HITMAN™ 3 How to Fix: (Error Code: 0x80000003)

This guide aims to help players who have this particular crash (code: 0x80000003) with HITMAN™ 3

It’s simple. If your game randomly crashes frequently, sometimes after 5/10 minutes of gameplay, sometimes right after you load a save.

Open the Windows Event Viewer (in start menu search bar). In application category, look for Hitman 3 application errors. If in the detail you see 0x80000003 exception code and if in System category, you see this too : “display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding”, it means that you are affected by the TDR crashing issue…

Event Log Error: 0x80000003 “A Breakpoint has been reached”

Faulting application name: hitman3.exe, version: 3.120.0, time stamp: 0x5be4326f
Faulting module name: hitman3.exe, version: 3.120.0, time stamp: 0x5be4326f
Exception code: 0x80000003
Fault offset: 0x0000000000e5b635
Faulting process id: 0x5ac
Faulting application start time: 0x01d581f390d89dfb
Faulting application path: E:\Program Files\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\HITMAN3\retail\hitman3.exe
Faulting module path: E:\Program Files\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\HITMAN3\retail\hitman3.exe
Report Id: ef23cbdf-6a51-4976-a5e4-cbfef3c68714
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

According to my observations in the last couple of months, with DX11, Nvidia Turing architecture and HITMAN 3, the GPU randomly hits the timeout threshold defined in TDR Windows registry keys.
The nVidia driver doesn't have enough time to recover and this is what causes the crash

The Windows default threshold value is "2" seconds. to prevent this issue from occurring the value must be changed to "10" seconds

Couple off ways to test before doing the actual method:

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1. Try disabling V-sync.
   
2. Try changing the Exclusive Fullscreen to Fullscreen, or vice versa.
   
3. Try to launch the game in DirectX 12 mode (available in launcher settings).
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The Actual Method:

If non of the methods above worked try doing the next solution:

• Update your Nvidia drivers to the latest version available (search for the latest hotfix).
  

  Updated 06/28/2022 (GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 516.59)

  
  
• Simply go to: Start --> Run --> Type in "Regedit" and navigate to:
  

  "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers"

• Create a key of type "DWORD (32-bit) for a 32-bit system. or a "QWORD (64-bit) for a 64-bit system.
  
• Name it "TdrDelay" with a value of '10' as "Decimal value".
  
• Reboot your system, launch the game, and the crashes won't happen :D

In a nutshell it gives the GPU 10 seconds to recover/respond vs. 2 seconds (default).

[@ your service]

It doesn't let me change the value. Its locked at "(standard)"

[pan pasha]

0xc0000005 how to fix?

[Literally Dying]

Hey, I'm from the future, I can confirm this fix works universally for other games as well when facing the 0x80000003 and nvlddmkm issue, kudos to you, man

[FATCAT]

Is there a way to switch to DirectX 12 without using the launcher settings? The launcher doesn't work at all for me, just closing whenever I press any of the buttons on it. I've just been playing with the -skip_launcher launch code until now.

[Sonvork]

I have done all the steps in this post and still the game freezes at any time, it can be in the menu, it can be while playing, it even happens to me in the loading screen, I still can't solve it.

Something interesting for me is that before I bought it on Steam I was playing it on Game Pass and it never froze like it does now, so I think Steam has something to do with the problem, because my pc ran it just fine from Game Pass.

Anyway if you can help me if you managed to solve it, it would help me a lot.

[marcpad]

Sluep, that's the one thing that worked for me. Thanks! I think you should open a thread with this inforrmation.

[Ebenezer Splooge]

For those of you that might still need help after trying all these options: When certain games are running and a computer crashes, it has a tendency to corrupt the shader cache. Navigate to C:\Users\**USER**\AppData\Local\IO Interactive\HITMAN3 and delete the files PipelineCache.bin and PipelineLibrary.bin. Then relaunch the game. This should build a new shader cache.

[SlickSocials | PR Services]

Fallub, i'm glad it worked for you

[Fallub]

I have tried both the RegEdit as well as downgrading to the 516.59 Nvidia driver and so far it works. Many many thanks.

[LokkNar]

For those who tried all of the above to no avail (like me), I have another suggestion:
I googled a bit and found that the error is not only connected to the GPU, but also the "regular" memory.
What helped me was disabling any memory overclocking; on my B450 Gaming Pro motherboard I had A-XMP enabled.
After disabling memory OC the crashes have become very, very rare. In the past 60 hours or so of playing I had two or three crashes, I didn't even count because they have become so rare.
I hope this can help anyone.