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Hitman: Contracts

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Hitman: Contracts
Hitman: Contracts cover
Developers
IO Interactive
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Engines
Glacier
Release dates
Windows April 20, 2004
Hitman: Contracts guide on StrategyWiki
Hitman: Contracts on Wikipedia
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Key points

Certain graphical effects are only available when using Direct3D whilst others only available with OpenGL.[1] Also post-processing injectors typically cause heavy artifacts and graphical glitches.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Hitman Wiki

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 5 DRM.
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
The version included in the retail 'Hitman Collection' (Eidos, 2009) is entirely DRM-free.
Windows
Publisher website
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Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
Amazon.co.uk
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
The European release of the Hitman Collection is DRM-free, already patched to the latest version and have the cheats enabled by default.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch v1.74 is the latest retail patch.
Digital distribution versions are v1.75 only in Steam and comes with other languages support and widescreen support.

Skip intro videos

Skip intro[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open HitmanContracts.ini.
  3. Find the following line and replace it with the this value.
DefaultScene=mainmenu.gms

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\HitmanContracts.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/247430/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/247430/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Steam version supports widescreen (including 4K Ultra HD) natively, but it features a problematic Vert- FOV change, as well as stretching game graphics.[2]
Widescreen fix[citation needed]
  1. Download Widescreen fix by nemesis2000.
  2. Extract h3.7z files to <path-to-game> (password=h3).
  3. Edit h3.ini to set the resolution and FOV multiplier.

Notes

Works with Steam/digital distribution versions; supported exe size: 3 752 004 bytes; 3 756 135 bytes.
LOD distance is also adjustable.

Windowed

Enable windowed[2]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\HitmanContracts.ini.
  2. Add Window 1 on a new line.
  3. Change StartUpperPos 2,2 to StartUpperPos 0,0.

Input settings

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Audio settings

Sound settings.
Sound settings.

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May require DirectSound3D restoration software to restore proper sound functionality on Windows Vista and later.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Not available on GOG
German
Not available on GOG
Italian
Not available on GOG
Polish
Fan translation, download.
Spanish
Not available on GOG
Turkish
Fan translation.
Russian
Retail only. Patch for digital release here.

VR support

Issues fixed

Game crashes, hangs, or lags

Edit config file[citation needed]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\HitmanContracts.ini.
  2. Change DrawDll RenderD3D.dll to DrawDll RenderOpenGL.dll

Game doesn't save

Create the Save folder[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Make a new folder and name it "Save".

When using anything that zooms the circle that should be representative of your sight is blacked out

Lower post filter[citation needed]

Some users reported that this can be fixed by lowering the "post filter" that is for modern graphics cards.

Can not finish the second level (Meat King) without crashing (Using a Radeon Graphics Card)

Update drivers[citation needed]

Update your drivers.

Black Screen

Update drivers[citation needed]

Update your drivers.

Mute music[citation needed]

Try to mute the in-game music -some users have reported this fixed their problem.

Whenever the player dies, the screen goes all white and stays that way

Disable post filtering[citation needed]

Try turning off post filtering.

Loud background effects (like wind)

Disable EAX[citation needed]

Disable EAX in sound options.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8 Requires DirectX 9.0 to be installed
OpenGL
Shader Model support 1.1 Doesn't use anything above SM 1.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or AMD Athlon equivalent
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/247430/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (247430) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References