Has anyone developed a patch for this yet?

[Davesyndrome]

As i said in the title, Has anyone developed a patch for this yet? i'm so sick of not being able to play this game. steam should not of released it without it being fully working

[pokkles]

It does work?

[Davesyndrome]

nah mate, all i've had is problems trying to get it to run. none of my hitman games work

[Tyler]

What kind of problems? I'm running Codename 47, Silent Assassin and Blood Money without any problems in Windows 7.

[DeadTomGC]

EDIT: this is to solve the problem where when you press play on steam, nothing happens. /EDIT

Hey guys I've got a solution... maybe. So, my Bro had this issue. I tried the demo and did not have the problem. Then, he tried to start the program directly instead of through steam. He got an error that said that he was missing a msvcr71.dll. Now, there may be a way to get this dll normally like through vsredist 2005 or something like that, but we didn't want to take the time to try that just to have it fail.

So, I looked up the file on my system and found it at c:\windows\sysWOW64 Now, I don't know if this location will vary from OS to OS, but for win7x64 this is where a bunch of dll's are stored.

Basically this DLL was missing on his system. you can probably google to get a copy of the DLL. I uploaded a copy here though: {LINK REMOVED}http://www.mediafire.com/download/e9cezcqmoaynfmz/msvcr71.dll

Now, windows won't let you put this file in while it's on. So, you'll either need to find a "trusted installer" which would be some exe with special permissions that I can't seem to get my hands on, OR you can do what I did and copy it over while booted up in Linux from a flash drive.

So, just get something like Ubuntu and install it on a flash drive as a bootable drive.
There should be ample explainations of how to do this here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/try-ubuntu-before-you-install

Note that you don't need to install anything on your computer (you really shouldn't unless you know what you're doing), you just need to run the linux OS from the USB drive in demo or "live" mode.

Then, depending on what Linux distro you picked up (there are a ton out there, but ubuntu or xubuntu or kubuntu should work for most people) You'll get a nice friendly desktop interface where you can copy the file from your downloads to the c:\windows\sysWOW64\.

Now, this worked for my brother, and I suspect this will work for anyone using win7x64, but I'm not an expert on this and I don't garuntee it will solve your problems. If you do this right though, it can't hurt.

Anyway, let me know what you think. I hope this helps!

[Davesyndrome]

wow, cheers man

[Aldarys]

Well done !

[-3xA'Lu©κy the disappearing act]

In future mate - (glad you got the problem solved btw.), post your OS & other relevant specs, what the problem is... and when it occurs.

Much thanks. Enjoy the game :)