Sound will cut out at random , which leads to a freeze, and crash. Never happened before newest penance update

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have you tried this yet? (long thread so perhaps I’ve already asked)

direct_storage = {
    enabled = true
    disable_bypass_io = true
    force_file_buffering = true
    force_mapping_layer = false
}

By enabling force_file_buffering you might get same behaviour as before direct storage. The recommendation is to have it off for SSD’s but this should make the file read more similar to the legacy file reader which likely worked better for you of some reason.

I’m pushing for getting this in the launcher, but I don’t think it’s been added yet since you shouldn’t touch these settings unless you have issues with it.

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Did everything in this thread still having an extremely similar if not the same problem since Path of Penance update, any developments on this? I’m having the same problem without the crashing

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Problem with solution is file, and directory as whole, isn’t accessable for me to redact. I make changes into file, but as soon as I launch the game it changes back as it was.

I searched web for that problem, and nowhere some stable solution was found.
This is not something common user would solve.

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You have to run the “experimental” build in Steam to change it.

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Found a workaround: I had an unused SSD lying around, added it to my PC, moved the Darktide game files to it through steam (Settings → Storage → select 2nd SSD, etc.), now the game works fine and doesn’t crash.
It’s a terrible workaround really, but maybe it will help someone else as well.

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My darktide files are already on my SSD

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My problem is everything besides the crash, sound stutters game freezes and loses framerate and its not a graphical hardware issue since before Path of redemption it worked just fine but after it, it borked the game and they didnt do anything to the graphics in that update alledgedly
here is what happens to my game whenever im on the start of a match and sometimes in the mourning star:

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hmm maybe the launcher changes it or that steam is smart to know you’ve changed it.

I think the options work in your game config file as well. so in %appdata%/fathsark/darktide

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you could upload the log and we can see if you have issues with PSOs which is a common culprit.

The other thing the log might contain is stall logs which we print for stalls longer than x amount of time, i think the threshold is 1s atm

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which is also a weird fix since it indicates that there is a issue with your default SSD or perhaps were it’s mounted. SATA/m2 slot etc.

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A few weeks back, I decided to buy a m2 SSD card - reinstalled Darktide onto this new driver, and I haven’t had any issues since. Only forgot to mention it in here earlier.

So dunno if my other SSD somehow is lacking a feature or something what. It’s baffling, but if it works it works. Don’t think my “old” SSD is even that old, which is why I find it weird.

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I do. I run experimantal build.

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I have 3 SSD installed, I tried all of them. But I did this experiment months ago. Didn’t notice issue in fixes during this period.

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I am experiencing the same issue. Sound distorts and game crashes. I can’t even play the game it happens 100%. I did every solution ı saw but no luck. I obviously have a device that meets minimum requirements. Hopefully they can actually fix this, whatever is causing it.

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Okay… it worked for two days, now the game is crashing again - exact same behavior as before. Coincidentally, the crashes started right when 1.5.4.10 was released.

Or is my second SSD broken as well? >:(

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Sorry for slow reply been overseas. I used to have this on but it disappears every update. I will retry it, but did not have it fix the issue in the past.

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to be honest im not sure, best guess is driver or issue in how it’s connected. But microsoft support here is lacking sadly.

Some info here is mentioning that bypassio is only used by nvme drives and not SATA ssd’s so perhaps that’s an interesting take. Will see if we can get that information ingame.

Note that this says that this option should only be disabled for HDD’s

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have you tried to set it in the user config?

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another solution for slow reads has been to whitelist our exe in microsoft anti-malware. But I wouldn’t see this as a official recommendation since I don’t think we should encourage ppl to modify with their AV protection.

Also I have hard time to see how that would matter what disk it was installed on.

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Right click on the file - properties - set for read only