Issue Type (Required):
Launcher
Issue Description (Required):
Hi, i’m new to the forum and I don’t know if anyone would be able to help, in any case thx a lot.
The problem
I just purchased and installed the new dlc Skitarii on my steam account. After I launched it, the game starts with a black screen with a green icon that spins. Normally the game would load, but in my case the icon stops after 2 seconds and the game crashes altogether. Yesterday I played the game normally and without any issues.
The system
Acer nitro 5 with Nvidea card
Ubuntu 24 LTS with wayland
Steam installed via snap, running proton Experiemental
What I’ve tried so far
Basically asked chatgpt to aid me … I tried different proton compatibilities, reinstalling, changing the launcher and more
Because I’m definetely not an expert, here there is the explanation that chatgpt would gave regarding my issue and what I’ve tried to fix the problem
Darktide Launch Issue on Ubuntu 24.04
System Configuration
Ubuntu 24.04
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
NVIDIA driver 595.71.05
GNOME on Wayland
Steam installed via Snap (steam 1.0.0.85)
Tested with Proton Experimental, Proton Hotfix, Proton 9.0 Beta, and GE-Proton 10-34
Issue Description
After a recent update, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide no longer launches correctly. The game previously worked without issues on the same system.
Observed Behavior
The launcher starts normally.
Shader cache generation completes successfully.
The game opens a black window.
Depending on the test, the game either closes after approximately 20–30 seconds or remains open indefinitely on a black screen.
Darktide.exe continues running in the background, consuming CPU time and memory.
No visible error message is shown.
Troubleshooting Performed
Reinstalled the game.
Reset Darktide user configuration and settings.
Tested multiple Proton versions:
Proton Experimental
Proton Hotfix
Proton 9.0 Beta
GE-Proton 10-34
Verified NVIDIA driver installation.
Verified PipeWire and WirePlumber services were active.
Collected launcher logs, game logs, Proton logs, and system logs.
Generated a Proton debug log using PROTON_LOG=1.
Attached strace to the running game process.
Relevant Log Information
The launcher log shows:
Shader cache generation completes successfully.
The game executable starts successfully.
The launcher detects the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop GPU.
The process exits with code 0xFA718003 when the game terminates automatically.
The Darktide console log shows successful initialization of:
DirectStorage
Steam integration
HTTP cache
DirectX 12 renderer
Swapchain creation
Wwise audio engine
Physics system
Network initialization
Lua state machine
The final log entry is consistently:
STARTUP: pre update loop
No further entries are written after this point.
The same log also reports:
No input devices detected.
System-side checks showed that keyboard, mouse, and other input devices were present and detected by Linux.
Runtime Observations
While displaying a black screen, the game process remains active:
Darktide.exe
with sustained CPU usage and memory allocation.
strace attached to the process showed repeated waits on futex synchronization primitives with timeout events, indicating the process remained active rather than terminating immediately.
Proton Log Observations
The Proton log did not contain:
DirectX initialization failures
DXGI errors
NVIDIA driver errors
Access violations
Unhandled exceptions
Fatal Wine or Proton errors
The log continued to record activity while the game process remained running.
[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):
No, I don’t use mods
Reproduction Rate (Required):
Constant (100%)
Platform (Required):
PC - Steam
