Will there be a Dead Space 2 Remake

Fair enough I guess. I mean it is only one game. Bit of a shame but the time you have spent, well I'd probably do the same.

Thanks for letting us know your decision. 

When you set up a new system with NVMe, if still interested in the game. You can probably find everything you need in this thread! Maybe archived though! 😁

Likely you won't need any help at all. Good luck with your next build/upgrade!

I got all the updates from this forum in my email. Been a hectic few months for me, what with going "heads down" into work, working far too long in the day, and moving house...

I appreciate that there are people who are still trying to solve my issues, but I've just given up any hope of playing DSR on my PC. It plays passibly on my SteamDeck and I've managed to get it running on my wife's PC (which is all hand-me-down hardware from my old setup: i5-7600, GTX 1070 FE, 16 GB DDR4 2333... Mostly all from 2017), albeit, barely managing to keep stable at 30 fps on account of pushing pixels to a 4k TV. 

While I don't have a spare SATA SSD to try, I also haven't even turned on my desktop PC since the middle of May. 

I've essentially kicked the can down the road. In the nearish future, I'll have a bit of money saved up specifically for upgrading my computer hardware. I believe the Radeon VII is ready for retirement, and the i5-9600KF is basically being used as a throttle to keep the GPU from turning the solder into a liquid. Whether or not any of that is true, I can't be certain, but it's high time to update my PC anyway.

I replied to the wrong post. I have copy and pasted the very informative post by @K8ihpb etc etc.. what a user name!

Anyhow he gets all the credit for quite probably solving your issue. Whole post is below, but I copied and pasted anyway.

I'm also dealing with this issue. But I'm not going to discard the game. It's playable. But pay attention to what I'm going to say: they said the game runs poorly on NVMe M.2 drives. And that people have never complained about this when using a SATA SSD. Which seems to make sense, considering it's not a coincidence that even more powerful setups like those with an RTX 4090 or RTX 5090 still suffer from stuttering in certain areas. And what's the common factor in all these setups? The game is stored on an NVMe M.2 drive.

That's what's going to make me buy an additional SATA SSD to test and see if it solves the problem. It seems the issue with NVMe is that it's so fast the processor can't keep up. So later I'll come back here and let you know if it worked.

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By the man k8ihp - impossible to remember user name. Don't take offense. Your post is great, but your user name is more like a password.

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Hey, man. I hope you get noticice of updates to this thread. Since your last post, it seems you are not alone. Some very helpful and useful posts in here about NVMes. (I was clueless about the NVMe issue, but it's very real.)  That could well be your problem, and it is one that's easy to solve!

Good luck.

P.S. Please read the posts you haven't already. A lot of good stuff in here. Not just the NVMe issue as well. But for you I sincerely hope you haven't given up. A solution is likely available in this thread!

That indeed is a very interesting post. Yes I paid attention fully. The OP is using PCIe M2.

You may well have solved the problem for him. It''s post s like yours that make these forums so useful.

 I Have my OS and  DeadSpace remake on standard Samsung SSDs. I don't install games on my system drive.  My set up is not as powerful as the examples you gave, but never the less I can max all setting, limit frames to 85 FPS (in Nvdia CP) which is rock steady and half the refresh rate of my 170Hz monitor refresh rate. I use DLSS quality option in the game. All other setting at max. No crashes, no stutters even. It looks top notch.

Please do post back, and perhaps reply to the OP, Squiddletiks, who has had awful trouble. Additionally you mentioned that the CPU can't keep up. Seeing as he is using a decent PC, and has no problems generally, but is using i5-9600kf that gives credence to your comment about CPUs.

Although I don't believe a newer higher spec CPU would be held back by any NVMe - except perhaps DS remake.

Could be the way it  pushes code to the CPU is unusual. Also he gets 100fps for the first 30 seconds. Pretty good. Then it all messes up. Does, or could show something can't keep up - the CPU is the prime culprit after reading your post. But  putting the game on an SSD may well solve all his issues. I would never have even considered that. I sincerely hope it works for him. 

I'll see your post when you post back as I get notified, but I'm not the one with the problem. So:

I hope the OP hasn't given up and reads your post. He may well have an SSD in his PC already.  I just hope the OS doesn't play a role, but it shouldn't. The SSD real life max data stream would be below 600MB/s.

Edit: All my games, of which I have many are on various SSDs. None of them are on my C: System drive, so safe to ignore that the OS plays any part in this, even if the OS in NVMe - I assume.

