Game Crashing after loading into the Mourningstar

Issue Type (Required):

Error - Out of Memory

Issue Description (Required):

Crash happens within seconds upon loading into the game lobby.

PC specs:
GPU: Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB
RAM: 32 GB
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
OS: Windows 11 Pro

[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):

  1. Start game
  2. Chose character
  3. Crash happens within seconds after loading into the Mourningstar (game lobby).

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

console-2026-09-29-16.15.21-5c196a49-6ca3-4663-a324-acd460e07f65.log (95 KB)darktide_launcher.log (265 KB)

Sorry to hear this @Turra

We checked your log and can see a genuine GPU memory error, but the data shows neither the card nor system RAM were actually full. It could potentially be an allocation hiccup.

I recommend trying the following:

  • Ensure you have the latest AMD driver installed. If the issue persists, please try uninstalling your current GPU drivers using a dedicated driver removal tool e.g. DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and then installing clean latest drivers
  • It may help to try dialing back custom settings e.g. specifically turn off ray tracing, drop texture quality a notch etc. and see if the crash persists; as this combination at ultrawide resolution is the heaviest VRAM allocation profile you can run
  • Run Steam ‘Verify integrity of game files’ (you may have tried this already, but a second sanity check may be worthwhile)
  • Close any background overlay/capture apps (MSI Afterburner, Discord overlay, RTSS, etc.) before playing, as it’s a common contributor to allocation contention

Please let me know how things go.

Thank you for your quick respond.

I had recently installed a new GPU and wanted to “stress-test” it with all the graphics tuned up.
I had already lowered the graphics without any improvement.

But i now also turned off ray-tracing and now can play the game.

Oh, and i found online that i could use “–lua-heap-mb-size 2048” in the Launch Options in steam.
I don’t know if it made any difference though.