RTX owners - Game Crashing

[RetroGameDude.TTV]

If you're experiencing frequent game crashing - disable Weapon Debris in the launcher. This should be the fix for most people.

[BDK]

Disable Weapon Debris in the launcher under advanced settings.
Oh lol, I only read the title. Yes. As it is instructed :)

[Necron Monolith ₿]

also works for Nvidia GTX 16 series as they're basically RTX cards with the guts ripped out.

[Star Rain]

Dumbest crash ever, i couldnt even run from my house to the vault in intro without it crashing and you dont even have a gun or anything yet.

[sdack]

Originally posted by Star Rain:

Dumbest crash ever, i couldnt even run from my house to the vault in intro without it crashing and you dont even have a gun or anything yet.

What does it matter whether you have a gun when the game crashes??

But you can find a 10mm pistol inside vault 111 and a good amount of ammo if you go looking for it.

[Death Approaches]

Star, so if you can't run from house to vault in 2077 time, that's probably not why you're crashing, there's no weapons fire from anyone, it's not colliding particles, which is what the weapon debris disabling stops... the microcode on GTX and RTX cards differ, and NV Reflex needs a bit of a patch to what it's told to do, to get that to work... basically making the debris not interact with anything. we just tell people to disable it, then they can investigate if they want to mod to bring it back. But hey, the update next week could fix it, I mean stranger things have happened!

Retro was just posting a PSA for the newbies arriving from the show...

[wesnef]

Nah, "I crash just running from sanctuary to the vault" has been a complaint solved by Weapon Debris for years now. I presume it's just a "use PhysX" flag, so it doesn't *just* do actual weaponfire debris.

[[GNS]Richard173]

So my game doesn't even launch, it just force shut downs in steam, Weapons debris is disabled.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by GNSRichard173:

So my game doesn't even launch, it just force shut downs in steam, Weapons debris is disabled.

Would help to have either your full system info and whether you're trying to play modded/cc content as well as vanilla, or have your own thread...

[sdack]

Originally posted by GNSRichard173:

So my game doesn't even launch, it just force shut downs in steam, Weapons debris is disabled.

It is an old game and was released when 60Hz was the standard and players were happy with 60fps and running their games on Windows 7. Hence it needs tweaking to run on new systems. Especially high frame rates, the security features of Windows 10/11, and OneDrive can cause problems.

1.) Set "Windows 7" compatibility. Go into the Steam folder of Fallout 4, i.e.:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4

and set both Fallout4.exe and Fallout4Launcher.exe to run in "Windows 7"-compatibility mode. Right-click each file, and see Properties->Compatibility.

2.) Set your monitor's refresh rate to 60Hz, or limit the game's frame rate to 60fps in the driver, using tools or with mods.

If you are familiar with modding can you use a mod to run it at higher frame rates:
High FPS Physics Fix - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/44798

3.) If you have an Nvidia card then disable Weapon Debris in the game's launcher. See under the options there. Nvidia has changed the API in recent times and weapon debris only works on older GTX cards. Newer GTX cards and RTX cards will cause a crash randomly early in the game.

There, too, is a mod that will allow weapon debris to work on newer Nvidia cards:
Weapon Debris Crash Fix - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/48078