Artifacts & possible corruption of C++ files

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support
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Issue Description:
I’ll start the game and I will get various artifacts through the scene before the game crashes, I had this happen on the 17th April, this also affected other games after the crash too, it wasn’t driver related though, I figured out what was wrong by reinstalling all the C++ files and then the game worked, so did my other game, today after the latest patch though, I had the artifacts back and the game crashed, I tried my other game, that game would also hang, so again I reinstalled new gfx drivers and all the C++ files, again my game worked . . . until it then crashed, then my other games also would hang.

Windows Event Viewer Report of initial crash:

Faulting application name: Darktide.exe, version: 1.3.283.532, time stamp: 0x642420f2
Faulting module name: gRPC_pluginw64_release.dll_unloaded, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x642420ab
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000005d5a94
Faulting process ID: 0x3c10
Faulting application start time: 0x01d96dfaeb87e7cb
Faulting application path: G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 DARKTIDE\binaries\Darktide.exe
Faulting module path: gRPC_pluginw64_release.dll
Report ID: 65bb586e-db60-4c29-9741-0ca33b974a97
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Crash Report (If Applicable):
GUID: eba82fc0-cdb1-43c2-b3ad-cc3eb028ca88
Log File:
Info Type:

Error Displayed (If Applicable):

Steps to Reproduce:
Just load into the morningstar.

Mission Name (If Applicable):

Platform:
[Steam/Microsoft Store]
Steam
Player ID:
STEAM_0:1:34178777

Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:
17th April 'til today 4/5/2023 9:17am AEST 10+

Reproduction Rate:
Once - Rare (<10%) - Unusual (<25%) - Common (<50%) - Often (<75%) - Constant (100%)
100%

Upload Supporting Evidence:
Video & Screenshot Evidence Uploaded (I can see the video uploaded but I can’t see if the screenshots or the crash dump/console files uploaded)

Upload Console Log & darktide_launcher.log:
Console Log & darktide_launcher.log Uploaded (I included several console logs)
console-2023-05-03-23.11.34-a9770fc4-ea23-46fa-90f4-7be249e6b6b6.log (37 KB)
darktide_launcher.log (725.7 KB)
console-2023-04-16-15.50.56-7df90734-181a-41b5-8739-c81c047c3bac.log (101.5 KB)
console-2023-04-16-16.07.56-6404983f-6c0f-4fe4-80fe-4d684a9dbf75.log (51.9 KB)
console-2023-05-03-23.15.26-eba82fc0-cdb1-43c2-b3ad-cc3eb028ca88.log (130.1 KB)

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DT-1
DT-11920×1078 139 KB

DT-2
DT-21920×1079 159 KB

DT-3
DT-31920×1080 167 KB

Screenshots show horizontal & vertical lines on screen.
First shot, Black vertical line in centre of screen.
Second shot, black Horizontal line on right.
Third shot, Blue vertical line in centre of morningstar.
Fourth shot, showing 1 frame of artifacts

DT-4
DT-41920×1080 145 KB

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As this is a widespread issue and not isolated to Darktide I recommend contacting NVIDIA as they will be best equipped to reliably identify the issue, whereas we only have a very surface level view.

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see ‘Ask us a question’ and ‘Live chat’ options which should, hopefully, put you in contact with a human: NVIDIA Customer Support Resources

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Nevermind, I worked out what the problem is, my gfx card was dying and is now stone dead.
R.I.P my overworked GTX1080ti, it was a great 6 years we had.