{"id":998799,"date":"2026-01-09T05:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2024-silent-hill-2-on-pc-another-unreal-engine-5-game-blighted-by-stuttering-issues"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:04:27","slug":"silent-hill-2-on-pc-another-unreal-engine-5-game-blighted-by-stutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/silent-hill-2-on-pc-another-unreal-engine-5-game-blighted-by-stutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Hill 2 on PC: another Unreal Engine 5 game blighted by stutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/silent-hill-2-on-pc-another-unreal-engine-5-game-blighted-by-stutter.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p> Like a lot of Unreal Engine 5 games, <a data-keyword=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/silent-hill-2\">Silent Hill 2<\/a> stutters and it stutters a lot. Why is it happening? Can it be fixed? Looking for answers on this, I found myself tumbling down a rabbit hole, with this game &#8211; and others based on Unreal Engine 5 &#8211; presenting issues even more concerning than big lurches on the frame-time graph. Shader compilation stutter? That&#8217;s not an issue in Silent Hill 2. Traversal stutter? Well, unfortunately that is &#8211; and it&#8217;s highly problematic. However, similar to <a data-keyword=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/star-wars-jedi-survivor\">Star Wars Jedi: Survivor<\/a>, there&#8217;s also animation stutter. Even if you manage to stabilise performance, it&#8217;s still impossible to enjoy a smooth, consistent experience in Silent Hill 2. We have some idea of why it&#8217;s happening and even a highly makeshift solution, but even so, UE5 continues to present issues that continue to pile up as game after game falls foul of them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2024-silent-hill-2-on-pc-another-unreal-engine-5-game-blighted-by-stuttering-issues\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2024-silent-hill-2-on-pc-another-unreal-engine-5-game-blighted-by-stuttering-issues\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of Unreal Engine 5 games, Silent Hill 2 stutters and it stutters a lot. Why is it happening? Can it be fixed? Looking for answers on this, I found myself tumbling down a rabbit hole, with this game &#8211; and others based on Unreal Engine 5 &#8211; presenting issues even more concerning than big lurches on the frame-time graph. Shader compilation stutter? That&#8217;s not an issue in Silent Hill 2. Traversal stutter? Well, unfortunately that is &#8211; and it&#8217;s highly problematic. However, similar to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, there&#8217;s also animation stutter. Even if you manage to stabilise performance, it&#8217;s still impossible to enjoy a smooth, consistent experience in Silent Hill 2. 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