# Game Crashes after Initial Loading Screen, Cannot Enter into Menu

**URL:** <https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/game-crashes-after-initial-loading-screen-cannot-enter-into-menu/126827>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Tags:** acknowledged\
**Created:** [October 20, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/game-crashes-after-initial-loading-screen-cannot-enter-into-menu/126827 "2026-10-20T23:02:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![rubatirabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@rubatirabbit](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/rubatirabbit)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/game-crashes-after-initial-loading-screen-cannot-enter-into-menu/126827/1 "2026-10-20T23:02:41Z")

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### Issue Type (Required):

Crash - After Building Shader Cache

### Issue Description (Required):

Game always crashes right after the initial loading screen, I cannot enter into the operator selection menu. This is after the 1.13.3 patch.

However, it works after I turn off the XeSS.

[Update: I’ve managed to fix it by replacing the **libxess.dll** file in Darktide with the one found on the XeSS SDK 3.0.0 release page, apparently it is an updated version. But I think they would override the file with the next patch, so please have it updated.]

[crash\_dump-2026-10-21-00.41.13-c6685b0d-cc98-4585-a35d-e76f55b3921f.dmp](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/uploads/short-url/m7AEx3chtwtc45aJ4IOQNUA2EZk.dmp) (2.6 MB)

Integrated Graphics: AMD Radeon 780M

GPU: Intel Arc B580

### [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: c6685b0d-cc98-4585-a35d-e76f55b3921f

Log File:  
Info Type:

[Engine Error]: Access violation (0xc0000005) in build be51ea67226d25ff2fb6281bad50475d7001dff1  
accessing address 00007FFEA47646E0 from 00007FFEA47646E0

The issue could be related to the following modules found in the stack trace:  
module ‘unknown\_module’.

[Crash Link]:  
crashify://c6685b0d-cc98-4585-a35d-e76f55b3921f

[console-2026-10-21-00.41.13-c6685b0d-cc98-4585-a35d-e76f55b3921f.log](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/uploads/short-url/900go4IZwTVD0V0oTJG4uPqIYOf.log) (45.4 KB)

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[darktide\_launcher.log](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/uploads/short-url/jaDd9a8fjdUyOlAsZnuJM8sKUW0.log) (261.2 KB)

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**Author:** ![FatsharkLev](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/fatsharklev/32/119491_2.png) [@FatsharkLev](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/FatsharkLev)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/game-crashes-after-initial-loading-screen-cannot-enter-into-menu/126827/2 "2026-10-21T10:22:44Z")

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Sorry to hear this @rubatirabbit. We’re aware of a crash introduced with hotfix 1.13.3 when using XeSS. We have a fix, and the issue should be resolved in our next hotfix.

Until then, as a workaround please disable XeSS.

Apologies for the inconvenience in the meantime.