Hitman 2, ATI 9700, and lockups

**koloumb** · 7th October 2002

System:

AMD XP2100+
abit kg7 lite
512mb mushkin 2100 "value memory"
santa cruz sound card
ati 9700 pro [sapphire oem]
400+ watt power supply
BIOS - AGP set to 2x or 4x - doesn't matter
AGP Fastwrite set to ON or OFF - doesn't matter

This is the only game this happens on. All other games [other than Bandits Phoenix Rising which reboots system if run at 1024x768] run fine.

After applying the fix, finally able to get the damn thing to run. However, the video locks up in 2-3 second intervals during the "thugs attacking the priest", while looking at the priest from atop the ruins [next to the church], and walking in the area with the pigs. During the "thug attack" movie, the sound clip continues and the video picks up to match the sound clip.

After quitting Hitman 2, WindowsXP freezes and task manager shows HitMan2 sucking up 25.2MB of system resources. After about 5 seconds, hitman2 disappears from task manager and WindowsXP unfreezes.

My guesstimation is this is an ATI driver issue as changing the ini file to use the opengl render removes the lockups [however, the game crashes after about 10 minutes of play].

A little more info that might help troubleshoot this issue:

3dmark 2001 SE - rotating horse - briefly stops every few seconds. Doesn't crash 3dmark.

frohicky · 7th October 2002

9700 2.3 cats, no lockups.. plays fine with all details up.

fro.

**Skoodog** · 7th October 2002

My game randomly crashes too. I have a GeForce4 Ti4200 gfx card. I dunno if this is Eidos's fault or Razor's, FLT's, mine (most likely) but I'd like to know if anyone else is having problems. I am running the FLT crack off the razor rls.

**OgKraPPa** · 7th October 2002

I bought Hitman 2 a few days ago ( because Razors didnt work.. LOL) ne ways I got a p4 1.8ghz, geforce 3, turtle beach santa cruz on windows xp and the only problems i have is with the music/some sounds in the game either being to low or not playing at all, graphics on the other hand are just fine, any 1 else having problems with Hitman 2 sound?

**venom4911** · 7th October 2002

yes the game works fine but once in awhile it will just suddenly quit to the desktop....no error or nuttin

it did this when i tried to load a saved game and it also did it randomly when i was playin...im already on the 6th or 7th level and it quit to the desktop about 3 or 4 times total.

**Travisw111** · 7th October 2002

Most of the lockups that have been reported have been from SOUND problems. To see if its sound thats causing it do this

Start > Run > Type in Dxdiag

Go to the sound tab and turn down the hardware acceleration one notch. If it locks up again then crank it down another notch. If you turn sound hardware acceleration all the way down and get lockups still, then it must be your video card or some other issue. Most of the drops back to the desktop have been fixed by turning down the sound acceleration from people who had problems at Nforce.nl

**hollowpnt** · 7th October 2002

Originally posted by venom4911
yes the game works fine but once in awhile it will just suddenly quit to the desktop....no error or nuttin

it did this when i tried to load a saved game and it also did it randomly when i was playin...im already on the 6th or 7th level and it quit to the desktop about 3 or 4 times total.

Same here.

**SysOfaDwn** · 7th October 2002

Follow Travisw111's suggestions if you have random crash to the desktop. I have two system which both quit to the desktop durring gameplay. Took down the sound acceleration down one notch, which for me was enought to resolve the problem. Last time I had to d*ck with sound acceleration was 1602 AD!

Thanks Travisw111!

**koloumb** · 7th October 2002

Not sure if this will work for others, but it seemed to take care of the 3-5 second lockups on my system:

Run Hitman configuration - uncheck Full Screen.

BTW - tried notching down sound acceleration - no change.

**ascully** · 7th October 2002

ATI Radeon 9700 here full details game plays fine, im on level 3 at the moment

**readonly** · 7th October 2002

Geforce 4 ti4200 30.82 drivers no probs here.

**Starship Trooper** · 7th October 2002

aint had no probs with 9700+hitman 2 yet
playing in WinXP+sp1 with the 2.3 7.77 cataclist drivers

**Ballistic** · 7th October 2002

2.3 7.77 drivers.. are those "unofficial" .. the ones i got is Driver Build 6.13.10.6166? from ati's driver page....

**Starship Trooper** · 7th October 2002

Originally posted by Ballistic
2.3 7.77 drivers.. are those "unofficial" .. the ones i got is Driver Build 6.13.10.6166? from ati's driver page....

From the ati page:

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4081.html

This driver replaces the D3D patch that was posted on 9/10. It is the internal version of 7.77. Even if you already have the D3D patch installed, you should still install this driver.

RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB - Direct3D games experience hangs or display corruption

This issue affects RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB using CATALYST� 02.2 and CATALYST� 02.3 under Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
The system may lock up or display corruption in certain scenes when playing the following Direct3D games:

Battlefield 1942
Mafia
The Thing
To resolve this issue install the appropriate display driver for your OS:

Windows XP, Windows 2000 - wxp-w2k-radeon-6-13-10-6178.exe
Windows 98/ME - wme-radeon-4-13-01-9066.exe

NOTE: These display drivers

replace the 3D driver patch that was posted as a workaround to the problem described here
are Microsoft Certified on Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Millenium for RADEON 9700 Series graphics adapters
are internal version 7.77-020911x1-005863C-ATI
include ATI Advanced Control Panels
includes support for all languages

INFO-BASE# 4081

KEYWORDS: RADEON 9700 for PC HANGS DISPLAY CORRUPTION MAFIA THE THING BATLEFIELD 1942

they work fine for me

**koloumb** · 8th October 2002

Problem resolved.

Ran memtest86 - encountered numerous errors at the end of test #5. Switched memory modules and also tried running with just 1 module at a time - same errors.

Stopped by the local comp shop and picked up an MSI KT3 Ultra2 board - left out the santa cruz card - 1000% improvement [6 channel AC97 on board sound is actually better than the Santa Cruz card]. Can run Hitman2 in full screen without any problems. Also - no 5 second "freeze" when quitting the game.

Ran memtest86 with new setup - no errors.

**venom4911** · 8th October 2002

Originally posted by venom4911
yes the game works fine but once in awhile it will just suddenly quit to the desktop....no error or nuttin

it did this when i tried to load a saved game and it also did it randomly when i was playin...im already on the 6th or 7th level and it quit to the desktop about 3 or 4 times total.

im usin gimpsrus noCD crack right now and it hasnt crashed to desktop anymore....just thought id let ya all know