Silent Hill 2 Remake

Shot by Iron Gauntlet

Summary

Feature Supported
Vanilla Photo Mode No
Hotsampling Yes (see notes)
DSR Yes
Custom Aspect Ratios Yes (see notes)
Reshade Yes
Ansel No
Graphics API DirectX 11/12 (see notes)
Game version 1.04
Info

This guide is for an Unreal Engine 5 game that can use the Universal Unreal Unlocker.  

Tools

UUUv5 cleaner preset

The following is a post-process effects toggle for the game using UUUv5 preset system. It gets rid of the DOF, CA, vignette, lens flares, and film grain. To use it, create a text file called cleaner.preset inside the PostProcessPresets folder in your UUU exe folder. Then, paste the following code block inside the file:

[General]
Name=cleaner
[Setting values]
24=2|0.00
31=2|0.00
40=2|0.00
47=2|0.00
60=2|0.00
97=2|0.00
104=2|0.00

You may need to restart UUU for it to read the new preset file.

Tips and Tricks

Removing artificial lighting on characters

To remove the artificial lighting on James/Maria, simply bring the freecam a few meters away from the characters and pause/unpause once.

Taking shots in cutscenes

To shoot cutscenes, follow the given workflow:

  1. Use the game pause (Esc by default).
  2. Hide the pause menu with the tool's HUD toggle (Del by default) then toggle the UUU cam.

Using the correct DirectX version

The game will not launch properly on older cards/cards with less VRAM (like 1050ti/1650) by default. To fix this, add ~dx11 as a startup command in Steam's Game Properties section. This will also remove FSR3/Framegen toggles from the ingame options, only FSR1 is available for use with DX11.