Crash on Launch, Sometimes

Issue Type (Required):

Crash - on Launch

Issue Description (Required):

Hello,

First, I’m not sure if this is considered “Crash after building shader cache” or just “crash on launch” so I just picked the latter.

I’ve been having an issue with my game crashing on launch off and on for a while now. It seems to happen at random times and then fix itself at random times, and I haven’t been able to figure out what’s causing it. For example, it happened about a week ago for a couple of hours and when I went to make this post, I tried to generate another crash report, but it just launched normally with no issue. My graphics drivers up to date, it happens whether I have mods enabled or disabled, I’ve tried deleting the the Darktide folder in appdata and verifying game files, uninstalling and reinstalling, and even installing on a different drive.

To reproduce, I launch from steam, start the game from the launcher, the building shader cache popup comes up, completes, and then the game launches to a black screen, but before any visuals load it hard crashes to desktop.

I’m sure the issue will probably fix itself in a bit, but I’m hoping to at least see why it might be happening so I can try to prevent it in the future. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Unusual (<25%)

Platform (Required):

Steam (PC)

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

GUID: 120609d5-1df6-46ad-b806-c5f768d495fb
Log File:
Info Type:


There’s an odd interaction with Discord here - are you using any Discord mods?

I do have a discord rich presence mod, and looking at it now it does use a couple dependencies installed outside of the normal mod folder, so maybe they get loaded even if mods are disabled/mod folder removed. Next time the crash happens I’ll try removing them and seeing if that fixes it.