In the event that you are unable to launch Darktide from Steam or the Microsoft Store, please see if any of the links below can be of help: [PC] Stuck on ‘Preparing to Launch’? [PC] How to Resolve Darktide Launcher Issues [PC] “Missing Downloaded Files” Referencing CrashifyUploader.exe [PC] Micr…

windows update to 22H2 can fix anyproblem by launcher . trust me

didnt fix it for me. going to reinstall and see if now itll fix

nah, reinstalled and nothing. Rip

We kindly ask that you complete the questions below. With this information, we can investigate your issue properly. Issue Description: Whenever I try to launch the game easy anti cheat opens as normal, then it says waiting for game, and the game never loads. When i take a look in task manager the…

Hey, I don’t have actually the steam version but that can happen for other games that using eac as well. Try ro reinstall eac. The eac setup should be found in the dark tide directory somewhere and execute it as admin. Otherwise if this not help I would recommend that you make an exception in the an…

I could help out since i still have issues with launching the game

Tried all steps mentioned in this thread already, still crashing. Antivirus/Firewall disabled Issue Description: Game crashing right after easy anti cheat init, it says waiting for the game and crashing right after Crash Report (If Applicable): GUID: 00d3ba5e-a679-45ee-8001-d927853322c7 Log Fil…

Im still getting this issue as well, works fine on my steam deck but never been able to get past the shader cache on PC.

Crash Report (If Applicable): No error message, launcher loads up, but when i hit play in the launcher, it says “building shader cache” and goes to 100% then the window disappears and nothing happens. Steam continues to consider me to be “playing” the game, which is to account for my total playtime…

Already tried that as well as fresh install of the game. Same thing with GPU drivers and even a different GPU.

KNOWN ISSUE: Darktide Launcher Erroring or Not Appearing, or Stuck on Launching Screens

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support

FatsharkJulia December 8, 2022, 10:18am 68

Is anybody available now to do some over-Discord debugging with one of our lovely developers?

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KNOWN ISSUE: Darktide Launcher Erroring or Not Appearing, or Stuck on Launching Screens

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