Make Hitman 3 available for Windows 7

[BRAINW45H VIC71M]

It's unreasonable to not give us an option and lying about it on your specs page. DX12 is unnecessary. Nothing that was in Hitman 2 is all that different from 3. Make it work. Make the offline mode playable. Down with the greed.

[IIIX4W7EN]

Officially this is not gonna happen but you can find a workaround for W7 online.

[IIIX4W7EN]

Originally posted by IIIVIIIX4W7EN:

Officially this is not gonna happen

Though I've just noticed that Minimum Requirements state Windows 7.

[BRAINW45H VIC71M]

yup. more lies from a terrible business. online only? more like dead game in 3-4 years. hate to see it.

[BRAINW45H VIC71M]

last I checked, there is no such working solution. the wine one from reddit has been rendered useless by hitman 3 updates

[Mez Koo]

I wouldn't be surprised if the devs googled: DX12 in Windows 7 and they saw search results such as "how to enable dx12 in win7" or "microsoft pushes dx to win7" and said "okay it'll work let them figure it out."

[Kaptain KFC]

Using steam will get you no where. Go to the developer website.

[space]

not possible

it's a dx12 specific game and win7 doesn't support dx12

[BRAINW45H VIC71M]

nothing that can't be done on win7 is in that game. look at hitman 2

[space]

Originally posted by brainwash vic✞im:

nothing that can't be done on win7 is in that game. look at hitman 2

except for the fact that it's a dx12 specific game? that's the key difference

[RAD-82]

I just had this link copied in my clipboard for another Windows 7 topic, so I'll also post it here.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/porting-directx-12-games-to-windows-7/

[- PatteDeFruit -]

This is such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!
It's the same game with some minor features added.
It was even possible to play the game on Windows 7 before update 3.40 and they removed this possibility. Also possible to use DX12 on it if they really wanted to.
Windows 10 is such a crappy OS i barely play this game because of this. Actually it's the only game that requires me to use that ***tty OS, having to use a separate hard drive for this crap so it won't infect my files.
The worst thing is that H1 & H2 are Windows 7 compatible, which makes this sequel (and last game) something very separated from the rest.
Such a dumb move IOI.

[Bankai9212]

Or you know just update your os, if you have an issue now it’s not going to get any better.

[saidox]

You can try to use the Elden Ring patch: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/12

It might work because it was made for the same case as far as I know. The game isn't running on lower Windows versions, but the patch fixes it.

The patch repurposes files made for the Linux gaming community to "translate" DirectX to Vulkan, if I'm not mistaken.

If you don't wanna have such unreasonable limitations in the first place, you can try switching to Linux. A newbie friendly distro would be Linux Mint Cinnamon e.g.: https://linuxmint.com/download.php
(Some anti-cheat games aren't quite there yet, but the Steam Deck might change it in the future)

[Vyvyvn]

They're not going to make a modern game run on an Operating system that reached End-Of-Life on January 14, 2020.

[ValentB]

If the game was available on particular OS at launch then it must support that OS in all updates. Period.
Hitman 8 is not new game for PS5/XSeX, it's the final game in Hitman 6-7-8 trilogy, built on the same engine and it supported 7 on launch.