the game is very cpu limited. lowering the lod settings is all you can do
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Hitman 2 PC performance thread
- Thread starter GrrImAFridge
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the game is very cpu limited. lowering the lod settings is all you can do
Could try dropping the screen space reflections a bit lower -- a new feature in this one. They do a number on my frame rate. But I have a less capable system so YMMV
So I upgraded from my i5 7400 to an i7 7770. Using a 1070 TI, I can play with everything on high (not ultra) and maintain a constant 60 fps at 1080p. However, in Mumbai I needed to drop Level of Detail down to medium to maintain a solid 60fps.
It's crazy how taxing this game is.
It's crazy how taxing this game is.
Mumbai drops down between 55-59 fps in quite a few areas. Moving level of detail from high to medium makes the level almost always a consistent 60 fps
I was all ready to move this over to my SSD when I saw that it's just over 100GB with all the extra maps downloaded! Is there a major difference to load times or auto save stuttering on an SSD compared to HDD?
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Someone on my Steam friends list just said something similar; turns out there's a bug in the game that overwhelmingly crashes RTX cards in particular. Nvidia did have it listed as a known issue for a while but removed it after a driver developer reproduced it on an AMD GPU. An IO rep has said more than once that QA is aware of the problem, though, so hopefully it'll be addressed with a future patch.
Not sure about the difference, but stutters are very evident on ssd. Especially if you are accustomed to smooth frametimes.
Listed as an open issue in driver 418.91.
[Hitman 2]: Pixelated corruption appears in the game. [2504274]
I don't get this line of thinking - DX12 has drastically improved a number of games for me since I got a 2060 the other week - Hoping this makes a difference in Hitman
One way of thinking of it is that the world would be better of with a Vulkan renderer, since that'd make the game easier to run on other platforms while DX12 is simply reinforcing the Windows hegemony. In that way, yes fuck DX12.
That said, there's no getting away from DX12 on Windows since new H/W features are going to be tied to it.
I had a very good experience with the DX12 renderer on Hitman 2016. Would be interesting to know what happend.
Hitman 2 is basically the only game on my new PC that routinely crashes for no apparent reason.
It happens very often in that Isle of Sagil level. No error message, the game just shuts down and I'm back in Windows. Sucks.
It happens very often in that Isle of Sagil level. No error message, the game just shuts down and I'm back in Windows. Sucks.
It barely ever makes games better and when it does it usually crashes a lot, ie, Division 2
Yeah, the benchmark in the updated version crashed for me several times, in both DX11 and DX12.
Check eventviewer for error code.
Likely 0x80000003/5
https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/hitman-2-constant-crashing-with-0x80000003/27218
https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/hitman-2-crashing-with-0xc0000005/27576
Mine was always on DX12 specifically. Shame as it run perfectly for a few months on dx12 but then started crashing all of the sudden. Got the same thing last night.
Maybe i'm mistaken but I thought DX12 was supposed to possibly help people who are CPU bound versus DX11?
Is that not the case?
Is that not the case?
The benchmark above clearly show that it is. But DX11 tends to be faster when GPU is the limiting factor - unless it's an AMD GPU.
I'm bumping this old thread, hoping someone can help me about an issue I am experiencing with this game. It's a really strange one to be honest.
Before I go on explaining my issue, I just want to express my huge satisfaction with this game. To me, it's perhaps the most impressive game that came out this gen. All the physics / AI simulation, coupled with those sweet graphics make for an awesome experience. I just enjoy vagabonding around the maps and look at all the little details. Fantastic experience. I'm a bit pissed I didn't play this game earlier, especially since I've always been very fond of games such as Splinter Cell and the likes. I've played Hitman codename 47 Hitman 2 and Contracts back in the days, but I missed on Blood Money and the rest (though I understand Absolution isn't very good). Still, glad I finally decided to purchase the gold edition, along the GOTY edition of 2016 to play all the maps.
That said, here goes...
Hitman 2 framerate stutters like crazy when I am hitting what appears to be a capped framerate of around 100-105fps. I suspect my cpu is the main bottleneck here, regarding this capped framerate, and everything seems to point in that direction, but I'm just not sure that really is the case since I have additional weird behavior related to this.
Basically, the game is capped at around 100-105fps, no matter the settings I am using. I have a 1080p screen, so I'm running the game at 1920x1080 obviously. It doesn't matter if I run the game at 720p and if I lower every setting to low; it will still cap at around 100-105fps. Feels like a cpu bottleneck at that point, right?
We know Hitman 2 is a game that stresses the cpu a lot. It has cloth physics, multiple AI, etc. This leads me to believe that the fps should fluctuate at some point, when the AI and the physics simulation are more stressed out. Well, the thing is that even at max settings/1080p, the game will stick to 100-105fps like a fucking magnet. It just won't drop below it at any point. No matter the simulation, no matter the amount of NPC, it sticks to its maximum fps output like it doesn't know that lower values exist.
So far, that's weird, but hey, it kind of means that I am guaranteed to have a great experience, right? Not so much unfortunately. The thing is that the game stutters like crazy at that framerate. It may be running at 100-105 fps, but it's feels like it's running at 27-28 fps, sometimes a bit above it. This feels like some seriously bad frame pacing.
