Silent Hill Downpour

Silent Hill Downpour
Developer(s)	Vatra Games
Publisher(s)	NA Konami EU Konami
Series	Silent Hill
Release date(s)	NA March 13, 2012 EU March 30, 2012
Release type	Console exclusive
Genre(s)	Action, Adventure, Horror
Mode(s)	Single-player
GameID(s)	BLES01446 (IRD), BLUS30565 (IRD)
Internal resolution	1280x720
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Silent Hill: Downpour is the latest Silent Hill game offering the familiar Survival Horror gameplay delivered in the most defined visual quality to date. The game also expands on the exploration theme of the franchise both design-wise and through psychological torture, ambient story, horrific enemies and self-evaluative questions of despair.

Murphy Pendleton has been incarcerated for several years, having had his sentence extended once already. Due to his history at Ryall State Prison, he is being transferred to nearby Wayside Maximum Security Penitentiary—but a freak accident cuts the journey short. Waking up in a forest next to the wrecked bus, Murphy has a clear shot at freedom. He makes his way into the sleepy town of Silent Hill where mysterious locals welcome him into a slowly developing personal hell.

Configuration

Options that deviate from RPCS3's default settings and provide the best experience with this title are listed below.

GPU configuration

Setting	Option	Notes
Resolution scale threshold	512 x 512	Fixes visual issues such as main menu being red.

Known Issues

There are no reported issues with this title.

Special Notes

Patches

PPU-11f50d10f4626cdd59837e2fe44b701a9d9bfeac: # SHGAME.SELF
  "Unlock FPS":
    Games:
      "Silent Hill Downpour":
        BLES01446: [ 01.01 ]
        BLUS30565: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: "illusion"
    Notes: "Removes 62 FPS limit.\nMaximum framerate with the patch is half the Vblank frequency."
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0x002a1250, 0x60000000 ]
  "Disable Low-Resolution Depth of Field":
    Games:
      "Silent Hill Downpour":
        BLES01446: [ 01.01 ]
        BLUS30565: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: "boma"
    Notes: "Disables the DoF effect which doesn't correctly scale with resolution upscaling. This patch may slightly affect color-grading and will reduce bloom intensity because those effects share the same shader pipeline with DoF. Additionally, 16x Anisotropic Filtering can now be forced via custom config without causing issues."
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0x000fa828, 0x38a00000 ] # li r5, 0x0
      - [ be32, 0x00270c60, 0x38a00000 ] # li r5, 0x0
      - [ be32, 0x00310b28, 0x38a00000 ] # li r5, 0x0
  "Disable MLAA & FXAA":
    Games:
      "Silent Hill Downpour":
        BLES01446: [ 01.01 ]
        BLUS30565: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: "boma"
    Notes: "Removes both Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) and Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA), post-process AA solutions that significantly impact image definition and sharpness. Particularly useful when using resolution upscaling."
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ byte, 0x00771673, 0x64 ] # cmpwi r3 0x64
      - [ byte, 0x00771674, 0x41 ] # beq
      - [ be32, 0x0077167c, 0x38600000 ] # li r3, 0x0 # SHGame.GlobalPostProcessSettings.ForceFXAA
      - [ be32, 0x0076efb4, 0x38600000 ] # li r3, 0x0 # Engine.MaterialPostProcess.MLAA