Hitman’s closed alpha testing is currently under way and it appears that the game has major performance issues. Of course we should not judge the end product by an alpha build, however a Titan X seems unable to maintain constant 60fps at 1080p with all settings at Ultra.
Going into more details, a Titan X seems able to run the game with 35-45fps. Now some of you may be wondering whether this awful performance is caused by a CPU limitation. YouTube’s ‘polaric90’ did not reveal the CPU he was using, so this could very well be the case.
On the other hand, YouTube’s member ‘DavideLolli97’ tested the closed alpha build of Hitman with a GTX970 and an Intel i5 4690K. Intel’s i5 4690K is a quad-core CPU and Hitman was running with almost 30fps on that particular system.
The game features a lot of NPCs so this needs to be properly optimized in the later builds, however as it stands, Hitman’s closed alpha build has major performance issues.
This is something that is further strengthened by the fact that a GTX970 can run this closed alpha build with 40-45fps when an Intel i7 CPU is being used. YouTube’s member ‘Computatrum’ has shared a video showing Hitman running on a Intel i7 4790k with an NVIDIA GTX970, and the results were increased by 10-15fps (compared to DavideLolli97’s results).
Of course, do note that this is an alpha build. And we’ll say it one more time; this performance does not reflect the one of the final build. Still, it’s interesting to see how this particular build runs on both medium and high-end GPUs.
Our guess is that the final game will run better than that. Or at least that’s what we hope!
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Maybe it was just me, but I personally didn’t think the previous hitman was very optimized either. My framerate dipped pretty often
I don’t have a potato pc either.
i5 3570k
gtx 770
GTX 770 is a potato now.
No, it isn’t. It’s similar in performance to the R9 280X.
Lol no. The R9 280X can best the Titan after Kepler Downgrade.
Wow i actually read this persons comments and he actually believes these things. We at DSOGAMING care deeply about you we will help you all it takes is a bit of education.
Yeah good luck with your head in the mud.
Well, that’s a surprise to me. I’m running 2x Gigabyte R9 280Xs OC’d.
The reduced tessellation is a boon to AMD cards in games like PCars and W3. This is where I can’t understand nvidia logic. Why not allow nerfed tessellation? Do you want people that badly to upgrade just because you own the performance crown? I hope AMD has some kind of comeback planned.
I hope so too. It’s a shame that NVIDIA is willing to cripple users with non-Maxwell cards and it seems like an attempt to get them to upgrade.
and hitman absolution came out in 2012, by the way 770 is a good midrange card
no it isnt, it is a very good decent card.
it was a good card card when it was released in 2013. And even then it was more of a mid range card. But now for today standards a gaming card is a gtx 970 or better. 770 is low end now.
what logic is that? and GTX 970 is low end compared to some monster new GPUs. GTX 770 in general is a very good card for 1080p gaming/60fps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g05YnxYqHW0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtQOrgxCx8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhbghvBcFoo&list=PLy581cqFH07tzYkACkYEoVBAT0Rk8DPK8&index=4
i am 😛 teehee!
No it isn’t low-end its a mid-range card
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_960_OC/27.html
It even beats a 960
I have a laptop with a 780m ( similar to desktop 760 ) and it runs stuff just fine. not to mention 4 gigs of Vram. Just because it isn’t new doesn’t mean it’s bad.
“just fine” to you means nothing
GTX 770 is not low end at all, 750/Ti is.
it is mid range now. gtx 970 980 and 980 ti are high end.
no especially GTX 980ti belongs to enthusiast level.
750ti still better than Potato Station 4, or Xsux 1
Yep, PS4 is low end gaming PC, if fact low than low if you go buy settings in some games like TW3.
No, maybe it´s more like a carrot.
It’s not just you, Hitman: Crapsolution often appears in benchmarks showing abnormal low FPS even with high end cards.
previous hitman runs pretty well with a pc like yours
? had 2500 and 560 ti back then and i played it high settings 1080p ultra was unplayble due to lag. But now how will my 2500k and 970 will perfom? I will buy new cpu next year but what until then? Does the graphics on ultra look to good??
