HITMAN’s beta phase is currently under way and it appears that the game does not support SLI out of the box. Well, fear not SLI owners as we’ve got a fix for you. Via the following workaround, we were able to properly utilize our GTX690 to its fullest, as both of our GPU cores were being used at 96%.
In order to enable SLI in HITMAN’s beta, you’ll have to use the NVIDIA Inspector Tool, find the game’s profile “Hitman Codename 47” and do the following changes:
By doing these changes, SLI will be enabled. Here are some comparison screenshots with and without SLI.
The only downside here is that there was one scene in which our SLI scaling dropped to 70%, so this cannot be considered a 100% fix. Still, it’s better than having only one GPU handling this title.
As you can see, HITMAN’s beta is quite demanding. We won’t pass judgement on it yet as this is a beta build, however things are not looking good. After all, the game releases in almost 20 days. Unless IO Interactive has offered PC gamers a really old build, HITMAN will require a really powerful PC in order to be enjoyed.
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Time for a new GPU John
600 series is too old for the newest games
Do you think he doesn’t know this? He can”t just magically get a new gpu, we’ve been over this before if the comments section and before you think about saying it no this website doesn’t make him enough money to get a new gpu.
I think the longtime readers should donate some money to get him a modern GPU, however I would like to know what kind of money this website makes on advertising?.
Oh god damn i would’ve thought so.
Well, his financial situation is his business not mine/ours. I assume if the website isnt so profitable maybe he has a job as well. I am just saying, you would think since the website is about cutting edge PC gaming you would think he would have a more modern GPU. Even just getting a GTX 970 would be more relevant than the 600 series.
Yet a 690 sure beat’s the crap out of a current gen console for 1080P gaming… yet we keep seeing garbage ports.
that 690 is just 4 years old! it needs another solid 2-3 years to get that value out of it and then put it in alternative system cuz still plays lots of games great
He will get a GTX980Ti soon..
well it depends imo a 680 watercooled and OC with 4gb vram can still do nice things. Even a 670 is still a good card for 1080p gaming, if the game does not exceed 2,5 GB vram…since you know if you OC the memory you can use a bit more vram than your card support it.
its not worth it John this game its bad optimized anyway!
you should play naruto that game runs better lol
lol on your opinion everything is bad optimized XD
Come to think of it…
some of them not all!
Bet you it the launch will be a complete mess
dam 96% is just impressive too bad other games are not so otherwise SLi would be a must.
SLi is pretty good in my opinion I am able to play most of my games in 4k maxed out with it. Admittedly most titles at launch aren’t optimised but are eventually sorted out. 90% plus is the normal scalling ratio.
yeah I had Sli for few but due to the issues I had, I went for watercooling instead of buying another 980ti. I usually play games short after the release and by the time they sort them out I already finished them. Also before going Sli again I would rather go for a 2011v3 processor or something like that in order to see if the Sli stuttering is lowered with pcie 3.0@16x, since I still have a 2600k that only support pcie 2.0 @8x in Sli. Btw I don’t own a 4k monitor either and atm I don’t want it, a 980ti imo is a card for 1080p/1440p gaming and most of the time even if it’s overclocked quite heavily it does not keep up with my 144hz 1080p monitor…really before going 4k I would wait that at least one card would be able to push witcher 3,144fps, 4k maxed out. Also i’m waiting for a good 4k 32/35″ with better and not worse characteristics than my trusted vg24qe. Also I remember how pissed I was when Sli did not worked with games like watch dogs… those games made look the second card as a rotting limb inside your computer because if you have a good cpu you cannot use it even for phis-x since you will loose performance 🙁
Fair enough each to their own.
However, I game on a 4k 40″ Panasonic tv which supports 60hz and 444 chroma. I couldn’t go back to any other lower resolution for gaming 4k looks stunning on my screen. I tried a lot of 4k monitors but none of them offered the size or picture image that I am now getting.
I even tried an Acer 1440p 144hz monitor but the picture quality was poor and I preffered the higher 4k resolution over the faster refresh rate. I should add though that I am not a big fan of FPS games so 144 etc. isn’t impotant to me. But I understand it is to others.
My EVGA 980ti classifieds Sli is very capable of playing even the latest games maxed out at 4k 60hz and it looks incredible. I haven’t encountered any micro stuttering thus far admittedly I am using an Asus Z170-Deluxe mb which supports PCIE 3.0 x16 0n both lanes.
A single card to max out 4k is a long way off at least 2 to 3 years.
yeah, if it was not for a stupid italian law that you have to pay a tax on national tv if you own a TV even if you don’t use as tv but just as a monitor I would go for a tv myself, but tbh I think silly to pay 160€/year for just have a bigger monitor. Also I did not know that there were z170 boards with 16×2…this makes things way more interesting 😛
Suprising that it needs so much power as it looks very average graphically. Pity as Absolution was impressive for it’s time.
“Hitman Beta Gameready” Yet SLI has to be fixed Via Inspector yet again. WTF is NVidia doing?
Selling more 980Ti’s :). Will be funny if this one is better than the official one like ROTR was per Joker.
Hitman beta have DX12 ?
Man that needs a lot of power for this game? Must be using some horrible engine or something.
Its games like this that i’m happy i have G-sync see this is why i wanted a monitor that could do the full frequency spectrum.
So I’m running on GTX 780 in SLI. Unfortunately this “fix” did not work in my case. It actually had worse performance after changing these values using Nvidia Inspector.
Nope doesn’t work for Titan X SLI, it breaks the game, crashes as soon as I get into the first training area and getting 15 FPS on Ultra, I was getting a lot more before 🙁
in 4k btw