Weird White and Blue Screen, FPS Drop

[ImpulseONE]

Hi guys, having a problem here where randomly my fps drops all the way to the single digits and my everything turns white and blue. The game doesn't crash per say, but it may as well. I took a screenshot with my phone, I couldn't even screen shot on my pc.

[StormWolf01]

Heyas Impulse!

Ugh. I hope that what I tell you, turns out to not be the problem.

Most likely, you're experiencing video card failure. :sad: If it happens intermittently, after you've been playing for a while, you're graphics card is probly overheating.

Run the card's diagnostics, and update the drivers for it.

[Edit]- also check all the connections to the card. Make sure that any cables attached to it are secure, and that it's sitting securely in the slot. (if it uses a slot).[/edit]

 

Good luck. And again, I'm hoping that is not what is happening, I know it's an expensive part to replace :sad:

 

-Storm

Edited February 10, 2020 by StormWolf01

[AeonsLegend]

Does this only happen with Fallout 4 or also other games?

 

This feels like the installation isn't properly completed.

 

Do you use mods?

[ImpulseONE]

Heyas Impulse!

Ugh. I hope that what I tell you, turns out to not be the problem.

Most likely, you're experiencing video card failure. :sad: If it happens intermittently, after you've been playing for a while, you're graphics card is probly overheating.

Run the card's diagnostics, and update the drivers for it.

[Edit]- also check all the connections to the card. Make sure that any cables attached to it are secure, and that it's sitting securely in the slot. (if it uses a slot).[/edit]

 

Good luck. And again, I'm hoping that is not what is happening, I know it's an expensive part to replace :sad:

 

-Storm

 

 

Does this only happen with Fallout 4 or also other games?

 

This feels like the installation isn't properly completed.

 

Do you use mods?

 

 

 

 

I really hope not. I just bought it last month!! and yeah I use mods, but the only visual mods I'm running are NAC and Film Workshop ENB. It only happens on this game, I have no problems with The Witcher 3 or GTAV

[AeonsLegend]

Try to remove ENB completely inlcuding the mods that come with it and see what happens.

[G4M3W1NN3R]

issue could also potentially be caused by an unstable overclock (the majority of Graphics cards online come pre-overclocked) - Unstable Overclocks are 1 of the highest causes of Artifacting/ Graphic Corruption. artificating essentially lets you know their is serious issues with hardware, which can be either hardware failure (however in this case, you will defintely get BSODs, either already or eventually) or it is caused by unstable overclocks and or temperatures.

 

have you had any Blue Screens at all since connecting your new GPU ?

 

list your System Specs, including Power Supply manufacturer and wattage <-- incredibly important

 

also report back here your Hardware Usage and Temperatures whilst in game, also What Clock Speed and Vram Clocks your gpu is set to, and how much Voltage is being suppled to it (this information will help determine if your GPU is overclocked, and likewise if has a Stable overclock or unstable.) <-- you can find this information in the main Msi Afterburner program.

 

Download Msi Afterburner and the included Rivatuner (Part of Msi Afterburner)

 

once installed, click on the Jet icon - Cog Icon - Monitoring Tab - Click on the Tick sign next to: Gpu Temperture, Gpu Usage, Memory Usage, CPU 1, 2, 3 and 4, Usage and Tempertures, click on each of these settings, and below them, click on the Box *Show On-Screen Display*

 

now click on the On-Screen Display Tab - set the appropriate hotkeys for the first 4 options, then click on Apply and Ok, now in game press the hotkey for toggle, and report back the required information.

 

Continued:

 

 

the biggest issue here aside from the potentional of graphic corruption (i say potential, as the image you are experiencing could of simply be caused by a shader that you might of enabled), is Single Digit Framerate, their is not a single mod or mod setup regardless of how demanding it is, that could drop the framerate to single digits, this is most defintely a hardware based issue. as the game with all the demanding mods enabled would not have such a massive framerate drop, that could drop to single digits, at most you are looking at like a 30 fps framerate drop from a locked 60 fps, and that is from the most demanding of setups, unless you have very weak hardware, such as hardware made in early 2000s and you are running an extremely demanding setup, which to me is not case based on the information you have provided, and judging on the fact you mention your GPU is recently brought i would assume the GPU itself is fairly new, as in recently released by AMD or Nvidia.

 

The Game Should Crash before the Hardware Resources is completely depleted (even if it does not, the computer itself will), that would be the time you would get single digit framerate. however the game or computer at this point would have crashed, so technically you will never get single digits on hardware that does not have issues

 

now the times it would be possible to get single digit framerate, is from a Poorly Written Modification (which in this game could only be caused by a script, but even so extremely unlikely, unless the author of said script have no idea what they are doing, since it is very unlikely that a script could completely drain hardware resources, they can however crash the papyrus system, but as said is it extremely unlikely any scripted mod is created in such a way) / Game Engine (such as Memory leaks, or extremely poor written code, that fully drains hardware resources), or hardware based issues. as far as i am aware, their is no poorly written mod, and the game itself, does not completely drain resources (atleast not on its own, maybe with demanding mods on top of that, and the hardware would need to have limited resources in the first place, example it is very unlikely both game an extremely demanding mod setup could completely drain 11GB worth of memory.), and i am pretty sure does not have memory leaks, or other serious code based issues.

 

Simply put, Hardware Resources is Equivalent to Petrol/Diesel in a car, when the Hardware Resources runs out, the hardware slows down and eventually crashes (if constant demand is still on it), same situation as a car, if it runs out of petrol/diesal it slows down, and eventually completely stops (with the assumption it was being used before it ran out, else it just does not start up, likewise the hardware would not work if it had no resources to begin with, which is not possible). if the hardware stops working, the computer stops working, and that is 1 of the many potentional times you will get a BSOD, followed by a system restart. so the game would crash before the hardware resources is fully depleted, if it does not, the computer definitely will.

 

Note: the Application (Game in this case) will use CPU and GPU First, if they run out of resoruces, then the System Ram will then Be used, now this will translate to low performance (and potentionally could lead to single digit framerate, although i am pretty sure their will be issues before this happens), if the system ram also runs out, then the computer will probably crash.

 

All GPUs from the GTX 980ti and Amd 7970 and newer are powerful enough to run Demanding Tasks without dropping to single Digits, providing all of these cards are sufficiently clocked and have sufficient voltage, and likewise not badly overclocked or have too much voltage.

 

and CPUs from the i5 2500k series and above are powerful enough to run demanding tasks as well.

 

Edited February 11, 2020 by G4M3W1NN3R

[StormWolf01]

Heyas Impulse. Yeah, I really do hope that it's not your video card.

However, depending on where you bought it from, and what condition it was purchased in, that may actually be in your favor.

 

Refurbished cards, depending on whether they were refurbished from the factory or from an authorized reseller, can carry a warranty of 30-90 days.

Brand new items usually carry a warranty from the manufacturer for at least a period of 1 year.