Access violation - Crash during games on Carnival / Havoc

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support
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Issue Type (Required):

Crash - During Play

Issue Description (Required):

23:06:24.822 <>Access violation (0xc0000005) in build 1af2e5ab9c382d24ce916ce40e726626fec9a15f
accessing address 0000000000000000 from 0000000000000000<>

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

Yes, but I haven’t tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Often (<75%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

  1. Drash haooend during Maps located in the Carnival
  2. reliable after 2/3 of the map
  3. Whole party crashed, also people with no mods/vanilla games
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23:06:24.820 warning: [Profiler] [main] Stall 157 ms on frame 405517:
Application::update 160 ms
game update 160 ms
MyGame::update 160 ms
Lua->update 159 ms
World::update_animations 157 ms
animation 157 ms
animation(no lua callback) 157 ms
AnimationStateMachines::update 157 ms
ThreadPool::do_work_while_waiting_for_signal 157 ms
AnimationStateMachine::update_job 157 ms
AnimationStateMachine::update_data_async 157 ms
AnimationBlender::evaluate_bone_weights 157 ms
23:06:24.820 warning: [Profiler] [renderer] Stall 156 ms on frame 405516:
RI::pre_present 156 ms
mesh_streamer::update 156 ms
23:06:24.820 warning: [Profiler] [WwiseUpdateThread] Stall 170 ms:
Wwise::wait_for_event 170 ms
plugin_thread_api::PluginThreadEvent::wait 170 ms
23:06:24.822 <>Access violation (0xc0000005) in build 1af2e5ab9c382d24ce916ce40e726626fec9a15f
accessing address 0000000000000000 from 0000000000000000<>
<>startup = false<>
<>shutdown = false<>
<>editor = false<>
<>direct_storage = true<>
<>
{00007ffc5f5c0000, 00267000, 5b6dddee, 08a413ee-85e9-1d03-77ba-33dc3a264194, 00000001, ntdll.pdb}

0x00007ffc5f5c0000:0x0000000000012327 RtlLocateExtendedFeature
0x00007ffc5f5c0000:0x0000000000165c3e KiUserExceptionDispatcher

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Hi! Could you share the entirety of the console log or crash report with us please?

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Sorry, i thought i had one attached. here are three logs :slight_smile: My game is modified, but if it helps i could ask my mates with no mods to provide me one of their logs. As i said, the whole party crashed simulteanously.

console-2026-01-26-19.31.54-26aee5eb-07a2-417c-8b4b-b5283cfefaf1.log (5.4 MB)

console-2026-01-26-21.38.49-1001ce4a-5f25-4b9e-b36e-b17781e65c61.log (2.0 MB)

console-2026-01-26-22.22.46-3afe2772-1606-4954-ac03-52da89e23bcd.log (2.3 MB)

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Thank you! These do look to be mod-related crashes, so it would be super to see an unmodded log if possible :slight_smile:

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Alright, i will contact them. It would be worrying, if me using mods, crashes the whole lobby.

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@FatsharkJulia

Here is another log from one of my friends :slight_smile:

console-2026-01-26-22.23.25-9dac979b-07e2-424f-919f-be63b84cf4d8.log (1003.6 KB)

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That’s wonderful, much appreciated! I’ll have to raise this one with our developers to be looked in to.

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Hi just wanted to give feedback that we have not encountered this crash since this post.