Hi everyone.

So today, all of a sudden after playing the game for 20 hours it has become completely unplayable. (In a certain area at least). For some reason now my game is freezing every .5 seconds. I've tried to stand still in hopes that the game hadn't fully loaded the area yet, however that only resulted in the game crashing. This has suddenly begun to happen outside of the diamond city area, where all the buildings are etc. Inside of diamond city my fps is around 30, and in less busy areas its almost always 40-60 fps. The weird thing is that this has never happened before and I have the latest update and haven't changed any settings or anything. It's made the game completely unplayable and I'm rather disappointed as I wasn't expecting any of this to happen.

My pc specs are:

CPU - FX8320

GPU - R9 380

RAM - 8Gb ripjaws.

I have all the latest drivers installed, I checked to make sure.

I suppose that is all that is important, if you need the rest of my specs please let me know, as I'd like to find out if I can fix this as soon as possible, I was really enjoying the game up until now.

Thanks in advance.

One of your biggest issues is that your below-min-spec CPU is catastrophically bottle-necking your GPU and that's going to be a big deal in a game like this. Best temporary solution is to turn down Godrays and Shadows until the game is better optimised but there'll always be a limit to what that extremely powerful GPU and extremely weak CPU combo will manage.

I don't see how my r9 380 is being "catastrophically bottlenecked" as it has been performing perfectly fine, in every other game I have played, and for 20 hours until now in fallout 4. I already have god rays turned down to low, I even turned it off but I still experienced these freezes.

Most other games aren't 64bit open world sandboxes, and even those that are aren't nearly as dense and complex as gamesas games. A bottle-neck is going to tell more here than elsewhere but believe me, you're losing quite some performance in every single game with that weak CPU. GPU isn't the magic bullet for performance that many gamers think it is.

Well I'm aware that a lot of games can be CPU intensive, but when I'm looking in MSI afterburner my CPU usage isn't even that high. I did quite a lot of research before I bought this CPU with this GPU (I probably annoyed loads of people on different forums asking if this CPU would bottle neck my GPU) and I was not once told that this CPU would bottleneck me. Maybe it is just the case with Fallout 4 since it is quite dense; I ran The Witcher 3 at high settings with some settings maxed out as well, so it just came as a surprise. But my CPU bottlenecking still doesn't explain why everything was perfectly fine until recently.