Nice glad it worked out so nicely, I have the newest version up on guru3d if you want.

I have reduced the reflection map size from 2048 to 1024 on medium and low profiles, I have downloaded your patch.dat, nice work removing those effects, every time I tried I would corrupt the file.

Here are the new files, Ultra, High, Medium, and Low XML files http://www.mediafire.com/download/m2s5r6uc7udulj6

After testing a lot on my own rig I decided to let a few other people try my XML file and they all came back with the same answer, that this XML has made their game much more playable and enjoyable, I figured I would put up a link here for anyone who wants to play the PC version without constant stutttering and framerate drops, you will need the patch.bat and patch.fat files that come with the original mod which you can find here.

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/543661/putindata-win64-rar.html < put these in the games dat_win64 folder

UPDATED June 24th 2014

Here are all settings in one archive http://www.mediafire.com/download/m2s5r6uc7udulj6

This should give you an insane performance boost, I can now get 60FPS highs and lows of about 45FPS during heavy physics based crashes, hope you guys enjoy it :)

let me know what you guys think and if anyone needs a profile with high or medium settings I can still keep the effects and the optimization working, actually I'll just post the high and medium setting files after I make sure they are perfect

@robotopbuddy:

Oh I see, thanks for the response, maybe next time I will use a * to replace a letter or two if I use some language it doesn't like. :)

Lately my comments say pending, they contain no foul language even or do they have links which might need to be checked first, I'd like to know why I am on the Pending list, what did I do can I see why this has been done.

This isn't the first time, last time it happened months ago after a little argument with a moderator and all of a sudden all my comments were being deleted as well as any likes given to my comments.

I think if this is how a moderator behaves he shouldn't be working on this site.

EDIT: Just now a comment that was not offensive or broke any rules was removed from the article about MS lifting the patwall on it's apps.

@kozzy1234: yeh yeh I'm a cow blah blah, and I'm jealous of what? I said that there will be way better games on the console in a year or so, you ask me do I remember that GT4 had some premium cars and some with lower textures and poly counts, yes and that was complete crap, I don't judge a game based on it's platform, I'm mainly a PC gamer and my games look better so I could care less, also I loved forza when I had my 360, I just don't think Forza 5 is that big of an improvement or a next gen game, the textures around the tracks are god awful meanwhile the cars are extremely detailed, that breaks the immersion for me.

You don't have to start a war with me or talk shit because I don't have 1000 forum posts, I have been a member here for almost 10 years with 2 accounts over that time but until recently I did my gaming talk on a smaller forum, I am simply stating that yes it is a good game but no it is not a next gen game and it is not worthy of a 9, when the next Forza comes out in a couple years and looks 10x better you'll understand what I'm getting at, the fact is it take devs a while to get used to new tech, even if it's using x86 architecture.

Anyway I'm done arguing with someone who clearly doesn't wanna hear the facts, back to my PC which overpowers them both anyway.

YOU COW!

This is just hilarious, it's one game and it's not even as good as Forza 4 in many aspects, now all the Xbots claim superiority because they have 1 game that actually runs at 1080p natively, oh and DR3 the clunkiest POS zombie game out there.

Face the facts that neither console will have truly great next gen games for another year or so, right now all the games are just slightly enhanced. This reminds me of when 360 came out and everyone called it xbox 1.5 til Gears Of War came out. I think both consoles will be great but I do not think Forza 5 is a next gen experience, and with it lacking some of the things Forza 4 had it's actually a bit of a downgrade (especially the car count) with the exception of the car models which do look great compared to the scenery.

Soon we'll all be playing some real next gen games and everyone can shut up and be happy, oh wtf am I thinking it will be even worse then, wait til Titanfall comes to PS4 or a Sony exclusive goes multi console and the war will continue over what system is best.

P.S. blackace you said in a article you own both ps4 and X1 and X1 games look better upscaled to 1080p then PS4 games at native 1080p, do you have eyesight problems.

In a way PC is present at E3, not in the form of big press conferences but many of the games shown are coming to PC and lots of them are games that will fit great on the PC like Titanfall, E3 is first and foremost a console event so the main emphasis is on consoles but if you looked at stuff like the Ubisoft conference they had PC as one of the platforms some of their games will be on in the pictures at the end of the trailers even though they weren't mentioned.

My only hope is that games like Watch Dogs get a next gen port not a 360 port with some slightly better graphics, PC gamers get shafted to often by devs who aren't willing to take the time or spend a bit extra to take advantage of a powerful PCs potential.

I can kind of understand it simply for the fact that not every PC gamer has a cutting edge gaming PC, most are probably in the mid range gaming PC category and that scares devs who don't want to release a game that most PC gamers can't run the way it was meant to look,Crysis 1 is a good example of this, a cutting edge game that at the time blew peoples mind but even some of the most powerful PCs at the time couldn't do it justice.

There is still a small amount of devs out there that like to see what they can do on PC, The Witcher 2 is a great example of a game that looked amazing on PC with the graphics turned all the way up,also it allowed so many graphics settings to be changed that it could run great on a large amount of PCs when you set the graphics to the best combination of performance and visuals.

Maybe one day E3 will put a bigger emphasis on PC games but as long as we keep getting straight ports and sometimes aweful ports like GTA4 before the patches made it run better PC will never get much attention at E3.

The sad part about it is if there was a press event that focused more heavily on PC ports and great exclusives like Company of Heroes 2, more developers would take time to make ports that take advantage of the best gaming platform there is and more gamers would see what their missing and hop on the PC for a superior experience and that would be a great thing for PC gaming.

Not a Hitman Game at all @R4gn4r0k

If so I won't buy it,Hitman was never about a linear experience,it was a thinking mans action game letting you put together a good hit using disguises,recon and just playing the levels over and over finding the perfect formula for a hit. this reminds me of the new Brothers in Arms,a complete cave in to what they think people want and they are ruining one of if not the best squad based tactical shooters ever made. And there's no end to it,we've seen the casualization of games get worse and worse over the last 5 years,like does anyone remember the health meter,you lose your life your dead period,when was the last game you saw that in cause 90% of the games I play these days all I have to do is hide for 10 seconds and my health is full lol just like in real life

Awwww man I'm getting really worrie about this game right now.
The best part of Hitman series was getting a good disguise,finding a good path to your victim and hiding the evidense you were there by hiding the body and slipping out unnoticed.
This really gave you a feeling of true accomplishment many games just haven't emulated sinse.
The earlier Hitman games,Hitman 2 for example could be very tough and even if you beat a mission you would want to
try again and do it smoother with no alerts or innocent victims giving tons of replay value for a mission/level based game even if it is a sandbox game kind of.

Also I noticed some of the animations are really wonky,hopefully this is just some unnfinished build issues but Agent 47's movements seem jerky sometimes especially around the shoulders and during his surprise hostage takings but they look weird in lots of places I think.

I might pick this up for PC if someone makes a "hardcore mod" or "original mod" I guess that removes some of the new weird and really just trying to add too much stuff mechanics,then I would buy it they make disguises a big role like in previous game.... ughhh maybe.

I wouldve scored the game a lot higher if there werent so many realtime cutscenes that just compleely remove control from the player.

its like they took those "uh oh jump for the ladder" moments from MW 1 and 2 and went way overboard.

I won't lie though its a damn fun game,just a bit to on rails for the campagin