Fallout 4 I5 bottleneck, game too slow to run

David_279 · Mar 29, 2016

My rig is intel i5-6600 CPU @3.3GHz
16G ram
Geforce GTX 960

Running windows 10 home. Graphics drivers up to date. When I try to run fallout 4 and actually start or load a game, cpu usage goes up to 98-100%, and the game lags so bad I can move the mouse, and 5-10 seconds later the screen will move a bit. I get the same results whether I have graphics set to high or recommended settings, or if I turn every option in grapics down to minimum.

Ideas/solutions?

Supernova1138 · Mar 29, 2016

You're probably going to want to check a couple of things, like making sure your monitor is connected to your graphics card and not your integrated graphics. You're going to want to check your CPU temperature using a program like HWMonitor, your symptoms do indicate you might be running into thermal throttling. If your CPU temperature is shooting up above 90 degrees celsius, check to make sure your CPU cooler is firmly secured.

Amdlova · Mar 29, 2016

do you have connected the 6 power pin to your graphic card ?

David_279 · Mar 29, 2016

Amdlova :

the power pin is plugged in, and the moniter is plugged into the graphics card.

David_279 · Mar 30, 2016

Supernova1138 :

would the temp jump up fast enough to do that from second 1 of actually running the game? Also have plenty of fans and cooling and havn't found any sign of heat problems. The computer is freshly built too.

hang-the-9 · Mar 30, 2016

Did you go through any other games or benchmarks? See when the issue comes up.

Supernova1138 · Mar 30, 2016

David_279 :

If the CPU cooler is poorly mounted that can happen. Though, as hang-the-9 said, you might want to try some other games and see if you run into similar problems.

David_279 · Mar 30, 2016

hang-the-9 :

I got a score of 2474 with 41fps with max temp of 57degrees C on furmark gpu stress test.

hang-the-9 · Mar 31, 2016

David_279 :

Run 3DMark also, FurMark is an openGL test, try something less specialized.

Your card seems to be a bit under what it should be getting in FPS in FurMark but that may depend on the resolution you ran it at.

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