Severe performance stutters since 1.8.3

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

Performance

Issue Description (Required):

My game’s performance started suffering from constant (severe) stutters. The stutters can range from frequent micro-stutters to 0.2-0.3 second long stutters and the occasional 1 second long stutter. I can’t enjoy the game as it currently performs.
Attempted solutions that did not help:

  • Disabling mods
  • Verifying file integrity
  • Removing shader files in the Appdata folder

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

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[PC] Upload Console Log & darktide_launcher.log (Optional):

console-2025-07-07-19.55.12-927f8d60-95de-4557-982a-dc83adf96005.log (71.7 KB)
console-2025-07-07-21.12.57-ea0ecb96-ef11-4098-9531-15839a0135fd.log (278 KB)
console-2025-07-07-17.45.01-41f1cdc2-94c1-493d-b914-f4d1edb13b79.log (128 KB)
console-2025-07-07-20.39.11-b87ff4b7-0e4f-4494-9037-155020e30179.log (632 KB)
console-2025-07-07-19.57.32-09228706-0fd9-4ed7-850f-0216bba0bf58.log (1.25 MB)
launcher.config (130 Bytes)
user_settings.config (198 KB)
darktide_launcher.log (440 KB)



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There were also freezes and stators during the game v1.8.3
console-2025-07-07-15.10.29-88a2acee-37da-46fa-9372-58ee3ba325b6.log (10.2 MB)

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Thanks for reporting, we’re monitoring this. :slight_smile:

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I’ve done a total reinstallation of Darktide and disabled the discord overlay. It helped alleviate the issue but not solve it. Performance is more consistent now without the frequent 0.2 second stutters but feels slightly worse like there’s still frequent microstutters, I’m still getting the occasional 1 second freeze with or without mods.



console-2025-07-08-20.54.01-9e07a254-c38e-4d19-a959-e40444e2e137.log (1009.8 KB)
console-2025-07-08-21.41.21-30b358e3-90b9-4718-b660-5fad3298bc1d.log (1.3 MB)

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I’ve fixed my stutter issue by downgrading my AMD driver version to a previous one.
Went from 25.6.1 to 25.5.1.

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Thank you! I’ve let AMD know.

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