Warning for Windows 8.1 users trying to run Hitman Absolution

[Dragoon]

I have been trying to get this game to run properly on my W8.1 system for a few days now. Tried multiple setups/configurations, and still the game manages to blow me away with how obsolete it is. My entire system is up to date, steam is up to date, the proper drivers are installed, hell, I even have my graphics settings turned down to low. Still manages to freeze my entire computer and force me to shut down and try different settings (which never prevails).
So.... my warning is, if your thinking about purchasing this game for the highly aclaimed graphics quality, it is simply not worth it. Unless of course you dont mind playing a game that freezes your entire computer once a mission, (or so), and then snares at certain points so that you can no longer progress further. Personally, I will never purchase another Hitman title again, or a title with any of the involved companys, this game is simply pathetic.

[AlueeN]

It doesn't mean that that will happen to everyone.I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of Windows 8.1 users playing this game without any problems.

[Dragoon]

I know for a fact that there are users running this game without any issues. I also know that there are MANY people with my exact issue, if not worse. Based off what I have been reading while trying to troubleshoot this game, some people cannot even get it to open. None of the threads seem to have a solid solution either, you can try downloading different patches (via Skidrow), sadly those had no effect for me either. Everybody else just says "try compatability mode", or "try taking it off fullscreen", etc... Once again, these all had no effect for me. Im simply trying to warn users of what may happen

[Pilati]

8.1 ok for me

[Dragoon]

Its actually quite funny, I installed the same game on a friends computer and it worked fine. Ultra settings, full screen, everything. He's running almost the exact same rig as me too, so I find this quite interesting. The problem is definantly not Windows 8.1.

[Gudbuddy]

Works smooth as silk on my windows 8.1 system must be some other factor causing it. Try closing down all other running programs.

[Eriduan]

I have 8.1 and no problem at all

[Rise Kujikawa]

Try to do a full uninstall and then reinstall it.

[Dragoon]

I tried closing all other programs, and an uninstall / reinstall, didnt work. Windows event log was by far the most usefull tool in figuring this out. AOD Driver was not installed properly, I must have done a bad job uninstalling the old version of Catalyst and replacing it with the new one. Since my system didnt seem to be running properly either, I figured a fresh windows install should help solve the problem. In the process of doing so, I also noticed that my CPU was overclocked by .5 GHZ. Which was rather odd, considering I dont remember messing around with that lol. Now that all of this is completed the game seems to be running smooth as silk!!

[himmatsj]

8.1 Update 1 and no problem at all!

[Seawolf9er]

Runs Fine on windows 8 as well as windows 8.1 sounds like something (if your running an EVGA Card) odds are its the X tool crashing your game. Or sometings up with your rig.. could be something simple as disabling your AV real time screening prior to an install of a game. Or a Dated driver . EVGA's OC tool and their latest update crashes my rig had to go back to the legacy driver.. But Outright blaming in on 8 is .. well I hate 8 just as much as the next guy but 98% of my collection works on W8 and that 2 % is mostly OLD as Balls games that givin their age is not suprising

Care to post your specs might be able to pick at what the bugs are if you listed them

[🅱🅾🆁🅶]

Originally posted by crOOked:

I have been trying to get this game to run properly on my W8.1 system for a few days now. Tried multiple setups/configurations, and still the game manages to blow me away with how obsolete it is. My entire system is up to date, steam is up to date, the proper drivers are installed, hell, I even have my graphics settings turned down to low. Still manages to freeze my entire computer and force me to shut down and try different settings (which never prevails).
So.... my warning is, if your thinking about purchasing this game for the highly aclaimed graphics quality, it is simply not worth it. Unless of course you dont mind playing a game that freezes your entire computer once a mission, (or so), and then snares at certain points so that you can no longer progress further. Personally, I will never purchase another Hitman title again, or a title with any of the involved companys, this game is simply pathetic.

8.1 working fine here.

The fact that your system completely freezes forcing you to shut power off. This is beyond software conflicts, this sounds more like a voltage problem if you ask me or unstable clocks if you are overclocking. Why it only happens with this game? , every game taxes different parts of your PC, this game could simply be taxing that specific hardware that's unstable more than other games causing this issue. One thing to know is that if any software/game completely freezes your PC cold forcing a power shut off, its a hardware related issue, with a software issue you would most likely get a BSOD faulting the software to protect your PC from damage, or CTD's but not complete freezes.

Dont blame the game. Only blame a game when the same issue happens to literally everyone, then its definitely an issue with the game. In this case, since the game works completely fine for other people, we are to assume issues other people are having are more related to their hardware configuration, hardware issues or software conflicts, etc. Most of the time its not an issue with the game itself really, I watch the forums everyday and most complaints are user errors.

But I would suggest doing a stress test on your CPU and GPU to see if something's unstable. The fact again that you have to force shut off your PC ( Completely no response, even Ctrl-Alt-Del ) hints towards a hardware issue. But the problem is it could be anything, Insufficient voltages for Processor/GPU/RAM, unstable Overclocks (same as voltage really), Bad memory sticks, etc. Only way you can know for sure is to stress test each of them and see which one fails.

You can replicate the same issue just by having an unstable OC or having insufficient voltage for one part. I know because I'm an OC enthusiast.

[swarƒega]

I managed to get it working on 8.1 by renaming HMA.exe to hitman.exe then performing a steam verification test on Hitman which updated the exe file and made it work.