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I see this is a laptop. Can you disable the trackpad? That might be doing something

Can you generate a dxdiag and upload it here. Thanks

Do you have any other controllers connected such as a steering wheel, HOTAS, or anything else?

Since you’re manually pulling the power that Kernel Power error is expected, as its windows detecting an abnormal shutdown.
What anti-virus are you running? Can you try disabling yoru anti-virus entirely?

Can you run a full windows update and then reboot your system

Normally if an application freezes you should still be able to do a ctrl-alt-del to exit the game. If the entire system is freezing that seems odd.

What anti-virus/firewall product are you using?

Can you fully disable both as a test?

Do you have the Windows Paging file disabled

Can you please upload your console logs and launcher logs as well please.

Note that task manager isnt a great tool to measure GPU utilization. It would be better if you used a more widely used overlay such as the Afterburner overlay which tends to give more accurate results. Alternatively you can use HWmonitor

For example here is a screenshot of me running the Hitman3 benchmark which is obliterating my GTX1080. But windows GPU utilizaiton is extremely low. HWMonitor more accurately shows the GPU usage.

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Most anti-cheats don’t allow to be run in a VM. Its unlikely EAC will ever change that

I would go through the fixes to address issues with the launcher

Can you provide any console or darktide launcher logs as well? You can find them by looking at the sticky here

https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/how-to-provide-a-crash-report-console-log-or-darktide-launcher-log/55163/3

The launcher ensures all the components so you can’t run the exe directly

1. Run steam as an administrator
2. Disable your anti-virus as a test
3. Delete teh appdata folder for darktide as outlined here

Note the game isnt doing anything when steam is installing teh game. Thus its either something with your steam install, the drive you’re installing to, or your anti-virus

You can also try running steam as an administrator as well

That’s really more of a Steam problem. Have you tried a different drive on your system?

I’d try the appdata deletion in the article link above

Try fixing the launcher with the tips here

Are you on a laptop? I don’t think the game will even launch if it tries to use the Intel GPU