GTX 1080 on the minimum spec, Windows 11 on recommended
As a James who’s always forgetting things, I’m probably the main target audience of theSilent Hill 2 remake– one of yesterday’smany Silent Hill game and film announcements. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t have expected such high demands from its PC system requirements, which have appeared onSteam.
Highlights include theAMD Radeon RX 5700andNvidia GeForce GTX 1080– a former flagship! – listed among the minimum specs, alongside a 12GB RAM requirement, and Windows 11 as the recommended OS. Those with a GeForce RTX graphics card could get some performance help, though, as the requirements’ notes say that meeting the recommended spec will allow for 4K resolution “usingDLSSor similar technology”. That’s not quite a formal confirmation of Nvidia DLSS support, but strongly indicates it, maybe along with similar upscaling systems likeAMD FSRorIntel XeSS.
That said, any upscaler would need to do some extremely heavy lifting at 4K, as Silent Hill 2’s recommended specs are apparently only recommended for 1080p/60fps on Medium settings and just 1080p/30fps on High settings. The minimum specs, meanwhile, are apparently enough to scrape 1080p/30fps on Low or Medium quality. Developer/publisher performance estimates like these tend to err on the side of pessimism, but even so, for higher settings and resolutions you may need one of thebest graphics cards.
