Nuka World DLC Massive Frame Drops

[MissElly]

So I have looked everywhere for help and I really can't find it.

 

Game will run at around 40-59 FPS until about 15 minutes in and my frame rate drops to about 2-10 FPS maximum in and out of any building in the DLC. Making me have to restart my game several times.

 

Cooling is not the issue since my card is at an extremely high fan curve.

 

I have lowered my settings Medium-Low which I should not have to but it still persists.

 

Don't have many mods enabled and don't have an ENB.

 

Any Ideas?

 

My Rig:

i5-4690k 4.4GHZ Overclocked

16GB Hyper X 1600 MHz

EVGA GTX 970 SC

Windows 10 Pro

[SharraShimada]

The graphicsboard is not the only thing that can overheat and throttle.

The CPU can also overheat, RAM and harddrive also.

Some harddrives are known to make trouble at 50°celsius

You run your CPU with overclocking, that alone may be a problem.

 

But if there are no problems with heat when you play other games, that should not be the main problem.

 

I woul think more of a mod, that causes the problems. Maybe one with really heavy script-lag.

So you should post a list of your current mods.

[JimmyRJump]

The graphicsboard is not the only thing that can overheat and throttle.

The CPU can also overheat, RAM and harddrive also.

Some harddrives are known to make trouble at 50°celsius

Overheating of GPU, RAM or CPU most often results in colourful artefacts showing in-game, not in fps drop.

 

Hard drives can withstand far higher temps than 50°C; it's the constant cooling off and re-heating that cause damage and results in erratic behaviour due tothe fact that the metal of the disks inside the HD expand when heated and shrink again when cooling off, but enever to their original size and form,resulting in time in a disk or disks with jagged, cake-walk-like edges that no longer fit int othe tight space of their enclosure...

 

@drayman1011

 

Are you by any chance either using F4SE and/or have you altered the line bUseCombinedObjects in your .ini file?

 

Also, for some reason, FO4 doesn't like overclocked stuff, so try with your CPU (and whatever else is overclocked) set to stock speeds...

[SharraShimada]

Overheating a modern CPU results in downclocking, reducing the power massivly. A overclocked CPU with thermal problems can go down from 4.4GHz to 1.x GHz to protect itself. And drayman overclocked his cpu from 3.5Ghz to 4.4. Thats massive... And of course the framerate will drop by a huge amount when the CPU hits the thermal-emergency-brake.

What you mean, when stating artifacts etc. is when the components already have taken damage. Modern hardware should not even take damage, because they throttle and if that wont help (broken fan for example) it shuts down to prevent damage.

 

Yeah normal harddrives operate in a range up to 80°C but i used to own one, that shut down at exactly 52°C. Really annoying indeed in summer mid day.

[MissElly]

Overheating a modern CPU results in downclocking, reducing the power massivly. A overclocked CPU with thermal problems can go down from 4.4GHz to 1.x GHz to protect itself. And drayman overclocked his cpu from 3.5Ghz to 4.4. Thats massive... And of course the framerate will drop by a huge amount when the CPU hits the thermal-emergency-brake.

What you mean, when stating artifacts etc. is when the components already have taken damage. Modern hardware should not even take damage, because they throttle and if that wont help (broken fan for example) it shuts down to prevent damage.

 

Yeah normal harddrives operate in a range up to 80°C but i used to own one, that shut down at exactly 52°C. Really annoying indeed in summer mid day.

I have liquid cooling. And the CPU has Ran stable for quite some time now. And it stays between 28-45°C

[MissElly]

 

The graphicsboard is not the only thing that can overheat and throttle.

The CPU can also overheat, RAM and harddrive also.

Some harddrives are known to make trouble at 50°celsius

Overheating of GPU, RAM or CPU most often results in colourful artefacts showing in-game, not in fps drop.

 

Hard drives can withstand far higher temps than 50°C; it's the constant cooling off and re-heating that cause damage and results in erratic behaviour due tothe fact that the metal of the disks inside the HD expand when heated and shrink again when cooling off, but enever to their original size and form,resulting in time in a disk or disks with jagged, cake-walk-like edges that no longer fit int othe tight space of their enclosure...

 

@drayman1011

 

Are you by any chance either using F4SE and/or have you altered the line bUseCombinedObjects in your .ini file?

 

Also, for some reason, FO4 doesn't like overclocked stuff, so try with your CPU (and whatever else is overclocked) set to stock speeds...

 

Yes I am using F4SE.

[MissElly]

The graphicsboard is not the only thing that can overheat and throttle.

The CPU can also overheat, RAM and harddrive also.

Some harddrives are known to make trouble at 50°celsius

You run your CPU with overclocking, that alone may be a problem.

 

But if there are no problems with heat when you play other games, that should not be the main problem.

 

I woul think more of a mod, that causes the problems. Maybe one with really heavy script-lag.

So you should post a list of your current mods.

Mods list:

Fallout4.esm

DLCRobot.esm

DLCCoast.esm

ArmorKeywords.esm

DLCNukaWorld.esm

DarkerNights.esp

RealisticLights.esp

100%Shadows.esp

Remove Interior Fog.esp

FO4LaserBolts - InstituteOrange.esp

FO4LaserBolts - NormalPurple.esp

FO4LaserBolts.esp

Pip-Boy Flashlight.esp

Armorsmith Extended.esp

Weapons of Fate.esp

Glowing Eyes.esp

KSHairdos.esp

3dscopes-framework.esp

3dscopes.esp

3dscopes-AddToSpawnList.esp

LovingPiper-TrueReporterSE.esp

BNPA_NAVI Armor.esp

AlienAssaultRifle.esp

LESwapAndCreate.esp

BobbleGirl.esp

Scavenged NCR Armor.esp

Family Mauser.esp

ClassicSniper.esp

Clean Water - Tropical.esp

StG44.esp

AtomicBeauty.esp

Vivid Weathers - FO4.esp=1

Vivid Weathers - FO4 - Far Harbor.esp

Vivid Weathers - Nuka World.esp

Reload Sounds.esp

TFDeagle.esp

Tracers - Light em up.esp

[SharraShimada]

I would try to remove vivid Weathers. Weather mods are know to cause massive problems on some configs.

The same goes for darker nights, and ballistic lights.

And one advise: They will leave remains in your savegame, even when uninstalled. So for real testing, start a new game without the mods.

[JimmyRJump]

 

 

Are you by any chance either using F4SE and/or have you altered the line bUseCombinedObjects in your .ini file?

 

Also, for some reason, FO4 doesn't like overclocked stuff, so try with your CPU (and whatever else is overclocked) set to stock speeds...

 

Yes I am using F4SE.

 

Try without F4SE in the same areas where you normally are getting these frame drops. I used to have those (using F4SE) in the corridors underneath the Old North Church, for instance. Stutterfest and freezes a go-go. Took me more than an hour to get halfway through to the RailRoad's lair :D

 

Without F4SE I could run back and forth without a problem in the same area...

 

Also, since you have a GPU with 'only' 4GB of V-RAM, have a look (if you haven't already) at ENBoost which lets you use system RAM as V-RAM... FO4 is a V-RAM hog. I've bought a 8GB GPU just to get rid of stutters and freezes (was using a 3GB LSI R7970 Lightning, before).

 

Also try ShadowBoost which has a link on the ENBoost page...