Still Crash and not responding

Issue Type (Required):

Crash - on Launch

Issue Description (Required):

Still same game crash and not responding, i’m already try to fix like re-istalling the game for 3 times adn verifying the game via steam and in the launcher, clean the nvidia driver to before driver 50 series appeared because my graphic card is RTX 30 series, trying everthing i found in this forum but still nothing changed always crash and i try open the game.
I don’t know what else to do so I can play this game again, please help me i want to play this game again with my friend’s.

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

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

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[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

GUID: af708d35-4bc4-4855-ae52-ae36c2646ff9
Log File:
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[PC] Upload Console Log & darktide_launcher.log (Optional):

darktide_launcher.log (57.7 KB)
console-2025-06-08-10.03.06-b2f7820e-a44e-4e50-a329-1e70fafaed36.log (4.4 KB)
console-2025-06-08-10.01.45-35d4d8f2-4c2a-4c96-a07a-2722cf2aa62e.log (8.93 KB)
console-2025-06-08-10.11.37-928f7a4f-50bb-445d-9ac0-760b2bfd3062.log (4.4 KB)

do you know the solution sir?

well i dont know if that is the main reason for the crash,
assuming it is
as you said you reinstalled the game multiple times so im not gonna suggest anything related to game files itself.

press windows+R type in %appdata% hit enter
Locate “Fatshark” Locate “Darktide”
image
Remove shade_library.pso_lib & shader_cache.hans (store them somewhere)


close everything
Press Play, and let it completely load, this may take longer than usual. It should reacquire the correct versions.

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uhmm It seems very different that you showed the file with mine or maybe because i can’t play the game i didn’t have file like yours?

should just be the stuff that gets created on launch, anyway proceed to remove shader_cache.hans and try starting the game

still same sir, like load building shader is fast like nothing changed.
last i play darktide maybe like 5 months ago before i sell my ultrawide monitor.
i try delete the entire folders darktide in %appdata%, my game still crash.

uhmm for everyone if you have the same problem as me you can open in %appdata% in the user_settings.config file then enter this code
direct_storage = {
enabled = false
}
at the very top. I have successfully found a solution.

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