Shooting any NPC has a small chance to cause a CTD.

[TreshMek]

I asked a similar question before and now I am fairly certain the most common CTD I've been experiencing is being caused by simply shooting NPC's.

 

My problem right now is that shooting any NPC - human, creature, robot, etc - has a low but still noticeable chance to crash the game. I could be spraying a Behemoth with a minigun and suddenly... there's my desktop. My game otherwise runs smoothly barring graphical issues. This happens more often with multi-projectile weapons. More pellets means a higher chance for the shot being the CTD culprit. Dismembering NPC's also has a similar chance of a game crash.

 

I haven't found an absolute fix for this problem. Lowering graphics settings does help a bit but the problem still persists.

 

If anyone could help me out, that'd be awesome.

[Wererommel]

You have a lot of gun mods? One of them may be causing the problem.

[TreshMek]

You have a lot of gun mods? One of them may be causing the problem.

I got a lot of gun mods but I doubt any of them are a problem. I can use any number of modded guns (including completely vanilla guns) and any of them can cause the crash.

Edited August 7, 2020 by TreshMek

[Balx2]

Remove any animation file for modded weapons and go pick a fight with a bunch of baddies and check if you still crash.

If you still crash, check if you are using custom legendary effects and check the mod pages for each of those mods.

So far, in my experience, it is animations or custom legendary effects (esp if scripted, usually poorly written) that cause the majority of my CTDs when it's related to weapons.

[TreshMek]

Remove any animation file for modded weapons and go pick a fight with a bunch of baddies and check if you still crash.

If you still crash, check if you are using custom legendary effects and check the mod pages for each of those mods.

So far, in my experience, it is animations or custom legendary effects (esp if scripted, usually poorly written) that cause the majority of my CTDs when it's related to weapons.

I'll give this a shot but I don't think animations or legendary effects are the main cause.

 

Like I said, it's the act of hitting an NPC with a shot that may or may not cause something that'll make the game CTD.

[TreshMek]

 

Remove any animation file for modded weapons and go pick a fight with a bunch of baddies and check if you still crash.

If you still crash, check if you are using custom legendary effects and check the mod pages for each of those mods.

So far, in my experience, it is animations or custom legendary effects (esp if scripted, usually poorly written) that cause the majority of my CTDs when it's related to weapons.

I'll give this a shot but I don't think animations or legendary effects are the main cause.

 

Like I said, it's the act of hitting an NPC with a shot that may or may not cause something that'll make the game CTD.

 

 

I now believe the CTD cause is due to my computer simply not being able to handle so many bullets and bullet-related graphics all at once. When I removed the High Res textures, I found that I was able to lay on the trigger considerably longer than with the DLC. The CTD's still exist but they happen considerably less as a result.

 

I tested this with a lot of the giant-type enemies (Behemoths and Mirelurk Queens) and sure enough the game can't handle so many bloody spots on the NPC's.

 

At least I'm getting somewhere...