Crashes during playing

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

Crash - During Play.

Issue Description (Required):

Game crashes to desktop, game freezes and crashed.
I tried to off DLSS Frame generation x2 and OC mode in ASUS GPU Tweak III, Logitech G Hub also off, tried to cap and uncap my fps - nothing changes.

i7-9700
32 gb ram (2666 mhz)
RTX 4060Ti (581.08 driver) same happened with older drivers, but not to often like now
Windows 11 Home 24H2 (26100.4946)

Crashes occurred 4 times in a day.

GUID: 09497f7c-f435-48ad-bf62-fa5a42d9c808

Log File:
Info Type:

[Engine Error]: Deadlock detected while waiting on main thread. Update was not called for 16.1 seconds. You need to supply a crash dump or a crashify link in the report since we need both logs and crashdump to investigate this.

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

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Often (<75%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

crash_dump-2025-08-29-17.31.00-09497f7c-f435-48ad-bf62-fa5a42d9c808.dmp (921.7 KB)

crash_dump-2025-08-29-18.27.09-a572e3b8-5f72-479c-9dd6-019d81df2835.dmp (362.0 KB)

crash_dump-2025-08-29-18.06.46-80ec150e-7df1-487a-8a6b-7c027e0e2da8.dmp (921.4 KB)

crash_dump-2025-08-29-17.57.20-79b32d24-aace-4d10-a98f-3a771be06394.dmp (941.2 KB)

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

console-2025-08-29-17.31.00-09497f7c-f435-48ad-bf62-fa5a42d9c808.log (230.4 KB)

console-2025-08-29-18.34.40-14749315-28ae-4ed3-acca-11d66602ea10.log (704.5 KB)

console-2025-08-29-18.27.09-a572e3b8-5f72-479c-9dd6-019d81df2835.log (125.4 KB)

console-2025-08-29-18.06.46-80ec150e-7df1-487a-8a6b-7c027e0e2da8.log (119.6 KB)

console-2025-08-29-17.57.20-79b32d24-aace-4d10-a98f-3a771be06394.log (275.4 KB)

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It doesn’t seem related to any player setup or software used, Nvidia and AMD players have the same issues. The typical ‘frozen image’ with enemies still running points to server related issue(s).
Also, if all players in a team experience the same issue at the same time, you can be sure it’s not player related.

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Mb, i dont know, i see so many guys who have same problems, mb its new drivers or fatshark ruined something in game code, mb both, just hope they will fix, its unplayble now, so many crashes, so many disconnects. I will try to roll back NVIDIA drivers and see what changes.

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Old driver 566.36, DLSS Quality (Transformer model) - Frame generation off
Crash with same error

console-2025-08-31-17.16.32-4a4fb609-ddf9-4ee8-938b-fa5deda1e3cb.log (219.2 KB)

crash_dump-2025-08-31-17.36.51-9db66013-8965-4479-b9e3-db815a4a5617.dmp (873.5 KB)

crash_dump-2025-08-31-17.16.32-4a4fb609-ddf9-4ee8-938b-fa5deda1e3cb.dmp (867.5 KB)

console-2025-08-31-17.48.30-7aeabcc2-b84d-4cee-b05c-10630ec438f0.log (236.8 KB)

console-2025-08-31-17.36.51-9db66013-8965-4479-b9e3-db815a4a5617.log (271.6 KB)

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You appear to be running into a Deadlock crash which are quite notorious.

We’ve recently released hotfix 1.8.8 which resolves some recent crashes, and may improve stability. Please can you see if things are improved after downloading this update?

If the crashes persist, a clean reinstallation of Darktide which involves deleting your AppData may help. Please check out:

https://support.fatshark.se/hc/en-us/articles/360034118394--PC-How-to-Perform-a-Clean-Re-Installation-of-Vermintide-2-or-Darktide

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Seems its better after 1.8.8 hotfix. Zero crashes in 3 games.
NVIDIA driver 566.36 and i also reinstalled Darktide and deleted folder in AppData.
DLSS on quality - frame gen off.

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NVIDIA driver 581.15 - DLSS Quality Transformer model - Frame gen on
Zero crashes after 1.8.8

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@raulgillette appreciate the updates! I’m glad to hear things are stable again after 1.8.8!