KNOWN ISSUE: Unable To Launch Darktide After Patch

I have FINALLY got my game to work by COMPLETELY reinstalling my drivers for my graphics card.

I have an AMD GPU, not an NVIDIA one, and ripped the guts out with a fresh install and the game moved past the crash and loaded for the first time since the patch ;-;

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I am here to confirm that your method worked for me (Both my CPU and GPU are AMD) Hereā€™s how,

  1. I use AMD Cleanup Utility to clean my GPU driver and follow the steps as suggested on the AMD Website
  2. Search and download AMD software adrenalin edition and install it.

After restarting, I went into to game and it didnā€™t crash anymore. I can play Darktide smoothly now.

Thanks!

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Going on 3+ weeks of not being able to play. Getting realllly impatient.

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This worked for me as well :+1::+1::+1::blush: thanks

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Likewise, this is a very long wait to fix a pretty fundamental bug. No roll-back in place???

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Issue Description:
Game doesnā€™t start after loading launcher and cache shaders

Error Displayed (If Applicable):
darktide_launcher.log (532.6 KB)

Platform:
Steam

Player ID:
TANKAR

Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:
DECEMBER 2021, GMT-3

Reproduction Rate:
Constant (100%)

When trying to load game from launcher, game crashes. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game and still the same thing happening. error log below. I have played a few times already so know i can play but something has broken.

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Is there any solution to this? Iā€™ve done the admin thing, Iā€™ve validated my files, Iā€™ve restarted my PC, Iā€™ve made sure no AV is blocking it, wtf do I do this is ridiculous and feels like a scam at this point

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would like to know an answer to this aswell, game was playable before recent patch, now I get a Backend Error and canā€™t even get into the game at all.

Still canā€™t launch game, itā€™s been this way since the launch of the game. Iā€™ve tried every single fix you have posted and still nothing.

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Platform:
Steam

Player ID:
Girizmo

Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:
1/25/2023, Central timezone

Reproduction Rate:
Constant (100%)

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Issue Description:
Canā€™t launch the game. I launch darktide, the launcher works fine, i press play, then it builds shader cache for 1 second. And then nothing, the game never appears. I check task manager, darktide is a background process thatā€™s running, but no game whatsoever. I kill the task, then endlessly repeat the cycle. Problem started shortly after 1.0.24.

Steps to Reproduce:
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  1. Launch Darktide
  2. Press play on launcher
  3. Nothing happens

Platform:

microsoft

Player ID:

CastKeyboard883

Reproduction Rate:
Once - Rare (<10%) - Unusual (<25%) - Common (<50%) - Often (<75%) - Constant (100%)
Constant

Upload Console Log:

  1. Press the Windows key + R
  2. Enter %appdata% within the search input and select ā€˜OKā€™
  3. Navigate to AppData\Roaming\Fatshark\Darktide\console_logs
  4. Locate the console log that corresponds with the session in which the issue occurred, by looking at the timestamps in the log names
  5. Upload here
    console-2023-02-03-15.11.59-1d860b57-5fd1-47a4-8adf-2d2dadb0ea79.log (2.1 KB)

Upload darktide_launcher.log:

  1. Press the Windows key + R
  2. Enter %appdata% within the search input and select ā€˜OKā€™
  3. Navigate to AppData\Roaming\Fatshark\Darktide
  4. Locate the darktide_launcher.log in this directory
  5. Upload here
    darktide_launcher.log (1.0 MB)

@castkeyboard Can you try the steps in this post and see if that fixes your issue? KNOWN ISSUE: Unable To Launch Darktide After Patch - #68

Nope, after turning admin on and off, no changes whatsoever.

fix for me was to delete fatshark appdata folder, alongside start protected game exe and easy anti cheat folder in content folder, then verify game files.

Hello I am unable to get this game working at all as of December 2022. I will click play on the launcher. I will get the pop up for uploading shaders cache and as soon as it gets to %100 I am met with a please fill due to crash pop up along with a crashifyuploader.exe writing a crash log (I assume) after providing my response. Please help I am at a loss for what to do next. Neither Darktide.exe nor launcher exe are set to run as admin. I have deleted and clean installed the game twice and deleted the appdata folder created by fatshark. Drivers are up to date.

I am on Game Pass Version on PC W10
Console Logs:
console-2023-02-18-09.22.45-61e4a105-3c37-4d13-88fb-013203a18821.log (5.7 KB)
console-2023-02-18-09.21.54-8e29c266-450f-4621-a49c-0c4bc63b4800.log (5.7 KB)
console-2023-02-18-09.17.59-ccfa74cf-e51e-4dba-afaa-10ec75575d0a.log (5.7 KB)
console-2023-02-18-09.13.17-bec01037-3d87-4b3f-af17-c9f47681d8c3.log (5.6 KB)
console-2023-02-18-09.21.23-42cf4a87-79c8-4cb5-b9f4-456edc439956.log (5.7 KB)

Launcher Log:
darktide_launcher.log (92.6 KB)

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here my promble

Tried fixing this for about a day and had little to no results

Got the game on steam and when you press play it says its running before it stops and nothing has happened, it doesnā€™t open anything.

The closest thing Iā€™ve gotten to playing the game is using the ā€œstart_protected_gameā€ application in the local files and even then it immediately puts me into a back end error.

Putting both the main game and the launcher as admin doesnā€™t work and it isnā€™t file integrity.

Console Logs:
console-2023-02-27-09.38.48-575621bf-c3f6-4b80-9fd7-99005d0e12b4.log (18.6 KB)
console-2023-02-27-09.34.21-41320479-f585-4623-a1ae-30061aabcfff.log (21.7 KB)
console-2023-02-27-09.03.58-ffa99247-c568-4871-bfcf-108e2e6a5c01.log (68.1 KB)
console-2023-02-27-02.05.06-80b4b9d9-b6f1-48a9-a484-543edbacf80c.log (36.6 KB)

Launcher Log:
I canā€™t see i /doesnā€™t exist

having a problem thatā€™s potentially similar through steam. can run the launcher and hit play, game loads shaders, loads a little more and thenā€¦nothing, thereā€™s just nothing, steam will say the game is ā€œrunningā€, heck even windows will say itā€™s running but i wonā€™t get the game itself. even starting a protected game doesnā€™t bring it up but will have it run in my details under task manager.
tried everything advised here, tick/untick admit properties, tick fullscreen optimization, reinstall the game, ect ect ect and nothingā€™s working.
hereā€™s the log since thatā€™s asked for i suppose

darktide_launcher.log (843.4 KB)

Been nearly 3 months since iā€™ve been able to launch the game. The patch that added crafting has just completely broken my game to where i have not been able to start it up even once. Not a single fix on the forums can help and the new patch that dropped today did nothing to fix this.

My thread had dev interaction which i appreciated, no help actually worked so they just cut contact with me for the last 2.5 weeks without saying anything, iā€™m not even sure if theyā€™re trying to help anymore.
Question of being able to transfer my save data to Steam from Game Pass have all been ignored which means im just stuck here, not being able to play.