Hitman absolution was very CPU demanding in crowded levels.
yes many times ultra do not make such a difference but instead reduce significally frame rate so it doesnt worth
When the recommended specs are as follows “amd athlon II x4 and a gtx 260,” you pretty much expect to run the game at max settings.
Besides I ran the game at a combination of high/ ultra (mostly high), not just full ultra, because as you’ve said, some settings make no difference and only cripple your fps.
An alpha with performance problems, who’d of thought it?
and it looks pretty good too, so yeah.
Absolution is a pretty big resource hog as well, I’ve got 2 980’s and a 4770k and still cant hit 60fps in 4k
The game does look very good. Hopefully the performance kinks are ironed out before launch. Square games have been pretty optimized on PC as of late, so I don’t see how Hitman would defy that rule.
Looks like you didn’t play Final Fantasy XIII series.
That was Square Enix Japan. This is Square Enix Europe (aka Eidos).
Thanks for the clarification.
whoever is playing is f’ing dumb.
We thought Batman AK would have been a decent port… Always expect the worst till proven wrong. All the crap ports we’ve been getting lately has only increased.
I think the official testing ended a couple weeks ago. The alpha was recently leaked on torrent sites, that’s why all these videos are popping up. And of course it runs like crap, it’s an unoptimized and unfinished alpha.
Really? Cause I could still say the same about AC:Unity and Batman:AK. funny
What’s your point? You think I would dispute that both of those games have terrible performance? Most games don’t release in that state. Optimization always takes place towards the end of development so it’s ridiculous to write an article about how poorly an alpha runs when the final game is still 5 months from release.
You know what my point is, and you know what will happen given this years performance and poor ports trend. But you’re just beating around the good ol’ manual, reading to me from the ‘textbook’.
AC Unity runs fine for its laid out specs. Stop playing on your 10 year old laptop or get a console.
U mean gtx 980ti since day one of release? Your assumptions are astonishing. Have you ever heard of sarcasm bub?
GTX780 their “recommended” spec runs the game fine on ultra, if you stay from PCSS, and sorts of nvidia derp. GTX680 runs the game at 1080p low settings just fine, or ultra for the textures if you have the 4gb version. There is nothing wrong with the game. Its just the thought that “this game must run on my 11 year old laptop otherwise its crap”.
I am glad they target high-spec gamers. I for one will be giving them my money yearly on all platforms they release games on.
Little stars, really? This is the best they could come up with?
Oh what have they done to you 47, where art thou 47? :/
well, they are alpha testing it for a reason, specially when they are doing it on PC which could lead to a better final product,however absolution had lots of problems with optimization on release but they fixed most of them few weeks later but not all.
Alpha only on PC, aka PC Exclusive requires x360 controller? We are just emulating the X1 version, which might be the lowest common denominator for this game.
it might be but bu the looks of it both hitman and deus ex won’t be a console port, both showed up in pc gaming show in E3 and none mentioned in sony or MS conferences
Hmm, it might be true, but I find it very very doubtful. The last hitman also had annoying film grain which you couldn’t remove. I do not expect this kind of treatment from nixxes.
i7 4790k has a full core 4.4ghz boost. 5ghz sandy/4.8 ivy/4.6 haswell can run the game perfectly fine.
but i have 3.3 ghz 2500k.
Because you are a noob. Get a ps4.
its alpha.
Demanding does not always mean unoptimized.
Im laughing at the fools who but 4k displays for gaming LOOOOOOL. 4K is like 3-4 years away.
lol what? A lot of people are playing 4K now on plenty of games. Clown.
He was going for mainstream 4k, current 4k gaming is restricted to wealthy persons, not all of us have rich parents or high paying jobs.
