FatsharkJulia

I am 100% with you on this and I’m doing my best to advocate for this internally. I apologise I’m not able to do more.

This issue seems to occur when the administrator rights are inconsistent between the Darktide.exe and Launcher.exe.

You may have enabled administrator rights for one, but not the other, at some point.

We recommend removing administrator rights for both Darktide.exe and Launcher.exe by:

1. Navigate to Steam\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 DARKTIDE\binaries
2. Right-click Darktide.exe
3. Select ‘Compatability’
4. Untick the ‘Run this program as an administrator’ box
5. Save your changes
6. Attempt to launch Darktide as normal

NOTE: You may need to do the same for Launcher.exe, in Steam\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 DARKTIDE\launcher

Could you include your darktide_launcher.log please?:

We’ll check it out. Thank you!

Closed as this has been massively derailed, as you can see above.

This should now be resolved - keep us posted.

Our Launcher Developers are on the case.

Thank you!

Is there a crash report produced? If so, could you include it please?

We are aware of and looking in to reports of players being unable to launch after the most recent patch.

UPDATE:

Logs are usually produced even when launching has been unsuccessful. That’s not the case here I assume

Please include the requested logs, it would really help us out. Thank you!

Please include the logs once your reinstall is complete, it would really help us out. Thank you!

Please help us out by including the requested logs. Thank you!

I think it was announced that a Community Update was due today - I can see how that would be interpreted as a patch.

Edit: Please correct me if I’m wrong!

Try this:

1. Remove the gpu_detection.dll in the ‘launcher’ directory:
   Steam\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 DARKTIDE\launcher
2. Proceed to launch Darktide as normal, via Steam

Hoping to patch before the end of the week.

This is a kernel-mode driver error. Please see here: How to Fix win32kfull.sys BSOD SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION on my Windows PC? - Microsoft Q&A

Weird. I’ve shared this with our developers. Thank you for reporting!

We’re looking in to similar issues so I’ve included your report in our database, apologies.