Game crashing - fresh install of Windows

Issue Description:

Game is crashing right off the bat. First let me explain the situation. I bought this game just 3 days ago. I’m considering returning it on steam because of the crashes. I even reinstalled Windows 11 and only have Nvidia drivers, Steam, and the game installed. That’s it. Not even a web browser and the game is crashing right out of the gate.

My system:
Not overclocked i9 9900k
64 GB of RAM not overclocked
2TB SSD
3080 ASUS not overclocked

I just installed installed 3dmark and ran a stress test for 5 hours… Then I quit out of it because it was not having issues or causing crashes.

Graphics can be all the way up or all the way down. Ray tracing, and or DLSS doesn’t effect the game play. It still crashes.

Ran a Memory Check - memory is fine no errors

Error from log:
00:40:17.140 <>Access violation (0xc0000005) in build 978e6af3988772ea66b98eef7d6cb3475c95bfe8
accessing address FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF from 00007FFBE1C87AFF<>
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Steps to Reproduce:
Play the game

Mission Name (If Applicable):
Any level 1 mission

Platform:
Steam

Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:
2 to 10 mins

Reproduction Rate:
100% within 15 mins


Upload Supporting Evidence:

Upload Console Log & darktide_launcher.log:
crash_dump-2023-07-19-00.34.49-ce00ddc5-b06a-4579-9a78-3c8e5edd19d2.dmp (959.5 KB)
crash_dump-2023-07-19-00.39.18-d86dfc22-8e90-4d3d-9fbd-e5a2d1635448.dmp (1.8 MB)
crash_dump-2023-07-19-00.19.19-53484eea-7edf-4b73-8fd5-2a77c6c1fcf2.dmp (803.8 KB)
crash_dump-2023-07-19-00.34.49-ce00ddc5-b06a-4579-9a78-3c8e5edd19d2.dmp (959.5 KB)
crash_dump-2023-07-19-00.39.18-d86dfc22-8e90-4d3d-9fbd-e5a2d1635448.dmp (1.8 MB)
console-2023-07-19-00.19.19-53484eea-7edf-4b73-8fd5-2a77c6c1fcf2.log (204.6 KB)
console-2023-07-19-00.34.49-ce00ddc5-b06a-4579-9a78-3c8e5edd19d2.log (90.9 KB)
console-2023-07-19-00.39.18-d86dfc22-8e90-4d3d-9fbd-e5a2d1635448.log (78.9 KB)

I believe this is driver-related, due to this reference in your crash data:

{00007ffbe1380000, 05edb000, 6496040f, 8a7129e9-5019-4512-ac2f-4775157452a2, 00000001, C:\dvs\p4\build\sw\rel\gpu_drv\r535\r536_08\drivers\wgf2um\_out\wddm2_amd64_release\nvwgf2umx.pdb}

I recommend uninstalling and proceeding to reinstall your NVIDIA drivers: