Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition - The games options menu, as well as the in-game inventory causes hard crash or extreme slowdown to the point of unplayability.

[traggey]

Describe the bug

When opening the games options menu, either from in-game or from the main menu, as well as the in-game inventory causes the game to sometimes hard crash immediately, and other times causes extreme slow down, this slowdown gets worse and worse the longer you spend on these menus, making them unusable.

dxvk-remix-876eb35-419-debugoptimized bridge-remix-0bc8984-54-debugoptimized

2070 super Driver version 537.58 Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition

SH2_InventoryAndMenusLag_AndOr_Crash_Logs.zip

No .dmp files exist and my dxvk.conf does not contain dxvk.enableAftermath.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

• Set the game and Enhanced Edition up by following my guide - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hayGXNlAJZWOp2ivV8otdSMP23pbXk7DL-pfLq5ZJjU
• Start a new game or enter the options menu from the main menu.
• Browse the options menu or the in-game inventory which can be opened by pressing "I"
• Witness glorious slowdown and crashing

Expected behavior

• The game not crashing or slowing down.

[traggey]

Was attempting to grab logs for this using the debug build instead of the optimizeddebug build.

This results in the game no longer starting. Black screen opens for about 2-3 seconds then closes itself. SH2_DebugCrash_Logs.zip

[NV-DM]

REMIX-2767 for tracking. (edited)

[NV-LL]

Hi @traggey! We've introduced a fix for this issue on a recent release and have confirmed it internally. Will you please test on 0.5 and let us know if it persists for you? Thanks!

[traggey]

Hi @NV-LL ! As mentioned in one of the other threads, and as pointed out and tested by two others on the discord, Silent Hill 2: EE no longer works with the latest runtime, it produces a completely black screen, turning of EE completely makes the game kind of work again but then we're without all the fixes from EE such as widescreen.

[NV-LL]

Thanks for confirming! Will you please attach logs and any dump files from an attempt to run the game with 0.5.1?

[traggey]

@NV-LL SH2_logs_18_05_2024.zip Here are logs as well as the associated dmp file

[OmenFox]

I posted a set of logs before but i deleted them because they did not contain important information and i have decided to make a more thorough set of logs also all stable releases were downloaded here: https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/releases and all unstable were downloaded using the Nvidia remix downloader.exe found here https://github.com/Kim2091/RTX-Remix-Downloader/releases/latest/download/RTX.Remix.Downloader.exe.

Stable 0.5.0 launch's fine and loads in game i did get a crash trying to skip the opening cinematic where James walks out of the bathroom otherwise no crash's to report yet: Silent hill 2 Remix 0.5.0 Stable Logs.zip

Unstable 0.5.0 using dxvk-remix-17b5f6f-549-release and bridge-remix-9a7dbbe-72-release crash's on launch and will not go further than a black screen and showing the green remix overlay in the top left corner: Silent Hill 2 Remix 0.5.0 Unstable logs.zip

Stable 0.5.1 Launch's fine and loads in game no noticeable crash's yet in this version: Silent hill 2 Remix 0.5.1 Stable logs.zip

Unstable 0.5.1 Using dxvk-remix-be84dda-555-release and bridge-remix-9a7dbbe-72-release crash's on launch only showing the green remix overlay in the top left corner: Silent Hill 2 Remix 0.5.1 Unstable logs.zip

When i have more time i will spend more time testing the initial complaint of the thread and i will note on 0.5.0 stable the menu in game inventory menu is still a bit laggy but if you do not have an item selected in the menu it stops lagging and runs smoothly i will try to get a video recording of this and include files in next report.

And just to be thorough my pc specs are: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor Windows 11 (64 bit) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 MSI Suprim Liquid X Driver: 552.44 RAM: 32693 Mb 3600Mhz

[nv-ajaus]

Hi @OmenFox, could you please check for this black screen issue using the following 2 configurations?

1. The 0.5.1 Release of dxvk-remix (.trex\d3d9.dll) and the most recent bridge release build (d3d9.dll and .trex\NvRemixBridge.exe) from the bridge-remix GitHub actions page.
2. The 0.5.1 Release of the bridge (d3d9.dll and .trex\NvRemixBridge.exe) and the most recent dxvk-remix release build (.trex\d3d9.dll) from the dxvk-remix GitHub actions page.

This will help us figure out if this issue is related to a change in the bridge or dxvk-remix.

[OmenFox]

Ok I have now tested both configurations and have the Logs to post

The most recent as of posting bridge version (bridge-remix-9a7dbbe-72-release) simply crash's on showing a black screen and the green Remix overlay briefly. Silent Hill 2 REmix 0.5.1 Stable DXVK with unstable bridge instant crash Logs.zip

The most recent DXKV version launch's into game and runs fine. Silent Hill 2 Remix 0.5.1 Stable Bridge with unstable DXKV no crash Logs.zip

[nv-ajaus]

Hi @OmenFox , @traggey, we made a change that we believe should improve the black screen issue you are seeing. Can you try using the latest bridge binaries and retesting to see if the black screen issue is resolved? Additionally, if the black screen issue is resolved, can you see if the original crash mentioned in this issue is resolved too, we believe we may have already addressed that as well.

[OmenFox]

Yes the game now launch's and you can get in game again but I regret to inform you that the original crash is still happening and it happened fairly promptly whilst moving through the inventory screen. Here are the logs: Silent Hill 2 Remix Recent unstable log.zip

[traggey]

Tested today.

Albedo textures for replacement materials appear to no longer function, they come out as completely white. And as Omen mentions above, whilst we can indeed get in game now, the original issue still persists.