Well, if I run it with no changes what so ever it runs at around 80 ° and now i noticed with the new driver from nvidia the second chip is now -slightly- working running at 52 ° instead of 32 ° resting temperature. The gtx 690 is -not- a maxwell gpu, so that solution will not work, it is kepler. What settings do you have your game running at? geforce experience has pretty much said I can max everything except for shadow draw distance. If you have your system running the game on the default settings the game sets when you first kaunch the game, then yes, mine would be running much cooler as well, but I tend to go with geforce experiences recommendations, unless it recommends 4k, then I drop it to 1080.

As for the massive problems, generally when playing games for extended periods you do not want temps that high, for a few minutes that is fine, but not for extended periods of time. I am no tech expert, but I know it will eventually kill your gpu.

I know my gpu is not having overheating issues, because it cools down -very- quickly, from 80° to 40 ° in less than a minute, and rests at around 32°, and I have done many of stress tests to check this, as I am paranoid when it comes to these things, all checked out fine.

Thx for the heads up, I didn't realize there was a driver update, will perform that when I get home and see if that makes or breaks anything... I don't have nvidia experience installed and I leave most of the settings at their global defaults except for the alternate frame rendering. When Fallout initially ran it auto set everything to High quality, I then went into advanced and only changed the draw distance, number of objects etc to max but left everything else alone. I think you're right about running the GPU at high temps for extended periods definitely having impact on it's life, but these GPUs are designed to run hot and I think 690's max is somewhere around 100C!? Crazy stuff! Also, I know that our GPU's are not Maxwell (Kepler?) and that's why the mod suggests method 3 specifically for non maxwell GPU's. It's a crapshoot but worth a shot I think...

TC banned yet?

Nah, I tried everything, all the suggestions, the only thing that even remotely worked was the 359.00 driver update.

Yeah, I tried the basic high settings, mine ran around 73° then, but I tend to follow geforce experiences recommendations, which are a tad higher than the high settings. I know the 690 can run hot, I have custom fan settings just for that, still, my computer sounds like a jet taking off when it gets that high >_<.

I'm starting to think I had a topic here but it got hijacked :S

i'm paying attention....for poops and smiles, do this....

"I just fixed it. Tick windowless in options and make sure you have right resolution"

also....does your event viewer show anything significant

disable nvidia shadowplay and nvidia stream services

im also assuming you are running 64bit

"To fix my crashing on launch problem I had to completely uninstall my nvidia drivers and install an earlier version. I am now running 353.30 and fallout seems to be launching and running fine."

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