AMD 7000 Series GPU Crash on Launch [Engine Error]: Access violation (0xc0000005)

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support
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We are aware of a crash on launch (before operative select screen) affecting AMD 7000 Series GPU users following the Depths of the Damned 1.13.0 update.

[Engine Error]: Access violation (0xc0000005)[...]

Please rest assured we are working to resolve this issue as swiftly as possible.

In the meantime, as a workaround, please disable FSR upscaling in the launcher Settings.

UPDATE 07/10
After further testing, we have found another workaround to use FSR is to launch Darktide with FSR disabled, and to then select FSR 2.3.4 or 3.1.5 in game.

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Issue Type (Required):

Visual

Issue Description (Required):

Game instantly crashes when enabling FSR3 whenever anything is being rendered on screen (after splash screen, or in-game if enabling through options).

Disabling FSR4 in drivers does not seem to have any effect.

Issue began after Depths of the Damned patch went live.
Using no mods of any kind.

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

  1. Launch game with FSR3 enabled
  2. Reach a screen where 3d rendering occurs (character select)
  • Crash
  1. Launch game with FSR disabled through launcher
  2. Load into Mourningstar or a mission
  3. Enable FSR in options
  • Crash

FSR4 override in Adrelnalin drivers ON/OFF makes no difference.
Does NOT occur with XESS.
Framegen ON/OFF makes no difference.

System:
Windows 10, Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz, RX 7800XT, 850W PSU, game on NVME SSD, driver version Adrenalin 26.8.1 WHQL

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

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

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

crash_dump-2026-09-29-14.27.03-ecd6f82b-fd93-4d3f-82a3-7c68eb2c562a.dmp (1.12 MB)console-2026-09-29-14.27.03-ecd6f82b-fd93-4d3f-82a3-7c68eb2c562a.log (372 KB)darktide_launcher.log (311 KB)

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Any news for this?

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Issue Type (Required):

Crash - on Launch

Issue Description (Required):

Titel here is the Error Massage:

GUID: db7a3072-9830-48ef-b842-e2ff49ee5b5a
Log File:
Info Type:

[Engine Error]: Access violation (0xc0000005) in build cc9ec9e0ff3f5656b358ea05e1c4494d9b8003ea
accessing address 000000000000018C from 00007FFF45E6ACCC

The issue could be related to the following modules found in the stack trace:
module ‘amd_fidelityfx_upscaler_dx12’.

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Look at the console logs in the compatdata folder

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i think there is a newer driver that is not yet recommended. But if possible you can try it out and see if it makes any difference. Let us know if you do!

I have not yet reproduced this. So if possible please provide the settings in Adrenaline as well.

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I am on 26.8.1 atm, RX 7700 XT, Win10. Didnt change anything, same settings in game, AMD panel, same drivers as before Darktide update, and i have to disable FSR in launcher to get in game. Will try later with 26.9.2.

My settings:

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didnt help but i did notice that all crash entries i found yesterday was on Windows 10 (im on 11) so could be related. Im talking with AMD since i think this is a driver issue that is out of our control (beside that we can disable FSR)

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Probably it has to do something with Win10 and updated fidelityfx_upscaler :frowning:

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we are currently setting up a Win10 machine with the a 7000-series gpu so we can verify this.

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Installed 26.9.2, with DDU, cleared all Shader Cache and it still crashes with FSR 3.1 on ;(

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thx for verifying that :frowning:

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I get this DXGI error device removed error after the new update on my 7900 XTX.

its just in this game, every other game works fine.

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Game keeps on crashing randomly during gameplay on AMD 7900 XTX with drivers v26.9.2.

Goes into infinite loading loop on game launch when using older drivers v26.3.1.

Everything was running fine before the latest hotfix.

console-2026-10-03-15.22.57-f06ebfa5-edfc-4d59-9cd9-a7785a3ae724.log (13.4 KB)

console-2026-10-03-08.44.45-2a63fc2f-ab90-4a15-a919-51bc1eb19880.log (2.6 MB)

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Can you enable HAGS and play some games with it enabled?

log says you don’t have it enabled

— Graphics
Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (DirectX 12.1, 24516MB) Driver version: public: ; internal: Hardware Accelerated GPU scheduler: false

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AFAIK HAGS on 7000 series cards newer worked on Windows 10.

So, I cannot enable something that is not a feature for my card on Windows 10.

No I will not update to Win11. I’m switching to Linux soon.

Anyways, game was running fine before the hotfix

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this is another issue I think.


Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (DirectX 12.1, 24516MB) Driver version: public:  ; internal:  Hardware Accelerated GPU scheduler: false 

Graphics card: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (DirectX 12.1, 459MB) Driver version: public:  ; internal:  Hardware Accelerated GPU scheduler: false 

Graphics card: Microsoft Basic Render Driver (DirectX 12.1, 0MB) Driver version: 10.0.19041.6216 Hardware Accelerated GPU scheduler: false

the game fails to detect driver version. I assume your issues has todo with this. Perhaps re-install driver.

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Issue Type (Required):

Crash - on Launch

Issue Description (Required):

Darktide closes down when you press a key on the [press any key to continue] screen. It generates the following error code.

Steam Verify cache did not solve issue. %appdata% darktide folder removal did not work. Disabling mods did not work
I have tried downloading the FidelityFX .dlls from AMD SDK themselves and replacing them from the game files. Still crashes.

The issue occurs whether FSR upscaling is enabled in AMD Adrenaline or not.

Any suggestions?

Specs:

AMD 7900 GRE

AMD 7800X3D

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

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

GUID: 2f55fee1-f875-404d-ac31-8addf69297b9

Log File:
Info Type:

[Engine Error]: Access violation (0xc0000005) in build cc9ec9e0ff3f5656b358ea05e1c4494d9b8003ea
accessing address 000000000000018C from 00007FFFAE51ACCC

The issue could be related to the following modules found in the stack trace:
module ‘amd_fidelityfx_upscaler_dx12’.

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Issue Type (Required):

Launcher

Issue Description (Required):

Like more than a few others over the past few days i’ve found myself with the amd_fidelityfx_upscaler_dx12 inaccessible error causing a crash to desktop immediately upon launch.

AMD chipset 26.8.1 (updated today) on an AMD RX 7800 XT.

Solution: open game settings from the launcher and disable AMD FSR 3.1 from my previously selected “Performance”.