Steambox Part 3 – Installing Windows 8.1 and General System Performance

By Dan Stoltz

Hitman: Absolution

Hitman: Absolution is an action-adventure stealth DirecX 11 video game developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix. It is the fifth entry in the Hitman game series, and runs on IO Interactive’s proprietary Glacier 2 game engine. This game title uses the Glacier 2 game engine and was released on November 20th, 2012.

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We benchmarked Hitman: Absolution with Ultra Settings.

Hitman Absolution Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The Steambox struggled with Hitman: Absolution and the Ultra settings, averaging only 16.97 frames per second at 1920×1080. Dropping the IQ to Medium the system was able to average 42.87 frames per second at 1920×1080 and 47.9 frames per second at 1280×1024.

Hitman Absolution Image Quality Settings