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Deactivate Weapon debris in the Settings solved black screen after exit the game for me, too.
Have a GTX 1060... not the current generation and this issue is present on the GTX series, too.
Post edited April 19, 2024 by moguaii
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exviscerous: of course i was thrilled to see fallout 4 release DRM-free, but ive reinstalled the game several times now, and no matter what, the game crashes after a couple minutes.

has anyone else been struggling with this?

my rig is decent, and ive played the steam version with no problems, plenty of times.

i need to know if this is a widespread problem, or if theres a known fix for frequent crashes.
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DemonKiller49: I was just waiting for these complaints to roll in. Fallout 4 has always been like this. The culprit is the Nvidia Weapon debris setting. Turn that completely off. All crashing should disappear, if not...also turn off God Rays. It's been an issue since day 1 actually.. Bethesda uses an Nvidia technology called FLEX. It works in conjunction with the weapon debris setting. Whenever Flex is called upon the GPU crashes. Basically, Bethesda used a beta version of the technology which is not compatible with drivers today, and they refuse to fix it.

Also....It's a major major issue on RTX cards.
Thank you for your precious help.

I tried everything here, desactivating debris and godray, reinstalling the whole game, installing SKSE and the mod for the debris, and... Nothing, it just keeps crashing everytime I try to leave Sanctuary just after the bridge...
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DemonKiller49: The culprit is the Nvidia Weapon debris setting.
Turn that completely off.
All crashing should disappear, if not...also turn off God Rays.
Bethesda uses an Nvidia technology called FLEX.
It works in conjunction with the weapon debris setting.
Whenever Flex is called upon the GPU crashes.
Also....It's a major major issue on RTX cards.
I gave my brother the 80% off redeem code for "FO4".
He used it and experienced the same issue (constant crashes - no playing possible).

I looked up possible solutions and found yours.
Forwarded it to my brother - and it worked like a charm!

So - thank you! on behalf of my brother - you saved his weekend.
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exviscerous: of course i was thrilled to see fallout 4 release DRM-free, but ive reinstalled the game several times now, and no matter what, the game crashes after a couple minutes.

has anyone else been struggling with this?

my rig is decent, and ive played the steam version with no problems, plenty of times.

i need to know if this is a widespread problem, or if theres a known fix for frequent crashes.
avatar
DemonKiller49: I was just waiting for these complaints to roll in. Fallout 4 has always been like this. The culprit is the Nvidia Weapon debris setting. Turn that completely off. All crashing should disappear, if not...also turn off God Rays. It's been an issue since day 1 actually.. Bethesda uses an Nvidia technology called FLEX. It works in conjunction with the weapon debris setting. Whenever Flex is called upon the GPU crashes. Basically, Bethesda used a beta version of the technology which is not compatible with drivers today, and they refuse to fix it.

Also....It's a major major issue on RTX cards.
You are indeed a Saviour, my friend
thanks
Fallout 3 GOTY problems running in Windows 10, NVidia GeForce RTX 2060, Intel i9-9900K CPU, 32 GB RAM

I played Fallout 3 years ago successfully on a Windows 7 gaming PC I had.
Recently I decided to try it on my current PC (described above).

Fallout 3 GOTY install fine but when it tries to launch it shows a black rectangle for the window for a short period of time then closes.

After searching online and watching a bunch of YouTube videos on how to setup Fallout 3 I tried the many suggestions.
Such as...
bUseThreadedAI=1
iNumHWThreads=2

in the INI file.

I set the fallout3 executable properties to windowed mode, run as administrator and tried various compatibility modes.
Nothing helps.

I don't think I have anything unusual regarding my system so it is hard to believe the game has this much trouble running.

Has anyone else had this problem?


I started a new thread on my Fallout 3 game issue - Another Fallout 3 GOTY Problem Running The Game On Windows 10
Post edited May 04, 2024 by sonavoraudio