Overview
This guide aims to help players who have this particular crash (code: 0x80000003) with HITMAN™ 2
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 2 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…
According to my observations in the last couple of months, with DX11, Nvidia Turing architecture and HITMAN 2, 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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- Try disabling V-sync.
- Try changing the Exclusive Fullscreen to Fullscreen, or vice versa.
- Try to launch the game in DirectX 12 mode (available in launcher settings).
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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 10/03/2019 12:15 AM (GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 436.51)
- Simply go to: Start –> Run –> Type in “Regedit” and navigate to:
“ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlGraphicsDrivers”
- 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 😀
In a nutshell it gives the GPU 10 seconds to recover/respond vs. 2 seconds (default).