You can change that though. It may take time and real effort. Learn a Trade, Get a Degree in a field that is in high demand etc…..That’s on you. You can do it. If you want to change your life and income Many here can give you advice on what to do!!!
This comment just made me laugh more than it should, I live in a country where the only high paying jobs are CEO positions because they have their base salary 18 times higher than the medial wage established by law, so that means that while the medium income is 400 euros, they earn close to 7000 euros a month. The only way to earn over 1000 in my country, which is by the way Romania, a country where the minimum income is established at 180 euros, is to either be good with C++/HTML5 or have over 10 years of experience in another field. It doesn’t really matter the trade/degree, it also matters in what country/state you live since I am stuck in one of the two countries considered Europe’s third world country status (we have one of the highest Vats in Europe, 24%, and we also have the second highest oil price, 1.3-1.5 euro/liter, depending on company. Its not about being negative about the place of my domicile, but rather its the slow pace of the economy here and constant taxes that are being enforced upon the population, only to be taken down the following year and be replaced by others, afterwards rinse and repeat.
You are not stuck any where. You choose to stay where you are. There are always risks involved. Take the old west in the USA. Many headed west to find better times, lives. Did it work out for all of them? No, but it did for some of them. No Risk, No reward. Here in America, not everybody lives as kings. Also, if you are being oppressed, Rise up. Take back your country. Again, the risks are high, The rewards can be too. My point is this, I was homeless at one point. Some poor choices on my end, but I bounced back. Now, i have great income. You could stick me any where in the world and I would at least try to make a better life, than the one I am living.
Heh, since we already went for a more philosophical approach, let me just give you a small glimpse of something that my country recently proposed as a very important law (still proposed not yet enforced). The Parliament here wants to offer military ranks ( from private to 4/5 star generals) for money, the alleged proposal states that for 600 000 euros that you donate to the state’s budget you become instantaneously a General. While this is possible in other states as well, its done via corruption and not in the open through laws such as this abomination.
That’s a terrible injustice, The next question you and all the men in that country need to ask yourselves is……Am I ready to die to do what is right?
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
? Edmund Burke
“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
? Edmund Burke
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
? Edmund Burke
Happy pills… more happy pills
Maybe when i get on happy pills then i cam think like that
SLI 980 Ti and CrossFire Fury X are easily 4K capable right now for all games.
Easy but not as affordable 🙁
I’d consider 4k when it can be run with a single mid-end card
1440p is where it’s at!!
“Of course we wouldn’t judge it … ” Judges it.
not only judges it, sentenced it to death.
Still better performances than arkham knight
I am currently deciding to upgrade my I7 2600 non K CPU to a 5820k with a Corsair closed loop water cooler and buy a new GPU. I currently own a 980 but want to buy a Titan to treat myself.
What resolution will you playing at?
I am playing @ 2560x1440p, however I love gaming @ 60fps which is the most important thing to me so any upgrades will be to ensure I get a locked 60fps @ my resolution with any eye candy turned up.
My 2600 is of course over 4 years old now yet most games are able to churn out 60fps if my GPU can manage. However I have noticed some rare examples of games where I am CPU limited. For example there are parts of FarCry3 and 4 that drop below 60fps. I lowered the resolution and graphics settings as low as they could but the frame rate still dropped to around 45fps which indicates the CPU bottleneck. I would have been able to fix it if I had an unlocked 2600 K by overclocking. Thankfully the CPU issues in the Far Cry games only effect a few specific areas. I am running the game around 50 to 60fps at the moment @ my resolution so thinking I will treat myself to an upgrade seeing as I currently have some extra cash for the time being
Pffftt….alpha….I don’t care.
“alpha”…..
