# Game crashes at Character Select

**URL:** <https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/game-crashes-at-character-select/110741>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Tags:** acknowledged\
**Created:** [July 10, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/game-crashes-at-character-select/110741 "2025-07-10T14:20:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![morriganenvt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@morriganenvt](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/morriganenvt)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/game-crashes-at-character-select/110741/1 "2025-07-10T14:20:13Z")

</div>

### Issue Type (Required):

Crash - on Launch

### Issue Description (Required):

Ever since I updated the game with the Arbites update it’s been crashing at the character select. Very specifically when two characters in the background start to move across the screen.

I have tried every driver from 576.02-576.88, removed with ddu and clean installed. I’ve deleted files from %appdata%, I’ve tried every setting option I can from the launcher, & I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the game a dozen times at this point. I’ve stress tested my gpu and cpu and both are stable, I’m running a mem test after I post this.

### [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: c7fa56ba-ec34-499a-b863-d71f4c8d4891 Log File: Info Type:

[Engine Error]: Trying to bind to a slot of type ‘0’, name ‘#ID[b5639618]’ using a uninitialized value 0

Assertion failed `value != 0 && value != 0x66666666` at `D:\a\d\rel_engine_darktide\release\2025_04_29_Patch1.8.x\runtime\d3d12_render_device\shader\d3d12_resource_binder.cpp:526` in function `stingray::d3d12_resource_binder::validate_resource_handle`

* * *

### [PC] Upload Console Log & darktide\_launcher.log (Optional):

[console-2025-07-10-14.03.20-c7fa56ba-ec34-499a-b863-d71f4c8d4891.log](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/uploads/short-url/sttSAZ8fqbP1qwzdI4Raq42BXVe.log) (38.5 KB)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FatsharkJulia](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/fatsharkjulia/32/11653_2.png) [@FatsharkJulia](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/FatsharkJulia)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/game-crashes-at-character-select/110741/2 "2025-07-10T14:39:22Z")

</div>

I’ve had to raise this with our Engine Developers due to the unusual nature of the crash - I’ll let you know once I’ve received a reply.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FatsharkJulia](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/fatsharkjulia/32/11653_2.png) [@FatsharkJulia](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/FatsharkJulia)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/game-crashes-at-character-select/110741/3 "2025-08-05T09:06:51Z")

</div>

Hi! I’ve been informed this should have been resolved in one of the hotfixes but I understand you posted this a day after 1.8.4. Our developers are wanting to know if you still encounter this?