Master List of Darkest Dungeon Fixes

[Satoru]

If you are running into any issues with the game, please try all the workarounds below to see if one of them solves your issue. Also, please look for any existing threads that might cover your issue before starting a new one. Thanks!

I'll try to correlate fixes for Darkest Dungeon in this thread so it's easier to find.

DLC - Circus - Crashing

https://steamcommunity.com/app/262060/discussions/0/3158707011215461429/

One potential fix for crashes when loading the Circus

Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\"!your number"\262060\remote

and delete the folder profile_9.

DLC - Color of Madness - Infinite Loading Screen on Final Farmstead MIssion

If you have this particular issue please

1. Go to your steam library, right click -> Properties on "Darkest Dungeon"
   
2. Click "Betas" tab
   
3. Click the pulldown and select "Support"

Once you do so please try the following

1. Just running the game
   
2. Running the game with -disable_wave_audio_loading (you add this line to 'set launch options' in the game properties tab)
   
3. with -log_debug_info and once the game had been loading for a while, if we could get the debuginfo.txt file that's written in Documents/Darkest it should give us an idea of where in the wave loading the game gets stuck.

Please join the Darkest Dungeon Discord as the developers have a separate channel dedicated to solving this issue.

http://discord.gg/darkestdungeon

Join the discord and go to the #infinite-load-issue

Thanks

100% CPU Utilization

If you're having this issue you can roll back to the previous build

1. In your Steam library find Darkest Dungeon
   
2. Right click->Properties
   
3. Click the "BETAS" tab
   
4. Click the pulldown
   
5. Select "pre_controller_support"
   
6. Click "Close"

The game will update the files to the previous build

Audio Enhancement Programs Can Cause Crashes

Note this is nearly the #1 issue for the game crashing so don't skip this section

Some audio enhancement tools may cause the game to crash. So far known programs that may cause issues are

• Nahimic (installed on MSI laptops)
  
• Sonic Sound 2 (installed on Asus laptops)
  
• Sonic Suite
  
• Razer Chroma (and possibly Synapse) - note your headset will still be usable

If you have any of these programs in your system tray, please kill them and try relaunching the game.

If that doesn't work then as a last resort uninstall the program and restart your computer

http://steamcommunity.com/app/262060/discussions/3/492379159714705337/#p3

The devs are aware of the issue and are looking into a fix for it

Issues with Windows 10 upgrade

If you upgraded to Windows 10 and are having issues with the game please try out a few of these tips. Note these are good tips for any other games you might have issues with as well on Win10.

1. Rerun the vcredist from:
   Steam\SteamApps\common\DarkestDungeon\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2013
   Then reboot your computer
   
2. Try running Steam as an administrator
   
3. Try running the Darkest.exe in Windows 7 compatibility mode

Run Darkest.exe in Compatibilty Mode

You can try to run the game in Compatibilty mode if you're on Windows

* Go to \steam\steamapps\common\darkest dungeon\_windows\
* Right Click-Properties on Darkest.exe
* Click the "Compatibilty" tab
* Check the "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
* Select Windows 8/7/Vista/XP
* Work down from the highest version of windows listed down

Disable the Steam Overlay

This is the most common cause for people's inability to run the game, so try this first! If you are seeing the game stop at the Red Hook logo, this is likely the solution to your issue!

• Go to your Library
  
• Right click -> Properties on Darkest Dungeon
  
• Uncheck "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game"

Disable the Discord Overlay

The Discord overlay can cause issues for some computers. Disable the Discord overlay

Disable Raptr Plays.tv

Raptr's Plays.tv seems to cause issues if running in the background. But it may work if -capture is used as a launch option

Check If The Language Is Set

If your game crashes its possible the language is not set in the Steam menu

• Go to your Library
  
• Right click -> Properties on Darkest Dungeon
  
• Go to the "Languages" tab
  
• Select "English"

Then load the game. You can change the language to another one later once it loads properly.

