Issue Description: After shade cache is built I get a crash. This happens 100% of the time. I have tried every which way and even tried clean installing windows and my gpu drivers to see if that would work. Please help the game has been unplayable for several months now. Crash Report (If App…

This is some very odd GPU behaviour. Are you only experiencing issues in Darktide? Have you tried playing anything else recently?

Same here. Builds cache, icon spins for a second, crash over and over ever since update this morning 10/5. Played nonstop and just fine the last two days. Now I can’t even start the game. Every single other game I own and have installed works fine… 3070 ti, ryzen 7 3800x 8-Core. Countless crash re…

Hello. I am experiencing the same problem. It appeared after the release of patch 1.1. Before that, I calmly played for about 143 hours. In other games, I have no problems with either launches or crashes. [Log version] 1 [Session] aa382bf1-3f81-42b1-8b2f-d6b3587a8440 UTC time stamps 18:49:02.35…

This is the only game this happens to. I can play every other game in my steam library with 0 issues.

Hate that its happening to yall, but at the sametime im glad its not just me. I’ve been going insane trying to fix it.

exact same thing is happening to me after playing for around 50 hours on the new update it finally happened.

fixed it (I commented on my thread as well) open RUN by pressing windows key + R type in %appdata% navigate to fatshark and open the folder delete darktide folder completely launch game it should pop up and tell you that you meet minimum requirements (see photo attached) I expected the same c…

Gave it a few tries, but no luck.

I have the same problem. Running windows 10, rtx2060. None of the usual fixes have worked. If it needs a patch could we have an estimate of when it will come out?

Crash after Shader Cache is built

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support

FatsharkJulia October 11, 2023, 3:40pm 15

Sorry all, I’ve raised this with our Engine Developers and I’m waiting to hear back.

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Crash after Shader Cache is built

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