Slower loading with AMD GPU

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support
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This has been an issue for a while now. My NVMe drive is 7300MB/s and I still see it chug like this while task manager doesn’t report it going higher than 10MB/s. Only a problem here like usual. You have a couple options to try though.

Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 DARKTIDE\bundle\application_settings and open settings_common.ini. Scroll down to mesh_streamer_settings and set disable = true to turn the mesh shader off. You’ll use a bit more memory but it will force the game to load high quality meshes from the start. The cosmetic icons will load very slowly but it shouldn’t make the game chug anymore.

Another thing you could try, which may or may not help, is going to C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Fatshark\Darktide, opening user_settings.config and change:

direct_storage = {
}

to

direct_storage = {
	enabled = false
}
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