An interactive benchmark added to Hitman 3. An interesting idea from IO Interactive

Built-in game performance benchmarks are tools that let you check how a PC runs a title. Sometimes these results are reliable, but not always — often the displayed frame rate has nothing to do with what we see in the actual game.

All such tools had one thing in common — they were non-interactive, boiling down to reproducing a specific scene prepared by developers in real time. The developers at IO Interactive decided to change this.

The benchmark in Hitman 3 takes the player to the map of the second mission, where we test various types of weapons with infinite ammunition. Gunshots and explosions affect the game world, while the frame rate is constantly monitored (split into average, maximum, and minimum values). Information about rendered particle effects is also available. And that is not all: if we really want to test our PC, we can press the “red button,” which summons waves of guards onto the screen.

An interesting solution that allows users to test their PC under conditions that are much closer to actual gameplay.