Fallout 4 PC Performance Thread
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onken
Member
The blue-screens stopped after a clean Nvidia reinstall for anyone taking note. I get some weird C++ error pop-up when quitting the game now but no crashes in a 3+ hour session I just had.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
I'm running 980's in SLI (2 cards) on an ACER XB270HU 144hz G-Sync panel. I'll try that, see if it does anything
Yeah the game currently seems to be erroneously detecting G-Sync / Freesync ranges. It assumes the minimum refresh rate supported is your actual refresh rate? I dunno, but it's busted.
I found everything fine capping at 72fps, but the game is designed to never exceed 60, so there might be some issues from running higher than 60.
72fps is generally fine, the only issue it creates is that some bushes start shaking like mad when something happens like a nuclear storm.
Had one shaking so fast it left an afterimage.
I locked at 60 with gsync on, control panel vsync off and ipresentinterval=1
to avoid any issues in the background. my ini's are read only too.
Had one shaking so fast it left an afterimage.
I locked at 60 with gsync on, control panel vsync off and ipresentinterval=1
to avoid any issues in the background. my ini's are read only too.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Well, I got it working (so far at least) by capping it at 60 via RTSS and disabling ingame vsync.
It's a lot better than having to change my monitors refresh rate all the time.
Dick Justice
Banned
Is there a way to speed up texture loading? It's very jarring when you fast travel somewhere, talk to someone and notice the ugly textures before they finally pop in.
Noticed this even with an SSD / i7 / 980ti. Definitely most noticeable right after fast traveling. Not sure if there's an INI tweak people are using to lessen it.
I'm not sure of the specific tweak, but there's 4 lines you can add to the Fallout4.ini to always have the highest resolution textures on objects. I can find tomorrow if still needed.
I spoke too soon on the slowdown/chugging being completely eliminated with the latest patch. While a lot of areas it has been reduced, some areas still have an excessive amount, including the main roadway around Trinity Plaza. Almost unplayable at times looking in certain directions.
EDIT: For clarification, the chugs happen all the same on both Vanilla and tweaked/modded Fallout for me.
I spoke too soon on the slowdown/chugging being completely eliminated with the latest patch. While a lot of areas it has been reduced, some areas still have an excessive amount, including the main roadway around Trinity Plaza. Almost unplayable at times looking in certain directions.
EDIT: For clarification, the chugs happen all the same on both Vanilla and tweaked/modded Fallout for me.
Dick Justice
Banned
Corvega is a lot better now, but yeah, there's still problem areas.
Corvega is improved for me as well.
Anyone else having performance problems in and around Trinity Plaza? The feeling of the performance drop is also worse than a normal 20+ FPS drop, it's notably more sluggish than the drops you would experience in Whiterun (Skyrim) before Bethesda released their CPU performance patch.
Anyone else having performance problems in and around Trinity Plaza? The feeling of the performance drop is also worse than a normal 20+ FPS drop, it's notably more sluggish than the drops you would experience in Whiterun (Skyrim) before Bethesda released their CPU performance patch.
Are these it? Found it on nexusmods. I'm trying them out and it seems to work so far. I went to proctor ingram to test it and her armor texture was already loaded when I got there.
(goes under general in the documents fallout4.ini)
bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=0
iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000
iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500
iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
Dick Justice
Banned
Any downsides apart from apparently increased loading times?
EDIT: Just tested. I'm on a 2GB card, so I got a lot of stuttering after fast travelling to Boston Airport because VRAM usage went up to around 2020mb, along with significantly longer load times. Did eliminate the texture pop-in on Dr Li when I ran over to her though.
jim2point0
Banned
Man.... even at 4K I couldn't stand the pixel crawl in this game.
Just try TAA. It's amazing and barely touches the framerate.
I.... Find this hard to believe. What a sight to behold that would be, though.
if you're on the beta patch yeah. Just make sure you don't have touched ifpsclamp and ipresentinterval settings, otherwise you might get enginespeed errors.
But isn't ipresentinterval=0 needed to unlock the framerate to above > 60 and to enable Gsync?
Haven't touched that setting, and just reverified, mine is set to =1 and I'm running unlocked. Not sure if it doesn't apply to 144hz screens, or maybe =1 simply sets it to screenrefreshrate.
Don't think so, I haven't played the game because of the shit Sli performance with 970.
