How To Play Original on Modern PC

[mdesaleah]

https://enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/

Reminder, you can play the original vision of the story, dialogue, and gameplay all on a modern PC.

video below contains story spoilers, so do avoid it if you're new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1VKvED76WQ

(a "making of" video of the original game when it released by the devs who made it.)

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Oprindeligt skrevet af BubonicDuck:

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If you want to know exactly, ask my uncle. He works with computers for a living and will confirm my statement to you in this regard.

The Enhanced Edition is completely playable on modern systems, and was designed to do so because the original CDs haven't worked for at least a decade.
Did you even check the link out?

Yes I have. I also downloaded the file and followed the instructions exactly. I couldn't run it. And the application could also be uninstalled afterwards (no longer), which is why I had to completely reinstall my Windows 11. Yesterday I sat there at the computer until 10 p.m. and, as I said, I had to reset my computer completely because of the download. It doesn't work for me.

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Oprindeligt skrevet af BubonicDuck:

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Is it possible that you are not playing the original Silent Hill 2 directly via Windows 11 or 10, but via VMware, i.e. a virtual machine, on which you have Windows 95 or 95 installed? Just a lot to me. I can hardly imagine it any other way.

Why are you like this?

Simply because I know what I'm talking about and I've had similar experiences myself. Why are you in a Silent Hill 2 remake group if you're attached to the original anyway?

[BubonicDuck]

Oprindeligt skrevet af ingi:

Oprindeligt skrevet af BubonicDuck:

The Enhanced Edition is completely playable on modern systems, and was designed to do so because the original CDs haven't worked for at least a decade.
Did you even check the link out?

Yes I have. I also downloaded the file and followed the instructions exactly. I couldn't run it. And the application could also be uninstalled afterwards (no longer), which is why I had to completely reinstall my Windows 11. Yesterday I sat there at the computer until 10 p.m. and, as I said, I had to reset my computer completely because of the download. It doesn't work for me.

Why didn't it work? What error did you get?

Worked perfectly fine for me.
My Specs:
Win 11
i5-10400F
RTX 3060 Ti
16GB RAM

Also you didn't need to uninstall it. There is no install. You just delete the files if you don't want them anymore.

[BubonicDuck]

Oprindeligt skrevet af ingi:

Oprindeligt skrevet af BubonicDuck:

Why are you like this?

Simply because I know what I'm talking about and I've had similar experiences myself. Why are you in a Silent Hill 2 remake group if you're attached to the original anyway?

Hmmm, why would I be interested in a remake of a game I like?
🤔

[BubonicDuck]

Oprindeligt skrevet af ingi:

Downloading my abandonware is illegal. I was very unlucky and downloaded the game from this file. But it didn't work, and until now I was busy resetting my computer with Windows 11 thanks to the download of the original Silent Hill 2. Even on the Internet you can see that the site is illegal.

OMG I'm such an idiot for responding to an obvious troll/German.

[mdesaleah]

Oprindeligt skrevet af BubonicDuck:

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Simply because I know what I'm talking about and I've had similar experiences myself. Why are you in a Silent Hill 2 remake group if you're attached to the original anyway?

Hmmm, why would I be interested in a remake of a game I like?
🤔

There are really rare times a remake is great. But I find that a lot of the time they end up missing out on details.

The best remakes I’ve seen are Metroid Prime Remastered (it’s labeled a remaster but graphically it’s a remake, and it nails the attention to detail and original tone), Resident Evil 1 (keeps both gameplay and original intended art design intact, only adds new things), Metroid Zero Mission (might as well be a completely new game but in this case, doing it to an NES game makes sense), and maybe Nier Replicant (mostly really good but I could nitpick the new voice recordings. Same actors, but there’s something special about their first recordings that’s lost now)

(SH2 is not one of those really well done remakes)

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Unfortunately, I can't say what kind of error message I got when executing the file because I forgot to take a screenshot. As I said, I couldn't uninstall the file afterwards. The uninstallation was refused, which is why, as I said, I had to reinstall my system.
Here is my system.



Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 22631) (22621.ni_release.220506-1250)
Language: German (Regional Setting: German)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: Z590 GAMING X
BIOS: F8 (type: UEFI)
Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700F @ 2.50GHz (16 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16254MB RAM
Page File: 6003MB used, 13193MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, no HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.5.5

Unfortunately, I can no longer list the error message here because I didn't think to take a screenshot of it.

I had the same problem with the retro game Indiana Jones and the Tower of Babel. I found it on Steam, the original from 1999. I bought it full of anticipation, but I didn't enjoy it much. It was a complete disaster to play it under Windows 11. After a certain amount of time, the main character automatically walked backwards and climbed backwards down the ladders on his own. With a heavy heart, I had to uninstall the game and request a refund via Steam. Because I saw that the game doesn't work properly under Windows 11.

Unfortunately, switching to an older operating system didn't help.

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Oprindeligt skrevet af BubonicDuck:

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Downloading my abandonware is illegal. I was very unlucky and downloaded the game from this file. But it didn't work, and until now I was busy resetting my computer with Windows 11 thanks to the download of the original Silent Hill 2. Even on the Internet you can see that the site is illegal.

OMG I'm such an idiot for responding to an obvious troll/German.