"Reboot" Steam Cloud"

If you're game is crashing its possible your local SteamCloud saves or settings are bad.

• Go to your Library
  
• Right click -> Properties on Darkest Dungeon
  
• Go to the "Updates" tab
  
• At the bottom Uncheck "Enable Steam Cloud Synchronization for Darkest Dungeon"
  
• Click "OK"
  
• Repeat the above steps and Check the "Enable Steam Cloud Synchronization for Darkest Dungeon"
  
• Click "OK"

Note you have to click "OK" after each step so steam will pull the proper files down from the Cloud.

Update Your Video Card Drivers

This is the next most common cause for people's inability to run the game, particularly on PC.

First check your driver version using this method and make sure your drivers are recent:

• In Steam, go to the Help menu
  
• Then go to "System Information"
  
• Check your driver version and OpenGL version under the "Video Card" section

If you see that your drivers are from, say, August 2009, and/or you are running a version of OpenGL earlier than 2.1, and your card supports 2.1 or higher, then you should definitely be updating your drivers.

It is also important that you update your drivers through software provided by your video card manufacturer or directly from their site. Using Windows or updating software provided by your laptop manufacturer to find more recently drivers is less reliable, as they will likely only have drivers that initially shipped with the product, or will be out of date with the actual video card manufacturer.

• For AMD cards, download the AMD Catalyst Control Center, which you can find here:
  
  http://www.amd.com/en-gb/innovations/software-technologies/catalyst
  
  
• For NVidia cards, go to this page and download the appropriate drivers for your card by providing the correct information:
  
  http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx
  
  If you have an NVidia GeForce card, you can also download and install the GeForce Experience to update your cards through that:
  
  http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience
  
  
• For Intel cards, go to this page and download the appropriate drivers by providing the correct information:
  
  https://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx
  
  Note: Do NOT use the Intel Driver Update Utility to update your Intel video card drivers, make sure you download them directly. That tool is somewhat unreliable at identifying some older hardware.

Always make sure you reboot your machine after installing the drivers, just to be safe. Then try relaunching the game.

Laptop users should force their Nvidia/AMD cards

Use the Nvidia Control Panel or AMD CCC to force the game to use your built in GPU instead of the Intel one

This guide should help you depending on your video card:

http://www.howtogeek.com/175281/how-to-force-graphics-options-in-pc-games-with-nvidia-amd-or-intel-graphics/

We've also noticed that some HP laptops don't report the correct OpenGL version and/or people can't force their video card. Please see these links for more information on a possible solution:

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Display-and-Video/Official-HP-statement-on-Switchable-Graphics-and-Open-GL/td-p/766285
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02948560

Manually create the save game folder (New fix 2/4/2015)

This fixes some crashes/not starting issues so don't ignore this!!

• Open Windows Explorer
  
• Browse to c:\Users\<Username>\My Documents
  
• Check if there is a folder called "Darkest"
  
• If there isn't create the folder by right click->New folder and name it "Darkest"

On PC, if creating the Darkest folder yourself doesn't work, or if the game can't create it and you get an error saying as much, it's possible your Windows user profile has become corrupted. If that happens, try creating a new user account and see if you can run the game.

If you have a "My Documents\Darkest" directory and the game doesn't recognize it properly, you might need to restore it to it's default location. Please see this link for more information: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18583-user-folders-restore-default-location.html

Run the Game in Windowed Mode

• Go to your Steam Library
  
• Right click -> Properties on Darkest Dungeon
  
• Click the "GENERAL" tab
  
• Click "Set Launch Options
  
• In the box type in "-size 1280 720" (remove the quotes)

Disable the intro cinematics

• Go to your Steam Library
  
• Right click -> Properties on Darkest Dungeon
  
• Click the "GENERAL" tab
  
• Click "Set Launch Options"
  
• In the box type in "-disablevideo" (remove the quotes)

Disable all audio

• Go to your Steam Library
  
• Right click -> Properties on Darkest Dungeon
  
• Click the "GENERAL" tab
  
• Click "Set Launch Options"
  
• In the box type in "-disableaudio" (remove the quotes)

No Save Games Visible

This appears to have been an issue with users having either special characters or non-English WIndows. This should be fixed in Build 7547. Please restart Steam to get the latest patch.

