Silent Hill 2's Overdue PS5 Pro Fixes Now in Konami's Hands

I'm currently playing it for the third time on my PS5 pro and I think it is just fine. But whatever.

"Silent Hill 2 was tagged as a PS5 Pro Enhanced game at launch"

Isn't that false advertising.

I'm not waiting on the fixes particularly. I'm going through Silent Hill f at the moment and I haven't been distracted by the shimmering, but did notice it while having a good look at it. I have found a few noticeable frame drops though in the town area, when the general store has a number of enemies outside it.

Oh gosh, we are screwed, aren’t we?
I have absolutely 0 faith in Konami and wouldn’t trust them to prepare me a cheese sandwich.

(If I remember correctly they removed the problem on SH2's performance mode, but its still present on the quality mode, and the game just isn't really enhanced that much in performance mode. They have then repeated the same mistakes in all of SHF's modes.)

I definitely wont be buying any of these games until they make proper Pro Enhancements.
Thats not a great loss given the number of games competing for my time and money - I will give those to the decent developers who do make very significant Pro enhancements to their games eg GoY.

Bummer. I held some hope that we might actually get the fix while it was in Bloober Team's hands... Konami on the other hand, I doubt they really care (if they did they'd have worked on the fix for Silent Hill 2 as a priority so the optimisation could be present at launch for MGS & Silent Hill F).

What a big ol bag of meh 😓

I never noticed any issues on my PS Pro but I also never understood the massive tantrums when Dragon Dogma was released either so probably not the best judge of performance issues in games

Well that means it'll never happen now then, at least these days they have removed PSSR

@Clytorial_Impact the shimmering was the worst part and thats been gone for a long time now, whilst the performance issues wouldn't be that noticable on a VRR display anyway

It was pretty bad at launch, but the shimmering did get toned down slightly in a patch soon after. To this day it isn't Pro enhanced which is why I'm still holding off on any subsequent play-throughs.

Silent Hill f is actually worse imo. I found utterly awful shimmering and pixelating as you pan the camera when there are red flowers around (there's a lot of them growing in the last few chapters). The stuttering is pretty bad too; when there are a few enemies at once it just chugs - I'm talking like half a second freezes.

If this ever will be released then as part of an update for this upcoming dlc.
Second glimpse of hope would be after the release of the PSSR2/FSR4 update next year. But if this new iteration works flawless with UE5 and the games visuals is also on another page.

How is this a “publishing matter”? Sounds more like a development matter to me. Should have been properly implemented at launch to begin with.

I played through the whole game a few months back on Pro and didn't notice these problems. I wasn't aware

I think you've completely misinterpreted what Bloober said. They're merely saying that they aren't at liberty to discuss what is or isn't coming patch-wise, and that Konami marketing team does that. In no way could what they said be interpreted as "we no longer do any dev work on the game."

The shimmering is absolutely noticeable, but didn't harm the gameplay experience. Still, the amount of time this has remained an issue isn't the best look. 😅

Im glad i didn't wait for the patch before i played, as i'd still be waiting now.

If they do Birth from a wish dlc, I'll try the pro patch then

It's almost as if the PS5 Pro was a bad idea that got executed poorly.

I remember being outraged and jealous when the PS5 Pro was first announced. The price tag was too ridiculous to even consider it, but I was bummed that I wouldn't have the ideal equipment for upcoming games like Death Stranding 2.

Fast forward to today: DS2 performed enjoyably enough on a base console, and all three of the other games I've purchased recently are apparently WORSE to play on a Pro console.

Bullet dodged.

@Troubbble we know it from the ps4 pro that the base console isn’t any kind of outdated with a pro release. Justifying the „not purchase“ is fine for you, if even necessary.
Otherwise there are games with substantial improvements on the pro. Always a matter of perspective. In general no one needs to buy anything or need to justify a purchase or not.

It's unbelievable what has become of Konami. They used to be one of the best in the 90's en early 00's. Every time they released a game you knew it would be great. These days however.

Well, you could also look at it this way:
The fact that the responsibility has shifted from the developer to the publisher could also mean that the update is already finished and just waiting to be released. And publishing it is Konami’s responsibility.

I think the update will be released with the DLC

@DanteDevilHunter it was probably enhanced by clicking a few sliders in unreal 5. That seems to be most of the problems with the pro.

Dude enough of this! They should just send Borderlands 4, Silent Hill 2, Metal Gear, Oblivion remake and everything that's broke to Cerny and watch that man fix this crap in his sleep. I'd bet he'd have patches out and every single mess cleaned up by the end of this month.

