Silent Hill 2 PC modders have simply fastened a 20-year-old, recreation crashing bug

The modding staff behind Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition have lastly managed to repair a recreation 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 fashionable consoles, however even on PC video games like Silent Hill 2 suffered from various points. One explicit glitch would often trigger the sport to crash, however because of a staff of modders, it is a factor of the previous.

Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is an ongoing challenge that seeks to make the sport run higher on fashionable {hardware}, together with bringing in widescreen facet ratios and bettering visuals and audio. Which sounds quite a bit higher than remaking the sport for those who ask us.

However, there’s one explicit glitch that is been an enormous downside for enjoying the sport on PC, made more and more worse as a consequence of fashionable processors.

Specifically, 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 aside from one to play it, however that is not precisely the simplest or finest method to go about issues.

So to supply a correct repair, the Enhanced Edition staff fully rebuilt the streaming audio engine from the bottom up in order that it does not trigger any bother on multi-core CPUs.

The most up-to-date replace, as detailed within the eighth video replace, additionally introduced in a variety of different enhancements, like bettering the standard of the FMV cutscenes, a tough factor to do as they’ll all be pre-rendered.

Unfortunately, taking part in the sport on PC in any respect is a little bit of a troublesome activity. The recreation is not obtainable on any digital storefronts, which means you will want a boxed copy, and it is not the most affordable factor on this planet.