Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Please read through the DirectX section of this document. This section has information that is vital to successfully running Hitman 2: Silent Assassin on your system.
This game is optimised for Microsoft's DirectX 8.1. In order for you to play the game, you must have DirectX 8.1 compliant drivers for your video card and sound card. Please note that although DirectX 8.1 is installed with the game, your video and sound card drivers will not be upgraded to DirectX 8.1 drivers.
You will need to obtain the latest DirectX 8.1 drivers from your card manufacturer or PC supplier. These drivers cannot be supplied by Eidos.
While the game will run fine in 128 Mb of RAM, your playing experience will be smoother if you have at least 192 Mb.
Regardless of how much memory you have, you can maximize your available memory and increase the overall performance of the game engine by doing the following:
q Closing any open windows
q Shutting down all other programs, including menu-bar programs like ICQ
q Defragmenting your hard drive
Eidos recommends that you have no other programs running at all while playing Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. Other programs, including virus checkers, system utilities and screen savers can cause system degradation when playing games software and may conflict with the game for system resources, potentially resulting in instability and crashes.
1.3 Known Issues
q If at any point after installing Hitman 2 you decide to change your Sound or GFX settings or hardware it is highly recommended you run the Hitman 2 configuration program and reset your settings.
q Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is designed to take advantage of the latest in hardware capabilities. It is recommended that you ensure you are running the latest drivers for both your Sound and Video Cards.
q If you suffer a crash as you start-up Hitman 2 you should try adding the text “EaxDisable” (without quotes) at the bottom of the Hitman2.ini file that you will find in your Hitman 2: Silent Assassin directory. This will disable the testing of EAX on your sound card and is a known workaround for the SB PCI 128 sound card.
q It is highly recommended that you ensure that your sound settings in Windows® are properly configured for your speaker/headphone set-up. If your settings are not correct you may experience audio imbalance.
q If you experience stuttering with the Music or Speech it is recommended that you turn down the “Number of Voices” setting in the sound options to a low value. If the problem still persists try adding the line “NumberOfStreams 3” (without quotes) to the bottom of Hitman2.ini file that is located in the Hitman 2: Silent Assassin folder.
q In order to install Hitman 2: Silent Assassin on a Windows® 2000/XP system, you must ensure you have full Administrator rights.
IO Interactive and Eidos Interactive are committed to providing customer support for our games on a continuing basis. In that spirit, there may be a patch for Hitman 2: Silent Assassin forthcoming; visit the Eidos website for more information.
http://www.eidos.com/
The minimum system requirements are as follows:
COMPUTER:
IBM PC or 100% compatible
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Microsoft Windows 98, 2000 or XP
CPU:
PIII (or equivalent) 450Mhz
RAM:
128 Mb
GRAPHICS:
100% DirectX 8.1-compatible 16Mb 3D Accelerated Card
SOUND:
Windows compatible sound card (100% DirectX 8.1 compatible)
CD-ROM:
Quad-speed (4x) CD-ROM drive
HARD DRIVE:
800 Mb free disk space
INPUT DEVICES:
100% Windows compatible mouse and keyboard
The recommended system requirements are as follows:
PIII (or equivalent) 800Mhz
192Mb
32 Mb 3D Card -100% DirectX 8.1 compatible
Eight-speed (8x) CD-ROM drive or faster
800Mb free disk space
To ensure that your installation is trouble free, you should check to see that your hard drive and file system are both tuned for optimum performance. Windows comes with two utility programs that find and fix any errors and optimise your hard drive performance. The first of these programs is called scandisk. Scandisk will check your hard drive for problems and can fix any that it finds. You can run scandisk by clicking on the Start button from the Windows Taskbar, followed by Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, and finally scandisk.
Once scandisk has finished running, you should next optimise your hard drive's performance by running a program called Disk Defragmenter.. You can run Disk Defragmenter by clicking on the Start button from the Windows desktop, followed by Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, and finally Disk Defragmenter.
Installing Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Installing Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is easy. Simply insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive. After a few seconds, the Launch Panel will appear.
This program will guide you through the remaining process via onscreen prompts. If at any time you are instructed to restart your computer, do so.
In the event the Launch Panel does not appear when you insert the CD:
Double-click on the My Computer icon, then double-click on the CD-ROM icon, and lastly double-click on the Setup.exe file to bring up the Launch Panel OR:
q Click on the Start button.
q Choose Run from the pop-up menu.
q Type d:\setup in the box provided (where d: designates your CD-ROM drive letter).
q Click on the OK button to begin the install program.
You will be prompted to select the path and directory to which you wish to install the game on your hard drive. The default is
C:\Program Files\Eidos Interactive\Hitman 2 Silent Assassin
You may change this if you wish to.
At some point, the Microsoft DirectX 8.1 install prompt will appear if you do not have it on your system already. Please read the on-screen information before selecting an option. You may either choose to install or not install at this time. If the Hitman 2: Silent Assassin installer detects an active version of DirectX 8.1 on your system, we encourage you to not reinstall DirectX. If the installer does not detect DirectX 8.1, you must install it before you are able to play Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (please refer to the next section of this guide before proceeding).
Once the install has finished and you have opted to run the game, the Launch Panel will appear on the screen. A list box allows you to choose which graphics card will be used by DirectX to render Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. The option you choose will stay selected every time you run the game.
Once you are happy with your choices, simply click on the Run button to start the game.
You may also:
q Click on the Uninstall button to uninstall the game.
q Click on the View Readme button to view the readme file.
q Click on OK to play the game.
q Click on the Exit button to exit the Launch Panel.
If you are going to play the game at a later time insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive. After a few seconds, the Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Launch panel should appear on the screen via the AutoPlay feature. Now click on the Run button to start the game. There is also a button present to Exit.
In the event the AutoPlay feature does not work, you may click on the My Computer icon and then click on the CD-ROM icon to bring up the Launch Panel.
OR
q Choose Programs from the pop-up menu.
q Drag your mouse to the right and click on Hitman 2: Silent Assassin from the list.
q Click on Hitman 2: Silent Assassin from the ensuing pop-up menu.
Uninstalling Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
If you need to UNINSTALL Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, you may do any of the following three things:
Insert the Hitman 2: Silent Assassin CD into the CD-ROM drive to activate the AutoPlay feature. This will bring up the Launch Panel. Click on the Uninstall button, then click on the Yes button from the ensuing pop-up panel to uninstall the program
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