Issue Type (Required): Performance Issue Description (Required): 2 cases here, me & my friend. Mine: I can still log into the game and play, but I suffer significant GPU temp increase compared to Nvidia graphics driver 546.65 on identical settings, going from 65~72 Celsius to 70~82 Celsius post-u…

I think the issues are separate. For your buddy, it sounds like his Anti-Virus is quarantining part of the Darktide installation. I expect this is the Darktide.exe, and he is using Avast, based on similar reports I’ve read recently. I understand you have some overheating issues which is usually har…

I tried rolling back to 546.65 which slightly improved the heat issue, but it reset my Nvidia control panel settings which I can’t remember what I did. I had modified my “user_settings” config file to try to maximize performance a while back, and pre-update I was looking at around 60~70 Celsius in …

Adding to this With Nvidia control panel enabling Nvidia Image Scaling, Darktide has options for 1477x831 and 1632x918 as fullscreen resolution settings (both I used to improve performance and reduce GPU strain because 1080p was having some performance issues) on top of DLSS in-game Could this be …

Certainly try deleting your user_settings.config if you’ve manually edited it. You will need to disable Steam Cloud Saving to start with, otherwise it will automatically restore the user_settings.config: Navigate to your Steam library Right-click Darktide Select ‘Properties’ On the ‘General’ tab,…

Issue Type (Required): Performance Issue Description (Required): My device specs: Lenovo Legion 5 Gen 6 (laptop) Windows 11 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 16gb RAM (8gb VRAM) 512gb SSD (261gb free) I play Darktide in a lower resolution than 1920x1080p to have a lower strain on GPU…

I tried deleting the user settings config file and all the video settings were reset to default (keybinds were saved fortunately), so I went to config again and manually disabled RT related settings as well as lowering all texture settings from 2 to 0 As for the reason I use NIS on top of in-game D…

Nvidia graphics driver 551.23 does not function properly with Darktide

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FatsharkJulia February 1, 2024, 9:34am 8

I think this might be outside of what we can help with unfortunately - I would recommend contacting NVIDIA as they will be best equipped to advise on next steps.

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Nvidia graphics driver 551.23 does not function properly with Darktide

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