Crashing lots since update

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Parroting some wrong info ~2 years later;TDLR. Read the dev post , it was Dec '22. [MS STORE/GAMEPASS] Hotfix 1.0.13/1.014 - Warhammer 40,000: Darktide / Announcements - Fatshark Forums (fatsharkgames.com)
Here’s the wrong and viral reddit thread where russion dude is “credited”
PSA: RTX is always ON despite what options you pick in-game, here’s how to disable it and increase your performance dramatically : r/DarkTide (reddit.com)

In particular ppl kept needlessly messing with the “rtxgi_scale” setting which also messed up static lighting, as mentioned in the quoted snippet.
Ironically, there was a near-launch gfx dev blog post talking about using RT lighting in STATIC (non real-time Ray tracing) lighting, so that should have been a clue. People were altering the STATIC lighting with that setting, and some map sections were ~unplayably dark.

Here’s the gfx dev blog post snippet of interest that gave it away (Hedge just posted for dev):

@Fatshark_Hedge

Another added benefit of the RTXGI implementation we ended up going with is actually that we decided to replace our baked ambient light solution with baked RTXGI probe grids. This allows us to use RTX cards on our development machines to quickly bake GI that can be applied to our scenes even for gpus that do not have enough power to push advanced ray tracing features like this. You won’t get the added benefit of the GI being fully dynamic that you get if you have a powerful gpu in your machine of course but the static GI still retains the nice dark feeling in our scenes that would otherwise be very flat and boring.

The OG dev was:

@Fatshark_Hedge

I am Rikard Blomberg, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Fatshark. The first computer I did programming on (or even had access to) back in 1983 was an ABC80, on which anything resembling graphics was what we nowadays consider ASCII art. The development since has been mindblowing.