I thought I would share some great news I have regarding an actual REAL fix to Silent Hill 2's PC traversal studder!
With Silent Hill 2 Remake, before, I've tried using SCS Killer's traversal stutter fix, but had no luck in resolving traversal stutter.... but... good news!
I was able to get a completely smooth and stutter free Silent Hill 2 Remake experience, with no RT noise on max settings! 120 fps and NO visible shader stutter OR traversal stutters!
clean install of Silent Hill 2 Remake, set to EPIC settings and hardware RT on
in nvidia app, set Silent Hill 2 Remake to VSYNC ON (to force frame gen to stay at a solid 120 fps on my 120Hz monitor)
used UltraPlus Manager app to tune Silent Hill 2's settings to remove ghosting, clean up all noise, remove SSR / CA / noise filter / vignette, better RT, etc
used SCS Killer to Max Compile shaders (Recording is on, their traversal fix is OFF)
Then I installed the following mod to fix traversal stutter ("Silent Hill 2 Stuttering Fix"):
I played Silent Hill 2 remake from the start all the way past Neely's Bar (the worst area for traversal stutters). Not one of the horrible traversal stutters occured! No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get them to occur / be visible! For the past 2 years I have NEVER seen it play this smoothly!
Note: I needed to use SCSKiller to precompile shaders "first" (to prevent shader comps) before using this traversal fix mod to get a perfect smooth play.
I hope Alex and others at DF Direct give this a try. It has completely changed this game!
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Re: Silent Hill 2 on PC: another Unreal Engine 5 game blighted by stutter
I thought I would share some great news I have regarding an actual REAL fix to Silent Hill 2's PC traversal studder!
With Silent Hill 2 Remake, before, I've tried using SCS Killer's traversal stutter fix, but had no luck in resolving traversal stutter.... but... good news!
I was able to get a completely smooth and stutter free Silent Hill 2 Remake experience, with no RT noise on max settings! 120 fps and NO visible shader stutter OR traversal stutters!
My PC: i5 13600K, RTX 5080
Here's how, and what I used for my setup:
Then I installed the following mod to fix traversal stutter ("Silent Hill 2 Stuttering Fix"):
https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthill2/mods/471?tab=description
I played Silent Hill 2 remake from the start all the way past Neely's Bar (the worst area for traversal stutters). Not one of the horrible traversal stutters occured! No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get them to occur / be visible! For the past 2 years I have NEVER seen it play this smoothly!
Note: I needed to use SCSKiller to precompile shaders "first" (to prevent shader comps) before using this traversal fix mod to get a perfect smooth play.
I hope Alex and others at DF Direct give this a try. It has completely changed this game!