Stuttering and performance issues

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Performance Feedback
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Issue Description (Required):

since the update that changed the fullscreen/windowed settings i have been having performance issues. my game used to run flawlessly on borderless fullscreen combined with changes from this forum post ( I fixed stutter and textures not loading in! (Texutre streaming config file change) - #28 by Vizra ). now it is hit and miss, if it runs well for one mission then almost 100% of the time the 2nd mission i load into will be stuttery and borderline unplayable until i restart the game, getting to the point where i am just force closing the game as soon as i load in to the mission then restarting and rejoining to increase the performance.

i have tried with and without mods. i have tried all the fixes in all the fatshark troubleshooting guides. i have completely reinstalled windows. i have completely reinstalled darktide and deleted all data etc. in the past it seemed to be as if raytracing would turn itself on and cause issues, to fix this i edited and made my user settings file read only, now doing this seems to cause a crash.

Darktide is pretty much the only game i play and i have probably paid for it 10 times over at least in cosmetics, 2.5k hours playtime since prerelese, but in the last few months the chore of trying to get it run as good as it did in the past is beginning to become too much and just not worth it

any advice would be greatly appreciated

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[PC] PC Specifications (Optional):

NVIDIA system information report created on: 05/17/2025 18:35:06
NVIDIA App version: 11.0.3.241
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26100
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 576.40 - Mon May 12, 2025
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz
RAM: 32.0 GB
Storage: SSD - 476.9 GB

Graphics card
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA cores: 2560
Graphics clock: 1485 MHz
Max-Q technologies: No
Dynamic Boost: Yes
WhisperMode: Yes
Advanced Optimus: No
Resizable bar: Yes
Memory data rate: 12.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 128-bit
Memory bandwidth: 192.032 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 20371 MB
Dedicated video memory: 4096 MB GDDR6
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 16275 MB
Video BIOS version: 94.07.3b.00.e1
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x4 Gen3
Device ID: 10DE 25A0 3A5B17AA
Part number: 4736 0010

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If you are using these tweaks and getting stuttering after a mission. You are probably running out of VRAM. If you are 12gb or under, this tweak causes more VRAM usage. If you dont have the VRAM, it will cause stutters when you run out.

Hope this helps answer your issues with the tweak.

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The game has the same issue with or without the tweaks applied, even on a vanilla clean install of the game and windows with no mods or anything. Since the update that included the changes to fullscreen/borderless etc. Applying these tweaks makes the game run better until the issues arise, which will arise regardless or any changes/mods etc

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Have you turned EVERYTHING related to ray tracing off? That fixed my stuttering despite having a beast machine with a 4090.

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Yes ive edited all 3 settings files and tried putting them as read only which used to work, now it either feels like its turning itself back on regardless when loading into a mission like it did in the past, or it sometimes causes an error/crash “failed to open/make sure you have write permissions”. Except for rtxgi_scale iirc going lower than 0.5 causes light flickering.

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I’d guess you are struggling with VRAM. if you have 4gb that is going to be rough… even at stock settings

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