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How To Force A Game Into Windowed Mode

Silent Hill: Homecoming
Silent Hill: Homecoming cover
Developers
Double Helix Games
Publishers
Konami
Engines
Slayer
Release dates
Windows November half-dozen, 2008
Reception
Metacritic 64
IGDB 67
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Existent-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Survival horror
Fine art styles Realistic
Themes Horror
Series Silent Colina

Silent Hill: Homecoming on HowLongToBeat

Silent Hill: Homecoming on IGDB

Silent Hill: Homecoming guide on StrategyWiki

Silent Hill: Homecoming on MobyGames

Silent Hill: Homecoming on Wikipedia

Silent Hill
Silent Hill 2: Director'southward Cut 2002
Silent Hill 3 2003
Silent Hill 4: The Room 2004
Silent Hill: Homecoming 2008

Contents

  • 1 Availability
  • 2 Game information
    • 2.1 Configuration file(s) location
    • ii.2 Save game data location
    • 2.3 Salvage game cloud syncing
  • three Video
    • iii.one Widescreen resolution
    • iii.ii Windowed
    • three.3 Film grain
  • 4 Input
  • 5 Audio
    • v.ane Localizations
  • 6 Problems fixed
    • half dozen.i Game crashes on Alt+Tab
    • half dozen.two Issues arising from high resolution
    • half dozen.3 Loading screen freezes
    • half-dozen.4 Loading screen crashes
    • vi.five Run the game at screen refresh charge per unit
    • 6.six Camera won't stop rotating when using controller
    • six.7 Some sounds merely come out of the right speaker
  • 7 Other information
    • vii.1 API
    • vii.2 Middleware
    • 7.3 Mods
      • seven.3.1 Unknownproject's Patch
    • 7.4 4K Remastered Pre-Rendered Cutscenes
      • 7.4.ane Silent Hill Homecoming PC Fix by Steam006
    • 7.v ENBSeries
  • eight System requirements
  • 9 Notes
  • 10 References

Key points

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS. See mods.
The game has sound issues on all systems. See fixes.
Running at resolutions higher up 1920x1080 may have major issues.

General data

Steam Community Discussions
Silent Hill Memories - Informative site

Availability [edit]

All versions require Steam DRM.

Game data [edit]

Configuration file(s) location [edit]

Save game data location [edit]

System Location
Windows %PUBLIC%\Public Documents\Silent Loma Homecoming\shv_save.bin
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19000/pfx/ [Note 2]
Unknownproject's Patch changes save game data location to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\KONAMI\Silent Loma Homecoming\Engine\savegame\shv_save.bin.

Save game deject syncing [edit]

Video [edit]

In-game video settings. Video quality can be set to either Medium or High, the latter resulting in slightly better textures and shadows.

In-game video settings. Video quality can be prepare to either Medium or High, the latter resulting in slightly amend textures and shadows.

Widescreen resolution [edit]

Set custom resolution [citation needed]
  1. Become to <path-to-game>\Engine\.
  2. Open up vars_pc.cfg.
  3. Change ScreenResHeight= and ScreenResWidth= to the desired resolution.

Windowed [edit]

Force windowed[2]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Options and enable Adept fashion.
  3. Click on Edit and Add.
  4. Set the path to <path-to-game>\Bin\SilentHill.exe.
  5. Ready the desired window position and size.
  6. Ready Desktop if yous want borderless fullscreen windowed.
  7. Click on the Hook tab, and change the injection mode to Debugger mode.
  8. Click on the Input tab.
  9. Gear up Cursor visibility to Hide.
  10. Set Cursor Clipper to On.
  11. Click OK, then File and Salvage.
Edit secondary config[three]
  1. Get to <path-to-game>\Engine\.
  2. Open vars_pc.cfg.
  3. Change FullScreen=true to FullScreen=simulated.

Motion-picture show grain [edit]

Remove moving picture grain[iv]
  1. Download and run SHHPatcher.
  2. Select the Remove Film Grain option.

Input [edit]

Sound [edit]

Sound characteristic State Notes
Separate volume controls
Environs sound five.1 but.
Subtitles
Airtight captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Issues fixed [edit]

Game crashes on Alt+Tab [edit]

Run the game in windowed fashion.[five]
Fullscreen solution[half-dozen]

Use Unknownproject'due south Patch with bonus executables [v.3.0] that using the WDDM driver model and converting the game from D3D9 to D3D9EX to fix focus management without losing original system requirements.

Issues arising from high resolution [edit]

Game may crash in certain areas, such as inbound the Shepherd Firm.
Change the resolution to 1920x1080 or lower[7]
Map screen may be improperly cropped.
Change the resolution to 1920x1080 or lower[7]

Loading screen freezes [edit]

Enable/disable admin mode [citation needed]

Loading screen crashes [edit]

Employ Unknownproject'due south Patch

Run the game at screen refresh charge per unit [edit]

Fullscreen mode defaults to 60 or 100 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.[eight]
Set screen refresh rate[v]
  1. Install Special Thousand by following the Unofficial Special Yard Guide.
  2. Start the game once and shut it to permit the configuration file of Special K to be created.
  3. Open <path-to-game>\Bin\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\SilentHill.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you lot used.
  4. Alter RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 under [Render.FrameRate].

