Why is my Fallout 4 crashing during gameplay?

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Hello, I am currently having a problem with my fallout 4 game. It almost always is at 60 fps, but randomly will drop to below 25 and then crash to desktop, usually within less than 10 seconds. One of the times there was a full black screen with one window that said your computer has run out of memory, but I have 8Gb. Could that really be a problem? I am running ultra settings and have tried lowering them to no avail, along with reinstalling the game. My system is a 4690K overclocked to 4.3 GHz from 3.5, two EVGA superclock 970 sli overclocked with a +150 core clock and +450 mem clock, and 8gb of ddr3 1866 ram. I didn't think those overclocks were too outrageous, but could those be causing instabilities? Could sli be causing the instability?

Thank in advance everyone. It happens about once every three to four hours, so its not totally game breaking but it is annoying.
 
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As mentioned above, ensure you don't have an unstable overclock. If you never did any proper stress-testing for a good number of hours after you overclocked each of your components, that's all the more reason to believe your overclock isn't stable. Easiest thing to do is save your OC profiles and reset everything to stock.

Otherwise, the memory capacity could actually be an issue if you've ever messed around with pagefile settings on your PC. Fallout 4 is a giant memory hog, so systems really need the page file to handle background applications.
 
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Fallout 4 has some pretty heady game requirements. I had an overheating problem that crashed all my games. I run a bunch of junk on it so I expected my computer to kack someday. So I stripped everything running to just a few programs. Set graphics to defaults and repaired Windows 7 in C drive tools 'check now', then defragged it. Removed video drivers down to the registries, directories and users file and reloaded them. Updated chipset & bios. Went into 'Features and Programs' and used the 'repair' choice on each Microsoft Visual C++. Turned up the video card fans to manually run 60% in games. Even went into each game on C: to update DirectX. Also ran 'Dxdiag' from search box.
Grabbed a free copy of Malwarebytes and pulled a ton of weird malware off. Cleaned out the spyware with Superantispyware and renewed my Avast! Ran the Avast! virus bootscan just to make sure nothing was hogging my memory. It stopped crashing but had weird artifacting and minor warping issues. I uninstall and reinstall my games.
It runs great now but I can't point to any one thing I did that was the exact cure. I just needed to stop using my game computer to do work and daily activities. Maybe some of this helps.

Also, going through YouTube videos to listen to the Fallout 4 theme song, 'The Wanderer' by Dion & the Belmonts and found some guy who wants to know if anyone can donate some Fallout 4 game footage for a 1 hr. video. When you do get your rig going again, here's his video spot,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPMEtAR4Hn0

for all you Fallout 4 guys!
 
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Hello, thanks for your reply. I am not familiar with pagefile settings. What do they do?

Thanks
 
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Hello everyone,

So when I created my overclocks I did some heavy duty stress testing. I ran Valley benchmark for almost two days with no problems. To make sure the overclock was not the problem I dropped the overclock and still experienced crashing. I did a lot of testing to try and isolate the issue in game but there are no patterns. It can happen anywhere at anytime, so it isn't only happening in the city. I reinstalled my drivers, verified the game cache, reinstalled the game, then when that didn't work reinstalled it to a different hard drive, but the issue is still not resolved. My GPUs are not overheating, they are at a very steady 76C and 79C when under heavy load. \

I think I'll do what Rexer says and see if that works.

Thanks for all your responses.

 
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Is there some kind of power limit controller in your overclocking program? It's called Target Frame Rate Control on AMD cards. I'm not sure if Nvidia has it or what they may call it on Nvidia cards. If there is, try turning it off. What the power limit control (not the power limit setting) does, is it tries to cap fps spikes when it jumps higher than normal. It does this to save power. The controller sometimes gives the power limit settings a hard time, making the computer crash. Also, if you crash a lot running sfc or chkdsk might be a good idea. It'll repair Windows files.
 
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