*oh, just bought X game, it’s incredible, i can barely have 30 fps at 1080p.*
*really? oh man, the game must look and play fantastic, with life-like graphics that max out any highend cpu or graphic card*
*ehhhh, no. actually, the game engine is poorly coded, like the asss creed unity engine, it barely uses all the cpu cores, let alone the thousands of gpu rasterizers, it only uses a few gb of ram, when most people already have +16gb…*
*ahh ok, i see… 2016, 2017…. whenever a game suffers to reach the 30fps, at only full hd and very high settings, it doesn’t mean the game is using complex particle effects, huge photorealistic uncompressed textures, etc etc… actually, the truth is, the studio just dumped a quick old game engine, that they used in 2007 games, just tweaked a few things here and there, to make it compatible with recent gpus, and that’s all: the game will be released the released day, no matter if its perfs are awful, people will still preorder it, because they get a free custom gun, or a green outfit for the main character..*
NOVEMBER 2017:
*oohh man, i ‘ve been saving all the year, i will now buy a new 600$ cpu and 2x 600$ graphic cards, so i can play the latest amazing call of duty game… its *holywood-ready* raytracing engine really deserves some new hardware, so i can play it at the fantastic 60 fps, 1080p, and very high settings*
*ohhh, look at all the console peasants, with their ugly 1080p graphics that can barely keep up the 30 fps…. with my recent 2400$ pc rig, i can easily play all games with 2 times better quality than the lame ps4 uncharted 4 ,of course, at +70fps*
*ohhh, lol, mouahaha, look at their ugly uncharted 4 game… it looks so ugly, compared to the graphics we can get, with our tri-sli nvidia triple-cpu Titan V4 card + our 64gb ddr4 + our little 24 core intel extreme edition cpu… uncharted 4… ps4…. mouhahahhahhaha*
*lol, 😉 *
* XD 😉 *
* lol, i just farted xD*
*muhahahaa, 3x LOL *
*by the way, dont forget to update your directX, to version 12. you will see, 4 gb of textures can be compressed down to only 512kb. gta6 textures will only need a few 3.5″ floppy drives *
*ohh, cool, maybe i can compress my + 18’450 p orn movies, from 9.43TB to 650mb 😉 *
*2017, can’t wait, lol 😉 *
*yeah, XD*
*ohhhh, man!! my file host subscription just ended yesterday !! i need to start downloading 4 full pirated games, from scratch ¨! they were all close to 94% completion. that sucks, i already finished the 14 games i downloaded and pirated last month, and have no new games to play. damn it ! and i need to reinstall the torrent client, too ! oh man, all the work we need to do, just to find, download, mount, play and finish a pc game we have downloaded for totally free !*
*oh yeah, man, you’re right. that really sucks, having to wait 20 minutes for the download to complete…*
*i just farted, too 🙂 *
*lol, mouhahaha, XD*
that was really sad to read. Are you ok pal ?
Overclocked i7 CPU supporting it though.
if anyone expects an Alpha to be optimized they don’t know much about PC gaming. It also shows that Batman Arkham Knight IS an alpha in it’s current state
Why haven’t you given a full review for this Alpha game yet? I’m astonished it hasn’t been released yet.
“1/10, Closed alpha is a buggy mess, don’t buy this game when it’s out of alpha, beta, and is fully released. Alpha left a bad taste in my mouth”
lmfao
WTF AXE MURDER OUT OF NOWHERE !
Just so people know only the third vid is mostly stealth, although even the third goes combat at the end. The first two are not played stealthily at all. Shame.
here comes another batman
Well,,, it’s alpha.
The release date is too close. I think they lied when they said that it won’t feel like Early Access.
Reminds me of Greece’s Economy…..
Ba Da Tssss!
Unfortunately, the game is locked at 60fps. Hopefully that won’t be the case by the time it releases. As for CPU usage, it is through the roof. Maxes out a 5.2GHz 3770k. This game is one of those “Best case scenarios” for DX12 implementation. As long as you have the GPU power or turn down settings, DX12 will give huge performance gains.
Eh, I’ve seen games that still didn’t have the full graphics engine implemented in Alpha. It’s bound to get better.
ok now I just want to play it to see if my rig is enough