New PC patch (1.0.446.0) released!

It contains the following two fixes:

- Performance enhancements on various hardware configurations.
- Audio volume can now be muted again.

Square Enix, IO Interactive, and Nixxes are making a first patch (1.0.438.0) available for Hitman: Absolution on PC.

This patches provides the following improvements:

- Players using the Russian language will no longer crash as soon as they use the sniper rifle.
- Various issues that have been seen on specific configurations that caused the game to not be able to start up at all have been addressed.
- Problems with the Sniper Challenge Unlocks not carrying over into Hitman: Absolution have been addressed. On first starting the patched game you will receive your unlocks.
o Note that North American users that have been provided the Sniper Challenge by Gamestop will need a separate unlock key in addition to this. Gamestop can provide these.
- Problems with negative level-scores have been fixed. Newly accomplished positive scores will be needed to erase your incorrectly remembered negative scores.
- A problem with keyboard and mouse controls where users would accidentally melee attack a person next to them when they intended to throw an item has been addressed.
- Legal and Intro movies can now be skipped immediately on startup after the game, on all launches but the very first on a machine.
- DirectX 10 hardware can now enable the simplest version of the Depth Of Field effect.
- Problems with audio occasionally being muted after ALT-TAB have been fixed.
- Various localization fixes.
- Miscellaneous other stability and general improvements based on crashes we have seen coming in.

Note that the above is really just our first set of fixes. We are continuing to monitor things and expect to provide further patches in the future.

We hope this patch will help everyone enjoy Hitman: Absolution!

We are happy to present a new update to the Hitman: Sniper Challenge.

The primary change in this update fixes a problem found on some machines where they could not connect to the Sniper Challenge leaderboard servers.

This update also addresses a problem accidentally introduced by the previous update, where the Polish and Russian text language options had been swapped. This is now resolved.

We hope this update will allow more people to enjoy competing in the Hitman: Sniper Challenge.

IO Interactive & Nixxes

We are happy to provide a patch for the Hitman: Sniper Challenge. This patch addresses:

- Some users would not hear any audio during the introduction movie. This is fixed.
- Various performance improvements.
- Fixes to mouse precision.
- Fixes for issues with Texture Quality and Texture Filtering in the graphics options.
- Miscellaneous other small fixes.

We are still investigating an issue where some users are unable to connect to the Sniper Challenge leaderboards, and hope to have another patch out for this shortly.

We hope you will continue to enjoy Hitman: Sniper Challenge!

IO Interactive & Nixxes