{"id":643832,"date":"2026-03-29T07:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/silent-hill-2-modders-have-finally-fixed-a-20-year-old-bug"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:59:24","slug":"silent-hill-2-modders-have-finally-fixed-a-20-year-old-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/silent-hill-2-modders-have-finally-fixed-a-20-year-old-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Hill 2 modders have finally fixed a 20-year-old bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/silent-hill-2-modders-have-finally-fixed-a-20-year-old-bug.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nThe modders behind Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition have finally fixed a 20-year-old bug that&#8217;s plagued the PC version of the game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPreviously, an infamous bug when playing on a PC with a multicore processor (as most modern PCs have) would cause the audio to skip and the game to crash, making it all but unplayable.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow, the creators of the Enhanced Edition have fixed the issue by implementing a custom streaming audio engine.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/silent-hill-2-modders-have-finally-fixed-a-20-year-old-bug\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/silent-hill-2-modders-have-finally-fixed-a-20-year-old-bug\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The modders behind Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition have finally fixed a 20-year-old bug that&#8217;s plagued the PC version of the game. 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