Fallout 4 closing by itself

[Sidnei]

For some reason Fallout 4 closes by itself when I'm playing, sometimes it closes on the loading screen, and sometimes during gameplay, is anyone experiencing this too? what to do?

[Playzr 🐵]

It could be crashing. Could be a mod causing it. When it crashes this is usually to the desktop without any message. There might be logs somewhere, I dunno.

[Sidnei]

I don't use mods in the game

[Playzr 🐵]

The game isn't totally free of bugs. Maybe there's logs somewhere in the game dir. I think there's also an unofficial patch mod and that might fix some crashing. Try that out. I've had CTD in my games and I think the unofficial patch mod fixed it because the game became very stable.

[cheshirm]

check windows event viewer and windows reliability history. either or both might have a game crash event. or system related errors

[Zes]

my fo4 used to ctd a lot a while ago then it turned out to be a broken video card memory

[Zekiran]

Please go to the top of your steam library window and click HELP > SYSTEM INFORMATION.

Paste the whole list here.

Also please could you be more specific - have you ever been able to play the game on that *exact* computer before now? Is it breaking or has it just never once run?

[Raremob]

Originally posted by Junior:

For some reason Fallout 4 closes by itself when I'm playing, sometimes it closes on the loading screen, and sometimes during gameplay, is anyone experiencing this too? what to do?

I just installed the game and am playing for the first time. My game keeps crashing as I'm running toward the vault in the opening scene where the bombs are dropping. I can't even make it there.

[cheshirm]

Originally posted by 1ButtonDash:

Originally posted by Junior:

For some reason Fallout 4 closes by itself when I'm playing, sometimes it closes on the loading screen, and sometimes during gameplay, is anyone experiencing this too? what to do?

I just installed the game and am playing for the first time. My game keeps crashing as I'm running toward the vault in the opening scene where the bombs are dropping. I can't even make it there.

one common cause: if you have an nvidia graphics card, turn off weapon debris in the graphic settings.

[Twelvefield]

Definitely turn off weapon debris. Also, save yourself hassle and use the nVidia Settings app to lock the game at 60 fps. If you don't, then plan on saving often as your character will get stuck in places.

[jonesytop10]

Something has changed from yesterday. Yesterday afternoon the game ran fine. In the evening i got crashing on load screen. Followed all the online suggestions for troubleshooting (update directX, updated video drivers, verified file integrity, ran as admin, lots of hard drive space....). I even uninstalled and reinstalled in steam, same thing. Ugh.

[Lil C]-[ew C]-[ew is ☂д☂]

There are occasions I get those crashes, sometimes the game freeze out of nowhere like last night. Sometimes I can play for 3-5 hours straight without problems but last night was that occasion where I played for 2 hours then going to Boston ruins using PA jetpack build jumping from top of buildings, looting raiders, all the sudden the game stop responding doing all that.
But in my case my saved game are certainly corrupted due to putting few modifications.

Anyway those issues you're faced I do get them sometimes from times which sounds like I'm playing russian roullete. Not always will be that lucky day to play for a long session for hours straight.
My tips always manually backup your saved game, before testing modifications or when you have disable them and remove after.
If you were not modding and is playing unmodded then try Steam client > library > Fallout 4 > properties > local files > verify the integrity of cache files and wait untill ''all files have been reacquired'' and run the procedure again and when ''all files successfully validated'', run the game.
Or tweak your gpu panel and turn any modern settings like low latency mode because this game is quite old.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Please go to the top of your steam library window and click HELP > SYSTEM INFORMATION.

Paste the whole list here.

Also please could you be more specific - have you ever been able to play the game on that *exact* computer before now? Is it breaking or has it just never once run?

Originally posted by jonesytop10:

Something has changed from yesterday. Yesterday afternoon the game ran fine. In the evening i got crashing on load screen. Followed all the online suggestions for troubleshooting (update directX, updated video drivers, verified file integrity, ran as admin, lots of hard drive space....). I even uninstalled and reinstalled in steam, same thing. Ugh.

Originally posted by 1ButtonDash:

Originally posted by Junior:

For some reason Fallout 4 closes by itself when I'm playing, sometimes it closes on the loading screen, and sometimes during gameplay, is anyone experiencing this too? what to do?

I just installed the game and am playing for the first time. My game keeps crashing as I'm running toward the vault in the opening scene where the bombs are dropping. I can't even make it there.

Please read and do this. Maybe in your own threads, because the OP has yet to even reply yet and you both have come in with your own possibly-related possibly-unrelated issues to their thread.

[jonesytop10]

@Zekiran, here is my info

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Model: MS-7B54
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8086K CPU @ 4.00GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x9e
CPU Stepping: 0xa
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 4008 Mhz
12 logical processors
6 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 31.0.15.3118
DirectX Driver Version: 31.0.15.3118
Driver Date: 2 24 2023
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1b81
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.91" x 11.73" (23.94" diag)
53.1cm x 29.8cm (60.8cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 8191 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Logitech G635/G633s G

Memory:
RAM: 16330 MB

VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1191711 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 300588 MB
OS Install Date: Jun 16 2020
Game Controller: DualSense Wireless Controller detected
MAC Address hash: 0c919be29e0d6fb73a9051852dfcb57d5a1463b0

Storage:
Disk serial number hash: 13347b51
Number of SSDs: 0
Number of HDDs: 0

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by jonesytop10:

@Zekiran, here is my info

Thanks :)

That rig should run the game just fine, did any plugs or hardware change like get disconnected, did your drive fail at all?

Alternately: are you using cloud saves with this game? Either on steam, or using OneDrive? TURN OFF ONE DRIVE, and get your saves off the cloud from steam - steam cloud works great for smaller games but the save files on this one get huge very quickly, and filling them up on that save allotment might have an impact on your play.

Did your OS update at all between then and now?

[Raremob]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

Originally posted by 1ButtonDash:

I just installed the game and am playing for the first time. My game keeps crashing as I'm running toward the vault in the opening scene where the bombs are dropping. I can't even make it there.

one common cause: if you have an nvidia graphics card, turn off weapon debris in the graphic settings.

yeah i have nvidia card, will try that now. was about to see if i can uninstall the hi texture pack. but i'll try this first