Everyone’s favorite sandbox murder-fest is getting Nvidia’s Frame Generation magic
Hitman 3 and Midnight Suns are getting the DLSS 3 treatment later this week, just in time for their DLC.
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Nvidia announced today thatHitman 3andMarvel’s Midnight Sunsare getting some extra frame rate-boosting love in the form of DLSS 3 support on January 26th for systems equipped with RTX 40-series graphics cards. The timing works out because both games have some pretty neat DLC launching on the same day.
DLSS 3 with Frame Generation promises up to4x frame rate increases for RTX 40-series GPUs. It does this by taking advantage of the GPU’s new ‘optical flow accelerator.’ It looks at the frame data and uses AI to generate more frames, boosting the performance of your games. Basically, it lets your RTX video card punch above its weight class using the power of AI to generate complete frames without actually rendering anything. And it’s just magic.
As well as DLSS Frame Generation Hitman 3 and Midnight Suns also benefit from Reflex, Nvidia’s latency-busting feature, which aims to make games as responsive as possible when it comes to overall system performance.
Both games had previously supported DLSS 2, with added ray-tracing support to make such AI upscaling necessary to deliver anything like decent gaming performance with it enabled. Nvidia mentioned that another game getting a DLSS 3 boost is the sci-fi adventure gameDeliver Us Mars—which debuted on our PC Gaming Show—for its February 2 launch day.
The DLSS 3 support is coming to Hitman 3 just in time for the release of its long-waitingFreelancer mode, which was delayed from last year. It’s a roguelike mode where you must take down various criminal enterprises via creative murdering from your customizable base.
Midnight Suns is also launching its ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Undead DLC’ featuringDeadpool as a playable characteron the same day in case you were itching to fight some vampires and hear quippy dialogue.
The same driver update pushed out by Nvidia today also brings support for DLSS 2 to Forspoken and Dead Space when it launches this Friday, which is good news for those of us rocking with RTX 30-series GPUs in need of a little extra performance.
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Jorge is a hardware writer from the enchanted lands of New Jersey. When he’s not filling the office with the smell of Pop-Tarts, he’s reviewing all sorts of gaming hardware, from laptops with the latest mobile GPUs to gaming chairs with built-in back massagers. He’s been covering games and tech for over ten years and has written for Dualshockers, WCCFtech, Tom’s Guide, and a bunch of other places on the world wide web.
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