I also recently watched the complete gameplay for Silent Hill 2 on YouTube from the original. Is not that enough? Why do I have to play the original????

[mdesaleah]

Oprindeligt skrevet af ingi:

Oprindeligt skrevet af BubonicDuck:

OMG I'm such an idiot for responding to an obvious troll/German.

I also recently watched the complete gameplay for Silent Hill 2 on YouTube from the original. Is not that enough? Why do I have to play the original????

Cause....................its a game?

You spoiled it for yourself, but its essentially "Why do I have to read a book, I can just read the Wikipedia summary"

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Oprindeligt skrevet af mdesaleah:

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I also recently watched the complete gameplay for Silent Hill 2 on YouTube from the original. Is not that enough? Why do I have to play the original????

Cause....................its a game?

You spoiled it for yourself, but its essentially "Why do I have to read a book, I can just read the Wikipedia summary"

Why did I spoil it for myself? I watched the original and compared it with the first trailer released in 2022. And I noticed that there were a few little things missing from the original that were in the trailer for the remake from 2022.

[mdesaleah]

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Oprindeligt skrevet af mdesaleah:

Cause....................its a game?

You spoiled it for yourself, but its essentially "Why do I have to read a book, I can just read the Wikipedia summary"

Why did I spoil it for myself? I watched the original and compared it with the first trailer released in 2022. And I noticed that there were a few little things missing from the original that were in the trailer for the remake from 2022.

I'll assume this is trolling from now on, so this is the last take on this.

But, if you're not the one in control and making decisions in a horror game, then you're not getting the full intended effect of how the game was designed to be experienced

Its why playing a horror game is always much scarier than watching someone else do it for you.

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Why are you forced here? I repeat you are "forced" to play a game without any fictitious reason behind it, even though the remake is coming out soon? It's unimaginable for me. And I don't believe in instant downloads from the Internet at all. Something like that can backfire very quickly, and there are no complete games available as full versions that you can download for free on the Internet.

[TappedWalnut]

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Unfortunately, I can't say what kind of error message I got when executing the file because I forgot to take a screenshot. As I said, I couldn't uninstall the file afterwards. The uninstallation was refused, which is why, as I said, I had to reinstall my system.

Not to be that turn it off and back on guy, but you sure you are running everything as an adminstrator?

Cause i couldn't play Xdefiant and couldn't uninstall Xdefiant cause it was refused.
Which sounds similar to your problems, I had to run the Ubisoft launcher and game as administrator to fix both.

I have both games running perfectly cause of the fan patches making them run on modern systems. Enhanched edition SH2 is the best way to play even.

Sincerely hope the fix might be this simple. And otherwise there is always PS2 emulation for the folks that can't get it running. That's how i played them before finding the PC versions.

Also, Myabandonware is 100% legit.
It's all games you legit can't buy in any way shape or form outside of second hand copies.
Their download of Silent Hill 2 is probably going down the moment this remake launches.
Happened to THPS 1 and 2 on there when that remake launched.
Happened to Silent Hill 4 the moment the GOG version dropped.

They don't risk getting taken down because of pirating games you can buy or have had a new release, they will direct you to the right store to buy them.

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PS2 emulators are total garbage in my opinion. I had already downloaded an emulator for my PlayStation 2 games because I wanted to show them on my YouTube channel. But I then uninstalled the program because I think the controls are rubbish. That's why I bought a capture card that can do both. Record PlayStation 3 games and record PlayStation 2 games.

I couldn't even get the game to run, even though I watched various videos on YouTube about how an emulator works.

[Maximizer]

Oprindeligt skrevet af ingi:

Old pc ports? It doesn't work to install and run older games on newer hardware without causing any problems. Plus, old PC games aren't exactly great. firstly because of the lousy controls, because there were no controllers back then, there was only a joystick but nothing else.

2ndly, today's hardware that is built into the latest computers causes massive problems unless you put together a retro PC. I know from my own experience.
3rd Or the games are so old that they were developed for Windows 95 98 that they can no longer be run. Then only one thing helps. By buying a used retro PC from Eaby or somewhere else with the right operating system. And then the game, for example Silent Hill 2, should work perfectly on this pc, but (only) on this pc. The only thing you can't do is connect a PC with, say, Windows 95 98 to the Internet. You get viruses on your PC faster than you can see them, and not even the best antivirus program can help. Also, please take a look at the system requirements for the original silent hill 2.

Minimum system requirements:

CPU: 700 MHz Pentium III or AMD Athlon.
RAM: 64MB RAM.
GPU: 32 MB 3D graphics card.
DX: DirectX 8.1.
OS: Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 98.
STO: 1.8GB
Sound: DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card.
ODD: 4X CD Rom.

Something like that can no longer work on today's operating systems. Unless, as I said, you build yourself a PC like this just for the original Silent Hill 2 or Silent Hill 3. Everything else will no longer work. I know from my own experience.

Guide for Linux:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHWg6iI_yPs

Someone playing original with Enhanced Edition on top in Windows 11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq-54XlYc-o

The question is either desire or minimal PC knowledge as Enhanced Edition website explains stuff as clear as crystal clear water from Alps.

EDIT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpQW7PrZhZg