This game still works, right?

[gusbaker]

Windows 7 PC, nothing new or different, but Blood Money refuses to run now. I click to run it, and nothing happens...go to Steam and it says game is running. I have to go to Task Manager and kill the hitman process tree to get it to stop thinking it's running. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling it...nothing is working.

[Kunovega]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/6860/discussions/0/828934913217171860/

[gusbaker]

Thanks for link to forum topic, after reading it and trying lots of different things, ultimately got the game up and running again by adding -dx9 to the launch options in the Steam properties menu.

[gusbaker]

I take it back. Trying to start the game tonight, and it will not open again, as described originally

[Birb Bobson]

Enable and Override SLI?

[gusbaker]

Okay, update...I can get Blood Money working, but only after I...
1) launch steam
2)verify Blood Money files (1 file is always missing and needs replaced)
3)right click on Blood Money in Steam and run config to enable and override
SLI
4)run game and have to manually set video settings to maximum

then the game runs fine (it does fail to completely close, so if I want to
run it again I must kill it in task manager and then not have closed Steam)

Every time Steam is restarted I must restart the process again, but the game
does work then...I don't know if there's some kind of glitch with the game config.

[TrumpNukem]

Download the patch and launch the game without the steam app. It will work each time without problem.

[gusbaker]

Originally posted by TrumpNukem:

Download the patch and launch the game without the steam app. It will work each time without problem.

I'm afraid I don't understand...what patch? And how would I load the game without the Steam app?

[TrumpNukem]

Patch NOCD 1.2, search for it on google and you can play the game without the steam app. You launch the game directly from the installation folder with the ''HitmanBloodMoney.exe''. Make a backup of your exe before applying the patch in the folder as it will replace the orignial one.

[gusbaker]

Originally posted by TrumpNukem:

Patch NOCD 1.2, search for it on google and you can play the game without the steam app. You launch the game directly from the installation folder with the ''HitmanBloodMoney.exe''. Make a backup of your exe before applying the patch in the folder as it will replace the orignial one.

That's really more of a crack than a "patch" isn't it? Not really what I was looking for.

[TrumpNukem]

It not a crack, but a patch and I can play the game anytime. If you are waiting for steam to fix the issue or you would think it will fix itself, youre gonna wait a long time...you can play right now with this patch. Steam isn't always the holy grail you know. Also, the drm free version is available on GOG and it work without any problem.

[gusbaker]

Originally posted by TrumpNukem:

It not a crack, but a patch and I can play the game anytime. If you are waiting for steam to fix the issue or you would think it will fix itself, youre gonna wait a long time...you can play right now with this patch. Steam isn't always the holy grail you know. Also, the drm free version is available on GOG and it work without any problem.

Well when I Google it, nearly every entry has "Crack" in the title also, so I'm going to say thanks but no thanks...also the game worked fine for a month or two and just suddenly started acting up, so I don't know what any decade old "patch" would do to fix that anyway

[TrumpNukem]

Originally posted by gusbaker:

Originally posted by TrumpNukem:

It not a crack, but a patch and I can play the game anytime. If you are waiting for steam to fix the issue or you would think it will fix itself, youre gonna wait a long time...you can play right now with this patch. Steam isn't always the holy grail you know. Also, the drm free version is available on GOG and it work without any problem.

Well when I Google it, nearly every entry has "Crack" in the title also, so I'm going to say thanks but no thanks...also the game worked fine for a month or two and just suddenly started acting up, so I don't know what any decade old "patch" would do to fix that anyway

Too bad for you, the patch is working and it is not a crack. So have it youre way...

[Estralendor]

Not sure if you've fixed it yet or not, but if not then maybe this will help.
Do you have some kind of anti-virus running? If Steam fails to validate a file every time you restart Steam, maybe the anti-virus is somehow detecting the file as a virus and removes it? If so, make the anti-virus restore the file and add an exception for it.

I'm sure you've done this already, but make sure your graphics driver is up to date, if it is then you could try to roll it back to a previous version.

Also, if a file is fails to validate every time you restart Steam (and an anti-virus isn't the cause), then maybe try to find out what file fails to validate every time Steam restarts (maybe it's the config file itself?) and then set the file to Read-only. Speaking of which, if you have to change your settings every time you play the game after restarting Steam, then set the config file to Read-only.

Hope you can fix the issue, it may not be a huge issue, but it definitely sounds annoying.

[aboody2266]

I faced the same issue, when I run the game nothing happens and there is a process(rundll32) that use 100% of the CPU.

after trying many things I have found that the solution is:
1-run the game.
2-go to task manager and close (HitmanBloodMoney) process -leave rundll32 running.
3-run the game again.

I hope it helps.

[DrExK]

works but controller support is very bad.