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Mods Causing CTDs, Need Help! ):

GA_Darkerside said:
I will pass this over to another staff memeber who is working on a Mod Manager guide, this may be something he can include
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I have also found by going to your data folder, you can see the dividers listed... you can rename them to whatever text you want them to say.

The only importance is the ordering... it moves mods in ordering so it doesn't conflict. I have used this as a good guide to prevent conflicts. you just have to realize what mod you are dealing with and what is the "win" in mods.

I have also found out you can right click on the divider .esp file in the data file and copy paste...

I have actually renamed all of them, and added many more... these stay forever even if divider mod is uninstalled then.... permanent addition to your plugin list.

John
 
cvalleyboy said:
When my game CTD the Memory graph shifted almost instantly so it was hard to see what it had said. However from looking at the constant post-value (In use: 2.8GB & 5.2GB available), it looked like the Memory Usage was about double while Fallout 4 was running.
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I should have looked at the specs more closerly, trying to do to much. I agree with @woodfuzzy I think its been pushed so hard, it may be getting a little tired. I appoglise about Nvidia, my affliction is more with AMD although recently I have become more divided.

I have seen people write about running Fallout 4 on 4GB Ram and 2GB Card smoothly but we are talking about the base game. Have you thought about doing a memory test?

  • Click Start, type mdsched.exe in the Search box, and then press Enter.
  • Choose whether to restart the computer and run the tool immediately or schedule the tool to run at the next restart.
  • Windows Memory Diagnostics runs automatically after the computer restarts and performs a standard memory test automatically. If you want to perform fewer or more tests, press F1, use the Up and Down arrow keys to set the Test Mix as Basic, Standard, or Extended, and then press F10 to apply the desired settings and resume testing.
  • When testing is completed, the computer restarts automatically. You’ll see the test results when you log on.
Also a GPU stress test, there are many out there like this one FurMark.

I always feel that Laptops are put through far more stress when it comes to heat issues then PC base units. I have a watercooled CPU and memory, a power unit place at the bottom of my Tower, one large front fan, drawing air inwards, one rear fan blowing air inwards through a radiator. The top of the case has an incline from the front where is rises to meet two extraction fans which draw hot air out through the top.

Ok so I have a lot packed into that case, but still, thinking about what goes into a laptop, and what little space is there, well lets just say, 2 and a half years is good going. Try the tests above and see what happens, plus we are talking about Windows 10, the RAM hungry bloodsucking operating system.
 
One other thing to check... as it wouldn't show up in your "plugin.txt" file you post... do you have any "mod" you install, such as an interface mod, like DEF_UI, or improved maps? I had an outdated Survival Console and Savegame mod that was outdated and would crash my game when loading. I never got into a game.

Check your /fallout4/data/interface folder... see if there is a *.swf file with everything uninstalled...
 
woodfuzzy said:
Yeah, you're running at pretty much max memory and I'll bet that when the game spikes it's knocking the poor little feller right out.
For me, F04 runs pretty much at 4GB of memory & has spiked to 7 or 8GB.
You can also hit the Windows key or alt+tab to check while F04 is running.
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IF that's the case, how come I never had this problem in the past 2 and a half years until about 3 months ago? And is there anyway I can clear up memory/ a lot more so that FO4 can run peacefully? Basically a solution if it's even temporary.
 
MrCJohn said:
One other thing to check... as it wouldn't show up in your "plugin.txt" file you post... do you have any "mod" you install, such as an interface mod, like DEF_UI, or improved maps? I had an outdated Survival Console and Savegame mod that was outdated and would crash my game when loading. I never got into a game.

Check your /fallout4/data/interface folder... see if there is a *.swf file with everything uninstalled...
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the only UI mod i have installed and in that folder is HUD framework!
 
GA_Darkerside said:
I should have looked at the specs more closerly, trying to do to much. I agree with @woodfuzzy I think its been pushed so hard, it may be getting a little tired. I appoglise about Nvidia, my affliction is more with AMD although recently I have become more divided.

I have seen people write about running Fallout 4 on 4GB Ram and 2GB Card smoothly but we are talking about the base game. Have you thought about doing a memory test?

  • Click Start, type mdsched.exe in the Search box, and then press Enter.
  • Choose whether to restart the computer and run the tool immediately or schedule the tool to run at the next restart.
  • Windows Memory Diagnostics runs automatically after the computer restarts and performs a standard memory test automatically. If you want to perform fewer or more tests, press F1, use the Up and Down arrow keys to set the Test Mix as Basic, Standard, or Extended, and then press F10 to apply the desired settings and resume testing.
  • When testing is completed, the computer restarts automatically. You’ll see the test results when you log on.
Also a GPU stress test, there are many out there like this one FurMark.

I always feel that Laptops are put through far more stress when it comes to heat issues then PC base units. I have a watercooled CPU and memory, a power unit place at the bottom of my Tower, one large front fan, drawing air inwards, one rear fan blowing air inwards through a radiator. The top of the case has an incline from the front where is rises to meet two extraction fans which draw hot air out through the top.

Ok so I have a lot packed into that case, but still, thinking about what goes into a laptop, and what little space is there, well lets just say, 2 and a half years is good going. Try the tests above and see what happens, plus we are talking about Windows 10, the RAM hungry bloodsucking operating system.
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The memory test yielded the results of no errors being detected. FurMark said with the furry object rendered my GPU usage went as high as 99%, and without only 47%.
 
cvalleyboy said:
IF that's the case, how come I never had this problem in the past 2 and a half years until about 3 months ago? And is there anyway I can clear up memory/ a lot more so that FO4 can run peacefully? Basically a solution if it's even temporary.
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Because the little feller is getting worn out. Seriously. Laptops are lousy at heat dissipation and heat is the number 1 killer of electronics.
What you can try is to shut down as many unnecessary background programs as possible. And use a selective start up. Basically you choose what programs are allowed to run at startup. Which is found in the Process Explorer.
 
woodfuzzy said:
Because the little feller is getting worn out. Seriously. Laptops are lousy at heat dissipation and heat is the number 1 killer of electronics.
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This is something we both pointed out and I did try to explain with a little more detail. The idea of suggesting both memory and gpu was just to remove any doubt.

ALT, TAB and Delete and up should pop the Task Manager. On the Process tab. At login, what amount of memory is being used, what does it settle down too and looking at those processes, could you shut some down? Also on the Start Up tab, what is starting up and do you really need it.

What resides in here:
C:\Users\Your_user_name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

At one point in a Windows 10 update, my computer used over 60% at start up and settled to just under 50%, a stupid amount, I was finally able to bring it down to a more settling 15% after loadup, but this is a common windows 10 issues, so it seems.

Have a look at this page
https://www.pcgamer.com/tweaking-windows-for-better-game-performance/

I only suggest this as it saves me a lot of typing
 
the global company I work for and all its extensive resources does not have anything close to the total knowledge or helpfulness of this one thread or this volunteer site.

hahaha

It’s a game? hahaha, no just a mod.

hahaha, “people-ideas-technology” ha, the order is just as important as the parts

hahaha- heresy, of an old engineer
 
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I suppose that my computer's time has just come and there's nothing I can do to play FO4 again :cray I've tried about 10 different things plus everything that you generous people have suggested, all to no avail. Thank you so much for all of your help but idk what else can be done ):

guess i'll download fortnite...oh god..
 
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