent Hill the therapy it would deserve relating to ports of the sport. There’s these notorious ‘HD editions’ on extra fashionable consoles, however even on PC video games like Silent Hill 2 suffered from quite a lot of points. One specific glitch would regularly trigger the sport to crash, however because of a workforce of modders, it is a factor of the previous.
Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Version is an ongoing undertaking that seeks to make the sport run higher on fashionable {hardware}, together with bringing in widescreen side ratios and bettering visuals and audio. Which sounds rather a lot higher than remaking the sport in case you ask us.
Nonetheless, there’s one specific glitch that is been an enormous drawback for enjoying the sport on PC, made more and more worse resulting from fashionable processors.
Particularly, the sport’s streaming audio engine does not like multi-core CPUs, which principally each pc makes use of now. The glitch would begin of by sure bits of audio skipping, adopted by the sport crashing.
The tough work round up till now has been to disable each processor core apart from one to play it, however that is not precisely the best or finest option to go about issues.
So to supply a correct repair, the Enhanced Version workforce fully rebuilt the streaming audio engine from the bottom up in order that it does not trigger any hassle on multi-core CPUs.
The latest replace, as detailed within the eighth video replace, additionally introduced in a spread of different enhancements, like bettering the standard of the FMV cutscenes, a tough factor to do as they’ll all be pre-rendered.
Sadly, taking part in the sport on PC in any respect is a little bit of a tricky job. The sport is not obtainable on any digital storefronts, which means you will want a boxed copy, and it is not the most affordable factor on the planet.