Issue Description (Required): Let me preface by saying I know this isn’t a new issue, other players have mentioned this on/off for years. I am experiencing significant Texture LoD pop-in / rendering issues with the textures of weapons, the environment, enemies, etc. I’ve attached two images demons…

Taking the opportunity of a new patch to bump this thread and to say that this is still broken / an issue with the current patch, and that setting to medium textures resolves it almost entirely.

Still an issue. Have to point out that I never experienced this problem with the game. I haven’t played it for about a year, so to my knowledge this problem became common between the autumn of 2024 and the autumn of 2025. I have a GTX 4080. Needless to say, texture streaming issues shouldn’t be a t…

Well, I fixed it thanks to a discussion with ChatGPT. The CPU worker-threads the game suggests? Lower them by one. Yes, this sounds counter-intuitive because high-end GPUs cause texture streaming because they have to wait for the CPU, but regardless… it worked for me. In my case, I lowered 13 worke…

I’ve previously tried reducing the worker-threads, it’s never helped. The moment I put Texture Quality to “High”, the pop-ins start, regardless of worker-thread #

I’ve encountered the same problem after No Man’s Land update, worked fine before that

Same issue on a 4090, I9 14k ,nvme ssd and 64gb ram. I think it was fine on release, but after a couple of patches the issue started to pop up. And to this day i still have this problem. For some reason the textures load better on my steamdeck than my actual pc.

If i put my textures on Medium, slow texture loading fixes (i have 5070 so vram is not an issue)

Medium textures seem to be the answer. My current theory is it’s an issue with direct storage not being configured differently based on what texture setting you have so bigger textures with more mipmaps fills the dstorage queue faster than the game can handle

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was due to directstorage, i’ve never seen a game where DS is actually good for the game, it’s always complete opposite

Texture LoD rendering / pop-in Issues

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Performance Feedback

zaygr December 15, 2025, 8:48am 27

Vizra’s thread might help as there are tweaks for stream settings independent of what graphics card you have:

Topic		Replies	Views
Texture streaming problem Bugs acknowledged	4	127	December 10, 2025
I fixed stutter and textures not loading in! (Texutre streaming config file change) Performance Feedback	76	17611	December 10, 2025
Texture streaming / Shader Cache not working (blurry textures). Patch v.1.10.0+ Bugs acknowledged	36	745	December 18, 2025
All textures are LODs Bugs acknowledged	1	414	February 7, 2023
Texture/Mesh issues Bugs acknowledged	30	2711	May 29, 2023

Texture LoD rendering / pop-in Issues

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