5-10 minutes into playing the game, the game suddenly freezes and after a few seconds I get the BSOD crash. This first happened a year ago and I just couldn’t play the game until the next game update was released. It finally fixed after that update and now a year later the same problem has started. This time I was hoping the August 17th update would fix it, but the issue remains.
Here are the key points to how it crashes and what all fixes I tried last year:
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This ONLY happens with Hitman 3. I have played other games on both Steam, Epic and other sources, but this is the only game that crashes my PC. I just played 3 hours of uninterrupted FIFA 23 right after Hitman 3 crashed. Other games that I’ve tried playing without issues are RDR2, GoW, TLOU, Kena etc.
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The blue screen flashes away so fast that I can’t even read the “stop code”. So I had to take a video and screenshot it. It reads UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION.
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Here’s what all I tried last year to fix this. Verified the game files on Epic launcher, uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Installed the game on a different drive, an internal hard disk (I install all my games on an internal SSD which I bought separately just to store games). Deleted all the mods and tried playing the game without them. None of these fixed the crashes.
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Both my Windows 11 and GeForce Experience drivers are up to date. I basically keep everything up to date on my laptop. One thing to note is that this never happened back when I was on Windows 10.
I have no idea what else I can try apart from this. Any help would be super appreciated. It just sucks that I can’t play this game anymore.