


Now it will always run with single core affinity without having to alt-tab to Task Manager. Call it Silent Hill 2 or whatever you wish, it doesn't matter. Paste ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Konami\Silent Hill 2\cmd.exe" /C start /affinity 1 sh2pc.exe" or wherever you installed the game to.Ĥ. Right click on your desktop and select "New > Shortcut".ģ. Copy "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" into the Silent Hill 2 install folder (example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Konami\Silent Hill 2\cmd.exe").Ģ. If running the game fullscreen, you can have the game automatically start with single core affinity:ġ.

This must be done every time you start the game. To solve this, you must start the game, and while the game is booting through the Konami logo, alt tab out, open task manager, click on the "Processes" tab, click "Show processes from all users", find and right click "sh2pc.exe", and set Affinity to 1 Core. Silent Hill 2 must be run on a single CPU core otherwise the games' audio loops/glitches and potentially crashes, modern CPUs will have multiple cores which of course did not at the time of release.
