Hitman: Codename 47

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Hitman: Codename 47
Hitman codename 47 cover.jpg
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Publishers
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Release dates
Windows
23 November 2000
Hitman: Codename 47 at WineHQ
Hitman: Codename 47 at Steam Charts
Hitman: Codename 47 at SteamDB
 Hitman: Codename 47 at Wikipedia
Hitman
Hitman: Codename 47 2000
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Hitman: Contracts 2004
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Hitman: Absolution 2012

General information

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More information GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
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More information Steam Community Discussions
More information Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
GOG.com DRM-free
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg

Essential improvements[edit]

v1.92 Patch[edit]

Latest version is v1.92. US and UK versions can be found here.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <path-to-game>\

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <path-to-game>\Hitman.sav
Information Hitman.sav contains all player profiles.

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Impossible
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

External options menu.
In-game video settings.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Hackable WSGF WS Bronze.svg See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor Impossible False icon.svg
Field of view (FOV) Impossible
Windowed Native
Borderless fullscreen windowed Impossible
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Native
Anti-aliasing (AA) Native
Vertical sync (Vsync) Unknown
High frame rate Native Windowed mode only. Capped at 30 FPS while fullscreen.

Widescreen resolution[edit]

Fix Set widescreen resolution

  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open hitman.ini.
  3. Locate line Resolution AAAAxBBBB and change it to desired resolution.
  4. Add a new line Window at the end of hitman.ini.

Notes

Information This might cause your camera to shake, to fix this, add line StartUpperPos 0,0 at the end of hitman.ini.
Information If you have a multiple monitors, the game may start in the middle (i.e. half on monitor 1, half on monitor 2). You can also fix this by , adding the line StartUpperPos 0,0 at the end of hitman.ini.
Information There are several settings within config files that can be tweaked.

e.g. this is custom hitman.ini file 

Include Setup\Locale.zip 
//DrawDll Render3DFX.dll 
DrawDll RenderOpenGL.dll
//DrawDll RenderOpenGL.dll 
SoundDll Sound.dll 
ScriptDll GSC.dll 
LocaleDLL Locale.dll 
Resolution 1920x1080
ColorDepth 32
Anisotropy 2
AntiAlias
DisableLight
ShadowDetail 2
TextureResolution 0
DisableDXT
DisablePAL
Window
StartUpperPos 0,0

Original hitman.ini file 

Include Setup\Locale.zip
//DrawDll Render3DFX.dll
DrawDll RenderD3D.dll
//DrawDll RenderOpenGL.dll
SoundDll Sound.dll
ScriptDll GSC.dll
LocaleDLL Locale.dll
Resolution 800x600
enableconsole

Input settings[edit]

In-game control settings.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native Mouse buttons cannot be assigned to actions.
Mouse acceleration Impossible
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Native
Controller
Controller support Impossible

Audio settings[edit]

In-game audio settings.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native Music, speech, SFX
Surround sound Native Up to 7.0 output.[1]
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Impossible
EAX support Native
Information May require DirectSound3D restoration software to restore proper audio functionality on Vista and newer Windows operating systems.

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Native
French Native Unknown Unknown
German Native Unknown Unknown
Italian Native Unknown Unknown
Spanish Native Unknown Unknown

Issues fixed[edit]

"Failed to find Steam" error[edit]

Fix Verify Your Game Cache

  1. In the Steam game library, right click the game.
  2. Select Properties.
  3. Select the Local Files tab.
  4. Click Verify integrity of game cache button.

Notes

With the Hitman series, Steam always seems to consider your *.ini files "corrupt" if you've ever changed resolutions (presumably since doing so modifies the *.ini files). Accordingly, users who have managed to get Hitman working and changed the resolution will always get a single file reported as corrupt and about 250 bytes downloaded (i.e. this is to be expected).

Fix for numerous in-game crashes[edit]

Fix Run game in Windows XP (Service Pack 2) Compatibility Mode

  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Find Hitman.Exe, right-click on the icon and choose the Properties option.
  3. Go to the Compatibility tab
  4. Tick the box that says "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
  5. In the box underneath the tick, choose "Windows XP (Service Pack 2)"
  6. Click OK (if you get an administrator prompt after clicking OK, click the "Yes" button).

For players who purchased from Steam.

You may find that the game will no longer launch after this fix, and say "Unable to find Steam" or "Unable to Verify Steam" or similar. If you get this, quit Steam, then restart steam as Administrator (right click Steam Icon in start menu and choose "Run as Administrator"). This will allow you to play the game crash free. If you do not want to run Steam as administrator, the fixes above may also work to fix this error.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 300 MHz Intel Pentium III
System memory (RAM) 64 MB 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
400 MB
Video card (GPU) 12 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0a compatible 		32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0a compatible
Information A hardware compatibility table for the game can be found at <path-to-game>

References

  1. ↑ PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up