Best PC optimization guide for Silent Hill F

Silent Hill F's performance on PC depends on a few settings and your hardware specifications. Despite being created using the Unreal Engine 5, which is known to create performance issues, as can be seen in the recently released Wuchang Fallen Feathers, Konami's latest entry in the long-running horror series is quite well optimized.

But there are certain settings that you can tweak to get better performance. This article will provide you with the optimal settings to play Silent Hill F on PC.

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Best Silent Hill F PC Optimization Guide

Silent Hill F is quite well optimized despite being crafted using the dreaded Unreal Engine 5. You won't have any problems running the game, unless your PC does not meet the minimum requirements. There are a few performance settings that you can tweak here and there to make the game run smoother, with more FPS.

Settings (Image via Konami)

Here are the settings that you should tweak before you venture into the town of Ebisugaoka as Hinako.

Graphics Settings	Low	Medium	High
Screen Mode	Borderless Window	Windowed	Windowed
Resolution	1920x1080	According to your monitor Resolution	According to your monitor Resolution
Frame Limit	60	60	No Limit
V-Sync	Off	Off	Off
Panini Projection	Off	Off	Only if you have widescreen
Preset	Custom	Custom	Custom
Screen Percentage	70-80 percent	80-100 percent	100 percent
Reflections	Off	Screen Space Reflections	Lumen Epic
Shadow Quality	Low or Medium	Medium	Very High
Texture Quality	Medium	High	Very High
Shader Quality	Medium	High	Very High
Visual Effect Quality	Low or Medium	High	High
Post Processing Quality	Medium	Medium	High
View Distance Quality	Low	High	Very High
Anti-Aliasing	FSR or DLSS	FSR or DLSS	FSR or DLSS
Anti-Aliasing Quality	Performance	Performance or Balanced	Balanced
Motion Blur	Off	Off	Off

Anti-aliasing should always be set to either DLSS or FSR, which are the default settings based on whether you own an AMD or Nvidia GPU. Choosing anything else over these will make the game run significantly worse.

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Silent Hill F system requirements

You will need the following system requirements to play the game.

Minimum

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 11 x64
• Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 Ti or AMD Radeon™ RX 5700
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 50 GB available space
• Sound Card: Windows-compatible audio Device.
• Additional Notes: Playing on minimum requirements should enable to play on Performance quality settings in 30 at 720p. SSD is recommended.

Recommended

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 11 x64
• Processor: Intel Core i7-9700 / AMD Ryzen 5 5500
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2080 or AMD Radeon™ RX 6800XT
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 50 GB available space
• Additional Notes: Playing on recommended requirements should enable to play on Performance settings in 60 FPS or Quality settings in 30 FPS at FullHD (or 4k using DLSS or similar technology). SSD required.

While the game is well-optimized for the most part, you might face slight frame drops at times, which we brought up in our Silent Hill F review. The developers will likely fix these in the coming days.