# Hitman 3 launcher won't open

**URL:** <https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/hitman-3-launcher-wont-open/24841>\
**Category:** Technical Issues\
**Created:** [August 1, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/hitman-3-launcher-wont-open/24841 "2025-08-01T13:40:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Maczu20](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/maczu20/32/139082_2.png) [@Maczu20](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Maczu20)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/hitman-3-launcher-wont-open/24841/1 "2025-08-01T13:40:10Z")

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Hi, I’m having trouble launching Hitman 3 from the Epic Games Launcher. After clicking “Launch,” it shows “Running,” then “Launch” again, and so on.

I’ve tried a lot of things – below is a detailed list of the steps I’ve taken:

Reinstalling the game on three different drives – each time, the same result: the game won’t start.

Clearing the Epic Games Launcher cache  
Deleting the folder:

Deleting the game and launcher configuration folders

Running as administrator

Restarting the computer after each change

Checking processes in Task Manager

Additional information:  
System: Windows 10 (tried Windows 11 and it didn’t work)

Graphics card: AMD RX 6800 (updated drivers)

Game purchased from Epic Games

Other games work fine

If anyone has encountered a similar problem and managed to resolve it, please help. I am willing to test any reasonable method.

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**Author:** ![schatenjager](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/schatenjager/32/128982_2.png) [@schatenjager](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/schatenjager)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/hitman-3-launcher-wont-open/24841/2 "2025-08-01T13:53:45Z")

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What worked for me was:

Open Epic and go to your library. Click the 3 dots for Hitman 3 and then click Manage.  
In the window that pops up, add -skip\_launcher in the Launch Options:

 ![image](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/0/f/0f1caddcaa67ed2990e3aa2e6360b39cfe3e1d3c.png)

that bypasses the launcher altogether and just runs the game without it.

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**Author:** ![Maczu20](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/maczu20/32/139082_2.png) [@Maczu20](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Maczu20)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/hitman-3-launcher-wont-open/24841/3 "2025-08-01T14:02:02Z")

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still not working. i am doing this for 3 days and i still can’t fix that, do you have any other advice?

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**Author:** ![Hot\_Potato\_Gruel](https://www.hitmanforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/d07c76/32.png) [@Hot\_Potato\_Gruel](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Hot_Potato_Gruel)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/hitman-3-launcher-wont-open/24841/4 "2025-08-01T14:34:04Z")

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I’ve suffered the same issue once, and this appeared to have done the trick for me-

> [@Hitman 3 Not launching ((epic version))](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/hitman-3-not-launching-epic-version/18021/33):
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> I was also having this issue but on Steam. i think the Launcher is somehow broken. The Steam forums suggested this: Try this: on your steam or epic library, right click the game, go to properties and add “-skip\_launcher” (without the quotes) to Launch Options, close the window and launch the game.

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**Author:** ![Falling\_cherry](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/falling_cherry/32/153903_2.png) [@Falling\_cherry](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Falling_cherry)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/hitman-3-launcher-wont-open/24841/5 "2025-08-01T14:34:08Z")

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I posted some solutions on Bilibili, though they are all in Chinese. 😆

> **[验证码\_哔哩哔哩](https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1083811207369981960?from=search&spm_id_from=333.337.0.0)**