Surprisingly low framerate in Hitman: Absolution

[CK7]

I started playing Hitman: Absolution today and, was surprised to find that my system was only getting around 30fps -- sometimes as low as 24fps, on the first mission. It would occasionally jump to 50 but was averaging closer to 30. This was on medium settings.

ASROCK Z87 Extreme3 mobo
i5-4670 3.4 GHz
GTX 760 2GB Windforce
8 GB RAM
650 W PSU
500 GB HD
Zalman 4 fan case
Samsung 21.5? 1920 x 1080 monitor
Windows 7

While not a huge deal, as the game doesn't seem to be very fast paced, it is still far below what I expected, even with an "older" card like the 760, it is still quite capable of far better on most games. I mean, my 760 did even better on Metro 2033 (40fps average, maxed), a notorisouly demanding game, and chewed through Bioshock Infinite like it was Doom.

What gives?

 

[RCFProd]

Hitman 2016, GTX 760 Benchmarks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk2JwbHYOyE

Did you change the graphics settings at all? Or are you running old drivers?

 

[X79]

Try:
- Updating your drivers through Nvidia GeForce Experience, which you can download from their website.
- Play around with graphics settings, but in particular shadow and resolution; also view distance sometimes and AA.
- Make sure your power options are set to "Performance" or "High Performance" or similar. Especially on laptops.
- Make sure you're not having high temperatures, which could throttle your hardware, by downloading utilities like CPU-Z and GPU-Z.
- Not running too many background programs while playing.
- Play around with V-Sync, as it can sometimes help stabilise things. The worst is when FPS jumps and thus makes things stutter.

For reference:

 

[Rukeith]

What settings you are using? Anti-Aliasing can be the biggest FPS killer in that game, especially since it goes as high as 8x MSAA. Also make sure VSYNC is off.

 

[CK7]

Turns out it was just a matter of updating the drivers in GeForce Experience, and going with the Optimized settings therein,
namely everything on Ultra except for Anti-Aliasing, which is at 2X.

Now getting 50fps average in the built-in benchmark.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

I don't see why so many people assume their cards can handle ultra on every game. It takes something like an R9 Nano or 980Ti to do that.

 

[CK7]

I don't see why so many people assume their cards can handle ultra on every game. It takes something like an R9 Nano or 980Ti to do that.

Where did you get the idea that I assume my 760 can handle Ultra on every game?

I don't expect that at all, but a 3rd person stealth game from 2012? Yeah, was hoping it would, and it turns out it nearly does.

 

[RCFProd]

How did I think this was about the new Hitman, not the Hitman of 2012... I'm sure Turkey thought the same. The title didn't change right?

 

[Platinum_Gamer]

Just curious (since we now know updating your drivers fixed it) when was the last time you updated your graphics driver?

 

[CK7]

How did I think this was about the new Hitman, not the Hitman of 2012... I'm sure Turkey thought the same. The title didn't change right?

The title never changed.

 

[CK7]

Just curious (since we now know updating your drivers fixed it) when was the last time you updated your graphics driver?

I actually have no idea, sorry.