Abysmal performance issues

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Performance Feedback
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Issue Type (Required):

Performance

Issue Description (Required):

Since the April update I have been experiencing huge and consistent performance issues.
Currently I run the game at 30 to 50 FPS no matter which settings I set in the options.
During mission levels I experience performance degradation to a point where the game isn’t playable and seems like the game froze or its going to crash.

My device specifications are:
Windows 10 OS
Processor AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.40 GHz
RAM 64.0 GB
Storage SSD MP600 M.2 NVMe
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (24 GB)

My game settings are:
Resolution (same FPS no matter what so I’ll put the ones I tried) @ Fullscreen
2560x1440 (Native)
1920x1080
1024x768 (still same FPS as on larger resolutions without changing any other setting besides resolution)
VSync – OFF
Nvidia DLSS – OFF
-Super resolution – OFF
-Super Resolution preset – Transformer Model
-Nvidia Reflex Low Latency
Framerate Cap – 120
AMD FSR 3.1 – OFF
AMD FSR 3.1 Frame Generation – OFF
Intel XeSS – OFF
AMD FSR 1 – OFF
Sharpen – ON
Anti Aliasing – TAA
Ray Traced Reflections – OFF
RTX Global Illumination – OFF
Graphics Quality – Custom
Texture Quality – Low
Mesh Quality – 2.4
Ambient Occlusion Quality – Low
Light Quality – Low
Volumetric Fog Quality – Low
Depth of Field – OFF
Global Illumination – Low
Bloom – ON
Skin Sub-Surface Scattering – OFF
Motion Blur – OFF
Screen Space Reflections – OFF
Lens Quality – OFF
Lens Flare – OFF
Scatter Density – 0.00
Max Ragdolls – 3
Max Weapon Impact Decals --3
Max Blood decals – 15
Decal lifetime – 10
All GORE Settings are ON

My GPU drivers are up to date, the game was reinstalled at least 4 times and the files were verified at least two times when the problem continued after a new installation.

Thank you for your assistance, I would really like to play the game again. Really do miss it after so long XD

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

Player ID (Optional):

Ahajir

[PC] Upload Console Log & darktide_launcher.log (Optional):

darktide_launcher.log (996 KB)
console-2025-10-07-19.31.18-f3690d0b-20e7-4685-9047-185b1ec0f893.log (126 KB)
console-2025-10-07-10.31.45-8e07783a-5931-47c8-8ae1-00ed70ed53db.log (162 KB)

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since recent 2 patches the game run like trash and i posted about like 3 times and Fatshark doent even know it and the performance keeps worse everytime when a patch gets released and i have it sicne the major update that my perfomance is tanking like hell

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I have the same issue since I don’t know how long.. I am on PC and I can’t play more than 2 missions.
I have tried everything. I have also posted to the forums many times.. no response yet

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Lads I do not think we will see any concrete intentional solution since the forums are full of these kind of issues dating back three to two years. My biggest fear is the inconsistency of performance on similar or same hardware.

This represents a larger problem since it is potentially buried deeper than it should be.
So our only hope is to try after each update and cross our fingers it got fixed by a random stroke of lady luck.