- Hitman: World of Assassination seems to have an unofficial “performance mode” on the Nintendo 2 switch
- After changing the resolution of the game from 4K to 720p, the performance of the game increases considerably in certain places
- Digital Foundry conducted an investigation and found that Whittleton Creek offered the biggest image frequency difference, reaching 59.93 images per second at 720p
The Nintendo Switch 2 version of Hitman: World of Assassination seems to have an unofficial “performance mode” hidden behind its settings.
It is according to Richard Leadbetter of Digital Foundry (via Eurogamer), who received an email saying that the game can operate at a higher image frequency after changing the resolution parameters from 4K to 720p.
“”Hitman: World of Assassination On Switch 2, around 30 to 45 IPS around 90% of the time, “Harry Mingham’s e-mail reads.” Out of curiosity, I went to the system settings and I changed the release of the 4K TV at 720p, I went back to the game and I found that it considerably improves performance. The mission of Hawkes Bay ran to … a very solid and stable images rate. “”
Leadbetter then conducted an investigation and captured scenes from Paris, Mumbai, Berlin and Whittleton Creek at 720p, 1080p and 4k.
He found that Whittleton Creek offered the largest difference in image frequency, reaching 59.93 images per second at 720p, 46.88 images per second at 1080p and only 40.45 images per second to 4K, showing an increase of 62.5% of performance when the game is set to the lowest resolution.
Leadbetter explained that this happens simply because the definition of the game on 720p “seems to produce a straight 720p image, allowing a much higher image frequency”.
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It seems that the game goes to a slightly higher resolution at 1080p, with pixel counts suggesting 1152p at 1188p, but when switch 2 is set on 4K, performance falls, but the number of pixels remains the same.
Meanwhile, Berlin at the 720p exit is 61% faster than 4K, while 1080p is seven points of 4K.
“This is a slightly more demanding scene than Whittleton Creek with 720p on average 55.1 images per second, 1080p at 36.7 images per second and 4K at 34.26 images per second,” said Leadbetter.
It has been found that the scenes filled with NPCs reduce performance. There are large gaps in image frequencies between resolution in certain areas of betting, for example, but when agent 47 enters more full areas, the gap is significantly.
At 720p, the game can reach 42 images per second, 1080p can reach 39 images per second, but difficulties 4K at 35 frames per second.
“720p should be higher, but the bottleneck goes from a GPU limitation to the processor.
While players can reduce their resolution to 720p in favor of higher performance, Digital Foundry says that the problem is that “very notable” “lower” resolution will not do Hitman: World of Assassination The air well.
Hoping that Io Interactive will plan to add an official performance mode in the future.
