Silent Hill 2 Modders Fix 20 Year Old Game Breaking Bug
Silent Hill 2 modders just released a brand new patch addressing a game breaking bug that affects players running the game on PC. The problem which causes crashing on setups with a multicore processor has been annoying fans of the franchise for more than 20 years. When the game was released back in 2001, players with multicore processors may have been few and far between, but these days, they’re pretty common.
The modders in question are working within the framework of a long running project called Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition. This consists of “enhancement packages that make the PC version of Silent Hill 2 compatible with modern hardware and playable in widescreen aspect ratios while improving visuals, audio, and bugs.” The project is “made by a collaborative team of programmers, modders, and artists.”
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Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is all about adding “widescreen camera, high definition resolutions, upscaled fonts and 2D images, PlayStation 2 quality audio, fog, and shadows, restored post-processing effects, better controller support, and much more.”
Similar to so many other PlayStation 2 ports at the time, Silent Hill 2 came out on PC with a variety of different bugs and glitches that made the game practically unplayable. These have only gotten worse over the years through the introduction of newer hardware and modern operating systems.
"Silent Hill 2 is loved by many and considered the example of a horror game done right," one of the key contributors to the project, Ratiocinator, told GameSpot during an interview back in 2020. "For most who play it for the first time, they quickly realize what makes it so special: the visuals and art direction, the atmosphere,
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