Hitman: Blood Money on 360Elite

Penn

Hey all, I bought Hitman Blood Money at the weekend, got it home to discover it wont work because I need to change the Pal settings. But since I use a hdmi cable, I cant change the settings.

Looking round the web, I've heard that by using the standard cable that came with it, changing the settings, then putting back in the hdmi cable will fix this. Trouble is, doing this is a lot of hassle for me due to tv on the wall/wall bracket/stuff under tv making it difficult to take down from wall etc.

I was wondering if anyone else has done this and if it worked, cos I dont want to have to go through all that hassle unless I know its going to work

Cheers all

niallon

Could never get it to work for me on my brand spanking new LCD TV and only ever got it working on my mates crappy analogue, no idea what the story is there.

Gotta admit though, wasn't a fan of the game at all once I got it running so you ain't missin out on much!

quinnd6

I checked it out and tested it out for myself just to see.

I know what your problem is.
The problem is your console is set to pal50 and instead it should be set to pal60.
A lot of games out there support only pal60 so you need to have your console set to pal 60.

So you need to plug in your old component cable switch it to sd so that your console is in 480i.
Go to System Settings -> Console Settings -> Display -> Pal60
It will ask you do you want to keep these settings and you say yes keep these settings.

Then you hook up your hdmi cable and it should work fine then.

It's kinda crazy that you can't change from 50hz to 60hz in the hd resolutions but I checked it myself and you can't.
I tried changing between 1080i and 720p and clicking no when it asked me If I wanted to use 50hz but the game still wouldn't work and popped up saying you need to change to pal60.

So short answer use component cable and switch to 480i and change to pal60 in your display settings.

I had this game, and played through it on my old PAL-60 widescreen TV.

My first point is - give the game a chance! I really didn't like it at first, but stuck with it and really ended up enjoying it. As far as I know, it's a post for the original Xbox, so don't be expecting state of the art graphics, etc.

Ok second point - I'd finished it by the time I got my new flat screen TV. I gave a lend of it to my friend (a very technically minded bloke), who also had a HD flat screen (which doesn't support PAL). Bottom line, he wasn't able to get it to work - and if there was anybody who could, it was him.

Sooo, in summary, getting it working on a "new" TV model seems to be a long shot (the game is to old to support them), but if you somehow manage it, stick with the game.
It's a rewarding experience in the end.

humanji

OP, can you bring the console to someone elses home and change the settings there? It'll save you having to try and pull the tv off the wall.