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.