Crashes all the time

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

Crash - During Play

Issue Description (Required):

The game randomly crashes during play.

Things that I have tried:

  1. update nvidia drivers (currently latest)
  2. update sound driver
  3. reduce resolution
  4. cleared all fatshark files and installed new copy
  5. this only happened after the last FORCE upgrade. Prior to this, I was playing with a single issue!

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

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Often (<75%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Microsoft Store

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

I don’t see the crash report window since the crash causes the computer to restart right after the blue screen with some words about crashing.

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

console-2025-12-18-20.49.05-09670a5e-03eb-4653-a26e-47eee9f62c7e.log (123 KB)
darktide_launcher.log (57.8 KB)

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As your PC is restarting with a blue screen, this does indicate an underlying driver or hardware-related issue - as Darktide operates in protected memory, a conventional crash would simply send you to the desktop.

I’d recommend looking through the Windows Event Viewer for any corresponding errors. Here we have instructions on how to do this and more in the article linked below:

[PC] How to Resolve PC Crashes, Loss of Responsiveness or Blue Screens (BSOD)

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After further troubleshooting, looks like the TPS (trusted platform module TPM 2) was causing the issue. I disabled it in the BIOS and the issue has gone away. No more crashes! It was meant for Windows 11 compatibility check.

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