About
Silent Hill 3 is a survival horror game and the third entry in Konami's Silent Hill series, a direct sequel to the original 1999 game. Players control Heather Mason, an ordinary teenager pulled into the town's cult and its plan to revive a malevolent deity. Originally a PlayStation 2 title, it was ported to Windows in late 2003 and is widely praised for its atmosphere, sound design, and grotesque creature and environment art. It is no longer sold on modern digital storefronts, making the retail PC release the only way to play it on PC.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- sh3.exe
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
- —
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Pending not enough reports yet
⚙ Setup notes
Game: 2003 Team Silent / Konami survival horror, PC port. Never sold on modern digital storefronts — bring your own copy.
Proton: Use GE-Proton: recent Proton GE builds added a patch for SH3's pre-rendered video playback, which is the main thing that breaks under stock Proton.
DRM: The retail PC port ships with SecuROM 4.85 (CD check) — apply a no-CD/clean-exe so the game launches without the disc, or it will fail under Proton.
Fix: Then layer the community PC fix (Steam006's WidescreenFixesPack-based patch / SH3proxy dx8 wrapper) for widescreen, manual FOV, borderless, window positioning and forced VSync.
Controller: The native XInput handling is incomplete (right stick / triggers / D-pad don't map cleanly), so add the game as a non-Steam shortcut and apply a Steam Input gamepad layout — that fully covers input and is the recommended path on Deck.
The one thing to know
Supply your own copy: Not sold digitally; configuration only, no links.
DRM: Retail port has SecuROM 4.85 (disc/CD check) — needs a no-CD/clean exe to launch under Proton.
Proton: Use GE-Proton (its SH3 video-playback patch fixes the FMV stutter/black-screen seen on stock Proton).
Fix: Apply the community PC fix (Steam006 / SH3proxy) for widescreen, FOV, borderless and VSync.
Controller: Input is incomplete natively — apply a Steam Input layout via a non-Steam shortcut for full gamepad support.
Binary: sh3.exe confirmed.
Community guides
Write-ups and threads from people who got this (or a similar) game running. deckport links to them — it doesn't reproduce them.
Get the artwork
deckport never hosts game images. Open this game on SteamGridDB, pick
the cover / hero / logo / icon you like, and drop them into the
game folder under .deckport-art/ before you push it to the
Deck. The importer files them under the right names automatically.
Run it on your Deck
Two files: the one-time importer (deckport.py) in your
Deck's home folder, and this game's install helper. Copy the game
into ~/Games and run the helper with Steam closed — it
writes the recipe (binary, launch options, Proton version)
and registers the shortcut with artwork.