If you are experiencing Backend Error in Darktide, please see the solutions in the article linked below: [image] Backend Error You may experience the 'Backend Error' in Darktide if there is application on your PC, commonly Anti-Virus or Firewall, interfering with the connection to our s…

It’s been 5 days since i cant play because of “Backend Error”. Nothing of described above helping.

Same. Can’t play since Sunday but everything was just fine before

Did you try reinstalling antivirus? I did and it works fine now.

As above - did you try reinstalling antivirus? I did and it works fine now.

All I got is standard Windows Defender, and I checked it, even put game to exceptions but no luck. I also installed another antivirus to check for viruses just in case but nothing

I’ve been having “Backend Error” in both closed and pre-order beta, even on launch I wasn’t able to play the game. My game never actually started in fullscreen - there was always the taskbar visible. Without changing anything to my knowledge, the game suddenly started in actual fullscreen and I was …

As of update 1.0.20 I can’t login to the game anymore (e.g. can’t get past the login screen after intro animations). When pressing space, the game responds with Backend error and stays at the login screen. console-2022-12-16-10.42.54-fc898298-3062-4b1a-bb5d-cbbfbb2111ea.log (51.9 KB) EDIT: I was a…

In my case I run my exe file in the Binaries folder as administrator, totally skipping the launcher. Works for me.

When I press space at the login screen I get the following error: [image] I would get this from time to time before update 1.0.20 and I could restart my computer and internet to resolve it. Now I cannot login at all due to this error. Over 100 hours in the game and I can’t play as of the new upda…

KNOWN ISSUE: Backend Error

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Kaz December 15, 2022, 11:59am 420

I basically tied everything suggested here that might help. Sadly nothing changed. So I think that it’s on dev side, especially because I was able to play before

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KNOWN ISSUE: Backend Error

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