The Silent Hill 2 remake is finally out, available on both PC and current-gen consoles. Being a PC game, Silent Hill 2 can run on a wide variety of devices – including handheld gaming PCs such as the Steam Deck and ROG Ally.
The ROG Ally is one of the most popular handhelds on the market currently, and is capable of running most games with relative ease. Unfortunately, this particular remake might just prove to be too much for the Ally to handle – unless we tweak some settings.
The best Silent Hill 2 remake ROG Ally settings can be found detailed below.
Optimized Silent Hill 2 remake ROG Ally settings
In-game settings
Display
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1600×900
- HDR: Off
- Raytracing: Off; always keep disabled
- Frame Rate Cap: Unlimited
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- VSync: Off; always keep this disabled
- Panini Projection: Off
- Supersampling: FSR 3.0
- FSR 3.0 Preset: Performance; can be dropped to Ultra Performance or increased to Balanced if so required
- Renderer Quality Preset: Custom
Advanced Quality Settings
- Anti-Aliasing: None
- Resolution Scalability: 50%
- Shadows Quality: Low
- Textures Quality: Medium; can be increased to High if you have 8+ GB of VRAM
- Shaders Quality: Low
- Effects Quality: Low
- Separate Translucency: Off
- Lens Flares: On
- Global Motion Blur: Off
- SSAO: Off
- SSR: Off
- SSS Quality: Low
- Image Sharpening: Sharpen High
ROG Ally specific settings
- Operating Mode: Turbo (25 W)
- Control Mode: Gamepad
- AMD RSR: Off
- CPU Boost: Disabled
- Resolution: Keep this unchanged
- AMD RIS: On
- FPS Limiter: Disabled to take advantage of VRR
- AFMF: Disabled
- Recommended VRAM: 7-8 GB
The combination of settings above should let you push 30 frames per second. The game definitely needs some optimizations and patches in order to be made playable on handheld devices.
Another way to boost frame rates is by enabling Frame Generation, which is oddly locked for some reason.
