WTF happened to this game?

[ivyfoo]

Decided to play again recently and it's just been one bug after another.
Brown face bug
Audio not syncing
Companions not dismissing
Weird blurriness after playing for 5 mins
Freezes
Crashing
I can't play for more than 20mins without it freezing or crashing.
I don't have any mods only DLCs and a couple of Picket Fences creation club books.
Why is this so broken now?

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by ivyfoo:

Why is this so broken now?

It's whatever has happened to it on your local PC. The game hasn't been touched by Bethesda in years.

Originally posted by ivyfoo:

Brown face bug

Is usually the result of 2 mods trying to modify the same NPC. (It's because 1 changes the character, and then another tries to make a different change. The game can't give the NPC 2 face gen files, so the skin goes brown)

If it's your own character, make a save, then load it, and it should fix it.

If you have no mods as you say, then the only thing i can suggest is validating your game files

Originally posted by ivyfoo:

Audio not syncing

This is almost always caused by having a frame rate (FPS) higher than 60. Limit your framerate to solve this.

Originally posted by ivyfoo:

I can't play for more than 20mins without it freezing or crashing.

The other issues have a number of causes, but validate your files, and limit your framerate first.
Also, if you haven't done so, turn OFF "Weapon Debris" and "God rays" in the graphics settings.

[tinywars]

It's the standard for a Bethesda game. You don't need to do anything for it to go wrong.

[Skorch]

Originally posted by ivyfoo:

Decided to play again recently and it's just been one bug after another.
Brown face bug
Audio not syncing
Companions not dismissing
Weird blurriness after playing for 5 mins
Freezes
Crashing
I can't play for more than 20mins without it freezing or crashing.
I don't have any mods only DLCs and a couple of Picket Fences creation club books.
Why is this so broken now?

20 minutes? not bad.
I have a better one for you...I was playing all day yesterday, just the normal number of crashes and bugs, but no unusual problems .
Get up this morning, start up the game, and it crashes to desktop in less than a minute. "Oho, corrupt save" I says to myself. So, start up previous saves...next down the line, still crashes...third save down, still crashes. 4th save, still crashes.
They can't all be corrupt, it was saving just fine yesterday...
Verified files, still crashes.
So what happened last night, while my computer was turned off and I was sleeping?
Crash gnomes? Evil fairies? ghosts messing with my game?
Your guess is as good as Bethesda's.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by Skorch:

So what happened last night, while my computer was turned off and I was sleeping?
Your guess is as good as Bethesda's.

What we can rule out is Bethesda...
One Drive? Steam Cloud? Now those are suspects. Windows updates.. Driver updates.. etc.. etc.. Those are primary suspects too.

Originally posted by Skorch:

Get up this morning, start up the game, and it crashes to desktop in less than a minute.

Good thing? It's not a corrupt save, as the game will flatout tell you it's corrupt in message box.
Bad thing? Something's not right in that save, and if every one of your saves is crashing yet it worked yesterday suggests itself that it's not your mod list either. I would put it down to Autosaves/Steam Cloud etc.. and a messed up .ini file.

[Charon]

The evil overlord Onedrive and her minion Steamcloud have claimed many victims - always ready to claim their next ignorant worshipper.

Praise be Harddrive the Eternal. Protector of Data and patron saint of save games.

[ivyfoo]

Yeah I already tried all that stuff. And uninstalled, reinstalled, have cloud saves off, yadda yadda. I forgot to mention it also freezes whenever I try to save and heads randomly disappear. It's like I get one thing squashed and something else pops up. It's unplayable rn.
I feel like I'm in a toxic relationship with Bethesda, I try so hard to love them but they just refuse to work, constantly want money, and give me bugs. Just let me love you!!!

[doru]

only issue I've had was with the nvidia weapon debris bug apart that it works fine. there is the occasional LOD not unloading properly but a restart of the game fixes the issue

[Skorch]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

Originally posted by Skorch:

So what happened last night, while my computer was turned off and I was sleeping?
Your guess is as good as Bethesda's.

What we can rule out is Bethesda...
One Drive? Steam Cloud? Now those are suspects. Windows updates.. Driver updates.. etc.. etc.. Those are primary suspects too.

Originally posted by Skorch:

Get up this morning, start up the game, and it crashes to desktop in less than a minute.

Good thing? It's not a corrupt save, as the game will flatout tell you it's corrupt in message box.
Bad thing? Something's not right in that save, and if every one of your saves is crashing yet it worked yesterday suggests itself that it's not your mod list either. I would put it down to Autosaves/Steam Cloud etc.. and a messed up .ini file.

I don't use One Drive or Steam Cloud (not sure about Steam Cloud, they may force me to use it, but I think I have it turned off).
Windoze could have updated when I powered up this morning, but it didn't indicate it was doing so. I verified files, so .ini's should all be fine.
I'm just pointing out that, as was stated in the OP, screwy things happen for no APPARENT reason in Bethesda games, and sometimes it seems like magic.
There's a reason they call them Bugthesda.

[srdjan.tomic]

Came here after 2 crashes, both under a minute. Just downloaded the game....

[Charon]

Turn off weapon debris or download the weapon debris crash fix mod if you have a Crashvidia Card :)

[socialmediaaddress3]

A bit late to the party but as I also mix up different resolutions I get this especially for hot NPCs from mods.
I downloaded this, works 95% of the time, you just cursor over the NPC and click whichever hotkey you select form the MCM for that mod and brown face goes away.

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/64270

[Zes]

I've been playing vanilla survival with all cc content for like a month and half now. Haven't received a CTD yet.