Fallout 4 Issue

[pdubs]

Hello,

 

I just got Fallout 4 for PC and am having some trouble with freezing/crashing.

Starting no more than a couple minutes into the game session, the game freezes for several seconds at a time and works for a second or two (maybe 25% duty cycle?). The almighty Google has shown me that this is, as of a few months ago, a somewhat common issue.

The part I have not found anything about is that when I finally get close the game (takes a while when the keyboard and mouse don't respond), my computer continues to not function well. It does seem to go away via the turn-it-off-and-back-on method but not on its own.

 

I just updated the nvidia drivers and downloaded the game less than 24 hours ago, so I expect that I have any game updates too.

Running with i5-3570k and GTX980. Game suggested Ultra, indicating to me that I should at least be able to run it a little bit. I tried lowering the settings with no success. It maybe ran for an extra minute or two once, but not long enough that I'd rule out experimental error.

 

Any ideas on what's wrong or any fixes?

 

Thank you

 

[CommanderAlex]

What resolution are you running the game at? 

[pdubs]

 

1 hour ago, CommanderAlex said:

What resolution are you running the game at? 

1080p

 

Also, an update. Lowering the settings further had a substantial increase in playtime before crashing. I would suspect something like thermal issues, but the temps seemed fine according to afterburner. I would also think that if thermals were the issue, then the framerate would not go from 55-60 straight to 0, but I could be wrong on that.

[pdubs]

Update 2:

I do not think it is Fallout anymore. I was just watching a TV show on iTunes and the same thing happened.

[SageOfSpice]

5 hours ago, pdubs said:

Update 2:

I do not think it is Fallout anymore. I was just watching a TV show on iTunes and the same thing happened.

I'd say check your rams. 

Though, it could be an unstable OC as well.

[pdubs]

2 hours ago, SageOfSpice said:

I'd say check your rams. 

Though, it could be an unstable OC as well.

Ran aida64 stress test on everything I could check the box for, had no problems... I'm confused

[CommanderAlex]

3 hours ago, pdubs said:

Ran aida64 stress test on everything I could check the box for, had no problems... I'm confused

Is every possible driver up to date? 

[pdubs]

Every driver I know of.

 

I tried something that may have done something or may have just been a fluke.

My monitor has a setting that can be toggled on/off for DisplayPort 1.2

I'm using displayport and it was on. I tried turning that off and settings back to ultra and Fallout ran normally for ~15 minutes and never crashed (had to go to work). I don't see why that would do anything since it seems like it's just the monitor setting and my card uses DP1.2 anyway.

Other than that, I did not change anything on that trial.

 

Is there a chance that my drive is failing and the problems just strike kind of randomly?

 

EDIT: never mind, I checked the S.M.A.R.T. thing and all 3 drives said "OK" everywhere

 

EDIT/UPDATE: ran for about an hour with no problems. Now to figure out why the displayport setting made a difference? maybe no causation but it's the only thing that changed

Edited August 10, 2016 by pdubs

[SageOfSpice]

4 hours ago, pdubs said:

Every driver I know of.

 

I tried something that may have done something or may have just been a fluke.

My monitor has a setting that can be toggled on/off for DisplayPort 1.2

I'm using displayport and it was on. I tried turning that off and settings back to ultra and Fallout ran normally for ~15 minutes and never crashed (had to go to work). I don't see why that would do anything since it seems like it's just the monitor setting and my card uses DP1.2 anyway.

Other than that, I did not change anything on that trial.

 

Is there a chance that my drive is failing and the problems just strike kind of randomly?

 

EDIT: never mind, I checked the S.M.A.R.T. thing and all 3 drives said "OK" everywhere

 

EDIT/UPDATE: ran for about an hour with no problems. Now to figure out why the displayport setting made a difference? maybe no causation but it's the only thing that changed

I wouldn't trust S.M.A.R.T. It's a tool, it's not really a de-facto diagnosis. The last 3 drives that have failed on me passed S.M.A.R.T, but benchmarks revealed pathetic random read and write speeds which was causing huge slowdowns on boot, and even just opening applications and the like. Funnily enough, it didn't affect games much at all.

 

One issue I've been having as of late is some weird ram issue. My ram overclock is pretty stable, but occasionally, Windows doesn't feel it's quite stable enough and decides to only let me use 3GB of ram. Of course, assuming everything would be working the same since I haven't changed anything, I get into the game and wonder why it's stuttering. Paging file access. Reboot, recognizes memory properly at the same speed, and it works perfectly fine.

 

What setting precisely did you change, and were there any reboots between your poor performance, changing this setting, and then your good performance?

[pdubs]

I'll check the drive speeds tonight, but I have not noticed any loading speed issues.

 

I suspected a similar problem with RAM, I haven't changed anything about RAM and it seemed fine in tests.

 

Between the unsuccessful and successful tests, I changed Fallout 4's graphics settings back to what it recommended and toggled the "DP 1.2" setting on my monitor (just using buttons on the bottom of it). I do not remember if there was a reboot or not. I think it may have been off when I changed the monitor setting, but not sure.