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 remedy it would deserve in relation to ports of the sport. There’s these notorious ‘HD editions’ on extra trendy consoles, however even on PC video games like Silent Hill 2 suffered from various points. One explicit glitch would continuously 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 trendy {hardware}, together with bringing in widescreen side ratios and bettering visuals and audio. Which sounds quite a bit higher than remaking the sport for those who ask us.
Nevertheless, there’s one explicit glitch that is been an enormous downside for taking part in the sport on PC, made more and more worse resulting from trendy processors.
Particularly, the sport’s streaming audio engine does not like multi-core CPUs, which mainly each laptop 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 aside from one to play it, however that is not precisely the simplest or finest approach to go about issues.
So to offer a correct repair, the Enhanced Version workforce utterly rebuilt the streaming audio engine from the bottom up in order that it does not trigger any bother on multi-core CPUs.
The newest 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 may all be pre-rendered.
Sadly, enjoying the sport on PC in any respect is a little bit of a troublesome activity. The sport is not accessible on any digital storefronts, that means you will want a boxed copy, and it is not the most affordable factor on the earth.