# Not going past the desktop

**URL:** <https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Tags:** acknowledged\
**Created:** [November 15, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097 "2023-11-15T20:24:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 18\
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**Author:** ![AHAbear3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@AHAbear3](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/AHAbear3)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/1 "2023-11-15T20:24:23Z")

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**Issue Description:** The game will say it is running on steam but will not actually run the game, i just sit on the desktop

**Error Displayed (If Applicable):**

**Steps to Reproduce:** 1. Run game on Steam 2. Launcher will open and press play 3. Graphics loading bar will load on screen 4. Nothing happens, just sits on desktop

**Platform:**  
Steam

**Player ID:**

**Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:**  
20:20 GMT

## **Reproduction Rate:** Once - Rare (\<10%) - Unusual (\<25%) - Common (\<50%) - Often (\<75%) - Constant (100%) constant, game has not opened for a week

**Upload Supporting Evidence:**  
[Screenshots, recordings, links to Twitch VODs, etc.]

## **[PC] Paste Crash Report, or Upload Console Log & darktide\_launcher.log:** GUID: f9c66f17-4264-4c7a-a401-dfd1ac7f5bc0 Log File: Info Type:

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**Author:** ![TakoyakiGremlin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/takoyakigremlin/32/67530_2.png) [@TakoyakiGremlin](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/TakoyakiGremlin)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/2 "2023-11-16T07:11:50Z")

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does it actually just never start? or do you just have to wait a long time? i play through the xbox app on pc and it used to take a good 2-3 minutes to start sometimes.

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**Author:** ![AHAbear3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@AHAbear3](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/AHAbear3)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/3 "2023-11-16T11:54:31Z")

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It will always crash, has not started since. Ive played it before on my laptop so i know it works on it, its just not starting

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**Author:** ![fbolduc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e36b37/32.png) [@fbolduc](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/fbolduc)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/4 "2023-11-16T12:01:17Z")

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I had to update Proton to latest version for it to start.

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**Author:** ![Axloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Axloss](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Axloss)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/5 "2023-11-16T13:10:14Z")

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i think this is a false positive of a deadlock due to slow reads (running the game on a HDD).

We will try make an exception while reading the pso libs from appdata since it’s a blocking operation.

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**Author:** ![Axloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Axloss](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Axloss)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/6 "2023-11-16T13:10:40Z")

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we added deadlock detection early ingame to catch other errors and this is a false positive result due to this.

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**Author:** ![AHAbear3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@AHAbear3](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/AHAbear3)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/7 "2023-11-16T13:53:16Z")

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Is there anything that i have to do now, or do i just wait for a bit?

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**Author:** ![Axloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Axloss](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Axloss)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/8 "2023-11-17T11:43:09Z")

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application\_settings\win32\_settings.ini

you should find this in your game files. set variable _deadlock\_detector\_enabled_ to false instead of true

so it says  
deadlock\_detector\_enabled = false

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**Author:** ![Axloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Axloss](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Axloss)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/9 "2023-11-17T11:45:16Z")

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I pushed a change that should fix this with the next patch, but if you still get it at that point please let us know.

Basically we will pause the deadlock detection while reading this file cache since if wait on reads we might block the game for more than 15 s and thus triggering this crash.

This is most likely only an issue with HDD that might have issues with Darktide having alot of small files.

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**Author:** ![Seb\_Cz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Seb\_Cz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Seb_Cz)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/10 "2023-11-17T20:17:47Z")

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Is this only possible in Win32 app or can i just do it in the game files? Couldn’t find anything in the files

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**Author:** ![fbolduc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e36b37/32.png) [@fbolduc](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/fbolduc)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/11 "2023-11-17T20:21:42Z")

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Microsoft Windows is notoriously slow on filesystem operations. Lots of small files will inevitably have poor performance. This gets exacerbated when people use weird sht like antivirus software or Microsoft Defender.

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**Author:** ![FatWolf](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/fatwolf/32/110145_2.png) [@FatWolf](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/FatWolf)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/12 "2023-11-18T11:32:22Z")

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make sure you are not running exe as admin.

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**Author:** ![AHAbear3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@AHAbear3](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/AHAbear3)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/13 "2023-11-18T13:23:56Z")

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I’m not finding any file named this under the game files

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**Author:** ![AHAbear3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@AHAbear3](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/AHAbear3)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/14 "2023-11-18T23:58:40Z")

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i just found and changed the files but it still did not change, i even took it off my HDD and put it onto my laptops memory, still nothing

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**Author:** ![Axloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Axloss](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Axloss)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/15 "2023-11-20T13:21:13Z")

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can you upload any new crash with this turned to false?

for example: GUID: f9c66f17-4264-4c7a-a401-dfd1ac7f5bc0

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**Author:** ![AHAbear3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@AHAbear3](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/AHAbear3)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/16 "2023-11-25T16:00:42Z")

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its not crashing, it only crashed one time, the game is just not opening, its saying its running on every sence on my computer but im just sitting on the desktop. waited for an hour to open but it never did

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**Author:** ![Axloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Axloss](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Axloss)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/17 "2023-11-29T12:11:59Z")

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> [@AHAbear3](#):
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> f9c66f17-4264-4c7a-a401-dfd1ac7f5bc0

with it enabled, please upload your latest crash as well. Might see something new.

Will take another look, but since the game doesn’t go anywere it is not a false positive

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**Author:** ![Axloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Axloss](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Axloss)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/not-going-past-the-desktop/87097/18 "2023-11-29T12:15:06Z")

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you can also try to rename the folder

%appdata%\Fatshark\Darktide

this contains your user config but also the file it looks like it stuck on. By renaming it you will create new user config and new .pso files. You can move your old config to the new folder if this works.