Issue Type (Required): Crash - During Play Issue Description (Required): I just purchased the game and I’m experiencing random crashing to desktop during prologue with no crash reports on GTX 1660 & i5 9400F. Game installed on SSD, 16gb ram. Tried: Disabling ray tracing and setting file to read o…

Please could you include your most recent console logs?: [image] How To Provide a Crash Report, Console Log, or darktide_launcher.log Technical Support Crash Report After the crash has occurred, a pop-up window prompting you to enter the details of what you w…

console-2023-12-05-11.56.40-a9a967fe-50a3-445c-9b15-a93679ecbeda.log (36.2 KB) darktide_launcher.log (176.4 KB)

Any update? I really want to play but I have to refund the game if it isn’t going to work on my PC :frowning:

Sorry I missed, this, do you have any other console logs you could upload please? Looks like we’re missing some of the data we need in this one.

Yes I’ll upload all the ones that I have. console-2023-12-05-11.28.29-abbef6ef-a6e9-4f4c-960e-775e9c7637c2.log (54.2 KB) console-2023-12-05-11.32.56-631c5e45-0957-4009-808f-6a4b1fa92ed5.log (43.8 KB) console-2023-12-05-11.36.50-968bc8af-7aa9-412d-8285-2eea605f2d0f.log (27.8 KB) console-2023-12-0…

Just had a lightbulb moment - I hope I’ve cracked the case with what I’m about to recommend below…: Remove the GPUDetection.exe in the ‘launcher’ directory: Steam\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 DARKTIDE\launcher Proceed to launch Darktide as normal, via Steam

Thank you for the update, I deleted the GPUDetection like you recommended. Everything was running smoothly in the tutorial and I progressed further then normal and my game crashed again. Uploading the log again just in case there’s something different console-2023-12-12-00.53.50-2165d8b4-33fd-459a-…

Hmmm, could you check inside the launcher directory and see if the GPUDetection.exe has reappeared? Sometimes this happens with Steam Cloud saving.

Crashing in prologue

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support

FatsharkJulia December 5, 2023, 2:13pm 2

Please could you include your most recent console logs?:

Topic		Replies	Views
CTD during mission Technical Support acknowledged	1	33	August 19, 2024
Consolelogs/ Dumps Technical Support acknowledged	17	892	March 14, 2023
(OLD) KNOWN ISSUE: Crashing at Random, Due to GPU-Related Errors Technical Support devpost	748	27407	November 30, 2022
Darktide crashes upon starting the game Technical Support acknowledged	4	209	May 20, 2025
Darktide Crashing for no known reason Technical Support acknowledged	2	401	November 30, 2022

Crashing in prologue

Related topics