I don't believe you, unless you've only played the game for a couple hours and haven't yet visited the top of Corvega or traversed the area around Diamond City.
Smushroomed
Banned
so even after doing a clean install of the lastest nvidia drivers, fallout 4 uses the killing zone 2 sli bits correct?
Setting it to =2 locks the game to half your refresh rate, setting it to =1 locks the game to your refresh rate, I think setting it to =0 unlocks the physics from framerate causing weird issues if you don't lock the framerate to your refresh or something like that?
I have used NVCP VSync | iPresentInterval=0 | iFPSClamp=60 on a 60hz monitor for about 30 hours of my playtime and never experienced anything weird besides Vaults and some terminal locked doors refusing to open until the Clamp setting is removed and I reload a save. I have since moved to just using the Clamp=60 and iPresentInterval=1 as it's the only way I can get the game to not appear jerky when moving around. Sometimes if I know most of my playtime is going to be in the dense city areas I will run 4k@30hz without a clamp setting because the slowdowns can be massive in certain areas.
Rushersauce
Banned
I bet he hasn't even left the vault, yet.
Dick Justice
Banned
Getting that GPU usage issue again. Fairly sure it's due to the latest beta patch, because it stopped happening after updating the first time.
ClaptoVaughn
Member
Yeah, that's not happening.
Not even going to await your reply, because it's just not happening. At least not remotely consistently.
HungOverOnATues
Member
Corvega and spots around Diamond City are rough, but most of the area around Goodneighbor, which Trinity Plaza is near, are by far the worst for me. There are spots where the game will actually freeze on a frame for several seconds, radio still playing in the background, before it slowly starts moving again.
uncelestial
Member
No it doesn't. Or if it does, your 4K monitor is upscaling a 1080p picture. Cool story, tho.
JJKillaNOLE
Neo Member
I'm not sure about any performance gains, but I don't get stuck at terminals anymore!
Slackbladder
Member
Hmm. Been trying to play this on my laptop and unsurprisingly it's pretty poor. However when I looked at the prefs.ini in My Documents/My Games/Fallout 4 it said sD3DDevice="Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000". Now I have it in the Nvida CP to use my 650m with the Fallout.exe. Should'nt the sD3DDevice read Nvidia 650m? Or am I missing something?
onken
Member
Anyway i can know if its upscaling and not getting true 4k resolution?
I choosed the max resulotion in the settings.
Dries
Member
Maybe check your resolution settings in the options?
1920 x 1080 = 1080p
3840 x 2160 = 4K
But surely you should know this stuff if you buy a 4K monitor right?
jim2point0
Banned
Yes. Nvidia's latest drivers added it. Works great.
Also.... DET showing off some power armor texture mods.
For some reason none of the enb binaries with ENBoost will work for me. I just upgraded my pc from a 1090t to a 4690k. I reinstalled windows, redownloaded fallout 4, and added ENBoost to my root folder but it doesn't work. It was working for me before. Any ideas?
Download this.
http://enbdev.com/mod_fallout4_v0285.htm
Open the file, and then open the "wrapper version" folder. Click and drag all the files to your main fallout 4 directory. Where fallout 4.exe is.
Then download this.
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/download/672
And open the folder and drag the ini file to your fallout 4 folder and replace it. It should work now.
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately I did these steps and it still doesn't work. I tried deleting the files in the fallout 4 folder and verifying game files in steam. Then I reinstalled the files for ENBoost plus binaries and still nothing. Is this comparable with the new fallout 4 beta?
, was thinking maybe I got a bug or something that changes the resolution.CyberPunked
Member
The game w/ the SLI tweaks works great on my RoG Swift rig --> getting over 100 - 120 FPS w/ G-Sync which is really nice.
A little stream action with the FAT MAN here: https://youtu.be/zQaOuzM_aG8
A little stream action with the FAT MAN here: https://youtu.be/zQaOuzM_aG8
RadioactiveLobster
Member
I sure am glad you took the time to post these SLI Tweaks and how to do them so that others can know what gives you over 100-120 FPS instead of just mentioning it and then not giving any details.
wanderjahr
Banned
I just uninstalled it. I had gameplay where my fps would be 10-15fps then benny hill style catch back up to 60fps. In places where there normally isn't any hangups either. Only time I've ever had it happen was with the latest beta.