Fallout 4 PC Performance Thread

Bob White said:
Ok, will try this! Thanks in advance if it does.
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That probably didn't work, my bad. I did however find this on reddit.

fDefaultWorldFOV=100
fDefault1stPersonFOV=100
Under the [Display] or [Interface] sections of the following files:
C:\Users\<user>\Documents\my games\Fallout4\Fallout4.ini
C:\Users\<user>\Documents\my games\Fallout4\Fallout4Prefs.ini
E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Fallout4_Default.ini
E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Fallout4\Fallout4Prefs.ini

Now to find out how to make the weapon models smaller.
 
GTX 970 with a 200mhz OC
i5-4690k
16 gigs of ram

Runs at a near locked 72 FPS and mostly drops during close-up shots. The drops are never below 60 and not really noticeable. Any way to disable the v-sync? Or are physics tied to framerate like Skyrim?
 
The game has been running great for me and in my opinion looks really good. Although, I'm not an expert and I don't criticize little things (because I can't "see" them). Really happy with performance as it stays at a constant 60fps with minimal drops. I'm also downsampling at 1080p from 1440p. The only thing I notice is that sometimes it seems as if there's screen tearing. Can't really explain what it is exactly.

My specs are
i7 4790k
Titan X Hybrid
16gb RAM at 2300 (I think)

Edit:I guess it's stutter what I'm noticing.
Maintenance said:
Does anybody have any fix for the stuttering? Can't play the game like this, doesn't matter the setting. It's terrible.
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So think i have it set to max settings. Just set everything to ultra when I launched the game.

Getting a solid 75 fps it look and only seen it drop to about 71 fps too. Playing the game at 1080p.
 
I had pretty bad stuttering, but after downloading the latest nvidia drivers and switching to borderless window, it's almost completely gone. One of the two, or perhaps both, did something.
 
Alright, I gave up. 3 blue screens while installing the new drivers. Did one normal express install, one clean install and one with DDU. Nothing worked.

Downloaded the previous ones and it installed without any problems.
 
Reposting, if anybody can shed some wisdom for me :)

Haven't upgraded my PC since 2009 so I'm a bit out of the PC game lately.

SolarMystic said:
What kind of performance would my (now aging PC) provide?

i7 920
Gtx 285
8gb ddr3

Built this in 2009, can max skyrim barely at around 40-60fps.

How would it compare to the console versions? It's between Ps4 and PC for me now.
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gsync doesnt work in fullscreen and windowed is unplayable low fps that should be fixed with the last drivers, going back to 355.60 -.-
 
Xyber said:
Alright, I gave up. 3 blue screens while installing the new drivers. Did one normal express install, one clean install and one with DDU. Nothing worked.

Downloaded the previous ones and it installed without any problems.
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Strange, I installed them this morning and didn't have any problems.
 
Xyber said:
Alright, I gave up. 3 blue screens while installing the new drivers. Did one normal express install, one clean install and one with DDU. Nothing worked.

Downloaded the previous ones and it installed without any problems.
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Which Windows do you have? And GPU?
I'm a little scared to install them right now.
 
Copper said:
Yeah just goes black then straight to desktop. I'll try tinkering around and see if I find a solution.

Also changing to uGridsToLoad=13 looks much better. Haven't noticed a hit in performance yet.
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Yikes! Careful with the ugrids setting! In Skyrim that doesn't just affect the LOD quality, it also affects when scripts start processing for each cell that gets drawn ("radiant" quests and events etc), which can quickly bottle neck things at worst, and at best you'll find quest events triggering at a much greater distance than they should be, which can lead to some odd outcomes (characters talking that are too far away to hear for example).

