Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op shooter where players need to take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty enemies.
However, there seems to be an issue with the game after the latest patch.
Warhammer Darktide crashing
According to multiple reports, Warhammer 40,000 Darktide players are facing performance related issues (mainly crashing) with the game (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9).
Darktide was reportedly running smoothly before the most recent patch, but now it constantly crashes in the middle of a game. Players can barely get through a mission without a crash, sometimes several.
The impacted players claim that while the game initially starts well, it gradually begins to stutter and finally crashes with an ‘Out of Memory’ error message.
Several gamers are experiencing this problem on high-end PCs, or at least ones that are over the recommended level. So this issue doesn’t appear to be due to low RAM.
The potential reason behind this issue could be that there is a memory leak going on that eats up the RAM and makes the game stutter and eventually crash.
Luckily, a Redditor has alleged that Warhammer 40,000 Darktide developers are aware of the crashing issue:
Potential workarounds
In the meantime, the following workaround has helped players fix this crashing issue that uses an Nvidia graphics card. It involves going into ‘Geforce Experience’ and then selecting ‘optimize settings’ for this game:
Another one involves switching off Ray tracing. Here are the steps to do so:
Note: backup this file before editing it
After that look for the following parameters and make the changes:
Do let us know in the comments section below whether the aforementioned workarounds were successful in solving the issue.
ray_tracing_quality = off rt_light_quality = off rtxgi_enabled = false
Make sure the file is ‘Read Only’ and then accept it. Source
We’ll keep tabs on the latest developments and update this space as and when something noteworthy comes up.
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Featured image source: Warhammer 40000: Darktide
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