UPDATED: Hello dear Fallout team, I noticed something quite singular and serious during the game. In the situation framed in the attached image (located exactly in the "Fens street sewer") I found that staring for about 3-4 minutes at that laser pistol pile will make my GPU temp increase like crazy in few minutes hitting unbelievably 90-98°celsius (first time in my life) resulting in the game starting to seriously stutter because of the GPU overheating and possibly breaking. From 60 fps to 30-40 in that critical moment.

My fan was locked at 50% so stupid! I did another stress test and now the GPU stays around 90° but still a strange temp level for that only effect, it increases so quickly in that particular scene still a bit unusual it really stresses the GPU with only that smoke effect. You can feel its pain. Could be also a driver problem.

I discovered this leaving accidentally my character in that position for about 4-5 minutes. Not sure if is the red laser smoke effect or the combination of it with other surfaces and effects, but something is very wrong and must be fixed and corrected soon there.
I hope you can take care of that soon
My GPU: Nvidia GTX 680 2048MB
System: Windows 10 x64
CPU: i5-3550
RAM: 8GB


Best Regards

Check your GPU cooling. Even at 100% load a GPU with proper cooling shouldn't get to 90+C. If you want to PM me the save at the location, I will test it with my computer. However, as I stated, most likely the problem is with the GPU not the game. When GPUs die the fan profile could get corrupted, where it doesn't activate.

edit: You cannot embed images on this forum.

You can post links to images (although your account may not have access to that, yet). You should still be able to PM links.

I feel ashamed oif myself because I had my fan level locked to 50% by software profile, I did another stress test and now the GPU stays around 90° but still a strange temp level for that only effect, it increases so quickly in that particular scene still a bit unusual it really stresses the GPU with only that smoke effect. You can feel its pain. Could be also a driver problem

At that temperature is your fan at maximum speed? 2500 rpm? If it does, you probably need to find other ways to cool it down.

sorry I meant "percentage" % not rpm, my bad! I'm tired

Download you latest drivers from Nvidia first: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/96883

this too: https://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2571/techpowerup-gpu-z-v0-8-6/

and this too: Ccleaner: http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner

Make that: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2763685/stop-windows-automatically-updating-device-drivers.html

---------Disable your internet connection

Then uninstall any Nvidia add-ons you have (all of them), and uninstall the drivers as well.

Run Ccleaner and clean your registry.

Start windows with their default drivers, and run GPU-Z and tell us what temperatures you get at idle.!

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Install your new drivers (clean install box must be checked) , and run GPU-Z again. (Leave all settings default at your Nvidia control panel)

What temperatures you get at idle?

----------Enable your internet connection

Download this: https://unigine.com/products/benchmarks/heaven/

Let it run in a window, and open GPU-Z as well. Monitor your temps?