I'm also dealing with this issue. But I'm not going to discard the game. It's playable. But pay attention to what I'm going to say: they said the game runs poorly on NVMe M.2 drives. And that people have never complained about this when using a SATA SSD. Which seems to make sense, considering it's not a coincidence that even more powerful setups like those with an RTX 4090 or RTX 5090 still suffer from stuttering in certain areas. And what's the common factor in all these setups? The game is stored on an NVMe M.2 drive.

That's what's going to make me buy an additional SATA SSD to test and see if it solves the problem. It seems the issue with NVMe is that it's so fast the processor can't keep up. So later I'll come back here and let you know if it worked.

I fully believe you. But cannot offer a solution, I have no idea. The point is that for me, and others here it plays very well, no freezes , no crashes or anything like that.

There must be some kind of conflict between the game code at the start, to what happens on your monitor. I wish I could think of what it might be, especially as it's only that game.

But to be clear this is not a general issue. Your PC is powerful enough, and everything seems in order, so why this happens to you is beyond me. All I can do is say good luck. Something, somewhere is causing these problems. But it is not the game itself, that can be ruled out.

Let us know if you can resolve it somehow - again, good luck!

Good post. I didn't know or think about the piracy issue, but yes a problem.

Everything you said about Japan is spot on. I live here. I made a long post about it, but then decided to shorten it. (above) but after reading your accurate post I decided to post in some detail about this issue.

There is so much to say about it. The CERO Japananese censorship "organisation." is not a branch of government. Plus the people who work there are deliberately NOT gamers themselves. Amazing right?

They permit anime like games that depict **bleep** and anything you can think of. However it is deemed not to look "realistic." so those games are freely available. I've never bought such filth, but seen it, and the worst things imaginable are all there. Often by implication, or actually shown in a very anime sytle. Total hypocrites. It's insane here.

Finally, if I purchase games such as any RE games of which I have most, I ALWAYS buy a key from Gamesplanet in the U.K. This activates easily on Steam everytime, and the version is fully uncensored. No VPN nothing like that. It's legit and Steam can do that without breaking any laws. Plus CERO does not have power of enforcement at all. 

But, as all their games get a rating, the makers of RE4 for instance make two different versions especially for Japan only.

The first is rated CERO D. This eliminates any blood, any decapition, in fact it makes it a different game. Not horror.

They have a CERO Z version which is described as "Grotesque version," but it is still heavily censored. Ridiculous.

I made the mistake of purchasing RE7 CERO Z version a ways back thinking that it would not have noticable censorship. Well how wrong I was. Numerous scenes are changes. The cop who gets his head chainswawed off isn't there, the camera swing, and the sound is the same but no visual. Something awful happened is all the player knows. One more example of many. In the game there is one part where there is a decapitated head in a fridge. Not particularly horrific in context of the game. In the Japanese version, no head. Just a note.

I could go on but no point. I felt something was "off," but as I hadn't played the proper version those examples I found later. I fully ended up RE7 from Steam, and removed it from my account. It's not listed on any purchase or key history. Except:

A month later I bought a key for RE7 from the U.K. Activated on Steam (always first time it works) and then I knew what I had missed.

It's a con job. Even the CERO Z Grotesque version is NOT the full game. It truely disgusts me.

Luckily on PC we can do this, for any game that is censored, and even installed outright banned games (Every single Dead Space game ever made.) The Japanese don't even know about it. They've never seen it. (well a few PC gamers in the know do as I do.)

For console players no such luck. No way around the censorship without using a VPN and setting up a fake account in a different country. Also credit card has to be in the same country making it kind of impossible, and dangerous too.  Something I would never do. It' illegal and could end up in unknown consequences.

Finally. If a DeadSpace 2 remake game is made, it will not be available in any form in Japan. Period. Console players are out of luck.

Luckily for PC companies such as EA, sell such games. It's not illegal either. Steam a few years ago adopted the CERO system for their Japanese store, voluntarily. I was dissapointed when they did that. Luckily purchasing a key if legit and works fine everytime including for patches. 

I have always bought DS games from EA directly so there is no issue at all. If it's a Steam game of specific genre (horror, or violent FPS) they either sell the Japanese Z version, or if Steam deems it too heavily censored to make the game play as it should, they simply say not available in your region. But that only relates to the Japanese Steam Store. There are no restrictions on activating a key for PC from the U.K. which doesn't censor games. Steam policy permits this, and how could they not tbh.

