Does fallout 4 run out of memorey

[Puddycat]

I think your problem lies in the background.. have you checked Task manager for running apps?? i run on 8gigs and i can play smoothly on ultra,with a cazillion mods..so it might be a problem concerning some "unseens".

 

 

Not sure if you mean me, but if you do then no...nothing running that shouldn't be there. Not very much there at all actually.

For me personally.....i have about 40 mods and playing on ultra but my fps isn't a steady 60. It averages more at 50.

And that's fine with me tbh. I don't really notice changes in fps unless they're drastic drops.

It's just that annoying pop up that gets on my nerves. I never actually change my scheme when it asks me and it makes no difference, nothing bad happens lol. It's almost like it's giving me a false report.

[Deleted2433418User]

could be your graphics card then.. i had that problem on my old rig(just remembered,yeah alzheimers ;-).. ) had to set the graphics card to over ride windows settings manually.. could be that´s it..otherwise i'm stumped

[Rooker75]

I've neved CTD ever on Fallout 4.....surprisingly i'll admit considering most games do it lol

 

I do however, when alt-tabing, sometimes get windows asking me if i wanna lower my scheme settings. (Is that cause it's running out of memory? I dunno)

When that happens i just restart the game. I'd love to know why it does do that though, cause it's so annoying that it keeps asking me.

That's a glitchy, highly annoying feature of Windows Aero. You can disable the message. It's been so long that I can't remember how, so you'd have to google it.

 

Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to disable the feature entirely, which means it will screw up your desktop colors and effects whenever something triggers it. When I Googled the problem, all I could find were arrogant Microsoft reps talking down to users with a "we know best" attitude. It's easy to fix when it happens though. Just open task manager and kill dwm.exe. That will force windows to reboot the desktop manager with the correct color settings.

[Puddycat]

 

I've neved CTD ever on Fallout 4.....surprisingly i'll admit considering most games do it lol

 

I do however, when alt-tabing, sometimes get windows asking me if i wanna lower my scheme settings. (Is that cause it's running out of memory? I dunno)

When that happens i just restart the game. I'd love to know why it does do that though, cause it's so annoying that it keeps asking me.

That's a glitchy, highly annoying feature of Windows Aero. You can disable the message. It's been so long that I can't remember how, so you'd have to google it.

 

Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to disable the feature entirely, which means it will screw up your desktop colors and effects whenever something triggers it. When I Googled the problem, all I could find were arrogant Microsoft reps talking down to users with a "we know best" attitude. It's easy to fix when it happens though. Just open task manager and kill dwm.exe. That will force windows to reboot the desktop manager with the correct color settings.

 

 

 

Yeh, i've done a bit of searching around since and seen that it's a common and particularly annoying problem for a lot of people. Tried a few things but only things i thought were acceptable alternatives but nothing has worked so far.

I love how pretty much every answer is 'turn off troublshooting messages' though. And that's from the so-called experts.

The only thing i can see left (which i don't really want to do either), is to disable desktop composition on Fallout 4 but unfortunately that option is greyed out on Fallout 4...and like i said, i'm still not sure that that is acceptable to me.

 

So screw it, i surrender and give in to the pop-ups! :blush:

[PoliteRaider]

 

I love how pretty much every answer is 'turn off troublshooting messages' though. And that's from the so-called experts.

 

 

Given that your issue is receiving inaccurate and ineffective messages, I'm not sure what the problem is with this advice.

[steve40]

Upgrade to Windows 10. No more Aero. ;)

[zanity]

 

FO4 is much better in this regard than Skyrim, but FO4 is NOT a true 64-bit engine, but a HACKED version of the Skyrim engine poorly coded to reduce certain memory limits.

 

Says you, without a shred of evidence. :armscrossed: The game is 64-bit and only runs on 64-bit operating systems. Please qualify your argument.

 

If you were ANY form of coder, you'd know a COMPILER FLAG alone turns ANY 32-bit source project into a 64-bit only executable. This does NOT make the program a true from-the-ground up 64-bit project. Explicit memory management limits are NOT raised by using such a compiler flag. Beth themselves have admitted FO4 is simply a quick-n-dirty port of the Skyrim codebase with some new graphical effects (mostly courtesy of Nvidia) added to the back-end renderer.

 

A TRUE 64-bit engine would have no memory limits (that could impact current computers with current possible amounts of RAM). FO4 has VERY restricted, hard-coded memory limits that while much better than Skyrim, will impact future ambitious modding. And I couldn't care less whether someone on this forum believes this or not.