Fallout 4 started out, on day one, having to load up four to eight times before fallout 4 would make it past 'play' on the launcher's main menu without crashing to desktop. There were no error reports involved in these crashes. Annoying but nonfatal. Over time this problem got worse. Taking more tries to get it initiated properly. When It did play, it ran smooth at 25-40 fps on low setting, and crashing out in game only twice in as many months.


Until it stopped loading altogether. I started by verifying game caches, checking my authorizations, deleting and redownloading the game file, the usual stuff. nothing worked so I dug.


Found a -sort of- fix which brings me to where I am now. I opened my dxcpl window, dropped the feature level limit to 11_0, and added the FO4 exe to the edit list option. This has apparently worked for other people with similar situations. Not for me. followed up with running it in windows 7 compatibility mode, as suggested. Still nothing. Then I kicked all that with a Force WARP toggle. Worked like a charm. With the force WARP checked it loads up first try consistently, problem is its locked at a 1 FPS hiccup of a stutter. Not like a frame drop but a straight up 'this is what the game is going to play at' sort of slog.


I got it to play once without the force warp recently while tweaking. It ran fine clocking around 30 FPS for about ten min. I saved, quit to find out what I did right, only to not be able to repeat whatever it was. So I know the stutter is from the force WARP, but its the way it loads....


I'm still learning a ton and moving forward cautiously. Any Advice or insight would be greatly appreciated.



TL,DR:

game will only play in force warp at 1 FPS... what the hey?



my Dxdiag


Machine name: TESLA

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 10240) (10240.th1.150930-1750)

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.

System Model: Inspiron 3847

BIOS: A05

Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz

Memory: 8192MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 8108MB RAM

Page File: 4128MB used, 5260MB available

Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS

DirectX Version: 12

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

User DPI Setting: Using System DPI

System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

Miracast: Available, with HDCP

Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported

DxDiag Version: 10.00.10240.16384 64bit Unicode