Textures Not Loading - LOD Video Memory Leak

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Performance

Issue Description (Required):

I’ve been having this issue for a month now and I’m adding to the noise until it gets fixed.

Issue: Textures fail to load sufficiently and are not being cached. The more time spent in game, the longer the delay becomes to load textures until they stop loading entirely after about 30 minutes. When texture for a character or object model does load in, turning the camera away for as much as 1 second before looking back removes all textures until they load again, if at all. Despite normally running very smoothly, the longer the game is open the choppier and slower it gets. For now, I can get through one mission before having to restart the program, but by the end of that one mission the game often devolves to look like it was developed for the PS2.

Hardware:
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
AMD Ryzen 7 98003XD
32 GB DDR5 RAM
4 TB SSD WD Black SN850X

Steps Taken So Far:

  1. Rolled back AMD Software update prior to 26.1.1, no change
  2. Deleted AppCache, no change
  3. Reinstalled Windows, Steam, and Darktide only, no change.
  4. Changed .ini file settings to match previously discovered fix for 7900 XTX card, positive change in battle barge, immediately reverted to problem state upon loading mission

I’ve tested over a dozen other high-performance games since reinstalling windows and nothing else is having these issues. Lowering settings has made no difference in texture load time.

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

No, I don’t use mods

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Constant (100%)

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PC - Steam

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