Hitman: Blood Money

Hitman: Blood Money

Developers   IO Interactive

Publishers   Eidos Interactive

Engines   Glacier

Release dates Windows May 26, 2006

Hitman

Hitman: Codename 47	2000
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin	2002
Hitman: Contracts	2004
Hitman: Blood Money	2006
Hitman: Absolution	2012

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
GamersGate		DRM: SecuROM.
Green Man Gaming
Steam
Retail		DRM: SecuROM disc check.
Retail		DRM-free: Disc MHTBMVEN81.

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest version is 1.2. Right patch for all game editions can be found here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
Windows

Save game data location

	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Hitman Blood Money\Profiles

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

Configuration tool.

Renderer settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD			See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Set in a configuration tool.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Not available in a windowed mode.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
High frame rate		It's recommended to limit the frame rate to prevent undesired behaviour during briefing screens, where frame rate may reach extreme values.

Widescreen resolution

Blood Money has a small configure.exe tool that can be run outside of the game to alter a limited set of graphics options. This presents a very limited range of resolution choices. The in-game menu presents you with a better range of choices including 16:9 and 16:10 resolutions.

Edit configuration file Open <path-to-game>\HitmanBloodMoney.ini with a text editor. Edit the line Resolution 1024x768 to the resolution desired (for example 1366x768). Notes: Bear in mind that Steam will treat this file as a standard "static" game data file, thus overwriting any change you made when verifying game cache.

Enabling SLI/Crossfire

Enabling SLI/Crossfire Go to the folder where you installed hitman, e.g. C:\Program Files\Eidos\Hitman Blood Money In that folder, find a file called "HitmanBloodMoney.ini" or just "HitmanBloodMoney". Open it with notepad or wordpad. Add the line "enablesli" (without the two "). Save the file and you're done! Crossfire users might get visual errors when applying this tweak. From patch 1.2 and higher, you can force SLi through the 'Configure Hitman Blood Money'-shortcut in start-allprograms-eidos-hitmanbloodmoney.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio settings

Audio settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Up to 7.1 output.
Subtitles		Under Graphics options.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
French				Not available in the Steam version.
Polish				Only available in Polish retail release. Not available digitally.
Turkish				Use Hitman: Blood Money - %100 Türkçe Yama.

Issues fixed

Failed To Find Steam

Failed To Find Steam This can be fixed by running Steam as an administrator. Right click on the shortcut for Steam and click 'Run as administrator'. Also switching Steam to offline mode and then back to online mode can fix this.

Game not Booting

Game not Booting Check your specs. Does your graphics card support pixel shader 2.0? You can find out by going to any retail site that sells your card and checking the specifications, or alternatively checking this list. Error message stating you're mising the file d3x9_27.dll when trying to start the game. Install the DirectX End-User Runtimes. If you're experiencing problems with SecuROM errors, try running the game in Windows 2000 Compatibility mode. To do so; Right Click on the shortcut on your desktop, click properties, click on the Compatibility tab, check the box "Run this program in Compatability mode for:" And select Windows 2000. Install this update. If you have 2 monitors connected, disable one and try again.

Increased brightness when in first person mode

Increased brightness when in first person mode An issue which appeared in the most recent patch. There is no downloadable fix for this. Simply, the only way to fix it is: Go to the Settings. Make sure Post Processing is turned off. The only graphical aspects affected, are the distant hills in the Vineyard level having some minor Depth of Field, and the death screen being red. Other than that, turning off post processing does not strongly affect the visual experience.

Crashes

Crash Xfire CTD While running Xfire when loading a saved game, starting a mission from the mission screen, or restarting a mission. Creds to 1r0nbunny here and MFive at XFire for the fix. 1. Make sure Xfire is not running. 2. In your Xfire root folder, open the xfire_games.ini file. 3. Ctrl+F to find 4821 - This is the entry for Hitman Blood Money. 4. Add this line at the bottom of that entry below InGameRenderer - InGameFlags=DISABLE_RELEASE 5. Save the ini file. 6. Run Xfire and Launch Hitman Blood Money. You should no longer crash while loading. We will add this fix in our next game update - Xfire.

CTD Opera House Mission CTD on opera house mission (Curtains Down). (Windows XP) - Turn your sound hardware acceleration down (basic acceleration) or off (no acceleration). Down works for some, others need it off entirely. To do this: navigate to Start > Run > Type dxdiag Click on the 'Sound' tab, and take the hardware sound acceleration down to the bottom. Unfortunately this isn't possible if you have (Windows Vista). The only method that seems to work is disabling your sound temporarily for that mission.

Installation Errors

Error 5003 on installation attempt

Error 5003 on installation attempt Go to  %COMMONPROGRAMFILES(x86)% Rename InstallShield Start the installation again.

CRC or cyclic redundancy error during installation

CRC or cyclic redundancy error during installation This error is often due to a faulty or damaged DVD. The damage may or may not be visible to the naked eye. Solution 1 - Download discspeed and slow your DVD drive down before installing. Solution 2 - Take your DVD to a video rental store and ask how much they charge for a laser resurface/clean. Solution 3 - Copy the DVD contents to your hard drive and run setup.exe from there as per these instructions. Solution 4 - Try buffing the cd yourself with brasso.

Please insert original cd

Please insert original cd Solution 1: Right click 'My Computer' > Click 'Manage' In the window you get, select 'Device Manager' Expand 'Disk Drives' in the device manager tree Right click your DVD drive > Click 'Uninstall' (Take any disk out first) Reboot your computer and let Windows 'Find new hardware' and reinstall the DVD drive for you. Solution 2: Find your DVD drive manufacturer, go to their site, and update your firmware. Note: When doing this, follow instructions very carefully. Failing to do so may leave you with a non working drive.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Pentium 4 1.5 Ghz	Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 GB
Video card (GPU)	GeForce FX, Radeon 9500	ATI X800, GeForce 6800 or better