Repeated crashing when reaching a certain amount of hours played

[philsfromthesoul]

When I get to around 30-35 hours into the game there will be CTDs after loading a save file, usually from a few seconds to 5 minutes after. This has happened twice and it's painful to watch. It happens regardless of location (tried in sanctuary, spectacle island, diamond city) Mod list/load order is in the attachment

[philsfromthesoul]

https://imgur.com/syJQgQZ actual link, sorry

[Wererommel]

All I notice is a huge number of Simsettlments mods. Many, many automatic processes go on. Also, a lot of extra settlements. So long as the number of active settlements is small, no problem, but when it expands beyond a certain point, it could overwhelm your system.

[philsfromthesoul]

I only have 4 active settlements with Sim Settlements components though. Here are my specs https://pastebin.com/2rdtRSfA

[Wererommel]

Have you checked Fallrim Tools?

[Thisisnotmyday]

I had the same problem, I noticed you have well over 150 mods, I uninstalled them all, first the mods then the game, you can also covert some of those to esl with creation kit, BE CAREFUL when doing it, get rid of mods you have that do not need. Trust me less frustration and more time enjoying the game, you will spend less time trying to figure out whats wrong and more time enjoying the game. Oh and when you load them only do a few at a time, load a few run the game, make sure they work...If you download AAF definitely load in a few at a time. Just take your time. Cheers !

[ARahimi]

same. I've restarted my one character countless times since 2016. Never got to finish the game because of this same problem. After a certain amount of gametime, the game just CTDs at will randomly.

 

It's so depressing.

[metaphorset]

I also had this problem for quite a while. With or without mods, even when preventing the game to update during the update-heavy months, at some random point it started to crash. Sometimes an hour, sometimes mere minutes after I started playing. And it kept crashing until I found out about this during a random internet outage.

 

Before messing with disabling and uninstalling mods or even uninstalling and reinstalling the whole game, you can try this:

 

Go offline, either by disabling your internet connection or by putting Steam in offline mode. Play the game for a while, at least a little longer as up to the point where crashes usually happen.

If they still happen when you disabled the internet connection, then your game is broken due to mods, ini settings, whatever.

 

In quite a few cases your game will run stable and the reason for this is the Cretin Club functionality. Even if you "disable" it by using mods (Creation Club Cleaner for example), it's just cosmetic and that darn thing still starts downloading "valuable info" in the background.

 

You can prevent the Cretin Club background activity by creating a new firewall rule that disallows outgoing internet connection for Fallout4.exe. If you run the game and the menu points for accessing the Cretin Club are greyed out, you won't get any new "important messages" from there but you are rewarded with a stable game.

Edited May 23, 2020 by metaphorset