Constant CTDs

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

Crash - During Play

Issue Description (Required):

Crashing while playing missions, especially on Auric - Maelstrom. Can’t say this is 100% accurate, but clearing the AppData folder seems to solve the issue for a couple of matches on lower difficulties, but as soon as I play on higher difficulties, with higher enemy spawn rates and FXs, the CTDs come back for every match.

Specs:
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9
RAM: 32,0GB
GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Drivers: 560.70

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

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Often (<75%)

Platform (Required):

Steam (PC)

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

darktide_launcher.log (935 KB)
console-2024-08-03-00.32.31-c124fdfa-ba42-4648-a6b2-d3342c4cd562.log (113 KB)
console-2024-08-03-00.21.10-e008dcf7-9202-430d-8cfb-2ea499a85ac1.log (123 KB)
console-2024-08-02-17.50.08-9ae49200-4f63-4740-945e-b79409c7a842.log (330 KB)
console-2024-08-01-23.57.43-85cde4e7-e27e-4314-aa9b-c571c0cc1a99.log (635 KB)
console-2024-08-01-21.37.18-b5202a91-cbac-4028-ae26-e32d413a1c66.log (112 KB)

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We are aware of and looking at these crashes. Though, in the meantime you may be able to work around them with the instructions below:

Part 1: Setting Feature Flags

  1. Navigate to your Darktide AppData by:
  • Press the Windows key + R
  • Enter %appdata% within the search input and select ‘OK’
  • Navigate to AppData\Roaming\Fatshark\Darktide
  1. Open the user_settings.config
  2. At the VERY TOP of the user_settings.config, enter the lines below:
direct_storage = {
    enabled = true
    disable_bypass_io = true
    force_file_buffering = true
    force_mapping_layer = false
}
  1. Save your changes
  2. Play!
  3. Post here to let us know the outcome

NOTE: If you currently have disable_dstorage = true in your user_settings.config from previous instructions, please remove it and replace with the updated version above.

Part 2: Didn’t Work?

In the event the instructions above did not help with your issue, please try:

  1. Navigate to your Darktide AppData by:
  • Press the Windows key + R
  • Enter %appdata% within the search input and select ‘OK’
  • Navigate to AppData\Roaming\Fatshark\Darktide
  1. Open the user_settings.config
  2. Remove the changes made previously
  3. At the VERY TOP of the user_settings.config, enter the line below:
direct_storage = {
    enabled = false
}
  1. Save your changes
  2. Play!
  3. Post here to let us know the outcome