Crush

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

Crash - on Launch

Issue Description (Required):

After purchasing and installing the game, it crashes. I’ve tried troubleshooting the issue by updating drivers, verifying the integrity of the game files, deleting the Darktide folder in AppData, and lowering the graphics settings.

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

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

Player ID (Optional):

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

GUID: 39b794c7-4d41-48ae-befd-6d186474abb0
Log File:
Info Type:

[Engine Error]: Access violation (0xc0000005) in build ee36799442fe4fb50df14770c8af0471b6486d23
accessing address 0000000000000000 from 00007FF6DA9A0A67

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

darktide_launcher.log (158 KB)console-2026-07-11-08.00.49-39b794c7-4d41-48ae-befd-6d186474abb0.log (15.5 KB)

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Sorry to hear this @Zerg

You appear to be running into a non-descript Access Violation crash.

Though, there does appear to be some unusual Windows references. Firstly, please try running the Windows System File checker and if anything is flagged, please repair it:

https://support.fatshark.se/hc/en-us/articles/360039450413--PC-How-to-Run-the-Windows-System-File-Checker

Failing this, I can only recommend running through our general crash solutions here:

https://support.fatshark.se/hc/en-us/articles/7709661288733--PC-How-to-Resolve-Crashes-in-Darktide