Try Restarting Steam

If you don't see the game in your library, try restarting the Steam client.

Streaming the Game in Windowed Mode

Capturing works fine in fullscreen, but to capture properly in windowed mode, use the "-capture" (remove the quotes) command line option in the launch options.

• Go to your Steam Library
  
• Right click -> Properties on Darkest Dungeon
  
• Click the "GENERAL" tab
  
• Click "Set Launch Options
  
• In the box type in "-capture" (remove the quotes)

Mouse clicks don't register properly
Icons look misaligned or off center
Clicking on menus doesn't work
Can't Run Fullscreen On Windows 8 PC and Surfaces

This should now be fixed as of build #7740

• Try disabling UI Scaling

Also try disabling UI scaling on a per-exe basis

• Go to c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\darkestdungeon\_windows
  
• Find Darkest.exe
  
• Right click->Properties
  
• Go to Compatibility
  
• Check "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings"

Try running both Steam and Darkest.exe as administrator

• Go to c:\program files\steam\
  
• Right click ->Properties on steam.exe
  
• Click the Compatibility tab
  
• Check "Run this program as an administrator

Then try doing it for the Darkest Dungeon exe

• Go to c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\darkestdungeon\_windows
  
• Right click ->Properties on darkest.exe
  
• Click the Compatibility tab
  
• Check "Run this program as an administrator

Reinstall VCRedist

Go to

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\DarkestDungeon\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2013

And re-run both the vcredist_x64.exe and the vcredist_x86.exe

Then reboot your computer

Verify the Integrity of the Game Cache

If you have tried all of these workarounds, and are still having trouble running the game, or if there are other obvious missing elements to the game (such as missing fonts), validate that all of the files are actually installed properly:

• Go to your Steam Library
  
• Right click -> Properties on Darkest Dungeon
  
• Click the "Local Files" tab
  
• Click on the "Verify Integrity of Game Cache..." button

Manually Reinstall the Game

Occasionally doing a re-verify won't work. This can be for various reasons especially if you had mods installed previously. If your game is crashing after an update try doing a manual reinstall of the game. To do so

• Go to c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\ (or wherever you have Steam installed)
  
• Find the folder "DarkestDungeon"
  
• Rename this to "DarketDungoenold" or to anything else
  
• Go to Steam
  
• In your Library, right click Darkest Dungeon, select "Delete Local Content"
  
• Reinstall the game

Then try your save game again.

Post your system specs and details about your issue in the Crash Bugs sub-forum

If you are having crash or cannot start issues, and have done everything above please make a post in this sub-forum. The devs are treating all such issues at the highest priority.

Also the devs request that you send them additional logs if you can't start the game. This thread tells you how to enable the additional logging

http://steamcommunity.com/app/262060/discussions/0/612823460253966357/

Launch the game and send the data to the devs

It's important for the devs to know what your system specs are if they are to troubleshoot issue. Try to put a baseline information such as

OS:
Video Card:
CPU:

You can also go to the Steam Client and go to
Steam-Help-System Information

That window has a lot of technical stuff about your system that can help the devs identify things

Also when describing your problem be as descriptive as possible. They'll need to recreate your problem so more details is always better. Adding screenshots can also be helpful in describing visual issues.

Please be patient. The devs are absolutely committed to getting the game working for everyone.

The devs are active in fixing everyone's problems. So definitely post your bugs and crashes and they'll get resolved as fast as humanly possible.

I understand not being able to play the game is frustrating. But please be patient.

