jdkzombie Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 (edited) Okay, so I have determined this is not a mod related issue after turning off everything and loading my default save outside Vault 111 with no mods activated and running into Sanctuary and VATS-ing on the radroaches and s***, the game literally hard freezes but it is COMPLETELY random when this occurs. Sometimes I can play for hours with absolutely no issues. No crashes. No stutters. No quests breaking. VATS-ing to my hearts content. But then occassionally, like just now, fire the game up, step out of my abode, VATS on the first enemy I see which was a Radstag, and BAM, total hard freeze. And boy do I mean HARD freeze. If you attempt to alt tab out, its just a black screen, if you hit the WIN key to cycle through your tabs, you can see the tabs, but the moment you select anything other than Fallout, its just a black screen. The only way to fix this is to either reset the tower, or sign out. The problem is I play on Survival. So imagine making your way through a quest, and you hit the very end of it, and VATS on an enemy an WHAM game freeze on VATS. Joy. Anyone have any idea what is causing this? Or at least where I could start looking? Google searches haven't exactly led me to anything concrete in terms of trying to hunt this down. system specs:FX-8350 OC to 4.6Ghz, liquid cooledR9 390 stock clockG-skill 16Gb 1333Mhz RamVelociraptor 10k 1Tb HDDThermaltake 850w Gold PsuMSI 970 Mobo ( which I hate with a passion) Edited December 22, 2016 by jdkzombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyRJump Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 I never use VATS, but I had some random hard freezes when killing Rad Scorpions, Molerats and Brahmins infested with worms, but each and every time was inside (Vault 88 and that mine in Nuka World). Never found an answer to this as I never sought one. I eliminated the bug by using the killall command in the console and/or staying away from Vault 88 altogether as I don't like the DLC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondrea Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 I've had this issue every time I try playing on Survival, so I have to play without VATS when doing Survival. For me it always starts quite a few levels in, which makes me wonder if it's related to a certain perk. I've heard others with this issue for months now and never found a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdkzombie Posted December 22, 2016 Author Share Posted December 22, 2016 Yeah, this has been an ongoing issue now and seems to be getting progressively worse. Hit level 162 on my newest character and my other character which was well into the 180's it was a near guarantee on a freeze to the point where I used the Bullet time instead of VATS, but I really wish I could just replace VATS completely with Bullet Time, as it's so engrained into my Fallout portion of my head to just hit VATS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondrea Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Yeah it took me more than a few lockups and computer reboots to break the VATS habit. I still kept hitting the target key automatically without thinking and then would curse myself when I froze up. Really wish I knew what was causing this. On the plus side, guess I have more perk points to spend elsewhere, since a lot were for VATS stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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