The game keeps crashing - it says "Access violation" every time it does

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support
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Issue Type (Required):

Crash - During Play

Issue Description (Required):

The game crashes to the desktop. Every time it happened, I was in a mission.

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

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

Player ID (Optional):

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

GUID: 73ffa2b7-1921-4713-89eb-5a1dca360b3f

Log File:
Info Type:

[Engine Error]: Access violation (0xc0000005) in build 57a47fe1b65efd09b188a31a8ec011df2e5b0509

accessing address 00007FFCB38B0C94 from 00007FFB695E9D10

[PC] Upload Console Log & darktide_launcher.log (Optional):

console-2026-06-30-21.11.05-73ffa2b7-1921-4713-89eb-5a1dca360b3f.log (194 KB)

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Win10? I noticed some big issues this update. Might have to reinstall finally but I wanna put it off. Performance in game is how I like it so I’ll have to take many pictures of settings and backup mods…

But I did a backup files after Skitarius and 1 or more folders t’were missing…

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I’m on Windows 11

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Could be microhard then

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And what’s that?

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My joke name for Microsoft lol

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Appears to be a non-descript Access Violation, so it’s tricky for us to pinpoint the exact cause.

Please try running through our general crash solutions, here:

https://support.fatshark.se/hc/en-us/articles/7709661288733--PC-How-to-Resolve-Crashes-in-Darktide