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Fallout 4 experiencing strange freezing problems

Fallout 4 experiencing strange freezing problems

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Soccerdude0
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04-10-2019, 03:50 PM
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I’ve been using my new machine for roughly a month now. It runs all games smoothly except Fallout 4. Every few minutes I experience a brief lag spike lasting about 3 to 5 seconds before it disappears completely. My frame rate stays capped at half the refresh rate—144Hz monitor means a maximum of 72fps. I’ve adjusted settings to 60fps, 30fps, and 144fps, but nothing resolves the issue.

The hardware specs are: AsRock X570 Taichi (latest BIOS), Ryzen 9 3900X with Corsair H100i v2 (temperatures stay under 70°C), GTX 1080 Ti EVGA SuperNova 750W Platinum 32GB (two 16GB), G.Skill TridentZ Neo at 3600MHz, Seagate IronWolf 4TB HDD at 7200RPM, Samsung 970 EVO 256GB NVME, and Windows 10 Pro (1909) x64.

I checked my CPU usage on the second monitor—while games use no load during stutters, it drops to zero when loading new chunks, then returns. GPU usage stays between 32% and 51% throughout. I suspect something specific with Fallout 4’s loading behavior or chunk migration, rather than a general system problem. My old setup (i7-5775C overclocked to 4.5GHz, GTX 1080, 32GB DDR3 at 2400MHz) performed much better. I’m using the Ryzen High Performance power plan and several mods, but it still stalls. Trying thread limits from 4 to 24 threads didn’t help.

Could it be that the game is interacting with the chipset or a particular rendering mode? If you’re curious, there might be an in-game setting I’m missing.
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04-10-2019, 03:50 PM #1

I’ve been using my new machine for roughly a month now. It runs all games smoothly except Fallout 4. Every few minutes I experience a brief lag spike lasting about 3 to 5 seconds before it disappears completely. My frame rate stays capped at half the refresh rate—144Hz monitor means a maximum of 72fps. I’ve adjusted settings to 60fps, 30fps, and 144fps, but nothing resolves the issue.

The hardware specs are: AsRock X570 Taichi (latest BIOS), Ryzen 9 3900X with Corsair H100i v2 (temperatures stay under 70°C), GTX 1080 Ti EVGA SuperNova 750W Platinum 32GB (two 16GB), G.Skill TridentZ Neo at 3600MHz, Seagate IronWolf 4TB HDD at 7200RPM, Samsung 970 EVO 256GB NVME, and Windows 10 Pro (1909) x64.

I checked my CPU usage on the second monitor—while games use no load during stutters, it drops to zero when loading new chunks, then returns. GPU usage stays between 32% and 51% throughout. I suspect something specific with Fallout 4’s loading behavior or chunk migration, rather than a general system problem. My old setup (i7-5775C overclocked to 4.5GHz, GTX 1080, 32GB DDR3 at 2400MHz) performed much better. I’m using the Ryzen High Performance power plan and several mods, but it still stalls. Trying thread limits from 4 to 24 threads didn’t help.

Could it be that the game is interacting with the chipset or a particular rendering mode? If you’re curious, there might be an in-game setting I’m missing.

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04-10-2019, 04:21 PM
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Updated for the newest chipset drivers, no modifications made. The game runs on an AMD StoreMI drive made up of a 4TB HDD, a 256GB SATA SSD partition, and 2GB of RAM. The optional HD texture pack isn’t installed.
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04-10-2019, 04:21 PM #2

Updated for the newest chipset drivers, no modifications made. The game runs on an AMD StoreMI drive made up of a 4TB HDD, a 256GB SATA SSD partition, and 2GB of RAM. The optional HD texture pack isn’t installed.

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