Worth getting after patches?

[Nani!?!?]

Big fan of Silent Hill and been waiting for a patch or 2 to get this one since my system is a few years old now.

Is it running better after the patch for people with mid-tier PCs? I know the content is great, but I'm worried I'll lag through the Fogworld too much to enjoy it with my 3070 and i7.

[Smeagoleyes]

Always check and see how many threads are still showing about performance issues a day after the patch, that will always show the truth.

[Peek-A-Boo!]

The Steam Cloud was added, as for optimization, well... For some game runs better, for some worse, it's strange. In my case, the game runs great after patch

[Nani!?!?]

Originally posted by Peek-A-Boo!:

The Steam Cloud was added, as for optimization, well... For some game runs better, for some worse, it's strange. In my case, the game runs great after patch

Steam Cloud wasn't an option out of the gate? Oof glad they added it though. What specs are you using? Cuz mine arent terrible but they could definitely be better at the same time ya know?

[Illusion of Progress]

The patches were mostly bug fixes and quality of life, with a couple new settings, as opposed to real performance stuff.

The two original "big" performance issues people tend to talk about are as follows...

1. It's pretty GPU demanding, but that's if you want to play at high native resolution. Using scaling, or turning some settings down, are always options. it's not hard to get good performance with good visuals here unless you have something much slower and older. You'll be more than fine with an RTX 3070 as long as you aren't expecting 1440p native/120 FPS at maximum settings. The scaling doesn't look awful here (though some methods are better than others; I personally recommend XeSS or DLSS instead of FSR or TSR, and likewise, avoid TXAA [it has ghosting and "after image pixels"] and settle for FXAA and enable sharpening to counteract its natural bluriness the best you can) and you can drop shadows to low or medium, and shaders to medium, and it gives a nice performance boost and the game still looks fine. All in all, this one can be dealt with as long as you're not using something very low on performance. Your RTX 3070 is fine here (I'm playing on a 7800 XT for reference, maximum settings, always 60 FPS, and have headroom).

But mostly people are talking about the following...

2. The traversal stutter. You can't overpower this one with hardware; its the nature of the game so it will just be there. Personally, as someone playing on a locked 60 FPS and moving slow (mostly walking as opposed to nonstop running), it typically doesn't occur often enough or severely enough to bother me. But, your expectations may vary from mine. If you're targeting 120 FPS+ the drops may feel more severe.

[Peek-A-Boo!]

Originally posted by Nani!?!?:

Originally posted by Peek-A-Boo!:

The Steam Cloud was added, as for optimization, well... For some game runs better, for some worse, it's strange. In my case, the game runs great after patch

Steam Cloud wasn't an option out of the gate? Oof glad they added it though. What specs are you using? Cuz mine arent terrible but they could definitely be better at the same time ya know?

I'm using RTX 4060 and Ryzen 5 3600, playing on mid-high setting and the 3600 is minimum needed to play the game, but I kinda managed to pull off mid and high settings

[Nani!?!?]

Originally posted by Peek-A-Boo!:

Originally posted by Nani!?!?:

Steam Cloud wasn't an option out of the gate? Oof glad they added it though. What specs are you using? Cuz mine arent terrible but they could definitely be better at the same time ya know?

I'm using RTX 4060 and Ryzen 5 3600, playing on mid-high setting and the 3600 is minimum needed to play the game, but I kinda managed to pull off mid and high settings

My system is a little weaker than yours I think but if I play on mid I think I'll be fine if the stutters have gotten better. Thanks for the help!

[bami]

Originally posted by Nani!?!?:

Big fan of Silent Hill and been waiting for a patch or 2 to get this one since my system is a few years old now.

Is it running better after the patch for people with mid-tier PCs? I know the content is great, but I'm worried I'll lag through the Fogworld too much to enjoy it with my 3070 and i7.

The performance of the game has improved for me. At first, the performance was pretty bad, especially in The Apartment, but it feels smoother now after the patch. (for me at least)

[LoSTsOuL]

Originally posted by Illusion of Progress:

Your RTX 3070 is fine here (I'm playing on a 7800 XT for reference, maximum settings, always 60 FPS, and have headroom).

Man my 6700XT and 5600X cant run this at native 1080p 60 at all unless i use upscaling. i can get 60 but ill drop to 46 in the Apartments lobby entrance. frame generation and such are a must but it looks absolutely terrible in FSR since UI elemts flicker and the sides of the screen get funky

[Nani!?!?]

Originally posted by bami:

Originally posted by Nani!?!?:

Big fan of Silent Hill and been waiting for a patch or 2 to get this one since my system is a few years old now.

Is it running better after the patch for people with mid-tier PCs? I know the content is great, but I'm worried I'll lag through the Fogworld too much to enjoy it with my 3070 and i7.

The performance of the game has improved for me. At first, the performance was pretty bad, especially in The Apartment, but it feels smoother now after the patch. (for me at least)

Is it stuttering more in interiors or the fog world? I was thinking the shaders for the fog compiling during play would be the big issue. Is that not the case?

[Peek-A-Boo!]

Originally posted by Nani!?!?:

Originally posted by Peek-A-Boo!:

I'm using RTX 4060 and Ryzen 5 3600, playing on mid-high setting and the 3600 is minimum needed to play the game, but I kinda managed to pull off mid and high settings

My system is a little weaker than yours I think but if I play on mid I think I'll be fine if the stutters have gotten better. Thanks for the help!

But like I said, the performance is very, very strange thing in this game, so be ready to use some optimization mods, just in case

[Nani!?!?]

Originally posted by Peek-A-Boo!:

Originally posted by Nani!?!?:

My system is a little weaker than yours I think but if I play on mid I think I'll be fine if the stutters have gotten better. Thanks for the help!

But like I said, the performance is very, very strange thing in this game, so be ready to use some optimization mods, just in case

Does DLSS help much?

[Peek-A-Boo!]

Originally posted by Nani!?!?:

Originally posted by Peek-A-Boo!:

But like I said, the performance is very, very strange thing in this game, so be ready to use some optimization mods, just in case

Does DLSS help much?

In my case yeah, pretty much

[LoSTsOuL]

Originally posted by Nani!?!?:

Originally posted by Peek-A-Boo!:

But like I said, the performance is very, very strange thing in this game, so be ready to use some optimization mods, just in case

Does DLSS help much?

Upscaling nets you 20+ fps from my testing. Frame generation will double it but it looks like crap at least FSR wise

[Apocryphox]

Originally posted by Smeagoleyes:

Always check and see how many threads are still showing about performance issues a day after the patch, that will always show the truth.

You will always see threads about performance issues, even in forums for old games like Half-Life or System Shock 2.

[Barrow]

So prior to the patch there was a mod you could download from nexus mods that got rid of the poor frame rate and pacing for me, the patch seems to have done this job as well but since the patch I now have a strange back square on the left of my display