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Silent Hill: Townfall Benchmarks & PC Performance Analysis
DSOGaming • • technology
Key Points:
- Silent Hill: Townfall, powered by Unreal Engine 5, delivers impressive graphics and smooth performance on PC, with all tested GPUs running well at 1080p/Ultra settings and high-end GPUs achieving 60 FPS at 1440p and 4K resolutions.
- The game supports NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR Super Resolution but lacks Frame Generation and Intel XeSS support, while offering adjustable graphics settings including Fog, Textures, Reflections, Shadows, and Ray Tracing via Hardware Lumen.
- Interestingly, Hardware Lumen runs faster and looks better than Software Lumen in this title, a unique occurrence for a UE5 game, contributing to improved visual quality and performance.
- A major technical issue is persistent shader compilation stutters during gameplay, causing significant frame drops and CPU usage spikes, which detracts from the overall experience; currently, not all shaders are precompiled at launch.
- Despite these issues, Silent Hill: Townfall stands out as one of the best-looking UE5 games, though it suffers from limited environmental interaction, invisible walls, and character models that lag behind the detailed environments in quality.
