Fatal Error?

Issue Type (Required):

Launcher

Issue Description (Required):

A fatal error occurred! Playing the game fine, 2nd of the two new missions, load in, play some, get trappered and there’s two sudden lag spikes back to back. Game full crashes, and I go to load back in. “A device which does not exist was specified. (0x800701b1)” Verify integrity, first one comes back fine. Start up the game, same error. Verify again and I’m missing… 200K something files??? The entire game??? Haven’t restarted my PC yet, but evidently every game in my steam library is doing this too now? Pray for me. I will attach the crash dump if I can.

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

Get stupidly unlucky?

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

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Once

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

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

crash_dump-2026-10-01-00.17.39-672eac21-fc7e-4c88-9ec0-4640bdf4d001.dmp (1.28 MB)

Well. Good news? PC off and back on, seems to have fixed the issue. God only knows what it was. If anybody has an idea of how to prevent it in future, please let me know!

Sounds like the Steam client might have had a hiccup. Glad it’s sorted for you now! :slight_smile: