I have also the crash when I try to go on the Commander Tab.

I play Chaos and it's happen after I destroyed the orks. Does anyanyone have a solution ? It's very annoying ! I can't unlock my champions !

I just had the same issues.
After the 1st faction got defeated, I cannot access the commander menu or going through the 2nd faction stronghold mission without constant crashes.

I had the very same problem; I tried both setting the compatibility mode to Windows 98 and using the "4 Gb" patch. It works for me now; must have been one of the two... likely the patch, since there seems to be an issue with memory management.

Exactly; I found that out after applying the fix.
To be sure, I haven't finished the map yet, so I can't be 100% sure about the commander tab bug that has been reported above. I just hope I'm not in for an unpleasant surprise. So far I've been able to access the commander screen without hassle.

UPDATE: I defeated Chaos and the commander screen showed up no problem. Everything seems to be in working order.

UPDATE 2: I spoke too early. Indeed the game crashes whenever I try to access the commander screen directly. I even get a "BsSndRpt" message window with the "Unrecognized argument '40,000'." error message. But I don't know how to make use of that information.
And yet, I captured another enemy stronghold and there weren't any issues with the cutscenes, so at least the game is playable, since...
That's exactly how I'm gonna act from now on - luckily we have that alternative. I just hope the game doesn't crash if I earn a new piece of wargear and thus I'm redirected automatically to the commander screen after winning a battle. It didn't happen last time.

For me working solution is a run darkcrusade.exe in compatibility mode win 8

Played Chaos and game crashed seconds maybe 1 minute only on Space marine stronghold mission after orbital relay secondary objective.

Solution: Save game right when you get orbital relay objective. Rush to the objective with one unit (chaos lord in my case). It triggered reinforcements cutscene and after that no issues.

I suppose general issue will be in specific ingame trigger for overflow and rushing to next trigger "block" it.

Game is just badly coded, this and Soulstorm. A few suggestions have been proposed, the only semi reliable one is save near the end, turn all graphics and settings to minimum, finish the mission, turn them up again on next level.

Game itself have no coding issues in 1.2. Last time i played Steam 1.2.1 version it haven't as well, but that be just when Sega start to mess up with it to bring Online and erase LAN. Not the very latest "fixed" (supposedly) versions.

Soulstorm... well. Cant remember any CTD related issues. Maybe some gameplay loops or some else in-game bugs. At version 1.2 (and again, Steam version 1.2.1 BEFORE very last updates of it).

1.2.1 is irst major update that get hotfixes without major numbers, probably in main meny build number changed (very last characters at main menu), and ofc there is always steam fontent system related hotfixes with Steam build ID number updated but not visible digits changes in game.

Unfortunately before im able to buy this game become unavailable for Russia where im from. Cant test it myself. But highly likely it is GOG only issue need to be patched by GOG and its outsource team General Arcade. They just crack Steam version they get from stream-rip from main subscription only (no all localisations from Steam) (or probably even torrent edition? thats happened before). Been "backported" cracked Steam make it have more bugs in theory.


First what you need to try. If issue for GOG Galaxy versions and not GOG offline ones - validate game files (not just reinstall!!!).
Make sure game work not faster than 119 FPS and you didnt speed up in-game speed option too much (there is hiden console speed settings option).
Probably need to reduce to 59 FPS limit. By video driver or something else or 3rd party tools like RivaTuner RTSS.

Uninstall MSI Afterburner if you have it (reinstall OFICIAL RTSS tool separately). Flose Discord and any else overlays.

Has anyone gotten it to work? I literally cannot complete the game.
I don't know how GOG managed to screw up this badly, but Dark Crusade is literally unplayable.
Soulstorm, DoW and Winter Assault is fine, it's just Dark Crusade that's highly unstable for some obscene reason.

I tried the LAA from the Mod Manager, I tried saving and loading, I tried Windows XP Compatibility, nothing.

That doesn't work either.

Edit : I managed to get past the Space Marine Stronghold bug with the LAA option in Mod Manager and making sure the executable was set to XP Service Pack 3. Commander Screen still busted.

I saw such issue discussions for Retail version. Seems issue is not in the GOG. Still in theory more stable verson would be is you forcely apply older Retail 1.2 patch (which is DRM-free back then). Here somewhere was a thread about Skirmish/LAN multiplaer restoration, but maybe for Soulstorm.
Use GOG (offline) version.

Close overlay apps, incl NV Experience, MSI (RTSS not related to MSI, reinstall it from RTSS site), Discord, Nahimic, some input device apps for mouse/KB/gamepad like LogiOptions.
In compatibility tab experiment with DPI (by App) and Fullscreen optimisation (enable or disable).

Windows 10+ and moder NV drivers itself just bad at launching games in native fullscreen. Try windowed mode, set resolution not higher than your display (pay attention to numbers).
All resolutions have own refresrates supported for all displays. That for native fullscreen. Make sure supported refreshrate set. For windowed real resolution and refreshrate as well as few else settings taken directly from Desktop. If you set game to windowed, refreshrate should match one set in Desktop resolution.

Issue maybe solely on NV drivers. Probably NV Inspector un-official tool would hlp, if we knew what to change there.

It seems that the commander screen breaks whenever you do a stronghold. I guess the game doesn't like it when trophies from defeated factions are added. Not sure how that got broken.