Game has lag spikes every few seconds

[Accusedauthor]

The game lags every few seconds, is there something i should do with the settings?

[Zekiran]

If your prior posts are to be believed, your vram on that mobile chipset in a laptop is *barely* capable of playing this game.

Turn down your settings. Turn off things like reflections and godrays, any thing that makes the screen too detailed. you have 1gb video card. That's really not going to cut it for this game unless you pare down the detail severely.

[Accusedauthor]

No, my laptop is very good, it can handle almost everything.

[Accusedauthor]

Plus, i've already tried everything, low graphics, and spikes happened every minute

[Zekiran]

Your computer is not very good given its woeful lack of medium or high end video equipment but okay.

If the spikes are happening 'every minute' maybe your computer is just slow. The CPU speed is not great either, are you running *literally any other program* other than Steam and Fallout 4 at the time?

Is your computer's firewall doing anything? Have you whitelisted steam and the games on it to not be scanned?

[Accusedauthor]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Your computer is not very good given its woeful lack of medium or high end video equipment but okay.

If the spikes are happening 'every minute' maybe your computer is just slow. The CPU speed is not great either, are you running *literally any other program* other than Steam and Fallout 4 at the time?

Is your computer's firewall doing anything? Have you whitelisted steam and the games on it to not be scanned?

Nope, plus here, ill check the CPU rn,

fallout only Gets from 1.5 - 0.5 CPU rn its good, so its probably that i didn't whitelist steam, and how do i do that?

[Accusedauthor]

I reset/reformatted the PC, so that's probably why.

[cheshirm]

perhaps run the game in a smaller window. and have other resource monitors running. see what your cpu/memory/gpu/disk drives are doing every few seconds. maybe there are other apps/processes running you do not know about. my windows task manager says there are almost 200 running. then there are the task scheduler tasks - 170 of those I have no idea when they start/end. my nvidia gpu activity monitor says it is running 17 apps BESIDES the game.

[hawkeye]

Your cpu is good enough but your gpu isn't a gaming gpu. You need to play on minimum settings. Even go to 720p. The lag is caused by the low amount of vram.

[Accusedauthor]

Originally posted by hawkeye:

Your cpu is good enough but your gpu isn't a gaming gpu. You need to play on minimum settings. Even go to 720p. The lag is caused by the low amount of vram.

wait, are you serious by 720? the resolution would suck

[Zekiran]

Your system is extremely low and and not a gaming laptop.

Of course it won't work for this game.

Also if you reformatted and reinstalled your computer system did you remember to install your hardware drivers and other things properly?

[Zekiran]

I want to repost the game's 9 year old MINIMUM requirements for running at all -

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent
Storage: 30 GB available space

Your CPU is *barely* fast enough if and only if it's that same kind/model; the video card is *not* up to the game's minimum by a full gigabyte of ram. The RECOMMENDED vram card should have 4gb.

So yeah your computer, while it might run other things that aren't as demanding as this one just fine, is definitely not able to easily run Fallout 4.

[Necron Monolith ₿]

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-1165G7-vs-AMD-FX-9590/m1195374vs1812
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth
the processor is up to snuff for this game, it's the entry-level gpu that falls short of the mark.

[Zekiran]

Well yeah though these are very outdated minimums. I would say 'playable' yeah, but. Not 'enjoyable' as they're obviously noticing.

[Necron Monolith ₿]

that graphics solution op's got would be some rough sledding for sure.

[hawkeye]

Originally posted by Menace to Sobriety:

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-1165G7-vs-AMD-FX-9590/m1195374vs1812
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth
the processor is up to snuff for this game, it's the entry-level gpu that falls short of the mark.

As a tip, don't refer to userbenchmark if you want credibility amongst people who know hardware. It has several major flaws in the way it presents information. It's ratings are meaningless.