Game crashes or won't launch on startup

Issue Type (Required):

Crash - on Launch

Issue Description (Required):

I have honestly no idea what keeps happening. I followed the link to update my AMD graphics drivers, but that still didn’t work. I even ran a full file integrity sweep on Steam to ensure no files were corrupted or anything, but the game still won’t work. My last gameplay was on March 1st and I haven’t been able to connect to the game since then. It was running fine with 0 issues previously, and I have never had any form of issues like this from Darktide.

Basically it tries to load the shaders cache and once it reaches 100%, the error window pops up and says it crashed and provides me the crash report I listed down below.

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

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

Player ID (Optional):

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

GUID: 5bf73eac-9d98-4a32-b2bf-665dcac7d5f3
Log File:
Info Type:

[Engine Error]: Access violation (0xc0000005) in build f76af6fe828bc82e28b484b6a3e56794b8f13e76
accessing address 000001CC7EF30000 from 00007FFF3BDC6C95

The crash occurred in module ‘amdxc64’. This module is related to AMD graphics driver. If this is a recurring issue you could try AMD Cleanup Utility tool Drivers and Support for Processors and Graphics to see if that helps.


Sorry to hear about this. Could you try rolling back to a previous AMD driver version, to see if that helps?

You can download previous driver versions here: AMD Radeon™ RX 6600 Drivers and Downloads | Previous Versions