Hi all,

I've seen a few topics about this issue, but haven't been able to center in on an exact cause (or solution). I'm hoping someone on here might have better know-how as to what's going on.

I'm about 65 hours in, and suddenly I've started experiencing forced reboots whilst playing. No warning, no particular areas that cause it, and no certain amount of time from startup. My PC restarts on its own, showing no error messages, and corrupts whatever the latest save was.

Running in windowed mode hasn't helped, neither has validating files through steam, or trying to new beta patch. There's no overheating going on either, and the PSU appears to be working fine (it's not particularly powerful, but surely an issue here would have arisen earlier than 65 hours in?).

Specs are as follows:

CPU: Quad-core 4.3Ghz AMD FX-4350

Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 (6Gb/s)

RAM: 8GB

GPU: 2GB GTX960

PSU: Corsair VS-450

Anyone brighter than myself have any idea what's going on here? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Greg

Sounds like overheating to me or not enough power.

I would look into the first one first, because of it's potential damage.

Tools like Everest, Coretemp or Speedfan could help you to identify the issue.

Hint: don't mess around with those tools. Some are really powerful and could be more harm than you would expect . Just use them for monitoring and you are on the safe-side.

My speculations of game memory leak are really solid now. Bethesda will fix this after thanksgiving with a patch going out this weekend or next. For now all you can do is lower your visual settings really. You have 10GB of Ram being used by fallout 3gb + win10 64bit 2gb, If and when there is a memory leak some kind of cache floods your GPU resources typically causing Driver to Fail. But on older systems like XP or vista it'll make you reset your entire computer.

He already said temps were not the problem... Also Afterburner is the safest tool to use to monitor hardware. It comes from MSI that's about as trustworthy as a microsoft MSDN link.

With the only issue: it's MSI . I would use it, if I had any MSI hardware (wich is left original, I prefer to mod (not overclocking -> real modding!) my hardware aswell). And using microsoft as reference isn't quite a good choice either .

And tbh: My last MSI board killed it's fan. Even with those nasty MSI tools, the software ripped my cpu-fandriver apart. Result was a silent fan wich was dead. Wich is quite bothersome, because you didn't heard anything even before it was dead .

I just noticed a lack of horsepowers, so I found the issue in time and could save the board + CPU, but not the fan.

Also it was the time nvidia forced serveral gpus to die with their driver revision. This could be fixed by rewriting the driver, using the beta-driver, or just using said tools above to start the fan when under load.

Funny how stuff gets broken when the next generation appears .

I never said to use microsoft as a reference I was comparing MSI stuff to Microsoft's in terms of good info and such.

And it's not "funny how stuff gets broken next generation" because obviously the new drivers have been updated typically for the new hardware.

Just ignore the "MSI" part, it works for everything.

I monitor my CPU & GPU temps, GPU memory and system RAM usage, fan speeds and volts.

Thanks for the replies all. Indeed, over-heating seemed the obvious cause from the other topics I had read, but my GPU and CPU have never got higher than 70 degrees during gameplay (been measuring it using Afterburner).

On the topic of the new patch, is this something Bethesda have confirmed will be fixed? I saw 'memory improvements' on the upcoming changelog, but wasn't sure if enough people were having this particular issue for it to have been addressed so soon.

(also, forgot to mention in the initial post, I'm using Windows 10 64-bit, if that makes any difference)