After the latest update, the game has become unplayable

[cossayos]

OK, let me start by saying that FO4 is the one and only application or game that's crashing on me. Out of more than a 100. Lately the crashes became that frequent that I uninstalled the mods and the game completely, deleted each and every FO4 file manually, did a registry clean and installed the game from scratch without any mods. Result, I crashed about ten times before even reaching Sanctuary.

 

The errors in the event viewer are always the same. Under application "EseDiskFlushConsistency" is in beta mode and an error code 0x800000. Under system I get an display error "nvlddmkm" crashing.

 

Sometimes it happens with a black screen on both my monitors, sometimes the game simply freezes and I'm back to desktop. For a few weeks now I can only run it in windowed borderless in order to not crash my whole rig and having to do a hard reboot.

 

Although it's the only game presenting that kind of problem, I ran hardware checks. Memory sticks are working as well as the graphics card. Also did a clean install of the latest drivers.

 

Game ran fine at release but with every update it became more unstable to a point where it's now rightout unplayable.

 

My system specs never changed since release, apart from the occasional windows update.

 

Windows 10 Pro 64

AMD A8-6600, 3.9 GHZ 4cores

8 Gigs of Ram

Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 Ti

 

Nothing overclocked

 

 

[bbiller]

I would suggest upping that RAM to 16 if not 32GB. That may help. My system is using a slightly older processor (AMD FX Black Edition 8150, 8 cores running at 3.6 to 3.9GHz depending on what tool you ask) and an older AMD video card (MSI Lightning 2, only 3GB of video RAM), so mine is on low graphics at 1080, but I do have 32GB of RAM and the game runs for me.

 

I'm going to assume it's not an nVidia driver issue, though they have had issues in the past with bad video drivers, so do check just in case.

 

Your mod list could be a factor, but it is standard around here to at least have the Unofficial Patch, as that stomps on a number of bugs Bethesda has yet to fix. Do post your mod list so we can run some quick checks on that and do use spoiler tags if you can.

[cossayos]

I haven't got any mods presently, since I'm just trying to create a halfway stable vanilla game before I start modding it again.

 

What I don't get is that my system was perfectly able to shoulder FO4 at release and now it's a crash fest. I ran every test in the books, from drivers to hardware. All came back negativ, meaning, there's nothing at fault. Which I already suspected, since, as I said, every other game runs fine.

 

One thing I tried since yesterday is to disable vsync entirely and to limit FPS to 60. Right now it seems to have done the trick. Not sure if it's a working solution, but now I try to install one mod at a time to see if it's working. This game really is the biggest pain in the ass I ever had to face, but I happen to love it with all it's mods.

 

Anyway, thanks for the reply.

[zetenrisiel]

I came looking for a solution to this very problem. There are tons of possible bugfixes from a google search, but only one worked for me (downgrading graphics settings) and that only lasted until I closed the game. Now I cannot get FO4 to start anymore. I played since release and this is the first time the game has consistently failed to start on my PC. Like the OP, other games work just fine.