Silent Hill 2 (2024) Ultra Plus

Happy Monday 😊

I've now moved this to Nexus with several updates. Lmk what you think!

https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthill2/mods/24

• Copies some settings from Cinematic to the Epic quality so they're active in-game

• Reduced black point slightly to glue the game together. Konami have used a slightly milky black, which I normally like but it doesn't work because of slight differences in texture brightnesses. Lowering the black point a smidge helps this a lot (you can still adjust overall brightness in-game)

• Sped up disk streaming by enabling DirectX 12 PSO disk cache

• Sped up lumen by a few fps

• Reduced hair pixelation by increasing MSAA

• Enabled separation between materials for subsurface scattering (doesn't look like there is SSS?)

• Enabled iris mapping (if supported)

• Enabled anisotropic filtering for virtual textures (it was completely disabled)

• Increased anisotropic filtering from 8 to 16

• Enabled light UE realtime texture sharpening

• Switched from Kraken to Selkie texture compression (Kraken is a weird choice!)

• Adjusted in-game graphics menu settings (Low, Mid, High, Epic) to better balance options

• Increased temp CPU memory from 50MB to 2048MB

• Corrected configuration bugs in DLSS and TSR

• Forced DLSS preset C

• Enabled Ultra Quality Plus in XeSS upscaler

• Increased disk requests from 1MB to 16MB each (conservatively)

• Increased streamer parallelism

• Fixed a hitch by disabling up to 15ms additional frame time for loading

• Fixed white flashes at edge of screen

• Enabled IO dispatcher system (reduces resource cost)

• Enabled the prestreamer system for smoother streaming

• Fixed a hitch by disabling texture pre-tiling

• Reduced virtual texture uploads from 8 per frame to 4 (expensive)

• Enabled downsampled occlusion queries (faster, no quality reduction)

• Added sphere bounding to frustum culls (faster, no quality reduction)

• Increased lens flare quality at Epic setting

• Increased bloom quality at Epic setting

• Increased water reflection quality (non RT) at Epic setting

• Disabled half resolution water refractions (they look awful)

• Increased grass system parallelism to prevent hitches (if grass is used)

• Disabled shader energy conservation which is for mobile platforms only

• Disabled some debugging which was still active in the shipped game

• Enabled saving of found user PSOs to disk for later caching

• Fixed mip cache sizing (was '7', needs to be '14' for 4096x textures)

• Enabled mesh streaming (it was completely disabled), otherwise meshes won't be built in time for textures and shaders, probably causing hitches

• Fixed some pop-ins by increasing LOD and shadow fade time from 0.25s to 2s

• Fixed a hitch by correcting shadow predraw resolution (it was enabled at full shadow resolution, so pointless)

• Disabled unbuilt shadows to prevent them being drawn in game (expensive)

• Possibly fixed fog jitter noise by increasing fog history weight to prevent jittering (might need to be increase it further)

• Improved performance of fog by slightly reducing Z resolution from 128 voxels to 96 (expensive, no visual difference in UE)

• Fixed a hitch by limiting shader batch time from 16ms per frame (!) to 1.5ms

• Prevented particles from running on the RHI, they should only run on the game thread