General information
- Developer website
- Hitman Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- The European release of the Hitman Collection is DRM-free, already patched to the latest version and has cheats enabled by default.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Latest version is v1.92. Digital copies are patched to the latest version.
Peixoto's patch
Peixoto's patch Forced resolution allows high resolution without shrinking the HUD\menus on OpenGl and Direct3D modes. Super sampling anti aliasing is also possible in OpenGL mode
Increase draw distance
- The draw distance on some levels is extremely short, making it difficult to see enemies.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
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Hitman.sav
contains all player profiles.
Video
Widescreen fix (Hor+ alternative)[8]
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- Download this file and DgVoodoo.
- Extract both files to <path-to-game> (DgVoodoo only needs the files inside the ms folder and the config utility).
- Using DgVoodoo's config utility, set up the game the way you want (resolution, etc.)
- Edit
hitman.ini to the following:
Include Setup\Locale.zip
//DrawDll Render3DFX.dll
DrawDll RenderD3D.dll
//DrawDll RenderOpenGL.dll
SoundDll Sound.dll
ScriptDll GSC.dll
LocaleDLL Locale.dll
Resolution 1024x768
Anisotropy 2
AntiAlias
DisableLight
ColorDepth 32
ShadowDetail 2
TextureResolution 0
Notes
- Doesn't suffer from small HUD issues of the other fixes.
- Incompatible with OpenGL.
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- HUD does not scale and may be too small to read at ultra-high resolutions.
Widescreen fix (Hor+)[citation needed]
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- Download Widescreen fix by nemesis2000.
- Extract
h47.7z files to <path-to-game> (password: h47).
- Edit
h47.ini to set the resolution.
Notes
- Draw distance is also adjustable.
- For the widescreen patch to work with OpenGL, DxWnd is required.
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Widescreen fix (Vert-)[9]
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- Open
<path-to-game>\hitman.ini .
- Locate line
Resolution 800x600 and change it to desired resolution.
- Add a line
Window
- Add a line
StartUpperPos 0,0
Notes
- Make sure to cap your frame rate to prevent extreme camera shake.
- Lower vertical FOV in widescreen.[10]
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Input
In-game control settings.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Music, speech, SFX |
Surround sound |
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Up to 7.0 output.[11] |
Subtitles |
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Cutscene speech only. In-game speech not subtitled. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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EAX support |
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2.0 |
Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Hungarian |
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Fan translation |
Italian |
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Polish |
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Local retail release, download |
Russian |
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Retail only. Patch for digital release here. |
Spanish |
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VR support
Issues fixed
Game window displayed in-between screens
- If running windowed mode, the game will place the window across screens (in some cases, half off-screen).
Set window position[citation needed]
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- Open
<path-to-game>\hitman.ini .
- Add
StartUpperPos 0,0 to the file.
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"Failed to find Steam" error
Launch the game from Steam[12]
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Verify Your Game Cache[citation needed]
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- In the Steam game library, right click the game.
- Select
Properties .
- Select the
Local Files tab.
- Click
Verify integrity of game cache button.
Notes
- Steam will consider your *.ini files "corrupt" if you've changed the resolution (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).
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Fix for numerous in-game crashes
Run game in Windows XP (Service Pack 2) Compatibility Mode[citation needed]
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- Find
<path-to-game>\Hitman.exe , right-click on the icon and choose the Properties option.
- Go to the Compatibility tab
- Tick the box that says "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
- In the box underneath the tick, choose "Windows XP (Service Pack 2)"
- Click OK (if you get an administrator prompt after clicking OK, click the "Yes" button).
Notes
- After performing this fix, launching the game may result in "Unable to find Steam" or "Unable to Verify Steam" errors. If encountered, quit Steam, then restart Steam as Administrator (right click the Steam icon or .exe and choose "Run as Administrator"). If the error is still encountered, or the game cannot be run as Administrator, the "Failed to find Steam" section may fix the error.
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Black screen/crash on startup
Use OpenGL render instead of Direct3D[citation needed]
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- The default Direct3D render may have trouble launching on modern systems.
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Game runs too fast
Keep CPU power usage settings stable[citation needed]
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- Open Control Panel and then Power Options. Click on the "Change plan settings" of whatever plan is currently active. (By default this should be "Balanced.")
- On the next screen click "Change advanced power settings"; a window should open containing a list of the individual components affected by power management.
- Scroll down to "Processor power management" and expand everything so that both "Minimum processor state" and "Maximum processor state" are visible. By default under the "Balanced" plan these should be set at 5% and 100% respectively.
- In order to fix the speed problem in Codename 47 "Minimum processor state" should be changed to 100%. (Alternatively one may select the default "High Performance" plan a few screens back.)
Notes
- This will prevent your computer from automatically slowing down your processor's clock-rate in times of low demand. Older software may be explicitly relying on the processor having a constant clock speed for in-game timing.
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Low frame rate on Windows 8/8.1/10
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
7 |
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OpenGL |
1.2 |
Buggy textures. Recommended output method for use with post processing injectors, such as ENB. |
Glide |
3.10 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Mods
- a "Rebirth" mod is available here.
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95 |
98 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
| Intel Pentium III |
System memory (RAM) |
64 MB |
96 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
400 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
3D accelerated card 12 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible
| 16 MB of VRAM |
- A hardware compatibility table for the game can be found at <path-to-game>.
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
, %PROGRAMDATA%
, or %WINDIR%
might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References