I actually got RE4 for a bargain sales price, much cheaper than Steam was selling the CERO Z version. Worked out well. Bought the key and simply activated it on Steam. So that one worked out well. However I had to buy RE7 twice. First the incomplete version from Steams Japanese store. Then later a key from the U.K which gave the proper version. The keys are often classified in Steam account page as, GAMENAME: WW version. Means worldwide version, and of course "Key activation" rather than the usual "Retail."

I've been doing that for horror games for many years, well since RE7 which is when they decided to sell the Japanese versions for people residing in Japan. Before that they ignored CERO rating as they have no obligation to follow them. But they decided too for some unknown reason.

So for me as a PC gamer it is practically speaking a non-issue. Howerver the hypocracy and inconsistency annoy me.

Anyone who comes to Japan to work or whatever reason stays a while and plays horror games, DO NOT buy a console. No dead space at all. The rest are not the developers vision of the game. Just a censored cut game - on ALL consoles.

I can't speak from experience about China, but what you wrote about, "LGBTQ+ content in games." doesn't surprise me. But one thing would probably be different. In Japan it's not a Law as such, no penalties or punishment is ever applied. But game stores (in Japan) always sell only locally made games. Same for any online purchase, so on console there is no way around it.

EDIT: By online purchases in the above paragraph, I don't mean like Steam, EA, Epic etc. I mean through the console from the Sony PS store Japan, or the local console only direct purchase method. Even Xbox (probably) hardcode digital purchases through their console to only work within Japan. If it's a banned game (DS all of them) they simply are not on the store page. I haven't used consoles for many years so I don't know the detail but I do know it is strictly console centric.

But I bet in China it is strictly enforced, as is everything the communist government doesn't green light. Luckily in Japan (for PC) it is allowed to use keys of any countries, or so called world wide versions.

One final story, that would no longer be the case. When I came to Japan I wasn't expecting to stay here for years, but anyway I brought my American Xbox 360 with me. I couldn't play any Japanese game on it because of Region locks, so I bought disks (no digital downloads at that time) from Amazon USA. They play fine. I played the very first Dead Space game on 360 with a USA region disk, and USA 360.

It wasn't until years later that I even knew Dead Space (2008) simply wasn't available in any Japanese game stores.

Now buying a USA console would work for both Japanese and other countries games as long as the developer hadn't region locked the game. But regional censorship for consoles is done on several levels. (I don't know or care about the details) but any censored or banned game on console, disk or digital download, is strictly enforced in the same way that Region locks are.

Thank goodness none of this nonsense applies, or could be implicated properly on PC.

Pois é, não consigo entender a estratégia de lucro deles em um título que não tem a premissa para geral. 

One of the major reasons Dead Space Remake struggled commercially, was due to how easily it was pirated. A modern remake would need robust anti-piracy measures (like Denuvo or something similar) to protect sales, particularly across platforms where piracy has historically been rampant.

That said, we also need to acknowledge the cultural and regional censorship that continues to restrict the artistic integrity of certain games. For instance, Japan's blanket ban on the Dead Space series across all consoles is not just a commercial obstacle, it’s a philosophical one. While PC gamers in Japan can still access the titles, console players are effectively barred from engaging with one of the genre’s most iconic series.

Frankly, Japan is in no moral or artistic position to dictate how much gore or horror is “acceptable” in gaming; especially when much of their exported media includes disturbing or hyper-sexualized content. It's hypocritical to censor western horror games while continuing to push far more psychologically and visually extreme themes in other formats.

Meanwhile Japanese companies like Nintendo often feel paralyzed by the idea of pushing boundaries or innovating in controversial ways, not the industry leadership any dev should follow. Western developers and publishers shouldn't feel the need to conform to these limitations, especially when they dilute the creative potential of the medium just to appease foreign markets.

Video games are the most complete and powerful form of art we have today. Horror games, in particular, stretch those boundaries even further, they are where creativity, atmosphere, interactivity, and raw emotion collide. To allow external governments or regional sensitivities to impose limitations on this form of expression is counter to everything art stands for.

And let’s not forget, China bans nearly all LGBTQ+ content in games. Are we going to start censoring ourselves to satisfy them too?

Western studios should unapologetically create for their core audiences. Let foreign markets catch up to artistic freedom instead of holding us back. If a Dead Space 2 remake is to happen, it should be bold, uncensored, and true to the original vision; unshackled by outdated, foreign censorship laws that do not reflect the values or tastes of the global gaming community.