Warhammer 40k Darktide Crashes on PC - Here's How to Fix

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On November 30, Warhammer 40k Darktide celebrates its full release, but many players report that the game keeps crashing. Therefore, we will show you how to fix crashes and crashes of Warhammer 40k Darktide.

What's wrong? After playing Darktide for a few hours, we kept encountering crashes, crashes and performance issues. It's not just us, many players are already complaining about the same errors in various forums. In our short guide, we will show you how you can easily improve the performance and fix crashes in Warhammer 40k Darktide.

Warhammer 40k Darktide keeps crashing on PC - here is how to fix it

For us personally, only one method out of many has proven to work, which is exactly why we are sharing it with you: To avoid a crash in Darktide, you need to go into the launcher settings. When launching via Steam, the launcher will open first, showing you "Settings" at the very bottom. Open the settings and scroll down to the option "Worker Threads". This is the number of CPU cores you assign to the game.

• Minimum CPU cores - 1
• Maximum CPU cores - 14

Whether 14 is really the maximum here, or Darktide generally secures 2 cores, we can't exactly confirm at the moment. What we can confirm, however, is that the fewer cores you enter here, the more stable Darktide runs. So here again in short:

Here you can find the setting for the CPU cores.

Fix Darktide Crash - TL:DR

• Launch Warhammer 40k Darktide
• Click on Settings in the launcher and scroll all the way down.
• Select half of the available cores for Worker Threads (CPU core count).

If you have reduced the number of cores, Darktide should also stop crashing. If crashes still occur, then reduce your cores further. Some users report that they were only able to fix Darktide's crashes with a number of one cores. And don't worry, we didn't see any significant performance loss by reducing the CPU cores -- on the contrary.

Other methods to fix crashes in Warhammer 40k Darktide.

Crashes of games on the PC can have various causes and do not necessarily have to be due to the software. If you are affected by a PC crash in Darktide, you can try other possible solutions that should solve the problem for you.

1. Check system requirements

It might sound a bit obvious, but if Warhammer 40k Darktide crashes on you, you should check if your PC meets the (minimum) system requirements.

2. Darktide crashes because of outdated driver software?

Outdated graphics drivers can also be a reason for Warhammer 40k Darktide PC crash. So be sure to check if your graphics card is running the latest software. Manufacturers often release new updates shortly after the release of a current title in order to optimize the hardware for the respective game.

• Graphics Driver for Nvidia
• Graphics Driver for AMD
• Graphics Driver for Intel

3. Check game files for errors

One reason Warhammer 40k Darktide crashes on your PC may be due to corrupted game files. To make sure that there is no problem with the files, you should run a quick check. If you play Modern Warfare via Steam, do the following:

• Right-click on the game title in your Steam library to open the menu and click on "Properties".
• Select the "Local Files" tab and click on "Check Game Files for Errors".
• If Steam detects an error, it will delete the broken file and then download it again.