The final requirements for Silent Hill 2 Remake are quite high, which is in principle understandable to me, since this is a game that uses Unreal Engine 5graphics engine that was the flagship of the new generation, and which is quite demanding on the hardware level.

Blobber Team, responsible for the development of Silent Hill 2 Remake (Konami will be the publisher), confirmed that we will need a fairly powerful PC so that we can play it in acceptable conditions and that if we want to reach the optimal level, we will need a high-end PC. He also shared an estimate of the performance we can expect for each configuration.

As always, I’m not only going to share with you the list of requirements for Silent Hill 2 Remake, but I’m also going to analyze possible equivalence errors and performance estimates. I look forward to testing it when it hits the market and sharing my findings with you in a special article.

Silent Hill 2 Remake Requirements

Minimal requirements

• Windows 10 64-bit as the operating system.
• Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X processor (six cores six threads or four cores eight threads). The equivalence is not entirely accurate, the closest to the Ryzen 3 3300X would be the Intel Core i7 7700K.
• 12 GB of RAM.
• Graphics card Radeon RX 5700 or GeForce GTX 1080. The equivalence is well set.
• DirectX 12.
• 50 GB free space.

We could play with this configuration 1080p and 30 FPS with medium low/medium quality, according to Blobber Team, and keep 30 FPS. AGAINSTLooking at the component level and considering that this is a game that will be starting from the PS5 base, it is likely to perform much better if we meet this level of requirements, although in the end it will all depend on optimization.

recommended requirements

• Windows 11 64-bit as the operating system.
• Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X processor (six cores and twelve threads). The equivalence is correct.
• 16 GB of RAM.
• Radeon RX 6800 XT or GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card. Equivalence is not correct, closest to GeForce RTX 2080 which is least powerful would be Radeon RX 6650 XT.
• DirectX 12.
• 50 GB free space.

If we meet these requirements, the Blobber Team recommends that you continue playing 1080p on medium for 60 FPS or high for a steady 30 FPS. I think there is too much of a leap in requirements too small in graphics settings, which means there’s either an optimization problem or the requirements are inflated, although it could also be that the developers were conservative and we’ll actually be able to play this hardware without problems on higher configurations, which seems most likely to me.

They also confirmed that it will be possible to play in 4K with this hardware using DLSS or similar technologywhich suggests that in Silent Hill 2 Remake we could also find AMD FSR 2 as an option to scale and improve performance. This means that thanks to these technologies, we will also be able to play better with minimum requirements.

We don’t know the release date of this game yet, we only know that it will arrive sometime in 2023, although it was just confirmed today it’s technically doneso its release could be “stopped”.