Detected deadlock on 'main' thread

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

Crash - on Launch

Issue Description (Required):

Loading skull spins one time exactly, then ‘main’ thread encounters deadlock consistently. This started happening after I changed some settings, hit “Apply”, closed menu, then Alt+F4’ed to restart game and apply settings.

Occurrs even after Steam Verify, Launcher Verify, and fresh install in two different drives.

[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: 3252f766-bb9b-4723-9232-3986dcafaeb5
Log File:
Info Type:

[Engine Error]: Deadlock detected while waiting on main thread. Update was not called for 16.0 seconds. You need to supply a crash dump or a crashify link in the report since we need both logs and crashdump to investigate this.

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

console-2025-05-09-22.34.56-7b5551e5-eb8e-4f1f-ae38-b3e4f5cc3580.log (8.04 KB)
console-2025-05-09-22.32.05-aae72834-88ad-4d1e-a41b-d3ab1f7f6d21.log (8.05 KB)

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I’ve raised this with the crew and we’ll look in to it, apologies for the inconvenience!