Game blackscreens and crashes more often after latest hotfix (1.8.5)

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

Crash - During Play

Issue Description (Required):

Since the release of hotfix patch 1.8.5, the game frequently freezes at the blackscreen at the start of loading into a match (when the cutscene of 4 characters entering the map transitions into 1st person environment). There’s also been a notable increase in crash frequency, even though I’m using the same mods as before (show remaining dodges, creature spawner, powerDI, inspect social), none of which was causing notable crashes prior and thus shouldn’t be causing the spike in crashes. The only difference is the inclusion of TempBuffFix which is aimed to address the bug that causes crashes in this hotfix.

I’m playing on CachyOS Linux with Steam Native with proton native compatibility. Not sure what exactly is causing these issues.

Edit: I’ve removed powerDI and it’s still experiencing crashes. None of the remaining 4 mods should be causing this.

Edit 2: Nvidia DLSS frame generation was wildly unstable in gameplay, could be related to the crashes I’m experiencing. Might be worth looking into. I’m using the newest Nvidia drivers (580.76.05) on CachyOS Linux. After switching to FSR3.1 frame generation it has seemed more stable from limited gameplay experience, despite FSR3.1 frame generation continuing to produce visual artifacts with stab/poke melee attacks (I’ve reported this before but it’s still not fully addressed).

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

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Often (<75%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

Player ID (Optional):

9557185861

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i’ve just had a crash with zero mods on Geforce now when I was just in the psykanium

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Any recent console logs would be appreciated! :slight_smile:

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console log copy.zip (3.1 MB)

Here’s the compressed file which contains all console logs since Aug19 which is when the hotfix dropped. I’m unable to identify which are the ones that result in blackscreens and crashes and which ones aren’t, unfortunately, so I’m sending them all here.

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most recent crash (in loading screen after mortis trial)

console-2025-08-25-18.58.29-35738fbf-a96d-4e1f-9a53-d3145775836f.log (800.2 KB)

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It looks like the primary issue here is recurring Deadlock crashes, which are a bit of a pain admittedly! But I do notice this:

Volume for path '../bundle' is on Unknown Drive Type

Are you able to try installing Darktide on to another drive possibly?

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Unfortunately I don’t have a spare drive at the moment. I’m not sure why it says unknown drive type because I’m using win11 + linux CachyOS dual boot on the same 1tb drive.