@StitchJones I mean, I can see what I can do, but no promises.

@Cerny Lol. Jimmy Cerny, not you!!!! haha

I'm only one that thought SH2 remake was amazing. I plan to beat it again. I played it on the Pro.

@carlos82 Shimmering is not gone in every mode.

PushSquare, DualShockers, Digital Foundry, IGN, etc. etc all need to push Konami for answers. Seems to be an issue mostly with their games.

@StitchJones haha so true. Mark „Genius“ Cerny and his team needs to investigate. Pretty sure they can fix this lightning fast.

There are some poor graphic anomalies in the none pro version.

@Nei At this point honestly it's better to have them wait on the big PSSR ''2.0'' update. But as gamers you get the lesser version on day one for most games nowadays.

put your faith in konami and you will be met with nothing but disappointment. every time.

On base ps5 both sh 2 and f the graphics are sharp enough to look good on a big 4k TV and the frame rate's smooth except for a short stutter while auto saving.

Don't know what everyone is on about, but the obsessive scrutiny on frames and resolution is really taking the fun out of gaming for many it seems.

Perhaps they should give away any SH2 DLC for free to appease the fans disappointed by the performance and lack of support since release. Hang on it's Konami so that'll be a cold day in Hell then...

The game has been out for a year...what the flying *****?!!!
Yeah Konami is back alright, ***** me dead

@Romans12 I agree with you, I did a run before the launch of SHf and it ran perfectly fine on my pro too.

I actually can't believe the incompetency over this...

I've been waiting this whole time for a fix but I give up now, just going to play the game, deal with the visual bugs and hope that a future fix will come on another playthrough when Konami pull their finger out.

@Fishysensei "It's almost as if the PS5 Pro was a bad idea that got executed poorly."

Meanwhile, Ghost Of Yotei looks great on the Pro.

@tameshiyaku most people just play a game and don't notice , however I wish they'd fix the water in oblivion remastered, if you turn the camera with rivers and lakes in view , you get these massive shimmering blocks on the water, it annoyed me that much i stopped playing.

@Zeke68 first party games , i don't understand why devs don't talk to one another , why didn't bloober give guerilla or sucker punch a ring and say ,hey we've got this weird shimmer effect how can we fix it ,im sure they'd help out ,dev to dev

@Zeke68 As does Cronos, weirdly.

When discussing about PS5 Pro issues in a game like Silent Hill 2 I think it’s important to be specific. It was patched within weeks when the original PSSR issues were talked about by places like Digital Foundry. The performance mode removed PSSR meaning there has been parity with the base console essentially since at least Christmas 2024. Except given the horsepower boost on Pro, the fps will be more consistent.

The quality mode has ‘never’ been addressed. It still features PSSR along with all the visual issues flagged on launch. The point here though is most people will play this in the other mode, so most people will have a fine experience.

A year later... They should pay the community for playtesting their broken release.

@tameshiyaku Yeah everybody is nuts but you. It has been a massive issue in the Pro its a joke.

@Cerny It only took them a bloody year to fix it.

I smelt the brown stuff back when the original story was published in May.

The suspicions only grew over time, and certainly factored into my decision to not buy the latest game.

These are not people I'm going to trust with my money. If they want me to pay full-whack at launch, I need some guarantee that the product will be supported and issues fixed.

Otherwise they encourage gamers to develop a habit of waiting a year and buying the game when half price in a sale. That's not in the best interests of the industry is it, as it costs them 50% of revenue.

I have bought and buy many games on the assumption of future support via Pro/Next Gen patches, and when not in perfect shape at launch, on the expectation of patches that will rectify it.

That's something I need to stop doing, or at least selectively stop doing depending on the developer/publisher involved.

@Flaming_Kaiser and the direct attack and your hyperbole is just a prime example of the healthy discourse in gaming. Congrats!

@tameshiyaku It’s an issue with the Pro, not the base 5. I finished Silent Hill 2 on my base model before getting the Pro and it was glorious! Sold that base model though after getting my Pro… One of these days I need to reinstall SH2 to see what all the fuss is about; Silent Hill f is coming first though!

@Balaam_ yep they should have just removed pssr implementation completely and just give a straight up boost mode like on Cronos (runs with higher resolution on ps5 pro)

@tameshiyaku it’s because people watch digital foundry, analysts de bits and etc

Pixel counting and frame rate analysis have really ruined gaming