Hi, first of all LOVE the game and good job on creating a masterpiece.

BUT I got a problem while running around in the wasteland. Usually when I come up to new location (city, village, etc.) or just run around in location (i.e exploring Lexington) for some time my game just drops down to 1 fps and freezes for various lenghts of time. This happens all the time, like every 10-30 minutes. Sometimes it's lagging/freezing for 40 seconds other times even up to 2-3 minutes. As far as I can tell its loading the world/textures/something and it destroys my fps. Entering pip-boy when its lagging, its still lags but for a shorter time, then goes back to normal fps, no lag, nothing. When I exit the pip-boy it continues to lag/freeze again. Even when I got to the menu while its lagging the lag still persists. But when I stayed in pip-boy for 15 minutes it didn't start to lag or freeze.

But when I'm indoors, the game doesn't freeze/lag. It only happens very rarely. Basically It only happens when I'm in the Wastes.

I run the game @ 1280x720 resolution, all settings at the lowest w/ tweaks to Fallout4.ini and Fallout4prefs.ini to lower the settings even more. I played the game with default settings but it still was freezing/lagging.

With my settings I play the game with up to 100 fps (60+ in the wastes; 40+ in large towns; 100 in-doors) , which are limited with dxtory. So I can easily play the game with great frames but it's the lag that ruins it.

I have clocked in 22 hours of gameplay and 2 hours of that is just lag, me standing still, waiting for the freezing to end. Yeah, I like the game that much I put up with its [censored] and power through it.

I'm pretty sure this is 100% the games fault, nothing like this has ever happened to any other game ever. I even thought it might be the OC but its not, I restored the CPU to it's default settings but nothing changed.

When it lags GPU is idle and CPU is around 20% load or less. But when it runs fine GPU is almost maxed out and CPU 75-95%+. All temps are fine aswell.

Can provide pictures but I can't post links.

PC:

-i5 2500K @ 4.3 Ghz

-ASUS HD6870 1GB

-ASUS P8P67-M B3

-Kingston HyperX 2x2GB @1333MHz CL9

-Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB

-Samsung HD 150GB

-Maxtor 300GB

-Corsair TX 650W

Please, fix the game or tell me how to eliminate the lags/freezes.

Will provide more information if required.

Thanks.