What's really weird is that if I use the supersampling option and crank it up to let's say, 1.5x (2880x1620) then the framerate starts to drop below the maximum fps output and go anywhere between 70-95fps. This isn't the really weird part. The really weird part is that at that point, it now feels butter smooth. No more stutter, no more bad frame pacing. I'm gaming on a 240hz display, so this is why 80+ fps, even though it isn't G-Synced, still feels really smooth.
So if I hit the 100fps threshold, it stutters, and if I run the game below it, it runs like butter.
Another thing: The V-Sync option in this game simply does not work for me. No matter I enable or disable it, no matter I choose option 1 or 2, the game will always try to output as much fps as it can.
The game has the same behavior in DX11 or DX12; it doesn't matter. Same goes for windowed/fullscreen/exclusive fullscreen options.
Specs:
Laptop: ASUS Zephyrus S GX531GX
Display: 1080p 15.4 inches 240hz display (no G-sync)
RAM: 16gb DDR4 2666mhz
CPU: i7 9750H 6 cores 12 threads
GPU: RTX 2080 max-Q 90w version 8gb RAM
SSD: 1TB NVME
The cpu is undervolted so the temps are fantastic and it can maintain its 4.0GHZ all cores clock. The gpu is overclocked (core is autoOC by afterburner, memory is running at 13.4ghz instead of 12ghz; I've tried disabling the overclock and it didn't change a thing).
Before I go on explaining my issue, I just want to express my huge satisfaction with this game. To me, it's perhaps the most impressive game that came out this gen. All the physics / AI simulation, coupled with those sweet graphics make for an awesome experience. I just enjoy vagabonding around the maps and look at all the little details. Fantastic experience. I'm a bit pissed I didn't play this game earlier, especially since I've always been very fond of games such as Splinter Cell and the likes. I've played Hitman codename 47 Hitman 2 and Contracts back in the days, but I missed on Blood Money and the rest (though I understand Absolution isn't very good). Still, glad I finally decided to purchase the gold edition, along the GOTY edition of 2016 to play all the maps.
That said, here goes...
Hitman 2 framerate stutters like crazy when I am hitting what appears to be a capped framerate of around 100-105fps. I suspect my cpu is the main bottleneck here, regarding this capped framerate, and everything seems to point in that direction, but I'm just not sure that really is the case since I have additional weird behavior related to this.
Basically, the game is capped at around 100-105fps, no matter the settings I am using. I have a 1080p screen, so I'm running the game at 1920x1080 obviously. It doesn't matter if I run the game at 720p and if I lower every setting to low; it will still cap at around 100-105fps. Feels like a cpu bottleneck at that point, right?
We know Hitman 2 is a game that stresses the cpu a lot. It has cloth physics, multiple AI, etc. This leads me to believe that the fps should fluctuate at some point, when the AI and the physics simulation are more stressed out. Well, the thing is that even at max settings/1080p, the game will stick to 100-105fps like a fucking magnet. It just won't drop below it at any point. No matter the simulation, no matter the amount of NPC, it sticks to its maximum fps output like it doesn't know that lower values exist.
So far, that's weird, but hey, it kind of means that I am guaranteed to have a great experience, right? Not so much unfortunately. The thing is that the game stutters like crazy at that framerate. It may be running at 100-105 fps, but it's feels like it's running at 27-28 fps, sometimes a bit above it. This feels like some seriously bad frame pacing.
What's really weird is that if I use the supersampling option and crank it up to let's say, 1.5x (2880x1620) then the framerate starts to drop below the maximum fps output and go anywhere between 70-95fps. This isn't the really weird part. The really weird part is that at that point, it now feels butter smooth. No more stutter, no more bad frame pacing. I'm gaming on a 240hz display, so this is why 80+ fps, even though it isn't G-Synced, still feels really smooth.
So if I hit the 100fps threshold, it stutters, and if I run the game below it, it runs like butter.
Another thing: The V-Sync option in this game simply does not work for me. No matter I enable or disable it, no matter I choose option 1 or 2, the game will always try to output as much fps as it can.
The game has the same behavior in DX11 or DX12; it doesn't matter. Same goes for windowed/fullscreen/exclusive fullscreen options.
Specs:
Laptop: ASUS Zephyrus S GX531GX
Display: 1080p 15.4 inches 240hz display (no G-sync)
RAM: 16gb DDR4 2666mhz
CPU: i7 9750H 6 cores 12 threads
GPU: RTX 2080 max-Q 90w version 8gb RAM
SSD: 1TB NVME
The cpu is undervolted so the temps are fantastic and it can maintain its 4.0GHZ all cores clock. The gpu is overclocked (core is autoOC by afterburner, memory is running at 13.4ghz instead of 12ghz; I've tried disabling the overclock and it didn't change a thing).
If you have MSI Afterburner, then you have RivaTuner Statistics Server (RTSS) which has a pretty good framerate limiter. You have to start it up manually and fiddle with the settings. If you're saying it feels good at ~90FPS, then limit the framerate to just that. See Battle(non)sense's channel for info on framerate limiting, input lag, and other fun stuff.
Thank you very much for taking the time to post this, though I must admit am well aware of Rivatuner and its abilities to limit the framerate output. In fact, I've settled for max settings, supersampling at 1.4x and a fps cap of 98 so it stays buttersmooth at all time. To be honest, I posted this in the hope that someone who either experienced or heard about this issue could explain to me why the V-sync in-game is not enforced and why the fps cap is stuck at 100-105fps at all time.