Hello beautiful peoples!
I am running Windows 11 24H2 on a unsupported hardware. What’s unsupported? Older CPU. No TPM 2.0. The usual. Is this important in this case? Potentially. Yes.
I am playing Bethesda’s Fallout 76 purchased (on Christmas 2023 sale) on Steam.
The game freezes on occasion. It used to happen randomly every few hours sometimes more sometimes less often.
The machine is an old small form factor Dell Optiplex 7010 with i7 3770, 32 gigs of DDR3 ram and a low profile MSI Nvidia 3050. The PC was bought on ebay circa 2021-ish and the GPU was purchased from Amazon in 2024.
If I went searching for help – first thing I would (probably) be told is “Get newer PC – this one is too old…” and while I agree that my PC is not recent – it works so I refuse to send it to the landfill. Call me sentimental… OR broke… I am actually both…
The game is running “OK”. It won’t win any “The smoothest gameplay of the year” awards BUT Its playable when not frozen. Good enough – except for the freezing part of course…
I believe I accidentally stumbled onto a possible solution and I thought I would share it.
1) Open the Nvidia Control Panel app from the Start Menu.
In the Display section look for Set up G-SYNC and click on it.
Uncheck the tick in the box next to Enable G-SYNC, G-SYNC Compatible and click Apply.
2) While in the games graphical settings reset them back to defaults:
Now power off the game.
3) Disable V-SYNC. To do that – find and open this file:
C:\Users\CHANGE_THIS_TO_YOUR_USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Fallout 76\Fallout76Prefs.ini
Change the value of iPresentInterval=1 to iPresentInterval=0, save and close the file.
4) Now – start the game and configure the graphics settings to your liking
Since I did all that 3 days ago – I have not noticed any freezes during the gameplay. They might come back – I hope they won’t…
I hope this helps! Let me know in the comments?
Catch you on the flip side,
AndrzejL
