Is your PC ready for Silent Hill 2?
Published: 25th October 2022 | Source: Steam | Author: Mark Campbell
You'll need a powerful PC to run Silent Hill 2's remake
Silent Hill 2's remake is coming to PC, and the game will be extremely hard to run. Blooper Team's remake of Silent Hill 2 has been listed on Steam, and the game's system requirements are high, suggesting that many PC gamers will need to upgrade their systems before playing this highly anticipated horror remake.
The minimum system requirements for Silent Hill 2's planned remake say that they target low-medium settings at a stable 1080p 30 FPS. To achieve this performance target, AMD's Radeon RX 5700 graphics card and Nvidia's GTX 1080 graphics card are recommended. That's for 1080p 30 FPS gameplay. You'll need a much beefier system to run the game at 60 FPS.
Silent Hill 2's recommended system requirements target 1080p 60 FPS at Medium settings, or 1080p High settings at 30 FPS. These system requirements can also target 4K resolutions with the use of upscaling technologies like DLSS and other competing image reconstruction techniques. For this level of performance, Nvidia's Geforce RTX 2080 and AMD's Radeon RX 6800 XT are recommended. With system requirements like this, it is clear why Silent Hill 2 is a current-generation exclusive on consoles.
CPU-wise, Intel's i7-8700K and AMD's Ryzen 5 3600X are recommended. Blooper Team also recommends 16GB of system memory and 50GB of available storage. Silent Hill 2's remake will be a DirectX 12 title, and the game is designed to run on Windows 10 and Windows 11 based PCs.
MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 x64
Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 | AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 5700 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 50 GB available space
Sound Card: Windows Compatible Audio Device.
Additional Notes: Playing on minimum requirements should enable to play on Low/Medium quality settings in Full HD (1080p) in stable 30 FPS.
RECOMMENDED:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 11 x64
Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K | AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® 2080RTX or AMD Radeon™ 6800XT
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 50 GB available space
Sound Card: Windows Compatible Audio Device.
Additional Notes: Playing on recommended requirements should enable to play on Medium quality settings in 60 FPS or High quality settings in 30 FPS, in Full HD (or 4k using DLSS or similar technology).
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