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Revision as of 05:12, 25 May 2020

Hitman: Contracts
Hitman: Contracts cover
Developers
IO Interactive
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Engines
Glacier
Release dates
Windows April 20, 2004
Reception
Metacritic 74
IGDB 70
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Stealth
Art styles Realistic
Themes Asia, Contemporary, Eastern Europe, Europe
Series Hitman
Hitman: Contracts on IGDB
Hitman: Contracts guide on StrategyWiki
Hitman: Contracts on MobyGames
Hitman: Contracts on Wikipedia
Hitman
Hitman: Codename 47 2000
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin 2002
Hitman: Contracts 2004
Hitman: Blood Money 2006
Hitman: Sniper Challenge 2012
Hitman: Absolution 2012
Hitman GO 2015
Hitman 2016
Hitman 2 2018
Hitman World of Assassination 2021
Hitman
Hitman: Codename 47 2000
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin 2002
Hitman: Contracts 2004
Hitman: Blood Money 2006
Hitman: Sniper Challenge 2012
Hitman: Absolution 2012
Hitman GO 2015
Hitman 2016
Hitman 2 2018
Hitman World of Assassination 2021

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
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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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]
Maximum of 99 save files.
Save states contain system information. Loading a mid-mission save file from a different computer or operating system may result in severe broken game timing.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Vert- in Steam version.[2] See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
Vert- in Steam version.[2] See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
See Widescreen resolution or the WSGF entry.
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use Borderless Gaming while in windowed mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Force in GPU control panel for better results.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Nvidia users can force AA using Nvidia Profile Inspector. 0x000020C0 for MSAA and 0x000000C0 for SGSSAA. Ensure the AA fix is enabled.[3]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
On by default.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
The game doesn't run properly at very high frame rates.

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

Audio

Sound settings.
Sound settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Located under Graphics options.
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output, based on Windows speaker settings.[4]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
No option to disable it.
EAX support
EAX 3.[5]
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. Details missing—please edit this page and add it.
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
  3. Alternatively On Windows, run the game in Compatibility Mode for WindowsXP

Game doesn't save

Create the Save folder[6]
  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.

Game runs in slow motion

Run the game in windowed mode[7]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\HitmanContracts.ini.
  2. Change StartUpperPos 2,2 to StartUpperPos 0,0
  3. Add Window 1 to the end of the ini file on a separate line.
  4. Save your changes.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8 Requires DirectX 9.0 to be installed
OpenGL
Shader Model support 1.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio DirectSound3D

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