[GAZsmoko]

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[killatime]

Dear developers,

I'd like to report a bug. on the classic campaign, the shield breeze has an action that turns into a line of code (I guess). here's a picture with the bug.
(no mods)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197971305171/home/

[fstrai0053]

still unable to get circus to load.
unable to get past question do you have steam.
Answer yes hit button and nothing nada zilch.
Please FIX thanks

[Força e Honra ♰☨♰]

windows 7 ultimate 86x 2gb ram intel celeron 2.40ghz intel gma gl40 32Vram meu jogo nao abre quando abre da erro este programa parou de funcionar" Use google Tranlater my languem portuguese

[Satoru]

Автор сообщения: Jonatashero

windows 7 ultimate 86x 2gb ram intel celeron 2.40ghz intel gma gl40 32Vram meu jogo nao abre quando abre da erro este programa parou de funcionar" Use google Tranlater my languem portuguese

That laptop is very old and the video card is pretty bad. The game requires OpenGL 3.2 but that video card only supports OpenGL 2.0

[Sharkbyte]

Hey to anyone having the frame drop and stuttering issue thats come out since the patch while running a normal dungeon and not the PVP, you can go into the properties of the game and change it to the pre circus beta. it fixes the issue

[BДУMHblЙ ЛUС]

Crashing in siren fight...

[DementedHazard]

Автор сообщения: Ghost

Hey to anyone having the frame drop and stuttering issue thats come out since the patch while running a normal dungeon and not the PVP, you can go into the properties of the game and change it to the pre circus beta. it fixes the issue

I'm having stuttering issues in single player, how do you change it back to pre circus? I don't see any options to revert back in the properties

[Reginald]

Ive got a few mods but my save file is crashing whenever i go to the provision screen?
This has only started after the Butcher circus release, is there some way to turn that off/get rid of it?

[SeeLie]

Автор сообщения: DementedHazard

Автор сообщения: Ghost

Hey to anyone having the frame drop and stuttering issue thats come out since the patch while running a normal dungeon and not the PVP, you can go into the properties of the game and change it to the pre circus beta. it fixes the issue

I'm having stuttering issues in single player, how do you change it back to pre circus? I don't see any options to revert back in the properties

right-click on the game \ properties \ beta version tab \ in the drop-down list, select the desired item

[SeeLie]

after updating the game crashes while loading save files with an error loading png (83) memory allocation failed, who knows the solution to the problem?

[Satoru]

Автор сообщения: Believe You

after updating the game crashes while loading save files with an error loading png (83) memory allocation failed, who knows the solution to the problem?

Does it happen without mods

[SeeLie]

Автор сообщения: Satoru

Автор сообщения: Believe You

after updating the game crashes while loading save files with an error loading png (83) memory allocation failed, who knows the solution to the problem?

Does it happen without mods

Thanks for the answer, I tried to launch a new game without mods, but in this case, too, there was a crash, there were mods on the main save, but I turned them off (I immediately thought that this was the case) and this also did not help

[Fauntleroy J. Pewdterschmidth]

I'm having a weird issue since the hotfix came out. In any campaign created AFTER the hotfix (I wanna try Shieldbreaker I bought on this sale) going to provisions before a quest causes the game to crash. Earlier campaigns seem to work just fine. Butcher's Circus games also crash at times, sometimes they get stuck with neither player's turn starting at a random point in the game, and one of us being forced to surrender or quit. I am not crying for another hotfix, but I hope there is a way to help this issue. (FTR I am not using any mods, because I'm yet to use all official feautres and only want to start modding after that.)

[DoubleVLT]

Hi, I encounter the sudden lag and stuttering issues especially walking in the corridor and loading the battle animation. My PC spec should be able to run most of the game fluently (RTX 2060, 16GB RAM, I7-8700). I also installed Darkest Dungeon into SSD but it still not improves anything.

I have disabled the Vertical sync, steam overlay and Discord overlay as well. However, the sudden lag and stuttering issues still not be eradicated.

I am not a native English tongue so that my English may look weird. Hope u understand what I mentioned above.