Crashing Nvidia GPU Hang

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

Crash - During Play

Issue Description (Required):

crashing when exiting menus with the ESC key. After a few hours I think i found the culprit being Nvidia Game filters. As soon as I use a filter and press ESC twice the game instantly locks up and crashes.

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

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

GUID: 2acb9d29-742c-4aec-882c-eb60631550a7
Log File:
Info Type:

[Engine Error]: A GPU Hang has likely occurred, WaitForSingleObject failed with error code: ‘WAIT_TIMEOUT’ and waited for more than 15 seconds.

At D:\a\d\rel_engine_darktide\release\2025_10_14_Patch1.10.x\runtime\d3d12_render_device\d3d12_render_device.cpp:205 in function stingray::D3D12QueuesFrameFence::signal_fences

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Same issue. The game doesn’t work with nvidia driver version 591.44 on my RTX 4070 TI Super.

Instant crash upon selecting a character or entering any menus, tried all previous methods of fixing GPU hangs, nothing works. Reverting to a previous driver fixes all the crashes, so the game definitely has a problem with the driver.

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im currently running the latest nvidia driver with no issues until i apply a game filter which then causes the game to just lock up when leaving menus. I have tried searching for a solution for a couple of days and so far nothing seems to be showing up.

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I managed to fix it by turning off steam cloud for this game and deleting my appdata and reinstalling the game.

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I could reproduce the crash again by turning on framegen. Turning it off fixed it again.

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Hi, another player experiencing the same crash has noted that it occurs with the NVIDIA Overlay enabled.

It’s possible this will be addressed in an upcoming driver update.

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Another update, it’s definitely something to do with in-game framegen because I can use driver level smooth motion without any issues, but turning on in-game framegen instantly crashes the game as soon as I enter a menu or press escape.

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Turning off Nvidia overlay in the nvidia app makes framegen work properly without any crashes, there’s a small stutter when entering menus or pressing escape which is where the game would crash with the overlay turned on. It’s also worth noting that I had issues in Space Marine 2 with nvidia overlay as well, it would crash the game the same way when loading up the main menu and runs fine without overlay, so there’s very likely something seriously wrong with the latest nvidia drivers.

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well it is now 1/31/2026 and this issue is still present…