Hello everyone. Since the official launch on 1 December and to this day i am experiencing Shader Cache Builder error (Exit Code = -1073741819) at every launch of the game. Hotfixes (including the most recent one - Hotfix 1.0.14) didn’t fix the problem. Switching to an experimental build of the game…

Can you try Run steam as an administrator Re-verify your game cache whitelist the darktide directory from your anti-virus, or temporarily disable it

Unfortunately, these solutions didn’t help either. The error still appears on every launch.

One whole month later, still same problem. how is it going? Any news? Is it still on your radar? At the moement I’ve lost all faith in fatshark as a company, not even letting me refund because of another bug that didnt close all files of the game so steam recognises me as having played it for 10 hou…

It’s now March and this is still an issue? How is that possible?

I am running into the issue now. Would be nice if some fix could be found for this.

This is happening on a 4090Airo/13900KS. Top of the line build, fresh reinstall(twice), swapped ram, swapped CPU, only thing I haven’t tried is a gpu swap. Same exact negative shader cache error. Makes the game unplayable as it launches but I will crash 50/50 upon loading into a match. Update: Low…

Something went wrong in the Shader Cache Builder process Exit code = -1073741819

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support

FatsharkJulia December 7, 2022, 3:29pm 4

I apologise but I have no known solution for this at current. It is still on development’s radar.

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Something went wrong in the Shader Cache Builder process Exit code = -1073741819

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