Camera won't stop rotating when using controller [edit]

Restart your PC or log out/in [citation needed]
Modify file [citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Engine\
  2. Open binds_pc_mjs.cfg.
  3. Change:
setbind 0 COMMAND_CAMERA_X       MOUSE      0 AXIS_X          -1.0 one.0 1.0 setbind 0 COMMAND_CAMERA_Y       MOUSE      0 AXIS_Y          -ane.0 1.0 -i.0 setbind 0 COMMAND_CAMERA_Z       MOUSE      0 AXIS_Z          -1.0 1.0 1.0                
to:
setbind 1 COMMAND_CAMERA_X       CONTROLLER 0 AXIS_RX         -1.0 1.0 1.0 setbind 1 COMMAND_CAMERA_Y       CONTROLLER 0 AXIS_RY         -one.0 one.0 1.0 setbind 1 COMMAND_CAMERA_Z       CONTROLLER 0 AXIS_Z          -1.0 one.0 i.0                

Some sounds simply come out of the right speaker [edit]

Game does non support whatsoever speaker configuration other than 5.1.[9]
Change speaker settings [citation needed]
  1. Go into sound manager.
  2. Change speaker settings to surround audio 5.1.
Choose a "Headphones" setting
Enable Mono Audio in Windows x settings
Download and install this audio patch [commendation needed]

If y'all are using a Stereo organisation, perform these additional steps:

  1. Install this special sound driver so that the game thinks it is running 5.one.
  2. Configure the sound settings for your PC later on the install.

Other information [edit]

API [edit]

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support three
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware [edit]

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Cutscenes Bink

Mods [edit]

Unknownproject'southward Patch [edit]

A patch that enables 60FPS+, Native Controller button prompts, reworks QTE (to deal with broken QTE due to game engine), 21:9 back up, crash fixes, and more.[10] [11] [12]
Forcefulness disables picture show grain.
Changes salvage game location data. Run into Salvage game data location.
Instructions[6]
  1. Download Unknownproject's Patch.
  2. Run and Extract Patch2.5_PreRelease.exe to <path-to-game> .
Consult Unknownproject's official Discord server for more exact instructions.
Users with GSync displays may need to disable GSync and force Fixed Refresh in NVidia Control Panel.

4K Remastered Pre-Rendered Cutscenes [edit]

Remasters the Pre-Rendered Cutscenes of SHH to 4K. Nexus Mods Page[thirteen]

Silent Hill Homecoming PC Fix past Steam006 [edit]

Adds new features and fixes some bugs.
Sometimes doesn't piece of work.
Install [commendation needed]
  1. Start the game normally and prepare the resolution of your monitor in the options card. Exit the game.
  2. Re-create all the files to <path-to-game>\Bin\
  3. Configure the width and height and other options in Silent_Hill_Homecoming_PC_Fix.ini.
  4. Starting time the game with DLLInjector.exe.

ENBSeries [edit]

Install ENBSeries [citation needed]
  1. Download ENBSeries version d11 patch.
  2. Excerpt file vars_pc.cfg to <path-to-game>\Engine\ (replace old one).
  3. Extract all other files to <path-to-game>\Bin\
  4. Information technology'southward strongly recommended to never set the quality level to High in the video options.

Organization requirements [edit]

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Organisation memory (RAM) one GB (XP)
2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk (HDD) 10 GB
Video carte du jour (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7800 serial
ATI Radeon Hd series
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX nine.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX ix.0c compatible

Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location beneath %PROGRAMFILES% , %PROGRAMDATA% , or %WINDIR% might exist redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and afterward (more than details).
  2. 2.0 two.1 File/folder structure inside this directory reflects the path(south) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may shop information in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/19000/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (19000) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Silent Colina Homecoming - Patch 1.21b - Update 2.one - YouTube
  2. Verified past User:Keith on 2017-11-twenty
  3. Verified by User:unknownproject on 2018-02-sixteen
  4. Supplant Button Icons / Remove Moving picture Grain :: Silent Hill: Homecoming General Discussions
  5. 5.0 5.1 Verified by User:Keith on 2017-xi-02
  6. 6.0 6.1 Verified by User:unknownproject on 2020-22-10
  7. 7.0 7.1 Talk:Silent Loma: Homecoming
  8. 120hz non staying! :: Silent Hill: Homecoming General Discussions
  9. [PATCH Silent Hill Homecoming BIG Sound Prepare] - last accessed on 24.10.2017
  10. Silent Hill Homecoming - Silent Hill Homecoming - Patch two.0 Update 3 [Part 1]
  11. Silent Hill Homecoming - Special Effects Control - Feature Presentation
  12. Silent Hill Homecoming - Patch 2.0 - Update1 [Interface]
  13. Verified past User:No_one_17 on 2021-12-25

Source: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Silent_Hill:_Homecoming

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