Hitman Blood Money, doesn't load!

[Joe Forster/STA]

Agreed. It's a not a bright idea, though; I'd either (try to) apply the whole patch (in the case of a real patch, see the great RTPatch engine) again or, at least, check something (length, date, checksum, whatever) of the main executable... Perhaps, after a confirmation prompt.

[D00bs]

Anyone still trying to run this game, patched to 1.1, via emulation? If so, I've found a solution that works at least on my computer.

You'll need daemon tools of course, and also the latest pr0tst0p and securom loader. Put the latter directly into your blood money directory.

Then..

Mount your image with daemon tools, with all emulation options disabled, then close the little daemon tools icon on your windows toolbar.

Next, run Pr0tst0p, click "hide", close Pr0tstop, and then simply launch "hitmanbloodmoney.exe" with Securom Loader. I was suprised as hell when mine launched with this combo, but it wasn't a fluke for me; works every time.

Which is good, cuz the patch really improved my performance.

btw...I've only tested this with mini images...if it doesn't work the first time, try different ones. best of luck. For legal/backup purposes only of course

[embryo66]

Originally Posted by D00bs

Anyone still trying to run this game, patched to 1.1, via emulation? If so, I've found a solution that works at least on my computer.

You'll need daemon tools of course, and also the latest pr0tst0p and securom loader. Put the latter directly into your blood money directory.

Then..

Mount your image with daemon tools, with all emulation options disabled, then close the little daemon tools icon on your windows toolbar.

Next, run Pr0tst0p, click "hide", close Pr0tstop, and then simply launch "hitmanbloodmoney.exe" with Securom Loader. I was suprised as hell when mine launched with this combo, but it wasn't a fluke for me; works every time.

Which is good, cuz the patch really improved my performance.

btw...I've only tested this with mini images...if it doesn't work the first time, try different ones. best of luck. For legal/backup purposes only of course

I tried doing EXACTLY what you said but I still get the "conflict with emulation software" error message.

[dede]

Originally Posted by embryo66

I tried doing EXACTLY what you said but I still get the "conflict with emulation software" error message.

Try to uninstall ALL Useless Unused virtual drives like Clone CD, just let Daemon tool & hiding tools on your system. Probably, you have to many black listed burning softwares installed. check your registry wis regcleaner to know if all uninstalled burning softwares have removed their keys from "software list" and "startup list"

[embryo66]

Originally Posted by dede

Try to uninstall ALL Useless Unused virtual drives like Clone CD, just let Daemon tool & hiding tools on your system. Probably, you have to many black listed burning softwares installed. check your registry wis regcleaner to know if all uninstalled burning softwares have removed their keys from "software list" and "startup list"

Aha! That did it! Thank you very much and thank you D00bs you are both champions.

[wrecked_]

Hey
I've tried all that you mentioned, including deleting every application I thought could have something to do with either CD/DVD burning or blacklisting tools.

The ones I let be is DAEMON Tools, Pr0t.St0p v1.0 and SecuROM 1.2.
Now I've followed all the instructions and I have used RegCleaner but still the same issue with the error message that tells me there is a conflict with emulation software.
Maybe its because I have the wrong image file, where did you get yours?

EDIT: So now I have solved it, it turned out to be a faulty image, I said it myself. I suggest you go to www.gamecopyworld.com and install the first release of the DVD Fix Image for this to work, altough there should be no need for Pr0t.St0p v1.0, only run the Hitman ".exe" file with SecuRom 1.2 as usual. It should work as a charm.

[pweasel]

Originally Posted by embryo66

Aha! That did it! Thank you very much and thank you D00bs you are both champions.

could you post the url of the regcleaner you used? as there are a few to download and some are very nasty trojans.

[Schlock114]

Does anyone know if the 1.2 patch modifies the .exe? The 1.1 patch did not, so I've been using the original 1.0 crack for 1.1 with everything working fine (so far). Thanks in advance.