Silent Hill 3 Enhanced

A community-made enhancement project for Silent Hill 3 PC, fixing bugs, improving graphics, and restoring content cut from the PC release.

Not affiliated with Konami, the Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition project, or Steam006's Silent Hill 3 PC Fix. This is an independent project built from scratch.

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Planned Features

Graphics

• Widescreen Fix — Correct FOV and aspect ratio for modern monitors
• Custom Resolution — Set any screen and render resolution
• Remove Black Bars — Removes the permanent black bars on screen
• Remove Cutscene Borders — Removes the borders added during cutscenes
• 4:3 2D Elements — Keeps HUD and menus at 4:3 while gameplay uses full widescreen
• Fullscreen Pause Menu — Stretches the pause menu to fill the screen
• FMV Fix — FMVs displayed at correct 4:3 aspect ratio and optionally fullscreen
• DoF Resolution — Increases depth of field render resolution (default: 1024)
• Shadow Resolution — Increases shadow map resolution (default: 1024)
• Inventory Resolution — Increases inventory background resolution (default: 1024)
• Status Screen Resolution — Increases status screen resolution (default: 1024)
• Anisotropic Texture Filtering — Enables highest supported AF level
• Fog Control — Adjusts fog complexity to match PS2 quality
• Motion Trail Fix — Fixes dark motion trails caused by bloom on light sources
• Animated Wall Texture Fix — Fixes broken animated textures when using d3d8to9

Performance / Framerate

• 60 FPS Mode — Stable 60fps with proper game speed
• Multiple FPS Modes — 30fps / 60fps / unlocked
• Mirror Room Fix — Forces 30fps in the hospital storeroom where effects require it
• MSAA / DoF Fix — Disables MSAA which corrupts the depth of field effect; recommends FXAA instead

System / Stability

• Registry Redirect — Redirects HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry reads to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, fixing "game not installed properly" error without admin rights
• Safe Mode Disable — Prevents the game from reverting settings after a crash or Alt+F4
• Options Menu Freeze Fix — Fixes the game hanging in the options menu
• CPU Affinity Fix — Configurable CPU core affinity to fix frame rate fluctuation
• Windowed / Borderless Mode — Run the game in a window or borderless fullscreen
• White Border Fix — Fixes white border rendering on Windows 10/11
• d3d8to9 — Converts DirectX 8 to DirectX 9 for better compatibility and performance
• Exception Handler — Installs a crash handler that writes minidump files

Audio

• Restore Missing Dialogue — Restores dialogue audio removed from the PC release
• Restore Beta Sounds — Optionally restores cut beta sound effects
• Audio Pulse Fix — Replaces unreliable PulseEvent audio sync
• Muted Audio Fix — Fixes audio getting muted after a crash during the TV or Lisa scene

Content / Text

• "Wish House" Fix — Corrects all instances of "Hope House" to "Wish House" (EN)
• Typo Fixes — Fixes several typos across subway, apartments, and hospital levels (EN)
• Missing Sewer Text — Restores untranslated text in the sewer level (EN)
• Unlock SH2 Easter Eggs — Unlocks Silent Hill 2 references without completing the game

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Installation

1. Install Silent Hill 3 PC
2. Download the latest SH3Enhanced release
3. Extract all files into the Silent Hill 3 root directory (where sh3.exe is)
4. Launch the game normally

SH3Enhanced uses Ultimate ASI Loader — no separate launcher needed.

Supported executable: sh3.exe CRC32 372ae792

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Configuration

Edit SH3Enhanced.ini in the game directory to toggle features. All options are documented inside the file.

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Building from Source

Requirements:

• Visual Studio 2022 or newer
• Windows SDK
• Platform: Win32 (x86) — SH3 is a 32-bit process

Steps:

1. Clone the repo
2. Open SH3Enhanced.sln
3. Set configuration to Release | Win32
4. Build — output is SH3Enhanced.asi

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Credits

• Polymega — SilentHillDatabase (memory address research)
• 07151129 — sh3proxy (d3d8 wrapper reference)
• Steam006 — Silent Hill 3 PC Fix (bug research reference)
• Nemesis2000 — Original SH2 fog fix technique
• ThirteenAG — Ultimate ASI Loader, widescreen fix research
• elishacloud — Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition (project structure reference)

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Disclaimer

This project does not include any game files. You must own a legitimate copy of Silent Hill 3 PC.