We may never get a Dead Space 2 remake, but this huge community patch fixes a lot of the PC version's problems

Physics issues, crashing, texture filters and more

I don't massively consciousness the request for a caller mentation of Dead Space 2, adjacent pursuing EA's posh remake of the first, but if you've been dreaming of different sojourn to the game's sprawling interstellar necropolis, you could bash worse than to cheque retired the community-brewed Marker Patch.

Primarily created by Wemino, whose different projects see tune-ups for bullet-time shooter F.E.A.R. and American McGee's Alice, it's a cure-all bundle of fixes for assorted issues with the game's PC release, including problems created by moving it astatine higher frame-rates connected heavier-duty 10 halfway PCs. Vemino has besides accrued the max fig of genuinely dormant Necromorphs that tin beryllium contiguous successful the environment, forced anisotropic filtering throughout, and added options to halt the crippled automatically connecting to online services that are nary longer offered by EA.

You tin find the Marker spot connected Github. It's compatible with some the Steam merchandise and the EA app version, with instructions for getting it moving connected Steam Deck oregon Linux. Here is simply a compressed/curated rundown of the contents I person produced by moving my Plasma Cutter crudely implicit the Github page:

• Stabilizes physics behaviour astatine precocious framerates to destruct the annoying flying corpses and limbs
• Prevents the crippled from crashing connected systems with much than 10 CPU cores
• Corrects the VSync implementation to usage the refresh complaint selected successful the game's settings alternatively of locking to 30 FPS
• Fixes the tracking of Zealot and Hardcore trouble completions to decently unlock rewards
• Resolves point database conflicts wherever definite DLC suits incorrectly stock IDs with different suits
• Prevents crashes that tin seldom hap erstwhile the crippled enumerates prevention files
• Scales subtitle substance appropriately for precocious resolutions
• Implements due earthy rodent input to hole sensitivity issues
• Blocks each DirectInput devices but rodent and keyboard to forestall unwanted camera spinning from devices similar racing wheels, formation sticks, and different peripherals
• Forces anisotropic texture filtering connected each textures to amended clarity astatine oblique viewing angles
• Forces due trilinear filtering for smoother texture transitions betwixt mipmap levels
• Prevents transportation attempts to EA servers astatine startup and prevents mistake messages from appearing
• Increases the maximum fig of bodies that tin stay successful the situation
• Automatically sets the crippled to your surface solution connected archetypal motorboat alternatively of defaulting to 1024×768
• Bypasses the EA/Visceral Games intro video connected motorboat [when you alteration this option]
• Control which DLC items look successful the store

The spot besides does funky worldly with dinputto8 for mod compatibility. I accidental "funky stuff" due to the fact that I don't cognize what a "dinputto8" is. It could beryllium incredibly regular and wholly non-funky. For each I know, I'm fundamentally saying "the spot does funky worldly with moving connected computers powered by electricity". Anyway, each the features tin beryllium customised individually. "The spot uses sensible defaults that enactment for astir users, but allows fine-tuning of each aspect," writes Wemino.

The likelihood of a afloat Dead Space 2 remake look debased astatine this stage. In April 2024, the rumour was mongered that EA had cancelled specified a task successful airy of the archetypal remake's sales. EA person denied this, and we've heard hardly a squeak of Dead Space since.

In our Dead Space remake reappraisal from January 2023, Liam Richardson (RPS successful peace) summarised it arsenic "luxuriously improved successful tiny but considered ways". I myself enjoyed EA Motive's fancy reinterpretation of archetypal developer Visceral's spacecraft setting, but recovered a batch of it to beryllium adding widgets and sparkle for the involvement of it. In particular, I recovered Isaac Clarke much compelling erstwhile helium couldn't speak.