CTD on two different rigs, mods/no mods [Spoilers]

[JimmyRJump]

You probably can benefit from using more page file than you probably have. Page file is a fancy name for virtual memory. There are methods for this, but I will give the quick method. You will have to do some conversion, but it's really easy. I'll throw the math in for free. The math is easy, convert your gigs of memory to megs. 8 gig of memory is 8,192. 16 is 16,384. These are significant. Take those numbers, unless you have either 12 or something else, then it's not that hard, it's your number of gigs times 1,024. Then take that, and multiple it by 1.5. For 8 gigs of memory, you need to adjust your virtual memory to 12,288 mb. To make changes, right click on My Computer, then properties. On the left hand side, at the bottom, you should have Advanced Settings. A new window will pop up. Click on Advanced tab. Then under Performance, click settings. Then click on Advanced, and then change the virtual memory. You don't want windows to automatically handle this. You put in the numbers you get, in Custom size, both min and max. Reboot, and you should be a little better off.

This incorrect as far as I'm aware. The virual memory thing is in fact a file swapping function from the advent of Windows more than twenty years ago when computers ran on 2 and 4MB RAM modules, and is meant to preserve space on a hard drive for when the system runs out of RAM so that the OS can use that reserved hard drive space to swap files to and from instead of using the system RAM.

 

Nowadays, this kind of handling is unneeded most of the time since mainboards can now use far superior amounts of RAM.

 

The Page Filing system can't be accessed without tools, again, as far as I'm aware. I used to have Diskeeper for automatic defragmentation and that program had a function to check on the size of the Page File and had the ability to let you manually adjust the Page File space when needed.

 

The Page File space is where the Master Boot Records and some such are kept and is not a virtual memory space. It's usually only 100MB large.

[Deleted32001180User]

Every since Bethesda decided to include their ridiculously useless Creation Club mods for sale and have updated the game to accomodate their greed it has caused nothing but trouble for the playing & FREE modding community.

Fallout 4 is the ONLY game that I've tried to play with this feature and I'm getting constant CTDs & freezes.

I play Skyrim with no problem and I play Oblivion with no problem and I play Fallout New Vegas with NO problem.

I've updated all my drivers and checked and rechecked everything that could be causing the problem which did NOT occur at all until these recent game updates.

SO.....IMHO, Fallout 4 is broken and unplayable. I do NOT recommend buying it or downloading it or even wasting time talking about it.

Nuff said.

[JimmyRJump]

@tinman

 

While it is true that a lot of recent problems have risen from FO4's latest updates, this has been the case with every update Bethesda has performed on FO4. When I started playing the game in November 2015, the vanilla FO4 ran amazingly smooth and crash-free for a Bethesda release. It's in fact as of v1.3 and 1.4 that things started going seriously South, especially when Bethesda "smoothed" the game to better accept their forthcoming DLC Automatron in March 2016 and the brain damaging bug that made the game crash whenever fast-travelling to County Crossing.

 

While Far Harbor ran perfect, the game's update for Far Harbor made it such that not a single mod could be activated because of the new way FO4 made the plug-ins list...

 

Nuka World made the game crash because of the initiation point of the main Nuka quest sitting outside the Commonwealth map borders, etc. Later updates have made the game run better but the introduction of the Creation Club has again turned everything upside down.

 

But, one must add that today, most of the problems are not for the vanilla game. The problems come from a complete disregard from Bethesda for the modding community by implementing changes that break the use of mods.

 

And you obviously haven't played FO:NV or Skyrim from right when those were released. Vanilla FO:NV was a crashfest that made Valium shareholders filthy rich in little over a forthnight. Skyrim was okay, but didn't work on machines using CrossFireX and didn't do very well on PC because developed for consoles and badly ported.

 

Saying you don't recommend buying FO4 is a bit much since, as I said, the vanilla game runs as good as they come. Sure, the game was developed with modding in mind, but that doesn't mean you can tear down a game because it often gets buggy when adding mods, regardless of Bethesda being the source of making things buggy...

[Deleted32001180User]

@JimmyRJump - Thanks for the pep talk. Good information all of it. Sometimes I don't see the forest for the trees. =P

 

NOW....I'm going to give those who are having some issues a tip. Please check your device manager and update your Network Adapter driver if you haven't already.

 

Mine is a Realtek PCIe and since the latest Windows 10 Update did NOT update it, you can do it yourself.

 

For some strange reason, DESPITE always playing my games including Fallout 4 with Steam in offline mode, it fixed MY game CTDs & freezing & loud buzzing sounds completely.

 

GO figure. =P

Edited December 5, 2017 by Guest

[BlindCowboy88]

Well, I changed it from fullscreen mode to windowed/borderless and reloaded an older save, now I have no CTDs and only minor freezes occasionally, with the even rarer hard freeze. So, it looks like I'm on the right track. And I've been monitoring the rig with fallout performance monitor and everything looks good, RAM peaks at 4gb, VRAM peaks at 1.5gb, CPU peaks at 40%, GPU peaks at 98% (figured it would) but game runs good at 40-50fps and rarely gives me a hard freeze.