Also, there's a performance thread on Bethesda's forum collecting various tips and tricks, and this one stands out as a crash prevention for Nvidia cards. Going to test it myself now, but I'll quote it below for anyone else experiencing crashes. Hopefully this solves the issue:

4. Disable the "NVIDIA Streamer Service" to improve performance and reduce chances of crashing

If you are using an NVIDIA GPU, then you are also likely using NVIDIA GeForce Experience. While the latter can be very useful for determining what settings your rig should lean towards, it also introduces a new service, called "NVIDIA Streamer Service", that is only used for streaming your games to SHIELD devices and is actually causing framerate issues in many recent games, including Grand Theft Auto V and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

To turn this unnecessary service completely off and regain your lost framerate, as well as prevent any associated crashes, click on the Start Button on the Windows taskbar, search for "Services" and then right-click its icon and select "Run as administrator".

After that, scroll down through the "Services (Local)" list, find and right-click on "NVIDIA Streamer Service", then select "Properties". First click on "Stop" to turn the service off, confirm that you also want to stop "NVIDIA Streamer Network Service" and then select "Startup type: Disabled" from the drop-down menu for both of these services!
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Looks like AMD performance isn't up to par for this. The 390X should beat a 970 handily and be much closer to a 980
 
OraleeWey said:
The game has been running great for me and in my opinion looks really good. Although, I'm not an expert and I don't criticize little things (because I can't "see" them). Really happy with performance as it stays at a constant 60fps with minimal drops. I'm also downsampling at 1080p from 1440p. The only thing I notice is that sometimes it seems as if there's screen tearing. Can't really explain what it is exactly.

My specs are
i7 4790k
Titan X Hybrid
16gb RAM at 2300 (I think)
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Why would you spoiler your specs?
 
Just noticed this thread. I'm pleased with the benchmarks for 960 -- surpassed my expectations. Hope that my personal experience mirrors this.
 
Maintenance said:
The game runs like shit with terrible stuttering no matter what I do. 970 + old i7 at 4ghz.
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What resolution you using? Using the latest drivers I hope.

Hmm, since I am someone on the wall whether to get this and since I game at 1440p with a 970, your comment is unsettling!
 
xAlias said:
What resolution you using? Using the latest drivers I hope.

Hmm, since I am someone on the wall whether to get this and since I game at 1440p with a 970, your comment is unsettling!
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1080p, tried High, Low, Ultra, same thing. The game stutters from 49-55 fps.

This is with the latest drivers.
 
Im happy that im able to play this game with a gtx 580 card at 60fps. It's on medium and 720p...feels better than console tho. With some tweaking im probably able to play it on 1080p but i'll bother with that later :P
 
SolarMystic said:
What kind of performance would my (now aging PC) provide?

i7 920
Gtx 285
8gb ddr3

Built this in 2009, can max skyrim barely at around 40-60fps.

How would it compare to the console versions? It's between Ps4 and PC for me now.
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I doubt you would be able to boot the game, due to the VRAM requirements.
 
LordAmused said:
Being an openworld game, it probably runs better on a SSD because it can load up the world faster. Before switching to a SSD, I would get stuttering in every open world game.
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I have zero problems with other open world games in the same HDD, Witcher 3 for an example, that runs 98% of the time at 60fps, no stuttering. It isn't like the game is running well with a bit of stuttering, there is a lot of stutter.
 
Darkstorne said:
Yikes! Careful with the ugrids setting! In Skyrim that doesn't just affect the LOD quality, it also affects when scripts start processing for each cell that gets drawn ("radiant" quests and events etc), which can quickly bottle neck things at worst, and at best you'll find quest events triggering at a much greater distance than they should be, which can lead to some odd outcomes (characters talking that are too far away to hear for example).

Also, there's a performance thread on Bethesda's forum collecting various tips and tricks, and this one stands out as a crash prevention for Nvidia cards. Going to test it myself now, but I'll quote it below for anyone else experiencing crashes. Hopefully this solves the issue:
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It was what they recommended on the Nvidia site. The difference is pretty huge. Hopefully it doesn't mess anything up.
 
LordAmused said:
Being an openworld game, it probably runs better on a SSD because it can load up the world faster. Before switching to a SSD, I would get stuttering in every open world game.
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Depends on the game and how it handles asset loading. Witcher 3 on hdd for me was fine. Mmos though. Massive difference on ssd.
 
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