Game is crashing my GPU??

[Ajax Drinker]

I had this issue like 2 years ago when I first played so I just never played it again out of paranoia. I recently tried it again today and same issue: this game literally crashes my graphics card. I'll hit a huge lag spike that drops my frames to like 5 FPS, then either one of two things happen:

1. The game closes with a bunch of Windows Error sounds, and puts a new "Hardware Error" in my Reliability History.

2. It freezes for so long that it literally causes Windows to shut itself down and restart because the card stops working.

This ONLY happens with this game. I have never once had an issue like this happen with any other game in my library at any point, it ONLY happens with Fallout 4. Google won't give me any answers, so out of pure desperation I'm asking here: what the hell is the issue?

My drivers are fully updated, and it's a 3080.

[Necron Monolith ₿]

you turn off weapon debris yet? from the launcher/splash screen under options, advanced.

[Ajax Drinker]

Originally posted by Menace to Sobriety:

you turn off weapon debris yet? from the launcher/splash screen under options, advanced.

I can't even get past the prologue before it implodes.

[UsernameTaken666]

yup, first person with that card that can't play game. no idea what'd cause that...

[Fluffy_Llama]

are you sure its not your power supply that is the issue?

[Stardustfire]

nope, he just ignored 1000 Threads that tell him what to do and that is: Weapon Debris OFF......
Prove:

I can't even get past the prologue before it implodes

ppl who got problems because they cant read, and Turn on the Debris, ever lament they crash rigth at the waay to the vault first time....

[Death Approaches]

Our hero Antonix35 the guy who made the High FPS Physics Fix[www.nexusmods.com], also made the Nvidia Weapon Debris Crash Fix[www.nexusmods.com] for exactly this issue, non-technical gamer who wants weapon debris.

But if Ajax put up with this for two years!?! he's crazy or trolling.

[IndigoFighter]

I haven't played the game for ages and because of the current "hype" around "Starfield" I feel like playing "Fallout 4" again. And promptly I got the same problems as @Ajax Drinker.

(In my case the game freezes for 1-2 seconds and then crashes. The Windows event log also says that the nVidia driver component "nvlddmkm" simply "quits", for whatever reason ? )

The hint to disable the "Weapon Debris" in the Options/Settings menu or, as in my case, to install the mod "Nvidia Weapon Debris Crash Fix" really helps. Game runs fine again.

Thx @Menace to Sobriety + @Death Approaches for your help.

Greetz

[Ajax Drinker]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

Our hero Antonix35 the guy who made the High FPS Physics Fix[www.nexusmods.com], also made the Nvidia Weapon Debris Crash Fix[www.nexusmods.com] for exactly this issue, non-technical gamer who wants weapon debris.

But if Ajax put up with this for two years!?! he's crazy or trolling.

I didn’t play the game for two years on this PC. I had been playing it on Steam Deck.

[Ajax Drinker]

Originally posted by Menace to Sobriety:

well, before you even get to the main menu... before you even start the game, you should see a splash screen pop up where it says options. click on that & then select advanced.
you'll see an option in the list 'Weapon Debris' set that to OFF.

Also I’ll try this I guess. Figured it wouldn’t matter since I haven’t even reached the area with guns yet. :P

[steventirey]

Weapon debris first causes an issue once you leave the house and are on your way to the vault in the beginning. Shortly before the little wooden bridge. It does not require weapons fire at all. So if that is where the crash occurs, it is likely a weapon debris issue. If the crash occurs before or after that, its not weapon debris but something else.

However, as far as I know, weapon debris never causes a freeze. Just a sudden crash.

[Ajax Drinker]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

nope, he just ignored 1000 Threads that tell him what to do and that is: Weapon Debris OFF......
Prove:

I can't even get past the prologue before it implodes

ppl who got problems because they cant read, and Turn on the Debris, ever lament they crash rigth at the waay to the vault first time....

Thank you for the completely unnecessary rude comment. Especially when I literally just ticked every setting to max, figuring it wouldn't have any ill effects. Like literally who's first instinct is "IT MUST BE THE WEAPON DEBRIS CRASHING MY GRAPHICS CARD, OF COURSE!!!" Nothing helpful even appears if you google "Fallout 4 Crashing Graphics Card".

[Ajax Drinker]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

Our hero Antonix35 the guy who made the High FPS Physics Fix[www.nexusmods.com], also made the Nvidia Weapon Debris Crash Fix[www.nexusmods.com] for exactly this issue, non-technical gamer who wants weapon debris.

But if Ajax put up with this for two years!?! he's crazy or trolling.

Thank you for these! Both of these are very good mods and it fixes my problem!

[T0fum4n]

I have been playing FO4 since it came out on PC and this is the first time I have had any issues with it. Game crashes early and I am finding that turning off weapon debris apparently fixes this... but I cant find the option to do so. Right under "Ambient Occlusion" there is nothing. Is this something that has to be enabled? Did they remove this option? I am not running any mods and I have reinstalled the game twice...

[Ajax Drinker]

I fixed this issue a while ago by downloading a mod that fixes the Weapon Debris issue, so try looking that up.

[PurSpyk!!]

Originally posted by Ajax Drinker:

I fixed this issue a while ago by downloading a mod that fixes the Weapon Debris issue, so try looking that up.

That mod needs to updated for the latest version of the game.