Loading screens crash amd drivers after Nightmares and Visions update

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support
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Issue Type (Required):

Crash - During Play

Issue Description (Required):

Ever since the Nightmares and Visions update, the game completely crashes my graphics drivers, resulting in a hard freeze followed by a black screen and driver crash report.

I get the “DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED” error during loading screens before and after the missions.

I have been playing on my 9070xt without any problems since I bought the card, but after the update, loading screens crash my drivers.

I have completely removed the drivers and reinstalled them, but I can’t revert to old drivers since older ones don’t support 9070xt.

I have run multiple benchmarks and stress tests, and I have been playing other GPU-heavy games without any problems.

One thing I noticed after the Nightmares and Visions update is how terrible performance has become in certain menus. I’m getting 1/3 of the previous fps I had in some menus. Loadout screen, penance, and new loading screens themselves have some problems.

I hope I won’t get the copy-paste “This is a GPU-related crash” response because I tested my GPU in every single scenario, and Darktide loading screens are the only thing that crashes my drivers after the new update.

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

[Engine Error]: HRESULT: 0x887a0005 = DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED: GetDeviceRemovedReason() = DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG

At D:\a\d\rel_engine_darktide\release\2025_02_19_Patch1.7.x\runtime\d3d12_render_device\d3d12_debug.cpp:1548 in function stingray::aftermath::d3d_assert

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Sorry to hear the conventional solutions have been unsuccessful. We’re working on some crashes currently and it’s possible these may be related - I’d recommend waiting until at least a couple of hotfixes have been released to see if this improves the situation for you.

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Have you updated to driver 25.3.2 yet?
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-25-3-2.html

It has a fix for Widows forcefully changing the driver to an older version (regardless of any settings or group policies you put in place to stop it)

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I’ve played about 10 maps today with only 1 crash, which happened on the loading screen before the mission. Game crashed right after I enabled “AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1,” which for some reason deactivated the fsr 3.1 framegen in-game.

While I’m not 100% sure, I think running “AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1” without in-game framegen caused my “DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED” issue.

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I’ve been getting the same error and driver crash with my new 9070xt PC. Didn’t have this error on my older Nvidia build. Crashing on mission load and mission completion. I don’t have “AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1.” But I have been using Frame Generation with native non FSR resolution.

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Also dropping my thread here to help anyone else